I nodded.
He sighed. “My life isn’t all despair, Ryan. Yes, it feels less beautiful or fulfilling, but I’m not lost. I find your mother in many wonderful ways now. When I surf. When I’m out in nature.” He took his sunglasses off and leaned his forearms on the table. “Do you love this woman?”
“Yes. I asked her to marry me but then—” I couldn’t bring myself to tell my father how’d I taken it back when I learned she was pregnant.
“Here’s the God’s honest truth, Ryan. If I had the choice to never meet and marry your mom, so I didn’t have to be alone now, I’d still choose her. I’d live an eternity living like I do now, just to have those few short years I had with her.” He sat back again. “Right now, you’re probably feeling a bit like I do, so you know what it’s like. The difference is that you can change it. You can have her. From where I sit, you’re an idiot to let love pass you by. You have to open your heart, Ryan. Give your love. Take hers. You’ll never regret that, no matter what happens.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat. “Thanks, dad.”
“When do I get to meet her?”
I smiled. “Soon, I hope. There’s one more thing.”
“There always is.” He smiled.
“She’s pregnant.”
Both of his peppered gray brows rose up.
“I hope I’m as good of a father as you are,” I said.
He stood and I rose from my chair. He pulled me into an embrace. “There’s no doubt that you’ll be a wonderful father, Ryan.”
When we pulled away, his eyes had filled with tears. I suspected he was thinking of my mother and how she was going to miss being a grandmother.
“I love you, dad.”
“I love you, Ry. Now go get your love.”
At first, I planned to go immediately to Kellie’s apartment, but then I decided I wanted to do something bigger than just groveling, which I planned to do. I wanted to give her the night that I’d planned and then had fucked up. In fact, I wanted to give her everything she’d given me, starting with our trip to Europe. So I called Captain Lawrence, found a jewelry store with charms, and hoped to hell she’d come to the yacht.
She did come. And now, with my dick seeped inside Kellie, I finally felt whole. Like a part of me that had been missing was finally back in place. Perhaps it was a piece that Kellie held, and so the only way I’d be whole was with her. A part of me wondered how I’d missed it before. For over a year she was my assistant and I hadn’t seen that she held a piece of me until our trip to Europe.
Or maybe I did, but because I was her boss, I denied it, until in Europe, I couldn’t deny it anymore. Whatever the reason, I was so fucking grateful that she was here with me now. Her heart. Her body. From now on, whatever she wanted or needed, I’d give her. No matter how big or small, I’d move a mountain to give it to her.
I had a moment to think of my father. He was right. Losing Kellie like he lost my mom would likely kill me, but I’d rather have her here, for whatever time I’d get, than never have her. My plan was to have her like this forever.
I withdrew from her body and slid in again, watching her beautiful face as her pleasure built. I loved the way she gasped and her pussy gripped me as I pushed in. Her sexy moans and the way her fingers dug into my back turned up my own desire. Soon we were moving together in a perfect dance. Our bodies in sync as we drove each other up and up until we perched on the edge of bliss.
“Now, Kellie…come now. Come with me,” I urged her as I withdrew and knew I’d come on the next stroke.
“Ryan!”
I sank in, her pussy gripped my dick, and it was like the heavens opened. Love, pleasure, awe, whirled through my chest. We rode out the orgasm until finally I collapsed. I rolled to my back, and pulled her close beside me.
“You’re amazing, Kellie. I’ve never met a woman who could make me feel like you do.”
She lifted her head and gave me that glorious smile. “You’re not an automaton. You’re sexy and funny and sweet and smart.”
“And virile.”
She laughed. “Yes, especially that.”
“I’m excited to start a family with you.”
Her eyes misted. “I’m so glad.” She kissed me. “How are we going to break the news of all this?”
“Well, Gran and my dad already know about the baby, and I suspect word will be getting out shortly.”