The Billionaire Playboy's Regret (Lark and Max) novel Chapter 88

“I can do that,” his smile was pulling his lips, and he was trying to stop from blurting more out.

She moved to sit on his lap and stared into his eyes, “I would marry you within the month, within the week, even tomorrow if we could arrange it. I don’t need anyone else’s opinion on what is best for me or how they think you should treat me different. I am certain anyone else looking in would say I need to treat you different too and I’m so bloody sick of it.”

“Lark,” he cupped her cheek, “I love you so much.”

“I know you do. There is nothing, not a single grain of doubt in my mind concerning your love for me. I love you with my entire heart. I would do anything for you. What I wanted, more than anything, was for you to ask me to stay and not go to Houston and you didn’t and so I made executive decisions the way you would if the roles were flipped. I’m here to extort you, Max.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Here is the thing.” She took a deep breath, “I want to have your babies. Ever since you mentioned it the night you were high, it’s all I can think of. I want it, but you need to be healthy first and I’m not having babies without being married. So, here is my extortion attempt.” She watched his Adam’s apple bob as he swallowed nervously, “you work hard and get an all clear from the surgeon and you and I will elope to Vegas the very next day. In the meantime, I’ll come off my birth control in preparation for us starting our family.”

“You want to elope?”

“Yes.”

“The family will be angry.”

“I’m not marrying them. I’m marrying you. I don’t need their noise or their opinions or their two cents. The only voices which matter in our lives belong to you and to me.Stop reading the wrong and incomplete storyline, jo b ni b.co m has the correct and complete book. It’s not to say we can’t vent to them or unload on our friends because I know we need our friends and our family but, and I say this with all the love int the world, they’re a bunch of interfering assholes and I’m done listening to unsolicited advice.”

“I’m falling harder for you with every passing second.”

“I love you too, Max. I know you felt bad for pressuring me to marry you with the whole coming to Dallas safely thing but Max, I really did tell Ollie after the pain meds kicked your ass the other night in Houston, I was going to force you to hold onto your proposal.”

“You did?”

“I did. She even joked about showing up with a cleric and a white dress and waiting for you to wake up.”

“You want to marry me?”

“More than anything in the world.”

“Come here,” he lowered his lips to hers and kissed her softly.

Margot’s groan, “oh for crying out loud. I thought he was too sick,” made them both giggle.

At bedtime, Lark was nervous because their evening had been broken up with Margot until she declared she really needed to get some sleep for school in the morning. Now they were going to have time to themselves and really talk things out.

Max was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, and she was settling on what Lark was claiming as her side of the bed.

He poked his head out of the bathroom, his toothbrush in his mouth, toothpaste coating his lips, but her toothbrush in his hand. “Is it weird this being here makes me ecstatic?”

She immediately felt her nerves melt away. “No because when I put it in there it made me happy too.”

His eyes rounded as a thought formed and he raced to the wardrobe and came out holding a pair of lacy thongs, “now these make me happy,” his eyes danced, “and a smidge horny.”

She threw her head back and laughed, “you’re insane. Go finish brushing your teeth. You’re getting toothpaste everywhere.” He came out holding the container which held his retainer, “it’s going to be weird putting this in when you’re here.”

“It’s a good time for us to get to know each other’s quirks without the added pressures of sex.”

“Oh, there is going to be pressure,” he groaned as he flicked the bathroom light out. “I had the most insane wet dream last night. Do you know how humiliating it is to wake up in a hospital bed with wet underwear needing to explain to the nurse she could not assist with cleaning up?”

“Max!” Lark’s cheeks burned with his comment.

“I dreamed the craziest dream of you, giving me an amazing blow job then poof I woke up all alone, for the first time since I was a teenage boy, with wet drawers. I didn’t even have time to get adjusted either. Damn nurse came right in telling me since it was my last day in the hospital there was lots to do today and one of them was to get cleaned up and to show me how to take care of my incision. She was trying to take off my top!”

“What did you do?” she was laughing in earnest now.

“I asked her for privacy for a couple of minutes and she finally agreed. I got to the bathroom, cleaned up and thanked the heavens above for the knowledge my c**k still works.”