Bailey pressed a kiss to Kira’s cheek before Stephen stepped out of the kitchen. I wrapped my arms around Bailey and pressed my lips to hers. “What’s the occasion?” I asked her.
She shook her head. “No special occasion. I just wanted to make dinner for you two. I know it’s not much, but you and Stephen deserve this. You’re both working so hard to keep this family together.”
“We love you,” I said with a shrug. For us, it was as simple as that.
She smiled and leaned up on her tiptoes to kiss me. “Go get changed into something more comfortable,” she told me. “I need to finish up a couple of things in here before we eat.”
I pressed a kiss to her forehead before reluctantly letting her go. By the time I got dressed in a pair of sweats, not bothering with a shirt, Stephen was walking out of the bathroom with Kira wrapped in a towel.
“There’s my little princess,” I cooed, reaching out for her. She clapped her hands to my cheeks, and I laughed softly. “You been good for your beautiful mama today?”
Stephen clapped a hand to my back and kissed the top of Kira’s head before heading back downstairs. I worked on getting Kira into a diaper and putting on her footie pajamas before laying her in her crib. I made sure her baby monitor was turned on and that her white noise machine was also on before slipping from the room, leaving only a lamp on for her.
She always fell asleep so easily, and I knew I would miss these days as she got older.
Bailey was just setting down the last plate of food when I got in the dining room. I pulled her chair out for her, and she sat down. Stephen groaned around a bite of chicken. “This is hella fucking good, baby girl.”
She blushed. “Thank you. I just followed a recipe.”
I took a bite, moaning in agreement. Fuck, this was better than anything Stephen or I had been cooking up lately. Our woman had a gift in the kitchen, that was for fucking sure. The meat was so damntender.
After dinner, Stephen worked on the dishes, and I took Bailey out to the pool. “Grace—” she stuttered when I began stripping her out of her clothes.
I grinned at her. “Grace is with your brother,” I told her. Trent had taken her out for the evening according to his text a little while ago. I knew they’d been sort of talking, but Stephen and I didn’t care. Just because we’d hired Grace as Kira’s nanny didn’t mean Grace couldn’t have a life outside of the house.
I softly kissed Bailey, distracting her as I dropped the last of her clothes on the ground. We had no chance of an interruption, and I wanted my woman naked in that pool.
The night air was cold, but Stephen had the pool heater on. Besides, once Stephen and I did what we wanted with Bailey, she wouldn’t even notice the cold.
Stephen came up behind her, and together, we kept her warm while we stripped out of our sweats. Her nipples pebbled into hard points as I pressed my body against hers. Grasping her chin, I tongue-fucked her mouth while Stephen pinched and rolled her nipples, getting her hot and bothered for us.
After pulling back from her, leaving her a bit dazed and definitely needy, I jumped into the pool. When I surfaced, I smirked at her and beckoned her in with one finger.
“Seth, I don’t know. . .”
“Come on, baby girl,” I coaxed.
Sighing, she slid into the pool. I lifted her easily and sank inside of her. She moaned, the cold now forgotten. Stephen came up behind her, and together, we made love to our sweet, amazing woman, worshipping her for her greatness.
EPILOGUE
Bailey
Alot can change in a year.
And that was especially true for me.
I still went to therapy twice a week, and Grace was still our live-in nanny. She and my brother were definitely a thing now. I didn’t know what happened with him and Melanie, and I didn’t ask. According to Seth, she sided with Brayden in the mess that had happened with all of us, so he hadn’t heard much from her.
I was still taking care of Kira as much as I could. On my really good days, I could even handle her when she had a fit. On my really bad days, I could barely deal with her at all, even when she was being the perfect child.
Stephen and Seth were still supporting me one hundred percent, making love to me every chance they got as well. And bless Trent’s heart, he took Kira whenever we let him so he could give the three of us some time together.
And speaking of Trent, today, he was leaving.
Today, he was following a dream I’d never known about—a dream he had put on hold for me.
He was joining the military.