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“It certainly looks like we are.”
I stood and pulled her into my arms then gently kissed her.
“I’m very happy, Vee.”
“You are?”
“Yes. I fought to get back for us and for him,” I said while touching her stomach. “I love you both.”
“We love you, too!”
I lifted her shirt over her head tossing it behind her. I got down on my knees and kissed her stomach while unzipping her skirt. I let it pool around her feet while I helped her out of her underwear.
“Sex is okay, right?” I asked after standing and working to remove her bra.
“Yes,” she replied while unbuttoning my shirt. After removing my shirt she pushed my pants down. “I’m sorry for not telling you immediately.”
“There isn’t anything that we can’t work out together, understand?”
“I understand,” she said.
* * *
“When are you due?”
Averie and I laid in the bed after making love. Neither of us wanted to move so I rested my head on her stomach while we talked.
“I’m two months now. So, seven more months. You will be sharing a birthday month with our kid. I also asked about the drinking I’d done recently, and she said that the baby will be fine. Lots of women drink before finding out they are pregnant.”
“Good to know. I thought you took your birth control religiously.”
“Religion is a funny thing,” she chuckled. “I was faithful to getting that implant put back in my arms every few years, but those pills were another story. I forgot those things on the regular, and while you were in the hospital, I missed that whole pack.”
“Good, now you have to marry me.”
She wiggled her ring finger in my face.
“I thought that’s what this meant?”
“No, that’s an engagement ring. I mean I want us to be married before junior is born.”
“Junior? We’ve already settled on a name?”
“Samuel is a great name.”
“It is but there should only be one in the family. I had an idea about a name if it’s a boy. Hear me out before you shoot it down. I actually thought of this before I got pregnant. You were still in the coma when this came to me.”
“I’m listening.”
“Okay one day when we were in the hospital, Vivian told me that Samuel meant asked of God. She said she prayed and plotted to get you, in so many words. Then she said that Samuel in the Bible was a powerful man because he was the Kingmaker. He was sent by God to appoint the rulers of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. So, since you are the kingmaker, I think we should name him, if he is a boy, King. Then because Samuel searched through all the prominent men to find a small sheepherder whom a lot of people probably underestimated, but he became one of the greatest kings of all time, I think his middle name should be David. King David Valentine.”
“King Valentine…KD Valentine…I love that. What if it’s a girl?”
“If it’s a girl, you get to decide,” she said.
“I like Queen. She will be a Queen so let’s call her that from the beginning.”
“What will Queen’s middle name be?”
