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“Never,” I say. “It’s me and you, Kelly. Forever. I love you.”
Epilogue
Three Weeks Later
Kelly
I stand in the deluxe bathroom of our mansion, the sickness finally settling in my belly as I stare down at the text, my hands clasped over my dress, feeling like I’m clutching onto my womb.
These past three weeks have been like a magical haven.
No, heaven.
Kane has been the absolute picture of supportiveness with helping me get ready for college, and he’s even put up with me becoming something of a house angel – or witch, depending on your perspective when it comes to filling our home with furniture and decorations and love.
Now, I stand before the His and Hers sinks and stare at myself in the mirror, my eyes wide as the anxiety and the longing dance around my body.
Outside, I hear the tell-tell rumble of Kane’s engine as he arrives for dinner, and that just makes my belly do even more backflips.
I walk to the sink and look down at the test. The allotted time has passed and now it should be able to tell me if this is the day our dreams true, if this is it, the moment I’ll be able to point out one day and say, This is where our family started. This is when our ideal of perfection became reality.
My breath catches when I hear Kane’s footsteps approaching outside the door, as he walks through our bedroom, and then the door handle shakes and the door trembles in the lock.
“All good in there, Kelly?” he asks.
“Yes,” I whisper, and then my voice rises. It explodes in a torrent of light and love and happiness. “Yes, yes, yes.”
“Open the door,” he says, voice trembling just the same.
He can sense it.
Of course he can.
He’s my fiancé.
He’s going to be my husband.
And, staring at the test, I see that he’s going to be the father of my children, too.
I throw the door open and my man is standing there in a steel blue shirt, the sleeves rolled up to show his taut forearms, his smile widening when he sees my face and his eyes track to the test on the counter behind me.
“It’s positive?” he whispers, his voice cracking. “It’s really positive?”
“Yes,” I squeal, leaping at him and throwing my arms around him, squeezing on tight as he lifts me up and down, laughing like a madman.
“A baby,” he smiles. “We’re going to have a baby. I’m going to be a father. And you’re going to be the best damn mother in the world.”
“Do you think so?” I whisper, as he puts me down, staring up into the eyes of the man of my dream’s.
“Think so?” he laughs. “I know it, Kelly. You’re the kindest, most loving person I’ve ever met. I love you so much and I can’t wait to start this journey together.”
“Forever?” I whisper, tears in my eyes.
Can I blame the pregnancy hormones yet or is it too soon?
“Forever,” he growls, leaning down to bring his rough, gentle, just mine lips to me.
And we kiss, kiss hard, as we sink into lust and love.
Extended Epilogue
One Year Later
Kane
I lie down on the bench and grab the bar, lowering it down to my chest and feeling my muscles tense and sweat coat my body and stick my T-shirt to my abs, my arm muscles bulging as I push it up again, repeating it over and over in controlled movements.
I can scent Kelly across from me, watching from the doorway, her smell still potent and alluring after the pregnancy. I can feel the radiance of her, the fertility, wafting into the air like her perfume.
“I can feel you spying on me,” I smile.
“Spying?” she giggles. “What a cruel word.”
I sit up and wink at her, and then have to look away before I leap across the room and take her right there.
She’s wearing her baggy bathrobe that she started wearing during her pregnancy, her morning hair long and wavy around her shoulders, her face free of makeup giving her an elegant, natural look. She’s fertility and sex and womanhood made flesh, and I feel my manhood turning solid in my gym shorts.
“I know that look,” she whispers. “But I should warn you, Mr. Knight, I’m not exactly tamed right now, if you know what I’m saying.”
I laugh, standing up and walking toward my wife, drawn to her like a magnet.
This past year has been a complete celebration of love and happiness, a series of moments when stacked together make up the perfect edifice of our life. I think about how amazing the club is doing, The Bloody Talons, tough in name but legal and reasonable in nature.
I think about how safe Aslado now is, and how incredibly my wife did in her first year at college.
I think about how strong she was during childbirth, bringing little Kaleb into the world.
