Gotta Have You, Cowboy (Ford Brothers Book 2)

Chapter Twelve: Charlotte

It has been a week since I found out that I am pregnant. It has also been a week since someone broke into my house. The police cannot find anything, no fingerprints, no evidence; it feels like a nightmare, but I know that it is not. When they came by to talk to me they informed me that the box was indeed left for me. It was filled with pictures. All of them with me in every single one. From work, to hanging out with Maddie and Bella. There was even pictures of the inside of my house. The worst part being that he was in the house the same time as me. Watching me sleep and getting ready for work.

I never thought that I would be in this predicament. I have a stalker and we have no idea who it is. I have a strong feeling that it is Mark and I made my theory known. He is a high end lawyer who knows his way around a crime. He would know everything there is to know about getting away with it. He dealt with some of the richest people in the city. Some of them should have never gotten away with some of the things they have done. I may be been a lawyer's daughter, but my dad was an honest man. He knew right from wrong and he always picked his clients by their character and if it were right to defend them. Mark always took a client with big bucks in their bank accounts; no matter if it was wrong.

I am looking over my shoulder whenever I leave the house. Never knowing if anyone is following me taking pictures of my day. I cannot go out alone without being paranoid that I would be kidnapped or worse, murdered. I do not make enemies, I try to be friendly to everyone I meet. I should be out enjoying my life; my new relationship with Nate and starting a family. A family I thought that I would never have again.

I turned my head to look at the cowboy that stole my heart. The one who gave me a family when I thought it was a lost cause. He has stood beside me; protecting me from the unknown threat. Always cheeking on me and our baby. He swears up and down that we are having a girl, but I think it will be a boy. If we do I want him named after Nate. I want him to grow up with a strong name and to have a good man to look up to.

I find out next week when I am due and we should be able to find out the gender. Maddie is having a little boy and we are so close in terms. She is due in mid May; it would be good for our babies. Growing up in a close knit family with people all around who already love him. They all took the news well and there was no questions asked. Gramps and Lisa are ecstatic to have gained five grandkids and great-grand kids all in one year. Emma, Noah, and Sofia are excited to have a baby brother and a cousin. There is always some good mixed in with the bad. I never expected to have a child with a man I did not know, but I found the good in it when Nate accepted us into his life. I will not have to go through this alone. My baby and I are so lucky to have him in our lives.

Evey time I look at him I see the strong, caring, loving man that he is. The one who choose to love us even on the hard days when he did not have to. Taking in my child when he did not have to. Being my rock when I lost everything in my life. He was there when I had no one left to turn to. I owe him so much and I do not think I could ever pay him back. If I ever lost him I would not know how to go on. My life revolves around him and I would not have it any other way. He takes my anxiety and pain away without even knowing it. I got lucky when I stumbled into this tiny town and found him.

"What? Why are you staring at me like that?" Nate asked from the other side of the couch. We have been sitting in the living room since breakfast. He turned on the television while I tried to read a book that Maddie loaned me. I did not make it far in the book, but knowing her this book probably has some spicy scenes in it that would turn my checks red. I should not be reading it around Nate.

"Just thinking."

"Thinking about what? What did Maddie give you to read?"

"I have no idea what she gave me. She just told me to read it and that she loves it."