Free Whipped by Sabrina York Page B

embraced them both, one arm around her and the other cradling his baby. He stared at that fat, perfect face, all scrunched up as he fervently worked his jaw. Dane touched a tuft of down on a fragile head. His finger seemed too large, too rough, in counterpoint. He almost pulled back but didn’t. Couldn’t. “He’s perfect.” He looked up at her. Kissed her. “You’re perfect.”
    She glowed. Just glowed. “I love you, Dane.” Her lips brushed his.
    “I love you, Bambi.” He continued kissing her, despite her snort.
    “Angie’s in labor,” Cody announced, from behind him. In case they’d forgotten. Because he hadn’t mentioned it for a moment or two.
    They ignored him.
    “We should pick a name we like, since we’ll probably be yelling it a lot,” she suggested.
    He gazed down at the small human, the person they’d made. Yeah. He looked like a troublemaker. His chest swelled with pride. “Any ideas?”
    “I thought we could name him Cody?” she said in a soft voice.
    Dane snorted. “I like that.” Liked the thought of yelling that.
    Cody fell to his knees at Dane’s side and gaped at Tina. “Really? You’d name him after me? Little Cody?” He reached out to stroke the child, then realized how close his hand was to his sister’s breast and lurched back. “Can’t you…” he waved at her chest.
    “What?”
    “Cover up or something?”
    Tina glared at him. “This is what boobs are for, Cody. Besides, you’ll be seeing this a lot once your baby is born. Get used to it.”
    He paled. “Angie’s in labor,” he murmured. Then he leaped to his feet and started pacing the room. “Angie’s in labor.”
    Dane chuckled. “Shouldn’t he be in there?” Damn. He’d wanted to be there when his son was born. But his mission had taken longer than they’d expected and his flight had been delayed and there’d been a long line of cars at the gate waiting to get on base. Damn. He would have liked to have been there.
    Maybe next time.
    “He was in there,” Tina whispered. “They kicked him out.”
    “They did?”
    “I think, maybe, Angie did.”
    “Good. Serves him right.”
    “They said he was getting too bossy.”
    “He does that.” When Cody had discovered Tina was pregnant, out of wedlock, he’d gone ballistic, badgering them relentlessly to tie the knot. Though Dane was always careful, apparently it only took one slip up.
    It had been that afternoon. The afternoon he’d seen her with Ennis at the coffee shop and gone a little crazy and swept her off to a secluded cloak room. He probably would have remembered to use a condom, he probably could have controlled himself—if she hadn’t been bare assed naked beneath that cherry-spattered dress.
    But she had been. Bare and wet and ready. And he’d lost control.
    Made a baby.
    And Cody had gone ballistic.
    Never mind the fact that Dane had already proposed by the time they realized a child was on the way. Never mind the fact that Tina had gleefully accepted. Never mind that they couldn’t bear the thought of being apart. So much so that his mission, the one that had kept him away, was to be his last.
    Nope. Cody didn’t care about any of the sordid details. All he cared about was getting a ring on his sister’s finger. He’d hounded them until the deed was done. He still brought it up every chance he got.
    Dane hardly cared anymore. He had what he wanted. He had Tina. And their son…
    Tina’s chuckle caught his attention.
    “What?”
    “Cody’s gonna shit a brick when he finds out.” She glanced at her brother, who was now sitting on the bed, rocking and checking his watch every second or so and mumbling to himself.
    “What?”
    “Can you keep a secret?”
    “From him ?” Dane thrust a thumb at the man who had made his life a living hell for three months. “Not a problem.”
    “Angie’s having twins.”
    “Twins?” Holy God.
    Tina’s smirk indicated there was more. “Both girls.”
    Dane shot a look at his friend, who was