Chapter 4674
Serenity raised an eyebrow. “The usual spot? What if we wake Belle? That would be so awkward.”
She still remembered how, before Belle, when their son was a baby, she and Zachary had shared a loving moment—only to be scared half to death when the boy suddenly woke up. They scrambled to cover him with a blanket and pretend nothing had happened while she soothed him back to sleep.
Getting a little one to fall asleep again in the middle of the night wasn’t easy. It took effort.
Since then, they made it a rule: put the kids to sleep first, then sneak off to the study. They’d even added a bed in there. Once the door was closed, it became their private retreat—child or no child, that was their time.
Zachary grinned, scooped her into his arms, and carried her to the study.
A night full of tenderness followed.