Novels by Bea Baum

BRYNNS POV Vex calls Dr. Ward at one-thirty in the morning. Dr. Ward does not appreciate it. “You do understand that pregnancy is not an emergency?” he says through the phone. Vex paces at the foot of the bed. “It could be.” “It isn’t.” “She was vomiting.” “That is common.” “She could be dehydrated.” “She vomited once.” “So far.” I sit against the headboard eating crackers while Kade lies beside me, scrolling through pregnancy symptoms on his phone. His eyes widen. “Apparently, the baby is the size of a blueberry.” “We don’t know how far along I am.” “Could be a raspberry.” “That doesn’t help.” Dr. Ward sighs loudly through the speaker. “I’ll see her tomorrow.” “Today,” Vex corrects. “It is the middle of the night.” “So today.” “At nine.” “Seven.” “Nine.” “Eight.” Dr. Ward goes silent. Then— “Eight-thirty, and if you call me again before sunrise, I will personally sedate you.” The line goes dead. Kade looks up from his phone. “I like him.” Vex lowers h

BRYNNS POV There are thirty-seven pregnancy tests lined across the bathroom counter.Thirty-seven.I counted.Twice.Apparently, Vex’s assistant interpreted every pregnancy test they have literally.There are digital ones.Pink ones.Blue ones.Early-result ones.Cheap ones.Expensive ones.One box claims it can detect pregnancy six days before a missed period.Considering I’m apparently several weeks late, I don’t think we need that kind of technology.Kade stands in the doorway holding three boxes.“You know, I think these are all basically the same.”Vex takes them from him.“We’re using more than one.”“How many?”“All of them.”My head snaps toward him.“I am not peeing on thirty-seven sticks.”“We need certainty.”“I only have so much urine, Vex.”Kade turns away, shoulders shaking.Vex looks at him.“Do you find this funny?”“Not at all.”“You’re laughing.”“I’m coping.”I cross my arms over my chest.“Why are you the one who needs to cope? I’m the one who might have something

BRYNN POVTwo months.Two months of waiting.Two months of security reports, surveillance updates, and dead ends.Val had disappeared.Jessie stayed quiet.Livia never made a move.At first, it felt like the calm before a storm.Now it just felt exhausting.I roll over in bed, my eyes barely opening as darkness fills the room.Something feels wrong.My stomach twists.Hard.I suck in a sharp breath.“Oh God.”The nausea hits so fast I barely have time to throw the blankets off before I’m sprinting toward the bathroom.The second I hit the floor in front of the toilet, everything comes up.Behind me, the bed explodes into motion.“Brynn?”Vex.A second later—“Baby?”Kade.I groan.“Don’t call me baby right now.”Another wave hits.The toilet becomes my best friend.Wonderful.Just wonderful.Within seconds they’re both beside me.Vex drops to one knee, gathering my hair back from my face before it can fall forward.His hand settles at the base of my neck.Steady.Warm.Kade kneels bes

VEX POVThe city looks different when you leave a room like that. Sharper. Like everything is already shifting beneath it.Streetlights drag in long gold streaks across the tinted windows as we move through the dark. The engine hums low, controlled, powerful—steady in a way the world outside isn’t anymore.Brynn sits in the passenger seat.Kade’s in the back.Same positions. Same silence.But it’s not the same.Not after tonight.I rest my arm along the center console, my fingers brushing lightly against Brynn’s thigh. Not for show. Not for strategy. Just instinct. She doesn’t move away. Doesn’t even glance down. Her eyes stay fixed on the road ahead, like she’s already thinking past it.“She won’t come at us directly,” I say.Kade exhales quietly behind her, the sound low and knowing. “No. That’s not Val’s style.”Brynn’s voice cuts through the quiet, soft but precise. “She smiled.”I glance at her. Of course that’s what she noticed.“Yeah,” I murmur. “She did.”She shifts slightly i

VEX POVMorning comes slow.Not because the sun is gentle—but because I don’t move.I don’t want to.Brynn is between us, exactly where she fell asleep. Like she belongs there. Like it’s always been that simple.It isn’t.My arm is draped across her waist, fingers resting against her stomach, feeling the steady rise and fall of her breath. Kade is still behind her, close enough that every inhale brushes against her shoulder.Too close.Not close enough.Funny how both can exist at once.I watch them for a long moment—longer than I should. Longer than a man like me ever allows himself to linger in something soft.Because this?This is dangerous.Not the power.Not the city.Not the blood that built everything we stand on.This.Her.Us.Brynn shifts slightly, pressing back into Kade without waking. My jaw tightens—not in anger, not anymore—but in something far more complicated.Acceptance sits heavy in my chest.And beneath it—Possession.Mine.Ours.Kade’s hand flexes lightly at her

Brynn POV “I want you both to take me.” I choke out the words, between the pleasure. The night unfolds in a tangle of limbs and breathless moments, boundaries dissolving between the three of us. Vex and Kade move with restraint, both focused entirely on my pleasure while exchanging glances that speak volumes about their shared devotion.Vex’s eyes flash with dark approval as I come undone against his mouth, his hands gripping my thighs to keep me in place.Kade watches with hungry fascination, his own breathing becoming ragged as he witnesses my pleasure.“So beautiful when you lose control.”Vex’s voice is rough as he rises, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. His expression is pure masculine satisfaction.Kade's hand replaces Vex’s between my legs, his touch gentler but no less precise.Vex begins unbuttoning his shirt, his eyes never leaving my flushed face.The two men exchange a look over my body—possessive, protective, and filled with dark promise.Kade lays back on th