It had been a bittersweet moment for Lainey, because she knew that Ryan might have been more careful if he’d known the true extent of the danger he was courting when he’d gone to investigate in Moonlight Bay. Her grandmother told her that her father had wanted to share the truth with her and Ryan someday, but then he’d passed away, and Kate just hadn’t had the heart to do it herself. She’d been worried about how they would react to the news, and now blamed herself for not coming forward sooner. But Lainey had refused to blame her as well. As much as she grieved for her brother, the last thing she wanted was for her beloved grandmother to spend the last years of her life burdened by remorse.

  They were expecting a long visit from Kate closer to the holidays, but today it was his mother and father who were coming to see them. And while Nick had known that his parents would be accepting of the woman he’d lost his heart to, he hadn’t fully realized just how completely they would come to love her. But then this was his Lainey, so he really should have.

  With his wife’s coffee in hand, Nick had almost made it to the top of the long, winding staircase when he heard a knock at the front door. Calling out to let Lainey know that his parents were there, he turned around and made his way down to the Spanish-tiled foyer. After setting her mug down on a table beside a vase that was filled with vibrant flowers, Nick pulled the heavy wooden door open just as his wife came rushing down the stairs with an excited smile on her face. As he took in her colorful, floral halter top and sexy low-rise jeans, he couldn’t help but smile right back at her, thinking she looked stunning. But he was still concerned that she wasn’t quite up for this visit. She hadn’t really been herself the past week, tiring easily and losing her appetite, and the thought had occurred to him earlier that day that he might be taking too much blood from her.

  But as his parents stepped inside, his mother took one look at Lainey as she reached the bottom of the staircase, and her happy exclamation laid Nick’s concerns regarding feeding to rest, while giving him an entirely new mountain of worries to conquer. “Oh, you precious, beautiful girl!” his mother cried in a delighted rush, hurrying toward a startled-looking Lainey. “I knew it the moment I set eyes on you. You’re making me a grandmother!”

  His gorgeous wife, in typical Lainey fashion, shot him a stunned, breathtaking look of joy – then immediately passed out. Thanks to his quick reflexes, Nick caught her in his arms before she hit the floor, and with a low, excited rumble of laughter, he told his parents that they would join them later, then carried her up to their bedroom. When her lashes fluttered open a minute later, Nick was cuddled up next to her on their bed, his face close to hers, his heart so full he thought it might burst. Now that he knew about the baby, he was amazed he hadn’t figured it out himself, but then, he’d never spent much time around any pregnant females, either human or vampire.

  “Are you okay?” she whispered, locking her bright gaze with his. “I know you didn’t marry me expecting to start a family so soon.”

  “I’m over the moon about the baby, Lainey. And just so you know, I married you because I love you. Because I’ve pledged my heart and body and soul to you. And because I need you by me every day, and every night, until I take my final breath.”

  Her beautiful eyes glistened with happy tears. “Well, I hope that day never comes, because I want to be with you forever.”

  Running a greedy hand over the delicious curve of her hip, he rumbled, “You really think there’s anything in this world, or beyond, that could keep me from you?”

  With a smile, she said, “No.”

  His voice got lower. “You know your man well, little vampire.”

  “I love him even more.”

  “Then tell him again,” he husked, pushing her to her back and lifting the hem of her top so that he could lean down and trail a line of tender kisses across her belly. “Because he never gets tired of hearing it.”

  Running her fingers through his hair, she said, “I love you, Nick. I’ll always love you.”

  He moved over her, caging her beneath him. “I’ll hold you to that, Lainey. Because you’re mine.”

  “Of course I am, you sexy beast. And you’re mine,” she murmured, that beautiful smile still on her lips as she lifted her head and gave him a sweet, breathtaking kiss that was so bloody perfect, it would have destroyed a mere mortal. “Today. Tomorrow. And for a long, awesome eternity.”

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