Page 116 of Slash

“Yeah,” I said, sliding out of her, then off the bed. “I’ll meet you in there,” I said, watching her get up and do the come-waddle into the bathroom, liking the image more than I probably should have.

Alone, I fished the ring out of the closet, curling it into my palm, then following her into the bathroom.

I wasn’t a grand romantic gesture kind of guy.

I was more of a “when it feels right, it’s right” kind of guy.

And after she shared with me her plans for the rest of her, and thereforeourlives, yeah, it was right.

So I offered her the ring.

And she took it.

And fucking nothing had ever felt quite as right.

Nyx - 1.5 years

It was so damn perfect that I wanted to cry.

After months and months of plans and repairs and construction and more problems and pitfalls than I ever could have imagined—though Slash frustratingly seemed to anticipate and let roll off of his back—it was finally almost done.

I hadn’t anticipated just how much this would mean to me.

The classes had started as a sort of therapy for me, getting me out of the house, giving me the confidence to be out alone again.

But then I’d just fallen in love with it.

I’d attended every class I could get in on. At that one studio, then several other ones. I enrolled in martial arts classes and Krav Maga classes and LINE classes.

Along the way, I’d met some amazing people. Some of whom were going to teach classes at the studio because, Slash was right, it was important to delegate things. As much as I wanted to handle the business side, and the general upkeep, the marketing,andall the classes, I knew I’d quickly run myself ragged doing that.

And I suddenly had a very important reason not to push myself too hard.

It hadn’t been planned.

I mean, of course not.

I would have been insane to get pregnant when I was in the middle of building a business.

It wasn’t even something as silly as forgetting to take my Pill.

Nope.

It all came back to that night in this very studio before it was a studio, when I’d taken a hard blow to my face. Which had caused some dental issues. And during the course of getting those taken care of, I’d developed this horrific nerve pain condition. And the medicine that I’d been prescribed to use for it when it flared up, apparently, made my birth control less effective.

And, well, Slash and I were still fucking like we couldn’t get enough of each other, so… yeah.

I was going to give him a baby before we even really gave the wedding plans any thought.

That was fine by me. We would get there. I wasn’t exactly a traditional kind of girl who had to do the ring, the wedding, the house, and then the baby thing.

Judging by the way Slash beamed when I’d told him I’d missed my period, yeah, I guess you could say we were both pretty on-board with our son or daughter that would be coming in another eight or so months.

But the baby was all the more reason I wanted this never-ending studio project finished, so we could officially open our doors and start teaching classes.

There would be women’s self-defense classes, some of which I would teach until Dr. Price told me I wasn’t allowed to anymore. But we were also going to have classes for kids and teens and just adult kickboxing exercise classes.

The town needed something like this.

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