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My heart swelled. I loved him with all of me, to the bottom of my soul. I didn’t know there could be a love so deep, mostly because I hadn’t loved myself. That was the problem in a nutshell. I’d been convinced there was nothing about me worth loving.
Now, I had all the love in the world… and some of it was growing inside me.
I tiptoed to the bed and sat next to him. My fingers combed slowly and gently through his hair before he stirred, sighing gently in the seconds before his blue eyes opened. “Morning, beautiful,” he murmured with a sleepy smile. “What’s the occasion? You missed me so much, you had to wake me up?”
“Something like that.” I could do this. I had to trust he’d be happy, the way he had given me so much happiness. I had to trust his love was real.
He rolled onto his side and stretched before scrubbing a hand over his head. “What’s up?”
“I need to show you something.” It was like tearing off a Band-Aid. I had to get it over with all at once.
My way of doing that was to place the pregnancy test on the bed so he could see.
“Is… is that…” He leaned down, squinting. “Is that what I think it is?”
“What do you think it is?” I whispered with my heart in my throat while my fingers picked at the Egyptian cotton sheets.
He waited a moment that lasted forever before a slow smile began spreading over his face. “It looks like a dream come true.”
Right away, tears welled in my eyes. “You mean it? Seriously?”
“Yes!” He let out a joyful whoop before wrapping his arms around me and pulling me down next to him. “Yes, yes, fucking yes! We’re having a baby!”
I couldn’t stop laughing and crying all at the same time. Relief, joy, and gratitude took up equal space in my heart while Magnus peppered kisses over my face. “Thank you. Thank you.”
“You had a hand in it too!” I reminded him. “I should be thanking you.”
He finally stopped mauling me long enough to gaze down at me with a serious look on his beloved face. “Are you happy? I guess I made an assumption before asking how you feel about this.”
How did I feel about it?There wasn’t much thought required. “I’m so happy.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.” I ran a hand over his rough stubble before pulling him down for a sweet, tender kiss.
He pulled back quickly, though, still serious. “We have so much to do.”
My head was still spinning, and he was already thinking about the future. “Like what?”
“We have to find you the best OB-GYN. We need to start looking at preschools. You know it’s important to get started on the right foot, and that shit is so competitive. I was just listening to Barrett going off about it last week.” He chuckled. “I was bored as shit the whole time.”
“Not so much anymore, though?”
Pure love radiated from his eyes and soaked into my soul. “No. Not so much anymore. God, I love you. I’m going to spend the rest of the morning showing you how much.”
“I thought we had to start looking at preschools,” I reminded him with a soft laugh as he began kissing his way down my neck.
“It can wait until this afternoon.”
I couldn’t argue with that.
THE END
