“Sorry…um…well…um…” She looked into my eyes, and I swore the look in her eyes took my breath away. She reached into her back pocket and had something wrapped in a piece of Christmas tissue. She went to hand it to me but then stopped.
“I wanted to give you your Christmas present tonight. Alone. I asked the girls to help me come up with something and well…” she looked around and let out a chuckle. “They certainly helped me come up with something. ”
She looked into my eyes and again as she handed me the tissue paper.
“Merry Christmas, baby. I love you,” she whispered.
I took the tissue paper from her and smiled. It was light as a feather. “Is there even anything in here? I asked.
She nodded and said, “Oh yeah. ”
I started to open it up and unwrap it and that’s when I saw it.
Oh my God. It’s a pregnancy test.
I quickly looked at her and immediately felt the tears building in my eyes. I glanced back down and turned the test around.
I felt my legs starting to shake as I looked back up at her. She was crying and I was barely able to even say a word.
I whispered, “We’re pregnant?”
She slowly nodded her head and I dropped to the ground and began crying.
The next thing I knew she was on the ground with me, crying just as hard as I was. I got on my knees and pulled her to me and held onto her as tight as I could.
The only thing I could say was, “Thank you God…thank you God…” over and over. I get my second chance. I finally get my second chance.
I pulled back and quickly wiped away my tears, and then wiped Amanda’s away with my thumbs.
“I just found out two days ago. I wanted to make it special for you. That’s why I waited to tell you, even though I wanted to tell you so badly. I wanted to make it special for you,” she said as she began crying again. I placed my hands on her face and brought her lips to mine.
“I love you…my God, I love you so much,” I said as I kissed her with as much passion and love as I could. She did this for me. My God, this amazing woman did this for me.
“I love you too, Brad. I love you so very much. ” She said as she pulled back from my lips.
I slowly shook my head. “I don’t deserve you. ” She put her hand behind my neck and pulled me into another kiss. I could literally feel her love pouring into my body and I’d never felt so at peace in my entire life.
She started to stand up and I followed her. She looked up into my eyes and said, “Yes. Yes you do deserve me, like I deserve you. We were meant to be together Brad. For always. Nothing will ever come between our love…ever. ”
I ran the back of my hand softly across her cheek. “You’re so beautiful. I knew something was different about you the other night…you were…you were glowing. ”
She smiled and closed her eyes. I looked up and couldn’t believe what I saw. A bed? When in the hell did Gunner put a bed up here and why?
Amanda turned and looked and started laughing. “You are probably wondering why there is a bed up here. ”
“Well, yeah I can’t deny I’m at a loss. And it’s a damn nice bed at that. ”
Amanda turned back to look at me. “Gunner wanted a little place for him and Ells to sneak off to sometimes to keep things romantic. He had Josh build it and they must have put it in recently. ”
I closed my eyes and laughed. “Damn. That boy is such a romantic son of a bitch. ”
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Amanda laughed. “When Ellie mentioned it to me earlier, I had to laugh. Then I said Gunner wasn’t going to be too happy about that bed being here when his kids get older. ”
I threw my head back and laughed my ass off. “Ah hell…brings new meaning to sneaking off to the barn to make out!”
Once we stopped laughing, Amanda grabbed the blanket and started to walk over to the bed. It had a quilt on it already, but Amanda threw the blanket on top of it and then turned to face me. The moment she began undressing I wanted to fall to the floor. I was about to make love to my wife…and she’s pregnant with our child. My heart was bursting with joy.