Inn Love

She’s all I crave. Night and day, I’m enraptured with her. I just want her and her body. Nothing else matters to me at all. Why should it when she’s handed me the world on a silver platter? I think about making love with her all the time, our bodies grinding together, completing one another so wholly when we collide. That’s what I want my life to be. Just me and her, between the sheets, enjoying each other repeatedly.

And I can see that she wants it too. I can see that she’s not hard to please. She wants the simple life, just like I’ve come to want the same thing. She steps up to me, abandoning the grocery cart.

“Then let’s stay here,” she purrs, her hand slipping into mine. “Let’s build a life here. Let’s do all the things we’ve been waiting to do for so long. I don’t want to wait anymore. But only if you’re sure….”

“I’ve never been more sure of anything ever,” I growl, pulling her close to me. And then we’re kissing in the grocery aisle. People are staring, clocking who I am, seeing me with this unknown woman, but I don’t care.

She’s mine now. She’s part of me, and she comes with the package deal. From now on, it’s just Olivia and me against the world.

Until the end of time.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Olivia

Coming home from the grocery store with Elijah, I feel like I’m walking on air. The past few weeks have been incredible anyway, but this has just topped it all. We’re starting to talk about our future and think about settling down and buying a home together. It makes me feel on top of the world.

And the thought of having a family together…fills me with more joy than I could ever describe. It’s all I’ve wanted for so long. I never really had a family of my own, never had any friends to lean on. I’ve been alone for most of my life

But that’s all changing now. Elijah alone is enough for me to become my entire world…but if we can bring children into the world, as many as possible, then that would make things even better. I’ve always dreamed of being a mom, staying home with my kids to teach them everything I’ve learned about the world.

I want to be the mom I never had. I want to show my kids that they deserve the love I never got to experience until Elijah came along. And I know together, we’ll be the perfect parenting team.

And that’s why, at the grocery store, I slipped some pregnancy tests into the cart. I’ve had this feeling for a few days now that I might be pregnant. We’ve been making love every single day, never using protection, so the possibility that I could be pregnant seems high.

I don’t want to get my hopes up, and I don’t want to get Elijah’s up, either…which is why I’m taking a test alone first. I know it can take a while to get pregnant, and we might just not have had our chance yet. But still, I want to take a test. My body has felt different for several days like it’s changing somehow. Maybe it’s just all of the new things I’m experiencing, all this happiness having an effect on me…but somehow, I don’t think so. I think it’s something more than that.

I sneak off to the bathroom once the groceries are in the refrigerator. I feel anxious as I pee on the stick, knowing that this could be one of the biggest moments of my life. Alternatively, of course, it could be a massive disappointment. I could be completely wrong about this. I could just be telling myself what I want to be true.

But if I’m right…then this is going to be the most incredible news in the world. This is going to turn my world upside down once again. I know Elijah will be thrilled too. Before, when he was talking about our future, I had butterflies in my stomach, knowing that we want the same things, knowing that he wants our plans to come to fruition sooner rather than later. He’s no longer interested in waiting around, and neither am I. This is why this news would be the cherry on top of the cake if I’m right.

I wait as patiently as I can, but my heart is racing hard. I guess I’m really hoping this is positive news. I’ve had so much good news in the past few weeks, and I know maybe it’s greedy of me to want more, but I just want all of my life to come together at once. I know I should calm down, but it feels impossible to take things slowly with Elijah. Our love moved so fast. We had so many moments in our first week that people don’t have for years in their relationships. We have been speeding forward this whole time, and I guess I want the same for our family.