Just Marry Me Already (BWWM Romance Book 1)

by Ayo Campbell

  Hallie stared.

  Of all the things in the world he could’ve said, she had not anticipated that.

  “Aldous, do you have the slightest comprehension of what you’re talking about?”

  He must have lost his mind, thought Hallie.

  “You know I have the resources.”

  “Raising a child isn’t just about resources. I know you have the money. But you don’t have the time. You don’t have the patience. You definitely don’t have the slightest clue how to deal with babies!”

  “Nobody starts out as a baby expert! All parents learn as they go along.”

  “Aldous, you’re not making any sense! Seriously, you’re making absolutely no sense! You know you can’t raise the baby. You will hire a nanny. Hell, you’ll probably hire an army of nannies. But that’s not what I want for this baby. I want this baby to have parents he can rely on. Parents who’ll be there for him the first time he skins his knees, who’ll make his hurts all better. Parents who have the time to go to whatever practice he wants to go for. Parents who will get to know all his friends, and who will drive everybody for ice cream. I want him to have love, and warmth, and a real family.”

  Hallie could feel the tears threatening. Ruthlessly, she shoved them away.

  “You can’t give a baby that, Aldous. You know you can’t.”

  He was silent for a moment.

  “I could retire.”

  Hallie gaped.

  “Now you’ve really lost it. What exactly will you do when the baby goes to school, then, and you have far more time on your hands?”

  “I’ll go into some other kind of business. Not like I won’t have the capital to do it.”

  Hallie was bewildered.

  “Aldous, what the hell has gotten into you?”

  “What’s gotten into me? I don’t want to give up my baby! I don’t want to give you up! I want both of you in my life. That’s what’s gotten into me!”

  Hallie gaped yet again. He could’ve knocked her down with a feather.

  “I… What?”

  Aldous sighed.

  “I don’t want to lose you. Either of you. I know… I don’t know.”

  He sat there, looking like a lost little boy, and Hallie felt her heart swell.

  He wanted them both. He had looked frustrated as hell when he said it, but he’d said it. She had believed him.

  But she didn’t want to jump into it just because it was everything she had wanted, too.

  “Aldous, we haven’t even dated. Not really. We met, we talked, but… We’ve done everything the wrong way around.”

  He looked at her, his eyes so serious. She felt like she was drowning in them.

  “I know. I kept telling myself it wouldn’t be fair to you, Hallie. Not when you’re pregnant. I… Well, they say your hormones and feelings all get pretty messed up when you’re pregnant.”

  Hallie chuckled weepily.

  “That’s a bit of an understatement.”

  “So… I didn’t want to add more to the mix. I’m not explaining myself very well,” said Aldous, obviously frustrated, raking his fingers through his hair.

  Hallie just waited. She needed to hear what he’d been thinking.

  “I wanted to wait till you didn’t feel… I don’t know, resentful towards me for having to depend on me, just a bit. I wanted to wait till you were back to your old self. Then I was going to ask you out. Sweep you off your feet with grand gestures until you couldn’t resist me, actually.”

  Hallie smiled.

  “That’s… Not a very good plan.”

  “I didn’t expect to grow to love the baby, Hallie. I thought of the baby as a responsibility. But then, we saw him, and… I love him. To wait till everything settles down for you again, that would mean giving him up. I don’t think I can bear to give him up, Hallie.”

  She felt those tears breaking down that dam of resistance she had built when he said that.

  Those had been the words that had been in her heart for a while. She knew she wouldn’t be able to give up that baby. She had already seen all those precious moments in her mind – his first birthday, the first time he called her mama, the first time he walked, his high school graduation. She had even felt that bittersweet pride of watching him walk away, proud and independent and strong.

  She had felt as if not having the chance to experience all of that would make her heart break.

  But in all her dreams, Aldous had been by her side, experiencing all those moments with her. She had pushed them aside as frivolous daydreams. But now, if he was telling the truth, it was more than a daydream. It was a dream, and it was within reach.

  She could hardly believe it.

  “Aldous, you need to be sure. You really, really need to be sure. This isn’t one of those things that you can change your mind about. It’s not like a girlfriend you can break up with. A child is a commitment. Forever. That really does mean forever, Aldous.”

  He looked amused now.

  “Hallie, I really do understand how parenthood works. You met my mother, remember? Do you really think she could’ve raised me to not know all the responsibilities and commitments of parenthood?”

  “And you’ve thought about this?”

  “Didn’t I just tell you that I did?”

  He sounded exasperated now.

  “Look, Hallie, I’m not saying we’ll get married right now or anything. I’m just saying that between the two of us, I see no reason why we cannot raise a child. We are both responsible adults, and we both love that baby. So why shouldn’t we? I’m ready to make whatever changes I need to.”

  “Aldous, it’s a big decision to make,” said Hallie, but her heart was beginning to thump.

  Why not? Really, why shouldn’t they just take a chance and do this?

  Aldous got up and came close to her, sitting down next to her. She felt her heart race, her skin heat in response to his closeness.

  Maybe she could just stop thinking about all this and take, for once. She was already pregnant, with his child. What big difference could it make if they did what they both obviously wanted to do?

  She leaned in to him, and that promise was in her eyes. If he thought that he could convince her by seducing her… Well, maybe he was right.

  Her lips were warm, wet and willing as they parted for him. It felt natural to move close to him and lean towards him, to give him more.

  When she felt his arms slip around her, she felt alive again. She wanted so much more.

  Hallie’s hands moved to his back, stroking it, wishing she could feel his skin again. She felt his lips and tongue get more urgent on hers as her fingers pressed and pulled him closer to her.

  She felt his lips move to her cheek, to her ear. She felt his tongue trace the line of her earlobe before his teeth closed on it and tugged gently. His hands were at the side of her dress, playing with the knot that kept her dress together.

  Hallie wanted, oh, so much, for him to untie that, tug it open, for his mouth to find her sensitive breasts, let his tongue play with those hardened peaks until she was trembling for him.

  “Aldous, please… Please, I need you,” she whispered as she felt his tongue find skin so sensitive behind her ears, making her tremble already.

  “Are you sure? Hallie, you have to be sure,” he said, and the tight control was so evident in his voice.

  That strength made her shiver. This strong man would hold himself in check until she was sure, completely sure, that she wanted to surrender.

  “I’m sure I need you,” said Hallie, and she felt his fingers undoing that simple knot as his tongue traced a delicate line down her neck. She clutched at his hair as his lips moved down her neck, down that deep V of her dress, kissing every inch of exposed skin. She barely noticed when he undid the knot. But he moved back up her neck, with open-mouthed kisses, and found her lips again.

  He bit gently on her lower lip, soothed that little hurt with his tongue. She felt his hands move to the neck of her dress, slide
down slowly, parting it all the way down.

  She felt the back of his hand skim over her breasts, over the gentle swell of her pregnant belly, before he slid his hands down her arms, making the dress fall away from her. She felt him pushing her back gently to lie back on the couch, but all she could focus on was the gentle invasion his mouth was waging on hers.

  “You’re so beautiful, Hallie,” he said, and she could hear that he meant it. Swollen with child as she was becoming, she was still beautiful to him.

  She reached for him, to touch him, but he caught her hands and held her back.

  “No. I want to touch you. I want to make you feel. I want to give you so much pleasure that you’re melting from it.”

  Seduced by the words, her arms fell back as he slipped off his shirt and bent over her. His mouth began that tantalizing journey over her. She felt his lips and his tongue along the line of her collarbones and couldn’t believe how much she could feel from that.

  He felt her unclasp her bra and slide it off her. She heard his sharp intake of breath and she smiled. His fingertips feathered over her breasts, touching so lightly, but she could feel everything so intensely. They whispered over her nipples and made her tremble. They rubbed again, gently, and she trembled again.

  When he finally lowered her head to kiss them, she was so needy she could’ve begged for him. His tongue sneaked out to flick her nipple softly. He licked her, over and over and over again, before finally, his lips closed over it and he sucked so gently, his tongue still playing over her tip.

  When he lifted his head, she cried out in protest, but she was again sinking in pleasure when he moved to lavish the same attention on her other breast.

  His mouth moved lower, kissing the sensitive skin underneath her breasts. He kissed her belly reverently.

  When his mouth moved to her hips, Hallie couldn’t stop how they moved. She wanted him, so much. She was so wet and needy for him.

  His lips moved up her thighs and she felt his fingers touching her, softly. His fingers slipped between her legs, stroking so lightly, so sweetly, until Hallie was moaning incoherently, her hips moving desperately, trying to get more.

  She felt his fingers spread her there and knew he was looking at her, so intimately, and she felt her arousal grow so turbulent she could barely contain it. When his lips and his tongue finally touched her there, stroked her there, found all those places that needed his attention so desperately, she felt her body buck with a climax that was as sudden as it was unexpected.

  Aldous was unrelenting. She felt him drive her, hard and fast, with his mouth and his fingers, to another shattering peak that left her trembling.

  Now Hallie wanted more.

  “More. I want you. Aldous, I want you inside me. Please, Aldous,” she cried, and she didn’t care that she was begging.

  He got rid of the rest of his clothes quickly. He was hard and throbbing, more than ready for her.

  “Condom?” he asked, making Hallie chuckle even in passion.

  “That ship has already sailed, don’t you think?”

  It was with a smile on his lips that he lay down beside her, shifting her to her side. Hallie raised her leg and moved back and over his. She could feel his body against her back, touching every inch of her. She could feel his manhood, pressing desperately against her.

  His hand closed on her breasts, playing with her nipples again, as he slowly, gently, pushed inside her, all the way inside her.

  She gasped his name as he pulled out slowly and pushed inside her again. He set a slow, steady pace that took her up again in leisurely degrees, until she gave herself up to those gentle waves of pleasure that were going higher and higher.

  His hand moved down her body to find that little nub of pleasure between her legs and stroked her, so gently, setting a rhythm that almost undid her in its sweetness.

  “Hallie… Hallie, I need you so much,” he whispered in her ear, and she knew what it took for him to hold on so hard.

  “Aldous… I want it again. I want to find it again, with you.”

  With exquisite control, Aldous moved faster, but still gently, and faster again until he knew he could hold on no longer. His fingers stroked and pressed to take her over again.

  He felt her muscles tense, heard her gasp his name, as she found that peak of pleasure again, with him deep inside her.

  With that, he let himself go. Holding her close, his face buried in her neck, he joined her as they flew on that wave, together.

  *****

  “Aldous, will you stop worrying? This is routine. The doctor said this is routine.”

  “Routine to her, but it’s the first time for both of us, isn’t it? You’re about to enter your third trimester, it’s a big deal, Hallie.”

  He refused to let go of her hand. She knew he wanted to pace. But to do that, he would have to let go of her hand.

  She had gotten used to some of his ways in the last month. It had taken him two more weeks since that day to convince her to move in with him.

  Well, she had been about to agree when he had come to her apartment and all but kidnapped her. Since he’d been taking her exactly where she wanted to go anyway, she hadn’t objected.

  “We’re keeping both of you healthy, no matter what,” he declared.

  Hallie rolled her eyes.

  “We are both perfectly healthy. Stop worrying, daddy,” she teased him.

  She could see him puff up with pride as she called him that. You’d think he was doing all the work, she thought wryly.

  Still, she thought as she looked at him, it wasn’t a bad deal. All those times she had daydreamed about being with Aldous, being a real family, and it was all coming true. She could hardly believe it.

  Her life hadn’t gone as planned, but that was okay. Sometimes, things go wrong only to get better than you could ever have imagined.

  “What is it?” he asked, raising her face to his and kissing her gently.

  Hallie smiled.

  “I love you.”

  Aldous kissed her again.

  “I love you, too. Both of you.”

  “Did you tell Margaret we might be a bit late?”

  “I did. She sent this in reply.”

  He showed her the text.

  Late for everything. It’s long past time for you to marry the girl and make us all happy.

  The end.

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