The passion and love I felt in her kiss was making my heart beat a mile a minute.

Then, right on cue, there was a knock on my door.

I stopped kissing her when she started laughing.

I smiled as I looked down at her. “I don’t think the gods are on our side today, princess.”

I jumped up and pulled open my door. My mother was standing there with a shit-eating grin on her face. Then, she looked around me at Heather, and her smile disappeared. She snapped her head back to me and pushed me out of the way.

I turned around to see Heather crying. What the hell? She was just smiling and laughing a second ago!

“Oh, my baby girl. What did he do to you?”

“Wait a minute! Mom, everything was fine until you knocked on the door. Heather, baby, why are you crying now?”

She looked at my mom and smiled.

Oh Jesus, I’m so confused. Is she crying ’cause she’s happy? Because my mom stopped us from doing something? What the f**k is going on?

“Elizabeth, Josh is perfect! He…he just said…”

After quickly getting up, Heather ran and jumped into my arms. I held on to her as she cried.

Thank God I took two pain pills earlier.

“What did you say to her?” my mom asked.

I shrugged my shoulders. Hell if I knew!

“I love you, Josh Hayes. I love you so much!”

She kissed me, and I kissed her back, even with my mom sitting on my bed.

Heather pulled away and looked at my mom. “He called me princess!”

My mother jumped up and screamed. “Shut up!”

“I know!”

Okay… now, I’m really f**king confused.

My mother walked up to me and hugged me.

Heather looked behind me and ran past me. I turned around to see Heather jumping into my dad’s arms. “He called me princess!” Heather squealed.

“Mom…” I said, still confused.

My mother moved her mouth to my ear. “Her father called her princess, and that’s what you called her, too. You called her that the first time you ever kissed her, Josh,” Mom whispered. “I think she’s slowly bringing you back to us again.”

I pulled away from my mom, and I watched my dad spinning Heather around in the hallway. I smiled, knowing I made her that happy. I wanted to make her that happy every single day of my life.

Dad put Heather down and winked at me. “Come on, let’s go to dinner. My treat!”

Chapter Seventeen

As soon as we started to drive out of my parents’ driveway, Luke fell fast asleep. I was so nervous. How am I going to tell Jeff I’m pregnant? Then, I remembered that Heather had said Jack would be DJing at Josh’s party tomorrow. I couldn’t help but grin.

“What are you smiling about over there?” Jeff asked, glancing over at me.

“Um…nothing.” Oh shit, I can’t slip up.

Jeff laughed. “Come on, Ari. I know when you’re thinking hard about something. Spill it, baby.”

Before I even knew what I was saying, it was out of my mouth. “Heather’s pregnant!”

Jeff slammed on the brakes and then let off of them when he realized what he had done.

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Jeff! Give me damn whiplash, why don’t ya?”

“Well, what the hell did you expect? You just threw that out at me, Ari! Does Josh know?”

I rolled my eyes. “Pesh…no! She just found out this afternoon.”

“How?”

“Well, you see…when you make love and the man comes, he spreads his seed in the girl, and then all those little sperms move on up in there and look for the egg.”

“Funny! I meant, when did this happen? No, don’t answer that. I know it was before the accident. Oh fuck. How far along does she think she is? I thought they were on birth control?”

“You remember when she was so sick, right before the accident, around when Alex was born?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, she was taking antibiotics, and some antibiotics can negate the pill. Her doctor obviously didn’t bother to mention that to her. She knows the exact date it happened! She’s probably a month or so along.” I smiled, thinking about our own little baby growing in my stomach.

“Holy shit. I can’t even imagine what the poor girl is thinking right now. I mean, with Josh not remembering their relationship and all,” Jeff said.

“I know. She freaked the f**k out. I mean, Ellie and I got a little scared for a few minutes, but Heather just kept saying that she couldn’t do it alone. Then, she started talking about Amanda and how they would both be living in her house, raising kids alone. It was a little weird to see her freak out like that.” I shook my head as I thought back to it.

“Well, let’s just hope that Josh gets his memory back, and he gets it back quickly,” Jeff said.

“Speaking of Amanda, how is Brad doing? I know Amanda has only seen him twice. She won’t take calls from Ellie or me. Since Heather has been staying with Josh, Heather said Amanda hasn’t been taking her calls either. I’m so worried, Jeff. She’s pregnant and all alone. Brad’s mom called me yesterday, begging me to tell her where Amanda was.”

“They don’t know she’s staying at Heather’s place?”

“No! She made us swear we would not say a word about where she is,” I said.

“But wait…Brad knows she’s there. He mentioned it to me,” Jeff said, looking confused.

“From what Amanda told us, his parents flipped when they found out he was in rehab. Of course, Amanda had to tell them because Brad’s too chicken shit to stand up to them, and they are part of his problem. Then, when she told them she was pregnant, they were all ready to forgive and forget. Did you know that Brad’s dad is thinking about firing Brad? His own son!”

Jeff chuckled and looked at me. “That would probably be the best f**king thing that could happen to both Brad and Amanda. His parents are so damn controlling, and his dad has been working him into the ground. I know the major reasons he turned to drugs was because of all the stress from his job along with his mother always being on Amanda’s ass. Now, the fact that he kissed the bitch…that was his own stupid-ass fault.”

We drove for a few miles, not saying a word.

“Jeff, I’m not so sure Amanda will be able to forgive him.”

Jeff glanced at me and frowned. “I know, baby. Did she happen to mention to y’all about the night she got pregnant?”

My eyes filled with tears. “Yes.” I looked out the window and didn’t say another word until we got home.

I collapsed on the bed next to Jeff. When I looked over at him, he was typing something on his laptop.

“Scott’s bringing another stud by tomorrow. Asshole,” Jeff said under his breath.

I let out a laugh. “Are you still jealous of him? My god, Jeff. He’s engaged to be married! I’d say he is well past his little flirty days with me.”

Jeff closed his laptop and set it on the floor. He reached for me and pulled me to him. He kissed me so passionately that I was ready to do anything he asked of me.

“Wow! What was that for?”

“I just wanted to show you how much I love you,” he said with lust in his eyes.

Oh my. I was getting that familiar buildup between my legs that only he could satisfy.

“If you want to convince me, I think you’re gonna have to show me a little better than that,” I said with a purr.

He smiled that smile that always melted my heart. “It would be my pleasure, Mrs. Johnson.” Before I knew it we were both undressed.

The moment his hand touched my stomach, I jumped.

“You that excited, baby?”

I smiled against his lips. I wanted to tell him so bad, but I had a plan that I had to stick to. “I always want you, babe.”

He leaned down and took one of my n**ples into his mouth.

Oh motherfucker! My br**sts felt sore. Shit, I don’t remember feeling like this with Luke.

I started to let out a moan because it was so uncomfortable.

“Does that feel good, baby?” Jeff asked before he started to kiss down my stomach.

When he stopped, I held my breath.

“I want another baby,” he said as he moved his lips across my body.

Oh. My. God. Could he be any more perfect?

“God, Jeff…please touch me,” I begged.

“All in good time, baby. I want to kiss every inch of your body.”

And that he did. By the time he got back to my lips, I was dripping wet and so ready to come that it wasn’t even funny.

He got on top of me and started to tease me. He slowly entered me just a little and then pulled it out.

“Jesus H. Christ, I can’t take it!” I thrashed my head back and forth.

When I felt him near me, I pushed my h*ps up to him, and then he was inside me, moving so fast and hard that I was coming within seconds.

“Oh god, don’t stop, Jeff…please go faster…” There it was again—that familiar buildup. Jesus…how is it always like this with him?

Right as I was coming down from my orgasm, Jeff whispered in my ear, “I’m going to come, baby.”

Then, he was lying on top of me, panting, with sweat dripping off of him and onto me.

Oh shit. It was turning me on. Already? Fuck, I love being pregnant!

“Do you think we could maybe try that again?” I asked.

Jeff pushed himself up and looked at me. “What? Like, right now, Ari?”

I smiled as I pushed my h*ps up against him.

He smiled and rolled us over until I was on top.

“This time, I get to tell you faster and harder,” he said.

I raised my eyebrows as I felt his dick growing harder.

I started off slowly. “Oh…” I moved myself up and down. “Feels. So. Good.”

I looked down at Jeff, and he was staring at me. Leaning down, I bit on his lower lip.

“Fuck, Ari.”

“I am, Jeff,” I said with a wink.

We both started laughing, and then Luke started crying.

No! Oh no! No, no! I kept moving.

“Baby, Luke is crying, and I’m not even all the way up,” Jeff said as he tried to move me off of him.

Oh hell no. I’d worked for this orgasm, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t getting it. I pushed his hands away and threw my head back as I moved faster.

“Ari,” Jeff said before he started moaning.

Luke was still crying.

Tune it out, Ari. Just five more minutes.

I moved faster and slammed myself down on him harder each time. I could feel him getting harder as he moaned more.

“Jesus…Ari, baby, hurry ’cause I’m about to come. Shit, I’m gonna come again, baby.”

No, the f**k he is not, not before I get mine. I adjusted myself…and there it was.

“Oh yes! Oh god, yes! That’s it, Jeff.” I called his name over and over again as I had the most intense orgasm ever.

I collapsed onto his chest, our sweaty bodies sliding against each other, as I tried to catch my breath. “Shit. That felt so damn good!”

Jeff laughed as he held on to me.

I noticed it was quiet. “He stopped crying,” I whispered.