Epilogue
“Congratulations, Mr. Wild.” My attorney, Dan Meeks, grins and shakes my hand. “You have a court date for next month, and then the judge will officially sign off on it, and you’ll have yourself a son.”
A son.
I don’t think I’ve truly wrapped my brain around that yet.
Tomorrow is Christmas, and I plan to tell Jake in the morning when it’s just the two of us and I give him his present. A horse and a truck.
Because he has to have transportation to and from the ranch, and he just passed his driving test.
I’m damn proud of him.
With a nod, I step out of the attorney’s office and into a freaking blizzard.
“Holy shit,” I mutter, pulling the collar of my jacket up around my neck, just as I walk right into a woman who’s hurrying through the snow and wind.
“I’m sorry,” she says, and then her green eyes widen when she sees it’s me. “Ryan.”
“Hi, Polly.” Wanting to chat with her, I glance around, take her hand, and pull her into the doorway of a business so we’re out of the worst of the weather. “How are you?”
“Busy,” she says with a happy little laugh that makes my dick sit up and take notice. “And I hate that answer, but tomorrow’s Christmas, so the shop is bustling and full of gift-buying people, and that makes me happy. How are you?”
I love her smile. That whole night with her, she grinned at me. When I was inside of her, when I was touching her, telling her exactly what I wanted to do to her.
“Ryan?”
“I’m good.” I swallow hard and nod. “Yeah, I’m really good, thanks. You look fantastic. Why don’t you have any gloves?”
She frowns down at her bare hands.
“Oh, I must have left them somewhere. I’m always doing that.” She pushes her hand through her snow-covered hair self-consciously. “I’m a little frazzled today.”
“No, you look beautiful.”
I stand at least a foot taller than her, and everything in me wants to kiss her, but I don’t. I pull my own gloves off and pass them to her. “Put these on. It’s too cold to be without them.”
“But what about you?”
“I’ll be fine,” I insist and smile with satisfaction when she tugs the gloves on. They’re way too big for her, but she’ll be warm.
“I’ll get them back to you.”
I laugh and shake my head. “Don’t worry about it. Really. I won’t keep you out in this cold.”
She looks like she wants to say something, but then she shakes her head and offers me another big smile. “I hope you have an excellent Christmas, Ryan.”
“You, too, Polly.”
She hurries off, and I watch her go, hunched against the wind of the storm, and feel my gut clench.
I want her. I’ve wanted her for a long time, and I had her for one incredible night that has seemingly ruined me for all other women. Chase told me to let the dust settle, and with Jake’s adoption almost finished, I think it’s time to give some energy to the gorgeous redhead.
I’ve just slipped inside my new truck and started the engine when a call comes in from my security team at my property.
“This is Wild,” I answer.
“Sir, it’s Adams. We have a situation.”
I scowl out of the windshield as I put the truck in gear and ease out onto the roadway.
“What kind of situation?”
“You need to get home, sir. We need eyes on you.”
“I’m on my way.”