Chapter 15
Travis
“I love my ring sweetheart, maybe that will stop people from staring at me like I’m nothing but a piece of meat. Can you finish setting the table for me, please? I have to keep an eye on the sauce.”
I shook myself silly and smiled a shit-eating grin. I had something to do before I could do what she asked of me.
I strode to the front door, threw it open, and shouted for all to hear, “She said yes!” I hadn’t told any of my men that she had said yes. We had gotten in only hours ago and because of a downed fence, we were busy repairing that fence so none of the horses would be harmed.
I could hear my men catcalling and whistling, I even heard Corrine’s hearty laugh.
As I approached the stove, I snaked my arm around her waist, as I trailed kisses down the column of her neck. The moment my lips touched her skin, those little goosebumps pebbled up on her neck.
“Put the garlic bread in the oven then please set the table.” She said huskily.
With a gentle kiss I placed on the back of her neck right under her upswept hair in that messy bun she loved so much, I went about following her instructions.
We were married three months later in a quaint little ceremony near the spring where we had our first picnic.
When the men had overheard Corrine telling me that the hands would be at the wedding and dinner because to her, they were her family, five of them had a few tears that they hadn’t been able to stop. That was a fact that we were taking to our graves.
I stood there at the arbor that Parker, Tim, and Gage had built for us when I spotted her.
She looked like the queen she was atop Stormy.
Her long white dress flowed over the back of Stormy.
The vision that they were, that was a photogenic moment.
The photographer that I hired had gotten all of the shots and I couldn’t wait to see every single picture that she had been able to capture of the day that we became one.
All of the ranch hands stood in for us as our family because they were.
Later that afternoon, when Corrine had offered to make a feast for us, I had stood firm in my resolve and wouldn’t hear of it. I had our event catered, right down to wait staff with a five-course meal. Not only for ourselves but our hands as well.
We had also found out that the reason why Susan had been trying to land me, was because her father had lost all of his money in an insurance scam. They wanted me to replace their family money. As fucking if.
That night while she laid in my arms she whispered softly in my ear, “I have a surprise for you. In six months we will be having a little Denton running around the ranch.”
“You, you telling me we are having a baby?” I asked her as my hand immediately settled on her bare stomach.
“Yes. I found out yesterday.” She told me.
I leaned over her to press a kiss to her belly that our first child laid inside of her. Our first of many.
“Hey, there baby. Your mom just told me that you are going to be in our lives in six months and I cannot wait to meet you.
I may be older than your momma but all of the years that she hasn't been in my life, I have been saving all of those minutes for her and for you. For both of you, my heart beats only for. Daddy loves you baby Denton.”
I kissed the tears that were running unbidden down her cheeks.
And that my friends is where y’all disappear while I make love to my wife. To my Silver Treasure.