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“Come with me,” he said. He led her into the bedroom and gently pushed her on the bed. “I’m going to get everything ready, and you just rest here. Look at our wedding album.”
He reached for it under the night table and handed it to her.
“It’s so pretty. Your mom made this cover for us.”
“I wish I could get her to do more of that stuff again,” he said. But tonight wasn’t about Beverly. It was about Annie.
In the bathroom, he turned the water on in the tub, adding a handful of her favorite bath salts, originally a gift from him. They foamed up in the water, the scent of lilacs filling the room. Then he left the water running and went out into the living room to get candles and matches. Placing the candles around the bathroom, he then turned the lights off. The effect was just what he wanted.
Back in the bedroom, Annie was sitting up in bed, looking at their wedding album.
“It’s so weird how you can’t tell by looking at these pictures that no one knew me, and I didn’t know anyone, including you.”
“Well, you sort of knew me,” Steve said, reaching for the album. “Can you put that down? I have your bath ready, madam.”
She slid off the bed, feeling a little self-conscious. He was going to see her naked after seeing that skinny kid naked just a few hours before. Biting her tongue so as not to ruin the mood, she allowed him to lead her into the bathroom.
“Now you have to get out of these clothes.”
He fumbled with her buttons, but she didn’t interfere with his progress. Once the shirt was off, he didn’t go right for the bra; instead, he smoothed his hands over her belly. “So no zipper on these jeans?”
“Nope, just stretchy. Does it gross you out?”
“Annie, never,” he said, sliding his fingers in the waistband and pulling it over her belly. It was getting so big and in your face, and she wasn’t that far along. “Wow, you really popped.”
“Yeah, the doc said because I’m smallish through the hips, I would probably show more. There’s no place for the baby to hide in there.”
She wore little lacy bikini underpants. Standing in her bra with her breasts exploding out of it, and those little panties, something welled up in Steve that he couldn’t name, a feeling that was an amalgam of positives. He recognized love, but also fear. This was his kid growing inside Annie. He had to do differently by it than his father had. Annie was his wife, the mother of his child. In order to have a different outcome than his family of origin had had, he had to start now, respecting her.
“I love you,” he said. “I’m so sorry about everything.”
“No worries, Steve. It’s over with. I’m feeling a little uncomfortable because I know you must have seen that girl naked, and now here I am, big as a damn house.”
“You’re beautiful,” he said, pulling down her underpants.
Her belly had pulled all her lady parts up, so they were rightthere,and he hadn’t noticed before, but now it fascinated him, blood surged to his groin, and he dropped to his knees in front of her.
“Steve, what are you doing?” she cried, not used to this much attention from him lately.
“Just relax,” he murmured, pressing his face against her, his tongue performing magic so that when she cried out again with her hands on his shoulders, it was in such glorious ecstasy that she almost giggled when she finished, looking down at him with a pleased look on his face.
“Your turn,” she said, breathless.
“Some other time,” he said. “Because I want to get inside you as soon as possible.”
“What about my bath?”
“We’ll both get in later.”
He led her to the bed, and spooning her so there was no pressure on her belly, Steve made love to his wife, slowly, gently, and when he finished, they fell asleep just like that.
At three in the morning, he carefully got out of bed and went into the bathroom to make sure the candles were out, he must have blown them out or they burned out on their own, and then got back into bed.
At seven, their alarm went off. “Are you really staying home? Because you don’t have to. I need to go in to the rescue today because we have new puppies.”
“Aw, we should get one,” he said, sitting at the side of the bed. She ran her finger down his spine.
“We should. I was thinking we should get a dog to grow up with the baby. And now that we have a fenced yard, it will be even better.”
