I hiked through the woods after I returned from the hospital. It was a chance to clear my head. I needed to reconnect with the land.

I didn’t know how much time I had to convince Gretchen everything between us was real. What we had was real. Standing there in the emergency room, my hands ached to hold her. My chest tightened when she walked in the room. But I forced myself to control the situation. It was more important to convince that together we could have everything..

The look in her eyes ripped through me.

The family leaders had resisted my attempts to stop the land absorption. I should have suspected. It was their excuse to take control of more land, build their fortunes, exert their force over the others in the area.

But I had another two weeks before I had to bring Gretchen to the next meeting and present her as my fiancée. They wouldn’t be able to deny me then. I stared off the cliff into the distance. She had to agree. She would. She was as deeply mine as I was hers. I closed my eyes, inhaling the cool wind.

All my life I had been searching for something. I thought I had found my calling with the Special Forces unit. I saved lives. I kept the country safe. It took all my energy and focus to lead my team, but ever since I had met Gretchen I was hungry for something else.

I threw a branch off the path and hiked forward. Gretchen had changed everything. Slowly, I was starting to think about what it would be like to stay in Havenville. What it would be like to raise kids with her. What it would be like to take my official position my family’s leader, instead of always shoving it off on someone else.

I watched an eagle soar in front of me. I always thought I used my strength as a Delta, but maybe what I did was use it as my excuse not to embrace what I always had right in front of me.

I shook my head. One thing at time. First, I had to get her back.

* * *

Gretchen

I gripped the steering wheel. I couldn’t believe I was doing this. I must have lost my mind. Too many night shifts had warped my sense of reality. But I knew what I felt.

I knew I shouldn’t have been surprised when I saw him standing on the front porch. He always seemed to know when a car was in the driveway. He had a sixth sense, or just amazing Delta skills.

I slid out from behind the driver side and strolled on the sidewalk.

“Hey.” He grinned from the porch.

“Hey.” I walked to the front steps.

It was there—the pull I felt every time I saw him. Only now I knew it wasn’t because of the intense pheromones we shared. It was love linking them together, bonding us like no two other beings. It was the promise he made to give me a baby and a family. Brett looked at me as if I were whole. He never thought I was broken.

“I’m glad you’re here.” He took a step down so he was standing next to me.

I looked up. “I think we both knew I was going to come back.”

“I tried to tell you.” He winked.

I didn’t know if it made me angry or if it felt so right it set my blood on fire. But before I could take another breath, Brett pulled me to him, his mouth hot and urgent against mine.

He groaned as his tongue slipped in my mouth. I felt a sudden sense of panic, but I relaxed into him. Nothing had felt sexier. I knew I was happy kissing him.

I tried to breathe as he kissed me, but I was desperate to touch him and have him hold me. Four days away had created a hunger so deep I didn’t know if I could feed it.

“I want to take you inside and show you how much I missed you,” he whispered.

I nodded. I tried to draw him back to my lips.

“I meant everything I said, doc. I want to give you a baby.”

“I want it too. I didn’t know how much I wanted it, until you said it.”

He laughed. “I didn’t think I was meant to be a dad, but now that it’s with you, I want to see you pregnant.”

I sighed. “What if it doesn’t happen? What if it can’t happen?”

He pulled the screen door open. I followed him in the cabin. He locked the door and closed all the blinds. There was a fire in the fireplace.

“Take off your clothes,” he growled.

“Brett,” I argued. “We should talk about it. What if I can’t give you a baby?”

He tugged on my jeans. “I’m going to fuck you tonight, doc. And tomorrow. And every single day until I get my orders.”

“Oh shit,” I moaned.

He pushed the jeans off my legs and peeled my panties to my ankles. He ran his fingers between my velvet folds, coating his fingers in my slickness.

“Say it,” he commanded. “Say you want me to give you a baby.”

I nodded, unfastening the buttons on my shirt and letting it fall off my arms. I backed up toward the fire, leading Brett to the rug. He tossed a quilt on the floor.

“Give me a baby, Brett,” I moaned as he plunged his fingers inside my pussy. I hissed with pleasure as he pumped them in and out.

“How do you want it, Gretchen?” he asked, dragging my ear between his teeth. He flicked the clasp on my bra and it landed at my feet. I stood in front of him naked.

“Ohh,” I whimpered. I couldn’t find the words. His fingers were picking up the pace and I was rocking back and forth, taking them deeper.

“How do you want me to give you this baby, I asked,” he growled lower this time.

I didn’t want to move, but I dropped to my knees on the quilt. The fire felt good warming my bare skin. I crawled forward on all fours.

“Like this,” I whispered.

Brett’s eyes were hooded with lust as he climbed out of his jeans and threw his T-shirt across the room.

“You’re so fucking perfect.” He fisted his cock in his hand as he settled behind me. “So fucking perfect.”

I whimpered when he pressed his cock to my pussy. He wedged it deep and then slammed into me.

“Ohh,” I cried out.

But he thrust again.

My tits bounced against the quilt. He grunted, stuffing and pumping his giant cock inside me. We were both desperate to reconnect. To feel the heat of our bodies. We were driven with a new goal—make a baby.

He rooted deep in my walls, panting and growing rougher and harder.

“Oh, Brett!” I screamed, looking for something to hold on to. I needed gravity. “Harder,” I urged him. “Give me your baby.”

He slapped my ass and I yelped. Fuck, that felt so good and so naughty. Who was I? I threw my hips back and he spread my knees wide.

“Oh shit, doc,” he groaned. “Watching you. Seeing you.” He grunted.

And then I felt it. His thumb breached that forbidden zone.

“Ohh,” I whimpered.

“Do you want more?”

“Yes.” I looked over my shoulder.

“I’m going to come. So enjoy this.” His thumb sank inside my virgin rosebud as we both erupted in an unforgettable orgasm. I’d never felt sensation like that before. It was the most erotic moment of my life.

His cock pulsed, filling me with hot lava while my body spiraled and disappeared off a cliff. His thumb inside me took everything to an incredible new level. My orgasm was faster, deeper, and more explosive. I’d never felt so full.

I moaned with pleasure as we both came down from the high we had been on.

Brett lowered my hips to the quilt. He cuddled behind me, blocking my back from the flames.

“I’m so glad you came back, doc.”

“Me too.” I smiled. “I’m in. On all of it. The wife part. The baby part. The amazing sex part.”

He chuckled. “We aren’t leaving this cabin unless we absolutely have to.”

I rolled on my side to face him. “You do realize I’m a doctor. I have a residency to finish.”

“I know. But when you’re here, this is what we’re doing.”

I stroked the side of his face, sweaty and red from sex. “You promise?” I teased.

He nodded. “I promise.”