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way out.” I gave him a nod and released the intercom.
    I switched off the equipment and grabbed my phone. I swiped at the screen and pressed Tiff’s number. It rang three times before I was gifted with her soft, sexy voice.
    “Hey. You headed home, Mr. Montgomery?”
    I chuckled. “Soon. How are you feeling?”
    I grabbed my keys from my desk and shut the studio lights off behind me.
    “Tired. I’ve been having contractions.” She sounded out of breath, and my pulse skipped.
    “You okay?” I moved quickly through the hall and out the back door. The frigid temperature shocked me, and I had to take a deep breath. “Shit.”
    She laughed quietly, and I could hear her take a deep breath. “I’m fine, Seth, they’re just getting closer together.”
    I clicked the automatic starter on my keychain, and my Audi Q10 roared to life. The snow was falling in fat, heavy flakes; the roads were sure to be shit. A chill went up my spine, but not from the weather. Snow storms. They reminded me of our darker time, and I hated it. The winter always brought me back to that fucking tattoo shop where I’d almost lost my whole life. Where I almost lost her .
    “Seth?” Tiffany sounded concerned as I pulled open the SUV’s door and took a seat.
    “I’m here. The weather’s shit.” The fear in my voice was bubbling to the surface.
    “It’s bad here too.” She exhaled. “Will you be okay?”
    “Yes.” I infused as much confidence into my voice as possible. She didn’t need to worry about me.
    “Good, because the contractions… I think they’re getting stronger.”
    “I’ll be home as soon as I can.”
    “Okay, drive safely.” I heard the girls yell I love you in the background, and my lips spread into a giant smile.
    “You tell that baby to wait till I get home.”
    She laughed. “I’ll try my best. This isn’t my first rodeo.”
    “Love you, Angel.”
    “Love you too.”
    I pressed the end call button and threw my phone onto the passenger seat. The wipers easily removed the snow from my windshield and, as I pulled onto the road, a calm washed over me. Tiff and I had been through our worst and we’d survived. We were about to have our third child — a child we’d never planned for, a child we’d chosen to wait and see what the sex was until he or she was born. Even though I secretly wanted a boy, I was okay with whatever the hell I was given, because my life, it should have never been this good, but with Tiff and my girls — I had it all.
     

TIFFANY
     
    THE CLOCK ON THE stove read fifteen minutes past seven as I hung up the phone. The pizza guy had said deliveries would take up to forty minutes due to the weather. I placed my cell on the counter and bit my bottom lip. Seth should be home any minute. I hated that he was always anxious when it stormed. Even through the phone I could sense his unease. My stomach tightened again, and this time the pain radiated around to my lower back and my pelvis felt as if it would split open. I took short little breaths and worked through the pain. It was almost second nature now, but I had to mentally prepare myself for Seth. I shook my head with a laugh.When I labored with Annie, those thirty-six hours, they had been pure hell, but Seth, he’d acted as if he thought I would die. He was this sexy smart-ass covered in beautiful ink, with eyes that ate me up and a mouth that could turn me into a puddle, but put him in a hospital setting, and all his rationality flew out the fucking window.
    We worked hard in therapy to get through what had happened to me — to us — but the lingering effect of violence never truly fades. Seth loved me with his whole heart; he was my match, my soul mate, and I tried to remember that when he became too over protective. Liv’s labor only took nine hours; she was always in a hurry. But even then, Seth had been a wreck. It wasn’t until each baby had been born and the small life was in his hands that he would finally allow himself to