by Mia Ford
“Oh my God,” I grunt as he sends me back to the heavenly place I was only moments before. “Evan, you are just too much.”
My whole body vibrates with lust, it’s as if Evan is absolutely everywhere. My head spins, the bliss grows, and Evan just keeps on thrusting, driving himself in deeper and deeper.
“Evan,” I gasp as the pleasure shatters through my body, whipping my breath away clean from my body. “Oh my God, Evan.”
The bliss shatters me, I can barely hold myself upright. It’s only Evan’s hands fixed around my waist that’s keeping me standing. He’s holding me through the pleasure, supporting me, loving me with everything that he has. As the orgasm tears through me, I feel so close to him, and I love that.
Chapter Twenty Nine – Evan
“How are you doing, son?” I ask Liam while I ruffle his hair. “Are you enjoying the day?”
“Yeah, I am, Daddy, but I wish Katy was here.” He pouts out his lip and crosses his arms over his chest in a stubborn gesture. “I don’t like having my birthday party without her.”
“I know, I know, but you had all your friends around, and that was fun, right? We had those trampolines. You certainly looked like you were enjoying that, and you still have birthday cake all around your mouth.” I wipe his lips. “You’re all covered in chocolate. And you love your new bike.”
“Yeah I do. Thank you, Daddy, but I miss Katy.”
It makes me laugh how much Liam loves Katy. He really does adore him. He does have his friends, but I think she might be his best friend ever. That hasn’t changed at all in the six months she’s been living in our home. If anything, their bond has gotten deeper.
“You know that Katy would have loved to be here but she had a meeting that she couldn’t miss. It’s all linked to her brand new business so it’s all very exciting…”
“She’s not going to start being at work all the time, is she?”
“No, no.” I hold Liam’s shoulders so he’ll look at me as I answer this. “The reason that she’s starting her own business is so she doesn’t have to work all the time. It might take a little while to get it all set up, but once she’s done it’ll all be good. I promise that you’ll see her all the time. And don’t forget we’re having our birthday dinner for you in a moment.”
“Will she have a present for me?” Liam’s eyes lit up as the thought of more toys cheered him right back up again. “Do you think she will? Did she say that she will?”
“I’m sure she does.” I ruffle his hair again. I don’t seem to be able to stop myself from doing that. “But don’t forget that we have a present for her too. Are you still up for doing that?”
I bring the small box out of my pocket and I show it to Liam meaningfully. We’ve been talking about this for weeks so I know he’s aware of what I’m on about. He’s always spoken so positively about it, I just hope now he doesn’t change his mind. The only thing that will stop me from going ahead with this is Liam. I’m pretty sure he’s happy, but I need to be certain.
“I remember.” He nods slowly. “You’re going to ask Katy to marry you. Then you’ll have a big, white wedding. And then… and then she’ll be my new mommy.”
That causes my breath to catch in my throat. I wasn’t expecting him to say that at all. “Oh, right well I don’t know about that. You do already have a mommy.”
“But my mommy is in heaven.” I do feel much better that he knows more about Victoria now. It makes things much easier, but it hurts me still every time we have to talk about it. Liam takes it all with so much maturity, but it isn’t fair. He doesn’t deserve this. “And everyone else has a mommy. I want a new mommy for my birthday.”
I don’t know how Katy will feel about that, but considering how well she’s handled everything so far, I’m sure she won’t mind. “Oh well, she will be like your mommy because she’s married to your daddy.” I’m trying to handle this as tactfully as you can. “But you’ll have to talk to Katy about what you want to call her, okay? That’s up to you and her.”
“Oh well, Katy won’t mind. Me and her have such fun. She will like it.”
I smile, knowing that he’s right. I’m sure she will but I don’t want to put words in Katy’s mouth. What happens between her and Liam is between them.
“Right.” I clap my hands together, snapping into action. “Shall we get the party tidied and get dinner sorted? Of course, you don’t have to do anything since you’re the birthday boy, but someone needs to. So why don’t you go and watch TV while I get everything set up?”
“No, no, no, I want to help! Let me help you sort it out. I want to. I want to do it for Katy.”
Sometimes my boy blows me away with his attitude, at moments such as this. He’s such a brilliant child, I’m so glad that I know him now. There’s been so much that I’ve missed out on, but I won’t ever make that mistake again. Now I’m fully on board with this parenting thing.
“Okay, Liam. You are an awesome kid. Let’s do this.”
***
“Was that her?” Liam whispers secretively to me. “Was that Katy?”
“You don’t have to be quiet,” I chuckle. “We aren’t doing this as a surprise. Or are we? Actually, that might be a good idea.” I cock my head thoughtfully. “Actually, yeah let’s do it. Let’s hide.”
Liam dives behind the couch and I join him, giggling madly. It hasn’t escaped my attention that I’m completely the opposite man that I used to be. I used to be all bravado, making business deals and caring only about the office, all the while everything was slipping through my fingers, having meaningless sex with my PA. Now, I’m laughing like a loon with my boy, waiting for the woman that I love, with a big diamond ring in my pocket. What a turn around of events.
“Yep, that’s her,” Liam whispers loudly to me as the door swings open. “She’s coming.”
“Let me know when you’re ready to jump up, will you?” I reply. “Say the word.”
“Hello?” Katy calls through the house. “Is anyone there? Hello?” We can hear her moving through the rooms. She’s probably wondering what the hell happened at Liam’s party and why we’re suddenly nowhere to be found. I feel a bit mean since I know how much she wanted to come to the party, but I’m sure she’ll forgive me by the end of the night. “Hello? Liam? Evan?”
“Let’s go now,” Liam whispers. We both leap up rapidly and yell “surprise!”
“Oh my God.” Katy clutches her hand to her chest in shock, dropping all her papers as she does. “You scared me there, guys. Are you two completely mad?”
Luckily she’s laughing, and as Liam wraps his arms around her, her face completely melts. I shoot her an apologetic look but she doesn’t seem to need it.
“So how did your meeting go?” I ask her over Liam’s head. “Was it positive?”
“It was, really positive. I mean it was awesome, I’m really happy about it.” She blows out a deep and weary breath. “So, I mean I’ll tell you all about it in the morning I think. Right now, I just want a drink. Oh!” She reaches into her bag and pulls out a nicely wrapped gift. “I suppose I better give this to the birthday boy as well.”
Liam screeches with excitement and he takes the gift from her, unwrapping it at the speed of light. He quickly finds another superhero toy in there which of course fills him with utter excitement. He races around the room with it in his hand making it zoom.
“I think he likes it,” I say while hooking my arm around Katy’s waist and pulling her in for a kiss. “Good choice by the way. Oh, and we have a dinner for you. A birthday dinner that’s waiting in the dining room.”
“Oh, that sounds lovely, I’m starving.” She rubs her stomach happily. “And it smells home cooked. What is it?”
I don’t answer her, I just take her hand and lead her into the kitchen. Liam has scattered rose petals all over the floor, in a bit of a haphazard way, and there are champagne flutes on the table, one with apple juice in for Liam, and candles lit. The food is there too, but that’s the least im
portant bit.
“Oh my goodness, this is lovely.” Katy furrows her eyebrows in obvious confusion. “Am I forgetting something? Is it like an anniversary or something? If so I’m sorry. I’ve just been so…”
“It’s not an anniversary.” I glance towards Liam and I can see that he’s bursting with the news. I know that if I don’t do it now he’ll end up ruining the surprise for me, so I tug the ring box out of my pocket and I fall to one knee on the floor in front of Katy. “But I might be about to make it one.”
“What are you doing? She gushes while clapping her hands across her mouth. “Oh my goodness. Evan, what are you…?” She glances to Liam. “What is happening here?”
“Katy.” I need to bring her attention back to me at the moment before Liam says anything. “I want you to know how much I love you. You’ve done more for me than I could have ever asked anyone to do and you’ve made me fall in love with you more and more each day as you have. I honestly don’t know what I would do without you now…”
I can’t stop him anymore. Liam jumps in, but actually it comes at a good time as the lump in my throat balls up and thickens. “My daddy wants to marry you,” he declares. “He wants you to be my new mommy.”
I freeze for a moment, wondering if that’s going to be too much, but Katy’s face breaks out into a bright, happy grin. “Oh my goodness, Liam, are you serious? You want me to be your mommy? I want to be whatever you want me to be. If you want me to be Mom, then that’s what I’ll be.”
As they embrace, I almost chuckle to myself. It’s so typical of my new family that Katy and Liam would celebrate this before me, but that’s fine. That’s even better than I ever could have hoped for. The fact that they are so adoring of one another is wonderful, it makes my heart swell with absolutely pride and happiness. All the jigsaw pieces of my life have finally come together.
Soon though, Katy drags herself away from Liam and she looks up at me. “So are you going to ask me?” she whispers. “Or are you going to just let Liam do it for you?”
“Oh no, I want to ask you. I definitely want to ask you.” I prize open the ring box and grin up at her. “Katy Atwater, I love you very much. Would you do me the absolute honor of making me the happiest man alive and becoming my wife.”
She glances into the box, looking at the princess cut diamond I picked out especially for her and she gasps happily. “Oh, my goodness! Of course, I will be your wife. I couldn’t think of anything I would like better than to be Mrs. Debroils.”
“Famous lawyer, Mrs. Debroils.” I chuckle. “Or at least the famous lawyer who somehow manages to have a life as well.”
As she embraces me and falls into my chest, I want to yell with glee. I’ve wanted to propose to Katy for a very long time but I’ve been holding myself back so I don’t act out too soon. Maybe it’s still a bit quick but I don’t give a shit. Me and Katy aren’t living our lives for other people, we’re doing this for us, to make us happy.
“Can we eat now?” Liam calls out, breaking the magic of the moment. “I’m so hungry.”
“Yeah me too,” Katy agrees. “And this all looks so amazing. You guys must have worked very hard on it.”
“Oh we did,” Liam nods as he declares happily. “We did it all for you… Mom.”
Hearing Liam call Katy Mom and seeing her happy reaction makes all of this feel even better. It’s scary, but in a great way. I absolutely love this journey.
Epilogue – Katy
Eighteen months later…
“Mom!” Liam calls loudly to me as he stomps through the front door, slamming it hard behind him. “Mommy, are you here? School is finished now so I’m home.”
“I’m just in the kitchen!” I call back with a smile on my face. “Everything okay, Liam?”
“Yeah, just wanted to check that you’re here and not in the hospital.” As he makes it to the kitchen, his eyes flick down to my swollen belly. “No, still got a baby in your tummy.”
I run my hand over my stomach, immediately feeling a kick. “Yep, shouldn’t be for too much longer though. I think the baby will come soon. You looking forward to being a big brother?”
“Yep, I sure am. It’s going to be so much fun.”
“Maybe, but be prepared for me and your dad to be very tired for a while with all the sleepless nights. You’re lucky to have a bedroom far away so you won’t get woken up so much.”
“Yeah.” He screws up his nose. “I think you are right, but I still want to help you when I can.”
Liam is so mature these days, he’s grown up so much over the last year and I think that’s down to having his dad around a lot more. Starting school has probably had an impact as well. Evan now completely mixes his time up between work and his home life and he’s managed to achieve the perfect balance. I was working on it, but at the moment I’m all about family since I’m about to have a new born baby. That can’t be helped, but the foundation of my company is there. I certainly have something to go back to when the time is right. I’m much more suited to being a lawyer in my own way anyway. I didn’t realize how little I liked the rules of working for Harrison and Associates, all the unnecessary hoops I had to jump through to get anywhere.
Still, it hardly matters now, that I left it far behind me.
“Daddy is just getting some stuff from the car,” Liam tells me as he grabs something to eat from the fridge. “He won’t be more than a minute.”
“Sure, sure. How was your day…” All of a sudden, a hot pain radiates through my stomach. I clutch onto myself and bend over double. Well, as double as I can bend with a massive stomach rolled out in front of me. “Oh, my God, that hurts.” I breathe deeply, but it doesn’t help at all. If anything, it makes it worse. “That hurts so badly. It’s agony.”
Liam doesn’t even ask me what I need, he races from the room yelling his father the whole time. This must be my daughter being born, she was due yesterday. I’ve been expecting something like this to happen all day long, but I didn’t think it would feel like this. I’ve been to all the baby classes that I can get to, and I’ve listened intently to all the lessons, but none of them could have prepared me for this. This must be my first contraction, and it’s killing me. It’s horrible. It’s the worst thing that I’ve ever experienced in my life. If this is just the first part, the easiest part, then I don’t know how I’m going to cope. How am I going to give birth when it feels like my body is already being torn apart?
“Oh my goodness, Katy, are you okay?” Evan races to my side and he wraps his arms around me. His touch comforts me a little, but it isn’t enough today to calm me down. “Is it starting?”
“I think so,” I gulp down some loud breaths. “I think this is my contractions starting.”
“Do we need to go to the hospital now? Shall I call Nancy to come and watch Liam?”
“I don’t think we can go right away… argh!” I yell as more pain tears through me, but this time I seem to recover a lot quicker. “But yes, it might be a good idea to call Nancy in just in case. She’s been on standby since yesterday, hasn’t she?”
“Yep, yeah, sure.” Evan tugs his cell phone out of his pocket. “Okay, I’ll call Nancy. You take a seat and relax… well, relax as much as you can until it gets too much.”
I stagger into the living room and fall onto the couch with Liam by my side. He immediately flicks the television on and switches it to something he thinks I might like to watch.
“Shall I get you a drink or something to eat?”
The thought of food makes me feel sick right now, but I’m not going to say that to Liam. He’s only being nice. “A drink sounds awesome,” I gasp through the pain. “Water please.”
Once I’m alone in the room, I rub my belly and I talk to my baby girl like I have done constantly since I found out that I was pregnant – that happy little surprise that I’ve been excited about for nine long months.
“Hey, little Delia. How are you doing in there?” Admittedly my tone isn’t as soft as it’s been
for the last nine months. The sheer pain is bursting through my tone. “I can’t wait to meet you, me, your dad, and your big brother are very excited.” I rub her, hoping that I can soothe her. “Now I’m a little scared too because it’s going to be a painful journey to get you here. Don’t hurt me too much? Please?” A contraction bursts through me again. “Okay, okay, I get it. It’s going to have to hurt. It’s probably not going to be the nicest time for you either. But you’re already very loved, you know that, right? We all love you dearly, you’re being born into a very loving family.”
Evan dives into the room with a pale, panicked and very stressed face. “Okay, that’s it. Nancy is on the way, she said that she should be here in about ten minutes, is that long enough? How are you doing? Do you need anything? What can I do for you?”
“I’m okay at the moment, I think. I just need your hand to hold…”
Then Liam runs in the room too, clutching onto my glass of water like it’s the holy grail. “Here, I have your drink. Is this okay? Do you need anything else?”
“I need your hand too. I have to hold on to both of you to stop the pain.”
As I hold onto both of these two, I know that I’m not going through this alone. The birth part is scary, but I can get through it with the support of this pair, and I know it’ll be totally worth it when Delia arrives and our awesome family expands even more. This journey is an amazing one, I love being with my husband, my son, and soon to be my daughter. I don’t ever have any doubts about where I am, I don’t wonder what it would be like if I’d taken that partner job and continued with my career dreams.