I was so fucking glad to see her. To hear her say that she loved me, some washed up fighter who had no idea what he was going to do with his life was the highlight of my night. I kissed her again, unable to help myself. Suddenly I wanted my apartment emptied, spend my time and the rest of the night making furious love to the woman who had stolen my heart.

But I couldn’t, not yet. There was an apartment full of people who had come over to celebrate my return home. They were my family, my boys. I didn’t know what I would do without them.

“There you are! Dude, you can’t just suck face all night.”

I grinned as I looked over Danielle’s head at Tony, giving him the middle finger. “Like you have the room to talk about sucking face.”

Danielle giggled as she pulled away from me, giving me a look that caused my cock to stand at attention. Oh, hell yes, we were going to rock the springs out of my mattress later on. “I’m going to see if Hannah needs any help.”

She left the balcony, and I drew in a deep breath. “Cockblocker.”

Tony chuckled. “It’s not like you could get your thing on out here. Not with that injured arm.”

I shrugged. “I guess not. Anyone break anything yet?”

“Nah man you’ve not only baby proofed the place, but you have also drunk proofed it too,” Tony said with a grin. “So, what do we do now?”

I ran a hand through my hair, thinking that Tony probably didn’t want to hear what I really wanted to do right now. Hell, it was written plain on my face. “I guess you are talking about the gym.”

“Yeah,” Tony answered as Paul’s face appeared around the door, stepping out. The new father was fucking glowing even though it had been a couple of weeks since Sarah had pushed out his child. I knew the feeling. I felt that way every day when I woke Amelia to start her day, watching as she learned something new. Paul didn’t know what he had coming for him. “What are you fuckers doing out here?”

“Talking about the gym,” Tony said, sliding his eyes over to Paul. “Do you think we should expand?”

Paul shrugged. “I think you can afford it and I’m willing to pony up any extra money I can pull out of the couch cushions. Having a baby is fucking expensive dude.”

I chuckled, completely understanding what he meant. Thank god I wasn’t buying formula.

“Damn,” Tony chuckled. “I never thought we would standing here, shooting the breeze about fucking babies.”

“Times have changed,” I announced, pushing away from the railing with my good hand. A year ago, I would never have expected to be doing this, to be in love with one woman, and thinking of a career past fighting. I thought I would retire from MMA. “I’m going to do some digging, look at expanding.”

“I’m fine with that,” Tony said. “We will have to check with Travis.”

I nodded, giving two out three partners a thumb’s up. This was the next phase in our lives. Hell, I was the last one to settle down, and none of us were fighting any longer. No, we were concerned with bills and diapers and shit.

“So, it’s settled,” Paul said a moment later. “We are officially washed up and fucking old.”

I chuckled, pushing at his shoulder. “Speak for yourself.”

* * *

Hours later I let the last person out of the apartment with a wave, shutting the door firmly and throwing the locks. The place was an absolute wreck. We might be washed up, but we still partied like fucking teenagers.

I turned back around to find Danielle with a trash bag in her hand, picking up the leftover food on the counter. “Don’t do that.”

She arched a brow. “You’re kidding, right? I will not be able to sleep knowing this mess is out here.”

“Fine,” I said, sticking my lip out. She laughed and resumed her cleaning, filling up four trash bags before the apartment was looking like a resemblance of normalcy again.

Placing the bags beside the door, I grabbed her hand and spun her around, trapping her with my one good arm. “Now can we have some fun?”

She plucked at my shirt, a saucy smile on her face. “Depends on your idea of fun.”

I leaned down and kissed her hard. “Fun that will have your toes curling madam.”

“Sounds like a plan to me,” Danielle answered as my lips traveled over her jaw, then down to the sensitive area on her neck. She sighed happily as her arms went around my neck, giving me better access to her neck. I was never going to grow tired of this woman. I was never going to regret the day that I gave her my fucking heart. “I love you,” I said, whispering against her neck. “I’ve never said that to another woman before, so I hope you believe me.”

She laughed huskily. “Well, I don’t care who you have said it to really, I just hope I’m the last one.”

“I can do that,” I grinned, releasing her. “Come on, let’s go to bed.”