Free Full Circle (Rockin' Country #3) by Laramie Briscoe

gift.”
    “I don’t need anything.” Shell shook her head. “Being here with you is exactly what I needed. It’s the best present ever.”
    He got up, putting his boxer briefs back on before walking over and grabbing his guitar. “I kinda wrote you something,” he told her as he had a seat and started strumming some chords.
    As he started singing, she listened, really listened to the lyrics of the song. They talked about love and how the man had a hard time letting his feelings show. How he wanted his lady to stay, and the only way he could make her do it was to tell her he loved her. When he finished, she had tears streaming down her face.
    “That was beautiful,” she told him, shaking her head in amazement. “I can’t believe you wrote that for me.”
    “Garrett helped me with some of the phrasing. You know he’s romantic like that.”
    She wanted to argue that he was romantic like that too. He’d gone out of his way to do this for her. That said a lot about the man he was becoming. She watched as he sat his guitar aside and then went in search of his pants.
    “I have one more thing for you.”
    “I don’t need anything else, truly. This is enough right here.”
    He shook his head and reached into his pants pocket, pulling something small out. It was a coin that he flipped in the palm of his hand before he went over to sit next to her. He held it out to her. “It’s my sobriety coin. I have 250 days sober, and I know without you I wouldn’t be here. In the last meeting, my sponsor talked about the important things, the things that made us want to stay sober. I thought really long and hard about it, and I knew I wanted to stay sober for you, but I kept asking myself why. It wasn’t an easy question to answer, and I know I’m not the man you thought you would be with – hell, I’m not the type of man that deserves you.” He reached over and cupped her cheek in the palm of his hand. “But I realized that the reason I want to be sober is because I want to prove that I love you, I want to prove that I am good enough for you to accept that love. So, I’m giving you my sobriety coin, and with the coin, I give you my heart. Don’t break it, Shell,” he pleaded.
    Throwing her arms around him, she couldn’t help the emotion that poured out of her body. In that moment, she felt like the luckiest woman in the world.

Chapter Eleven
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    March
    H annah groaned as she checked her cell phone.
    “What’s wrong?” Garrett asked, looking up from the news article he was reading on his iPad.
    The two of them were waiting for everyone else to get ready before they left for the venue.
    “I have to have my annual next week, which means I need to fly back to Nashville for the day.” She wrinkled her nose in distaste.
    “Have fun with all that.”
    She rolled her head around on her shoulders, dreading the conversation she knew she had to have with him. “Actually, there’s something I need to talk to you about in regards to that.”
    “Me?” They were married and all, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to know the details of her gyno visits.
    “Yeah, you know I have an IUD. It’s time for me to take it out and decide whether I want to put another one in or not.”
    It took him a minute to realize what she was saying to him, but once he got it, he scooted closer to her on the seat in the bus. “Are you saying you might want to go ahead and try for a baby?”
    She pursed her lips and nodded quickly. “I think we’re in the best situation right now that we’re going to be in for a few years, and if it was to happen now, I wouldn’t be sad about it. However,” she grabbed hold of his hand, “I think this is something you should talk to the guys about too. This will not only change our lives, but theirs as well. That’s why I’m bringing it up so early, I want to give you time to talk it through with them.”
    Garrett folded his tattooed arms over his chest and worried his bottom lip between his