Chapter 58

Wade

"Does my dress look okay?" she asks for the sixth time.

Holding out my hand for her to take to walk up the stairs into Marcus and Nicki's home, I reassure her she looks great. "Yes. Now stop fussing."

"I'm the size of a hippo."

"Well, if that's what hippos look like these days, then it's sexy."

"I feel like I might explode. And I need to pee."

"Again? You and Lola are in competition with one another."

"You don't know what it's like. He's using my bladder as a punching bag."

Kali has not handled pregnancy well. She's grumpy most of the time, which makes me laugh, which makes her grumpier. She's put on twenty pounds.

Having not been able to keep anything down because she suffered from horrific morning sickness in the beginning, she's now over it and hungry all the time, and even more beautiful, which I didn't think was possible, and I can't get enough of her.

And vice versa.

She's horny twenty-four seven, calls me every hour to find out when I'm coming home and sometimes, she just shows up at the rink. Because she has a car now, which I bought her.

She's insatiable.

And I love it.

The day after we were married, I moved into her house fully and now Lola lives rent free in my house across the street, which she loves.

When we found out we were expecting a boy, which I'm sure Kali used her spooky goddess powers to know, I spent hours buying matching sneakers for the three of us.

I'm going to be one of those influencer dads who buys matching outfits and shows them off to everyone on social media, posing, and looking like a dick, but I don't care.

I want to share my little family with everyone.

"Look at my ankles. They look like sausages." She gasps in horror.

"They look fine. You should stop wearing those high heels though. I keep telling you it's not good for the baby or your back."

"It's a sad day for fashion if I have to stop wearing heels. Take that back Wade Edwards."

"Stop moaning, Mrs. Edwards."

"You are so annoying."

"I know."

"This is all your fault." We reach the top of the stairs.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did my dick just fall out of my pants and impregnate you? Blame the shoes you had on the first night we had sex." And those fucking shoes she's wearing are the same ones and her ankles do not look like sausages. She looks sexy as hell.

She growls, making me laugh. "I hate you."

"And I love you." So fucking much it hurts some days. I don't know how I breathed before she came into my life. "Keep the shoes on tonight and I'll fuck you so good when we get home." I pull her into my arms as much as humanly possible. She's due in two weeks and it looks like she swallowed a beach ball.

The little deviant that lives inside, causing her horny pregnancy hormones, makes her eyes fill with lust. "Do we have to go to dinner?"

"Your parents are coming for dinner. Of course we do."

"My mom and dad are so weird. Nicki doesn't know what she's getting herself into."

Having only met them once briefly at the wedding, they seem lovely. While Kali finds them embarrassing, I find them fascinating.

"Looks like they are already here." I point to her sister's car they have been using while on vacation.

"They'll be telling them about the gruesome process of mummification. We have to stop them." She grabs my hand, pulling me along behind her.

"You are wild tonight, Mrs. Edwards."

That stops her in her tracks. "I am wild?" She points to her chest, her boobs much fuller now, they are almost popping out of her dress.

"Yes. I think you are the one that needs taming these days, not me."

"Are you the man to tame me?"

"I think I might be." I steal a kiss.

Because I'm no longer referred to as Wild Wade Collins by the fans, the guy who couldn't control himself on and off the ice, because now they refer to me as Wild Wade Edwards. The hockey player who dragged himself from the bottom of the polls to the top. Who had more assists than any other player on the team based on regular season play, and then went on to win the trophy for most outstanding player in the NHL, for exemplifying the qualities of dedication, perseverance, and tenacity. There are even talks of me being selected for the Winter Olympics team, as is Zane.

Which is wild in an awesome way.

"Have we switched places? Is pregnancy making me crazy? Am I now trouble?" She looks shocked at that revelation.

"Yes." I grin, pushing open the front door I now let myself through because I visit my family with and without Kali all the time. Mainly because Nicki mastered Gretchen's cookie recipe, and it's what she makes to lure me here.

"It's you that got me into this trouble." She rubs her belly.

"Then we can be trouble together."

"We can be wild together," she counters.

I like the sound of that.

Together.

With her by my side, I don't need a support team, because she's the whole goddamn package.

THE END