Only Her

Epilogue

Luka stood outside the bathroom door waiting. His hands were flat

against the solid grain of the wood. Palms up. He was nervous. She wasn’t responding. He wondered if she had locked it. He moved one hand and jiggled the doorknob. Damn, it was locked.

“Come on Skylar. What the hell is going on? You could have just let me come in with you.”

The door suddenly flew open and she held her hand behind her back. “Let me see,” he said.

She shook her head no. He couldn’t tell by the look on her face. She always was the best poker player in the group. “You know I can take that from you,” he told her.

She scowled at him. “Let me have some fun would you Luka?”

They had been married for six months. Trying for a baby for three. Brett and Ramona’s baby was due anytime. She was about to explode and her temper matched her figure at the moment. Brett had become her whipping boy then her shoulder to cry on because she had yelled at him. They were married right away after Tag had kidnapped Skylar. The four of them should have just had a double wedding they were so close together.

“So just tell me are you pregnant?”

She shook her head no. “I’m sorry baby. We can try again next month.” She handed him the stick in her hand and headed for the bedroom door.

Luka felt the same crushing disappointment he had the other two months. He wanted to experience fatherhood from the first moment of finding out. He loved Ava. He loved being her father. He glanced down at the stick in his hand and his mouth popped open. She had lied to him. She was already out the door. The window said, pregnant. “Hey Skylar,” he shouted.

She stuck her head back inside the door. “What Luka?” She asked.

“Come here,” he said.

She strolled through the door. “What?”

He tugged her into his embrace. Skylar gazed up into his eyes. “Why do you look like you’re about to cry Luka?”

“The test…the test says pregnant,” he told her.

“It does,” she laughed. “Are you all right?”

He guided her to the bed and sat down pulling Skylar into his lap. “No, I’m not.” He laid his head on her shoulder and just held her. “This means everything to me Sky. You don’t know.”

“I do know Luka. I really do.”

She pressed her lips to his cheek and her eyes closed. “We’re going to have another baby,” she whispered in his ear.

He turned quickly laying her on the bed on her back; his body hovering over hers. “I love you Sky. I always have.” His eyes were intense. The part of him that always drew her in.

“I love you too Luka.”

He lowered his head. She raised hers. Their lips were just a breath apart, ready to touch. “Momma, Daddy, Uncle Brett is on the phone. Aunt Ramona is at the hospital,” Ava shouted up the stairs.

Luka laid his head in the crook of Skylar’s neck. “That kid has impeccable timing. I’m surprised we were able to ever conceive another child.” He groaned. His breathe tickled her neck and she giggled.

“Come on. We gotta go.” Skylar wiggled out from under him.

“Where are we going?” He asked following her.

“To the hospital Luka. We’re about to become an aunt and an uncle for the first time.”

“What’s the rush?”

Skylar hesitated at the top of the stairs; she turned and gazed at him. “They need our support.”

Luka scratched his head. “To do what?”