by KL Fast
“There is someone that needs to see you before we talk to the doctors and Sheriff Lawrence. They can wait. This can’t.” He whispers into my hair. I wipe away my tears, knowing exactly who is coming. He sets me back on the bed and tucks me in before walking to the door.
My little angel comes in looking so sad, but when she sees me awake her face lights up.
“Mommy!” She jumps on the bed and squeezes me tight. “I thought… I thought. Th... that you didn't want me anymore and that you left me.” She sobs against my chest and I pull her close taking in a deep breath.
“Oh, love bug there is no way I could ever leave you. You are my sweet girl and I am never going anywhere.” I say trying not to cry. I can't even imagine how she is feeling right now being abandoned by her mother years ago, then the day after she asked me to be her mom I disappear. My poor baby’s heart has to be broken. “Baby look at me.” She looks up at me with her tear stained cheeks, her little lip trembling. I wipe away her tears with the thumbs. “Victoria, I am never going to leave you, I promise. I love you too much to leave. You are the most precious gift I could have ever gotten. I don't want you to think for one minute that I would ever leave. I love you more than all the sand on all the beaches.” I kiss her cheek and wrap her in a tight hug.
“I love you too Mommy. I love my new baby sister or brother too. I hope it’s a boy. Do you think it will be a boy? I mean, I guess I would be okay with a girl, but I don't want to have to share my stuff.”
She is oblivious to the shocked look on my face. I look at Donnie who has a huge smile on his face. He reaches over and picks Vick up then putting her on the ground.
“Hey, let mommy rest for a minute. The doctors need to come check on her. How about you have Uncle Gage take you to the cafeteria and you can have whatever you what.” Her eyes get big.
“Whatever I want?” He grins.
“Yep. Whatever you want.” She looks excited like she can't wait to go, but nervous that I might not be here when she gets back.
“I’ll be right here baby when you get back, can you get me something too?” She still looks unsure but nods her head.
“Okay but stay right here.” she says pointing to the bed
“Okay, baby I will.” I give her my best smile. Donnie talks quietly with her as he walks her out. After a few seconds he comes back with Suzy.
“Hey, Verity. How are you feeling?” Suzy asks trying to be professional, but I can see the worry in her eyes.
“I’m okay. My wrists hurt and so does my shoulder but mostly I'm confused as to why our daughter thinks that I am having a baby...” I look over at Donnie, who is smiling like a loon.
“Well, that would be because you are pregnant, Sunshine.” Oh my God. I knew I had missed my period but that's not unusual.
“Are you sure?” I turn looking at Suzy she chuckles and nods her head.
“Yep looks like you are about four weeks along.” she says patting my hand. Donnie puffs out his chest like a proud peacock
“First time's the charm.” He states matter-of-factly.
I can't help but laugh. “I can’t believe we are having a baby.” I say in shock. My hand automatically going to my stomach. Suzy finishes checking me over and gives me a hug.
“I love you girl, but don't you scare me like that again, now I have held off your brother for as long as I can. I am pretty sure he is going to bust the door down if I don't let him come see you soon.” She walks out the door. Not even a minute later Ryder is storming in looking all brooding. His face softens when he looks at me. He comes to the side of the bed.
“Do you know how worried I have been? Don’t you ever do that to me again. I have already lost mom and dad I can’t lose you too.” he says hugging me.
“I am so sorry deartháir.” I say as another round of tears come.
“I am so sorry.” He grabs me in a big brother hug.
“You have nothing to be sorry about deirfiúr beag.” He says pulling away from our hug. “I am just glad you are okay and the fucker that did this is dead, otherwise I would have to go after him myself.”
“What? He’s dead? How did he die?” Donnie growls and I look over to him. He has revenge in his eyes. He looks like he wants to rip something apart just thinking about it.
“He died in the fire.” Donnie says quietly.
“Good. I hope it hurt.” Ryder says on a growl as he stands from the bed. I gasp. He may have been a crazy fucker, but he didn't deserve to die. Maybe that makes me sound naive but with so much bad in the world, I would prefer to think of the good things like maybe he could have gotten help. Gotten better or something.
Even as I think it, I know I could never say that out loud the guys would freak out on me. Ryder kisses my forehead and walks to the door.
“Zane is waiting to talk to you. I am going to send him in.” When he leaves, Donnie walks back over to me.
“I love you so much, Sunshine.” He leans down and kisses me softly. I wrap my arms around his shoulders and kiss him back.
“Not nearly as much as I love you D.” He shakes his head, growls, and then kisses me roughly. When we pull apart, I am breathing heavy and his eyes are full of passion and love.
“I don't think so, Kitten.” I am about to retort when there is a knock on the door. Donnie pulls away.
“Come in.” I say, softly.
The door opens and Sheriff Lawrence walks in. He asks me a bunch of questions and asks me to tell him what happened. I do down to the very last detail, not wanting to leave anything out.
By the time he leaves, I am exhausted, and I so badly want to go home. I ask the doctor when I can while he checks the bandage on my wrist. I try not to grimace, but those are going to leave scars. They will always be a reminder that I am a survivor. He tells me that I have to be here for another twelve hours. I groan but nod my head. I would prefer to be safe than sorry. My little love bug comes back into the room with a teddy bear and a sugar cookie, which is my absolute favorite sweet. She looks at me tentatively like she wants to get back on the bed but is afraid she might hurt me.
“Come here munchkin. I need snuggles. You always give the best ones.” I say opening my arms. She comes up to the bed hands me my stuffed bear then plops down next to me. After I eat my cookie, I lay on my side. Victoria curls up next to me.
“Scoot over ladies. I want in on these snuggles.” We giggle as Donnie crawls into the bed behind me, pulling me close. I have no idea how we all fit but I am not going to complain.
I am surrounded by my two-favorite people. It might have taken a while to get here, but it was so worth the wait.
Epilogue One
Donnie
Five Months Later
After being in the hospital for only a day, I had to marry her immediately. We both felt that life is too short to wait. It was a simple ceremony, but in the end, she was mine and that was all that mattered. Her baby shower is today, and my sisters-in-law are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
We are doing one of those gender reveal things too. I wanted it to be a surprise, but I was supremely outnumbered. In the living room, there is a huge cardboard box, filled with balloons. I think this is a really stupid idea, but Verity wants to do it, so naturally, we are doing it.
My house is full of people and I don’t like it. My sexy wife is somewhere in this house, probably by a fireplace, surrounded by her girls. It’s November so it’s a bit chilly out, even in Texas.
She looks so damn beautiful with her belly full of my child. Then I spot her by the fireplace in the living room. I am so fucking glad she is mine.
I get her attention and nod my head towards the back of the house. I watch as she excuses herself and makes her way towards me. I turn and walk into the bathroom. A few seconds later she opens the door and joins me.
“You need something?” She asks. From the look in her eyes, she knows exactly what I need.
“I need to feel that pussy wrapped around my cock. I need you to beg
me to let you come.” My voice is low and demanding. Her sharp gasp tells me I have her.
“Just how do you think you are going to get that?” She says, coyly.
“I am going to hike that sexy as fuck dress over your hips, slide your panties to the side, and fuck you against this wall.”
“What if I am not wearing panties?” She says, putting her palms on my chest.
“One less step then.” I say, shrugging and kissing her roughly. Her moan spurs me on. I continue kissing her, my hands on her ass, pulling her dress up over it.
I turn her to face away from me. Her hands flat on the wall, her ass popped out a bit in to the air. I smack her ass, hard. I love the way her pale skin turns a bright shade of pink. She moans and pushes her ass out towards me even further. Using my foot, I spread her legs apart. I drop to my knees and see her little pussy is already wet. I bury my face between her legs and eat her pussy from behind. My hands squeeze and spread her ass cheeks apart. As soon as her taste hits my tongue, my already hard cock leaks precum.
I am afraid it’s trying to burrow out of my jeans. Her legs shake as she comes on my face. My girl isn’t quiet, but I can’t care right now. I stand and wrench my jeans open. I stroke my cock twice, but I have to be inside her. Now.
I slam my cock into her to the hilt. Her sexy moans are going to kill me. I pull out of her only to push right back in. My rhythm is fierce. I can feel my fingertips digging into her lush hips. Verity grinds herself on me, trying to get more of my cock. Finally, one of her hands comes off the wall and reaches down to my hip, pulling me closer still. Her fingernails dig into me.
“Give it to me.” She demands.
“You want it all?” I ask, still brutally fucking her.
“God yes. I want it. I need it. Please, Husband.” She begs.
We had sex maybe three hours ago, but with her being pregnant, we both can’t enough.
“Take it.” I roar.
“Fuuuuck.” She screams.
When she comes all over my cock, I unleash all that I have held back. Still inside her, I lean down and kiss right between her shoulder blades.
“Damn, baby. I fucking love you.” I say, sliding out of her, pulling her dress back down as I go.
“I love you too.” She says, turning slightly to fix her hair in the mirror.
I reach over to the counter and pull the hand towel down, but she waves it off. “You don’t want to clean up?” I ask.
“Nope.” She says with a pop. She faces me again.
“You want everyone to know you’ve been fucked in here?”
“Yep.” She says popping the p again. “They probably already know, I wasn’t quiet.”
“No, you weren’t baby.” I say, lightly swatting her ass. I pull her in for a kiss. “You are filthy, Kitten.” I say kissing her again.
“I learned from the best.” She says causing me to chuckle as I tuck my cock back into my pants, zipping up.
“Damn. I’ve created a monster.” I say, taking her hand and leading her back out to the living room. Someone turned up the music, so I realize that no one would have heard us. Gage nods his head towards me and flashes the stereo remote towards me. I grin. He goes back to talking to his wife.
“You two ready to get this show on the road?” Suzy says, popping up, seemingly from nowhere.
“Oh yes.” Verity says from beside me. Her hands rest on her tummy. “I am so ready to give this baby a name.”
We have both names picked out already.
We follow Suzy to the giant cardboard box.
“Hey everybody. Thanks for coming today. We are so excited about this.” Verity says. I see that someone has used a lot of tape on this box, so I take my pocket knife and carefully slice it open. Don’t want to be popping balloons. As soon as the tape is off the flaps are pushed out by all of the blue balloons that are escaping into the air.
Blue. A boy. My son will be here in less than four months.
“David Alan Evers.” I shout, pulling Verity into a hug.
“A baby brother?” I hear Victoria screech from somewhere. She runs up to us and wraps herself around our legs. I lean down and pick her up.
Our family is growing and I fucking love it. I see a flash go off. We are smiling and happy. If the next sixty or so years could always be the same, I’ll die a happy man.
Epilogue two Verity
Eleven Years Later
The last eleven years have gone by in a blur. Donnie and I have six wonderful children. I started King Fashion right after I graduated from school. I have Twelve wonderful ladies that I employ. I love making cute maternity clothes for plus size women. There is a big market for that and once I set up my online clothing store I have had orders coming in nonstop. Once I gave birth to David I started working less at the shop and more at home. Donnie had a huge workshop built off the side of the house for me to work on my stuff.
Donnie retired from the station five years ago and has loved staying at home with us. Truth be told I have a huge weight lifted off of me now that he is not at a dangerous job. I fix my dress and head up to Victoria's room. Today my baby girl is graduating high school and going off to college in California. I can't stop myself from crying. I am so proud of her, but I don't know what I am going to do with her out of the house, living so far away. I knock on the door.
“Come in mom.” I walk in and give her a watery smile.
“How did you know it was me?”
“Because you have been hovering over the door for the last four minutes.” I sit on her bed looking at the picture on the side of her bed it's of me and her when she was just a little girl and I burst into tears. God, I'm such a mess.
“Mom, you have to stop crying. Everything is going to be okay.” Victoria says as she finishes her makeup.
“My baby is graduating today, how am I supposed to act.” I ask standing up wiping my eyes. “You look so beautiful sweetheart I am so proud of you.” She turns from the mirror and holds me close.
“Thank you for making my dress.”
“Your welcome baby it looks amazing on you. Are you sure you have to move all the way to California? You can just stay home you know.” I say only half joking
“Mom we have gone over this. I promise I will come back for fall and Christmas break plus we can Facetime like every day.”
“You better. Your dad may be acting all tough, but I know he is sad to see his baby leave the nest.”
Donnie clears his throat and we pull apart smiling at each other.
“Come on girls. It's time to go. I have the boys in the car.” He says while holding a car seat in his hand. Our two-month-old daughter is sleeping in it. We sniffle. I lean in, kissing her on the cheek.
“Are you sure you don't want to ride with us?” I ask walking over to Donnie.
“Mom, I'm eighteen. I can drive myself, besides the boys are going to try and drive me crazy.” She says rolling her eyes, coming over to give me and her father one last hug and kiss. “Love your faces I’ll see you there.”
“Okay drive safe.”
“Duh.” She says under her breath.
Donnie and I walk out to the car where our four boys are. I can see them roughhousing through the front window but as soon as they see us they sit back down acting like nothing was happening. Finally, we are all situated and, in the car, heading to the stadium for graduation.
“Ma, why are you crying again?” David, our ten-year-old asks looking at me with concern.
“Because she always cries. That's what girls do.” Lance, our seven-year-old says making a face. Ronny, our four-year-old looks at them in confusion
“Mommy sad?” Our two-year-old, Xander, looks at me through the rearview mirror his little lip quivering.
“No baby. Mommy isn't sad, she is very happy.”
“Then why are you crying?” Ronny asks.
“They are happy tears.”
The boys look at me in confusion before David tilts his head. “How can you cry happy?”
I laugh and shake my head. “Yes, it does. Just ask your father he’ll tell you.” Donnie gives me a panicked look then looks at the boys.
“We’ll talk about it when we get home.”
The rest of the day was perfect. We all went out to a nice dinner celebrating Victoria's big day then she went off with her friends and we took the boys out for ice cream because they had been so good during the ceremony. By the time we get home, it's bedtime. Donnie gets the boys ready while I feed Heather. Donnie comes in as soon as I am done. He kisses me on my forehead.
“Go lay down Sunshine I’ll get her to bed.”
“Mmkay.” I say with a yawn. I kiss his cheek. He grabs me around the waist and kisses me soundly. When he pulls back, he gives my butt a little smack.
“I love you Sunshine.”
“I love you too, D.” I walk out of the room and head for ours. As soon as I get there I shut the door and strip, walking into our adjoining bathroom. I quickly shower and brush my teeth. When I walk out of the bathroom, I put on one of Donnie's old Kissing Junction FD shirts and a pair of silky shorts then crawl into bed. Sighing, I sink down into the comfy bed. I know Heather will be up in a couple hours, so I soak in the comfort while I can. I don't know how much time has passed but when I feel Donnie get into bed beside me and pull me close, I sigh in contentment, yet again, and fall asleep with a smile on my face.
I can honestly say that I couldn't be happier with the way my life turned out. It hasn't always been rainbows and sunshine and we have definitely had our ups and downs but my happily ever after is more than I could've ever dreamed of.
The End
Meet the Authors
KL
KL is married and the mother of one little boy. She lives in Oklahoma with her family. This is her first foray into writing, but she would love to hear what you think.
