Love's Second Chance (Second Chances Series) (27 page)

Galen shrugged. “Probably not, but it would be nice to tell him how thankful we are. I know I would love to thank him. So who’s this Jason you’re talking about?”

I smiled. “Jason Andrews is your doctor and surgeon. He did both surgeries, the one on your skull and the one with your kidney. He used to also be one of my good friends. You’ll meet him soon.”

We sat in silence for a second while Galen seemed to be contemplating something. “Would you have really given your kidney to me?” he finally asked.

“Of course I would. You would have done the same for me, wouldn’t you?” I asked incredulously.

“In a heartbeat. So why couldn’t they use yours? I thought we had the same blood type.”

“We do,” I smirked. “But there was a reason why.” I let go of his hands and walked over to pick up the blueprint from under the small Christmas tree.

“What are you doing?” he asked and smiled.

“I’m giving you your present … Merry Christmas!” I shouted and handed him the blueprint.

“Oh no, we were supposed to turn this in to the builders weeks ago,” he groaned.

“It’s okay. I had to make some changes,” I assured him.

He narrowed his eyes and said, “But I thought we finished it.”

“We did,” I replied. I said no more after that because I was too excited watching him unroll the blue print. He was going to find a major surprise inside.

When it was completely unrolled, the picture taped inside caught his attention. He took the picture off and narrowed his eyes at the layout. Glancing back and forth, he looked confused. “Are we adopting?” he asked, looking at me. “I swear this extra room says it’s going to be a nursery.”

I smiled. “No, we’re not adopting.”

“Then why do we need a nursery? This picture is of a baby, right? Or at least it looks like one,” he joked.

I took the picture and placed it over my stomach, looking down at what was the image of our child. When I glanced up, Galen had tears in his eyes. “Please tell me this is true,” he cried.

I nodded excitedly. “It’s true, Galen.”

He held his arms out and I gently leaned down on him. “I would do anything to be able to hold you tight right now. I can’t believe we’re having a baby. You have no idea how happy this makes me.”

“Believe me, I do. It didn’t seem real at first, but it is. You gave this miracle to me,” I sobbed whole-heartedly.

“No, my love, we gave it to each other.” We held each other, crying and laughing for hours, and when the sun came up it shone through the blinds. A new dawn and a new beginning was what were in store for us.

“I guess we should call your family now?” I suggested. “I hope they don’t get mad that we didn’t call them as soon as you woke up.”

“Yes, we need to call them. I’m sure they’ll understand why we didn’t call them sooner. We needed that time together.” When I was about to pick up the phone to call his family, Galen stopped me. “I love you, Korinne. I would have fought to the end of time to come back to you.”

“I know you would have, but you’re here now, and we have so many new experiences we need to share with each other.” I paused to stare into his bright blue eyes, the eyes I’d missed seeing for so long. “And I love you. Now that you’ve fulfilled your promise to come back to me, it looks like you’re stuck with me …
and
our child.”

Galen smiled. “I think I can live with that.”

Chapter Twenty-Four

I didn’t remember much about the coma. It was like I was in a void, neither here nor there. It was like a passing of time where I was non-existent, and not even a part of the world. Ten months have passed, and my body is just beginning to feel normal. Being told of the repercussions was really scary. Not knowing how long my kidney was going to last was the biggest thing. I wanted to live, and I wanted to be there for Korinne and the baby.

My therapy came from Korinne and my little girl. Looking at them every day reminded me of how I needed to push through the obstacles and move through the pain. My leg still ached from time to time, but it was manageable. I hobbled around for a few months on it until I regained the strength in my muscles. I sold my other motorcycle and promised Korinne I would never ride again. Now that I had a family of my own, I couldn’t risk getting hurt.

Our daughter was almost three months old and we named her Anna. When Korinne went into labor in the middle of the night we still had no clue what we were going to name her. I was so ecstatic to be having a child of my own that we could have named her anything and I would’ve been happy. Once she came out and we saw her for the first time, the name kind of slipped out. It felt right, so we named her Anna Grace Matthews after both of our mothers. We took each of their middle names and combined them together. They were both ecstatic when they found out. Other than Korinne, Anna was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. She had blonde curls and bright blue eyes, and the first time she smiled at me I was whipped. So now I have two women that I fawn over all the time.

I went back to work fairly quickly after getting out of the hospital. Korinne’s name was still a growing commodity, and she stayed super busy until our daughter was born. Anna now had her own little nursery corner in our office. Needless to say, the office sex was put on hold for a while. Most days we were too exhausted to even think about it.

“Mr. Matthews?” Rebecca said while poking her head through the door.

I looked up and smiled. “What, no intercom today?”

She opened the door fully and laughed. “I’m so used to not using it now since the baby stays here sometimes.”

“Yeah, Korinne took the day off to spend it with her parents. They’re in town to see the baby.”

“Oh that’s nice. I know she doesn’t get to see her family much. I bet they just go crazy over that little girl of yours. She’s so adorable,” Rebecca cooed.

“Yes she is,” I said while grinning at Anna’s baby picture on the desk.

“Oh yeah, I came in to tell you that Jenna is on the phone. She said she tried to call your cell phone, but it didn’t go through for some reason.”

“I wonder why she’s calling. What line is it?” I asked.

“She’s on line two,” she said and closed the door behind her.

I picked up the phone and pressed line two. “Jenna?”

“Hey, Galen, how are you?” she responded nervously.

“I’m fine, how are you?”

“Well,” she paused. “We have a problem, or maybe not exactly a problem, but in a way I guess it is if …”

“Stop babbling and tell me,” I interrupted her.

“You know how I was supposed to hold your painting for you until your anniversary?”

“Yes,” I groaned knowing something was wrong. “What’s wrong with it?”

“It’s not here,” she blurted out.

“What do you mean it’s not there?”

“I have something to tell you and I know your anniversary is only a couple weeks away, but you need to hear this,” she said excitedly.

Chapter Twenty-Five

Getting a good night’s sleep felt amazing. It had been a while since I was able to sleep all night. Our cabin had been finished a couple of months ago, so Galen and I had decided to spend our anniversary weekend there. I couldn’t wait until we could move to the mountains permanently. When Galen opened his eyes, I wrapped my arms around his waist. “Is it bad that I enjoyed sleeping in?” I asked, stifling a yawn.

Galen blinked a few times and turned to face me. “No, it’s not bad. I quite enjoyed it myself.”

“It was nice of your mother to take the baby for the weekend.”

“My mother would keep Anna every day if we asked her to. She only ever had boys, so being around a little girl is heaven for her. You know she wants to move up here, close to us when we make the move.”

“I can understand that. She’ll be alone in Charlotte if she doesn’t. We would also have a babysitter if she moved up here.” I grinned.

Galen laughed. “Yes, we would.”

“So what is the big surprise tonight?” I asked. “I have to say that I hadn’t been able to figure it out. For the first time in my life I’ll admit that I failed.”

Galen teased, “It kills you that you don’t know, doesn’t it?”

“You have no idea.”

Looking over at the clock, Galen sighed. “Well, since we slept till noon we might need to start getting ready.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. It’ll be nice to take a long, hot shower without interruption.”

Galen’s eyes gleamed in the light and he bit his lip enticingly. “You know, we don’t have to leave for another three hours. How about I join you in the shower?”

“You didn’t get enough last night?” I asked, biting my lip in return.

He shook his head. “Never will I ever get enough of you.”

I trailed a finger over his bare, rippled chest until my hand slid underneath the covers to the hardness of his groin below. Teasing him, I ran my hand up and down it a couple of times before I jumped out of bed and headed to the shower, laughing the whole way.

“Tease!” he yelled.

I got the water all nice and hot and climbed into the shower, waiting for him to join me. Only seconds later he came into the bathroom and I could see his blurry, bare form through the shower doors. Pulling open the screen, he stood there, all glorious with his hard cock pointing straight up in the air. I bit my lip and moved back to give him more space to enter. The water poured and glistened over Galen’s body and I found it amazingly sexy. I didn’t know what it was about wet skin that looked so enticing, but at that moment I was wet and ready to go.

“We haven’t had shower sex in a really long time,” he murmured with a deep, husky tone to his voice.

“I know. I think the last time was on our honeymoon,” I admitted.

“I think we might need to change that,” he growled before claiming my lips.

He moved from my lips and went straight down to my breasts. Sucking on my nipple, he glided his fingers to my core and entered me gently, growing more rapid with each thrust. I moaned and placed my hands on the shower walls to keep my balance. My knees went weak and I didn’t know how long I was going to last. When Galen released my breast, he moved up to my neck, kissing along the way. He turned me around so my back faced his body, and he pushed me up against the shower wall, firm and full of passion.

“You are so damn sexy,” he whispered in my ear from behind. I leaned forward against the shower wall and spread my legs, ready for him to take me. His cock was so hard up against my ass, and I ached to feel him inside me.

“Now who’s the tease?” I asked. Groaning in my ear, he nipped my earlobe. His hands reached around to the front of my body; one massaged my breast while the other rubbed on my nub. I moaned in heightened pleasure and opened myself up even more for him to take me. When I felt him moving closer I knew it was time. He pushed in deeply and gave me all he had, stretching me and filling me to the point it almost hurt, but a good kind of hurt. His fingers moved in tune with his thrusts, giving me the maximum pleasure.

“You feel so good,” Galen moaned. “All tight and hot wrapped around my cock.”

“So do you,” I whispered breathlessly.

I could feel myself getting close the way my core tightened. Galen gripped me harder across the chest and pulled me closer while he pumped harder, getting closer to the edge. “Oh my God, Galen, I can’t hold out any longer!” I screamed out in ecstasy.

“Oh hell,” he groaned in my ear. The orgasm came swiftly and it rocked my body hard while Galen rode his out inside of me. We stood there for a few seconds to let the hot water relax us and for us to catch our breath. Galen pulled out gently and turned me around. His gorgeous blue eyes peered into mine and he smiled. “That felt amazing.”

“It always does,” I said before kissing his wet lips. “Happy Anniversary, Galen.”