Chapter 36

KNOX

The celebration is on.

The locker room is a wild party of cheers, sweaty clothes being thrown around, and bottles of water being dumped on my head over and over.

I shake my head and push Jax away as he laughs.

“Fucking shutout!” Jax yells. “Against Anaheim!”

“You guys had my back,” I say.

“The fuck we did,” Mac says. “We were shit for a few plays there. More than a few. We owe you a night out.”

“Not sure daddy over here can do that anymore,” Villi says with a grin.

Before I can throw a comment back at him, everyone starts to clear a path.

“Pregnant one coming through!” Violet calls out.

I cringe. I’m unsure how Willow feels about this.

Then I see her.

A smile on her face.

She looks… radiant to me.

Like her face is kind of glowing.

Everyone clears a path for Willow to get to me.

It’s a very intense thing to witness and be part of.

Now I don’t know what I’m supposed to do next here.

Do I reach for her and pull her close for a hug and a kiss? Do I crouch down and kiss her belly?

Without an actual label on things, every situation like this one feels so…

I offer my right hand and Willow takes it.

“This shit is going to make me cry,” Ruby says. “I can’t handle it.”

“Didn’t know you were capable of emotion,” Violet says to Ruby.

“I’ve seen her cry,” Gabriel says. “I’ve made her come so hard that-”

“Shut up!” Ruby yells, then she punches Gabriel’s arm.

Willow is inches from me.

I’m sweaty. I smell like sweat. Like hockey pads.

I smell like death washed over me.

“Okay, that’s enough,” I call out to everyone. “Celebrate. Enjoy this. Quit fucking staring at us.”

“We’re waiting for a kiss,” Mila says.

Willow looks back. “This isn’t some movie. Leave us alone.”

That doesn’t work.

They all start catcalling at us.

Careful kissing her…

Wait, doesn’t matter. She’s already pregnant!

Can you get pregnant twice? At the same time?

Just leave them alone… let them be all lovey-dovey.

Willow jumps to her toes. “Someplace we can be alone?”

“Follow me,” I say.

I walk and grab her hand.

She follows.

Yeah, I know the entire team is watching and I know they’re going to assume things.

Whatever.

I take Willow near Coach Damon’s office.

“There,” I say. “Quieter.”

“Not enough,” she says. “A room? Office?”

I look for a door and open some random office door.

Probably one of the trainers’ offices but it’s clean and mostly empty.

“Hey, what’s up?” I ask Willow as I shut the door. “Something wrong?”

“Just fulfilling my promise,” she says.

I start to tilt my head but stop when I realize she’s lifting her shirt.

And her bra.

My jaw falls to the floor as her tits bounce free.

“I thought… I mean… I…”

My words won’t come together.

“Do something,” Willow says. “Don’t just stand there.”

“Oh, baby, I’m doing more than just standing here,” I growl.

Then I jump forward at her.

My hands touch her sides and not her tits.

It’s like a one second moment of me being slightly calm and romantic.

That’s only one second though.

After that, my hands are on Willow’s tits.

They’re fucking beautiful. Are they really different at all yet?

I can’t tell.

They’re full.

They’re fun.

When I stroke my thumbs across her nipple she gasps and shakes her head.

“Not that,” she says. “Everything is extra sensitive right now, okay?”

“Okay, baby,” I whisper. “What about this…”

I drop my mouth down to her left breast and carefully take her into my mouth.

My tongue presses against her nipple instead of flicking it.

I then gently pull away, leaving that wet kissing sound to echo around us.

I look up at her and she nods. For more.

I move to her other breast to do the same.

That’s when I feel a vibration.

It’s her phone vibrating in her back pocket…

As I take her breast into my mouth, she starts to push me away.

“Knox, wait,” she says.

I growl. “What is it?”

“My brother,” Willow says.

Now she’s pulling her bra and her shirt down.

Before I can be pissed off at her loser of a brother, she shows me her phone.

Yeah, it’s a text from Ward.

Want to know what it says?

WILLOW… ARE YOU PREGNANT????