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“Yes?”
“I want all of this with you. All of it,” I repeat. “I’m going to spell it out so you’re clear and can assume your little heart out.”
She flushes, but she’s completely engrossed in what I’m saying.
“Tell me if I’m scaring you off, and I’ll slow down, but here’s what I’m thinking. You ready?”
She nods.
“Okay, I see you, me, Dakota, our baby…” I lift a shoulder. “Maybe another couple of kids if we’re able—we can see how we’re feeling as we go,” I add when she laughs. “I finally takeallmy vacation time every year because I want all the moments I can get with you and our family. And we spend the rest of our lives riling each other up and cooling each other down. We wake up tired but happy and ready for a new adventure. Even the same-old, same-old feels like an adventure because we love what we do and we love being together.”
Her eyes well with tears and I lean down to kiss her before I keep going.
“After dinner, we take a walk or go swim in our pool…or Theo’s lake, and after the kids’ baths, we read books to them until they’re sleepy. We dance in the kitchen after they’re tucked in, and we make love wherever we can get away with not waking up the whole house. I fall asleep thinking about how pretty you are and how lucky I am to be loved by you, and when we wake up the next morning, we get to do it all over again.”
Tears spill on her cheeks and she sighs, her hair brushing against my hand.
“You really envision a life with me like that?” she whispers.
“I do. Before tonight, I had only dreamed about this kind of life with you and Dakota, and to be clear, the two of you are all I ever need. But you’ve expanded the vision with this baby news. You’ve given me so much more to be excited about.” I can’t help but laugh softly even when her face crinkles in another sob. “I love you, Marlow.”
Now that I’ve said it, I can’t say it enough.
“I love you so much.” She leans on her tiptoes and covers my face with kisses, and we’re laughing and crying and so fucking over the moon.
* * *
“Pleasedon’t ever stay awayfrom me so long again,” I say against her neck, my pumps getting more urgent.
I’m bare inside her, and the sensations are otherworldly. I’m not going to last long.
She whimpers and pulls me down to kiss her as she falls apart. I inhale her cries, wincing through that fine line between torture and ecstasy. Her walls clamp around my dick so tight I can’t breathe, and I fight to prolong this as long as possible.
“Ne-ver. A-gain.” My thrusts emphasize my words, and her head thrashes from side to side.
If I thought I could get away with it, I’d enforce a no-night-apart rule, one that I’d gladly never break. But I just got her back, I’m not enforcing anything right now, but how much she needs me filling her up.
“Come with me,” she cries.
Her hips buck as she gets another burst of energy and dammit, I can’t fight it another second.
“Fuck.” The word thunders out of me, and in the back of my mind I hope it doesn’t wake Dakota up. Logan went to The Gnarly Vine for a nightcap, so we’re good there. But I can’t even bring myself to care all that much if we’re heard at this moment.
The rush is so euphoric, I feel suspended somewhere over my body.
The intensity of emotion and passion are almost more than I can take, and I bury my face in her neck, never wanting to come up for air.
When my senses return to me somewhat, I lean up, brushing her hair back. “Am I putting too much weight on you?” I ask.
“No.” She smiles.
“How’s the nausea?”
“I’m fine, really,” she says. “Compared to earlier and the past few nights, I’m so much better.”
“Have you been checked at the hospital at all?”
“No, but now that you know, I’ll be more comfortable to do all that. It’d probably be best if we told your family before then though, the way the rumors might fly if word gets out.”
