chapter 126

"Baby, we should get up." Colton rolls over in bed and drapes his arm across my abdomen lightly. Snuggling up close after one of the best night s sleep I have had in a long time. I m so relaxed it feels like I m floating in a happy cloud. It felt like it had been forever since we had real intimacy like this. Time alone to relax and curl up without any need to get up. Now that early morning patrols for vampires are a thing of the past, Colton has been trying to get used to sleeping late with me and adopting lazy morning routines while I m pregnant. We know they won t last after these babies arrive. A future of broken sleep and tiny demands, so we are making the most of the time we have left. "Hmmmm." I murmur sleepily and bury my face under his chin, pressing bodily to that chiseled torso as he wraps his arms around me. "Five more minutes." I revel in his warmth and close my eyes in a bid to doze back off. The sun has been up a while and the dail