Surprise Delivery (Page 63)

Our foreheads pressed together, Duncan looks at me and smiles as he tries to catch his breath.

“I fucking love you so much,” he pants.

“Fucking love me?” I ask with a laugh. “Or love fucking me?”

“Both,” he amends, nodding. “Definitely both.”

I kiss him and then smile. “That goes for me too, Duncan. Both,” I say. “But, I do. I love you so much. More than I can even say and I’m looking forward to spending our lives together.”

He nods. “We’re going to live our best lives together, Alexis,” he says. “You are my everything.”

I feel the tears of joy welling in my eyes and do my best to bite them back. I’m not one who likes to cry, but Duncan seems to just instinctively know how to activate all of my emotions.

“You’re my world, baby,” I tell him. “I love you.”

“I love you too, Alexis,” he says. “I love you more each and every day.”

He kisses me again and lifts me up to my feet. But he doesn’t stop there. I squeal as he picks me up in his arms. Duncan carries me like I don’t weigh anything at all, and I’m so wrapped up in the kiss and how he makes me feel that I don’t realize where he’s taking me. Until he pulls away and laughs. I look into his smiling face and only then do I realize what he’s doing.

“You better no –”

My words turn into a scream as Duncan drops me from our deck into the pristine waters below. I hear him laughing a moment before I hit the water and go under completely. I swim to the surface and look up, spitting out a mouthful of water, ready to give him hell. But Duncan isn’t standing on the deck where I can see him. I paddle over to the ladder, ready to climb up when I feel a pair of hands grab me from behind. I let out a scream as I spin around and find myself staring into those rich brown eyes I love so much.

“You are a jerk!” I yell, giggling.

“You were so hot, I thought I needed to cool you down, so I didn’t burn myself.”

“Oh, that’s smooth,” I say.

“Isn’t it?”

Duncan kisses me again and wraps his strong arms around me. I cling to him, and he holds the ladder with one hand as we sway with the gentle current of the ocean. Wrapped in our bubble of blissful ecstasy, we continue to rise and fall on the slow rolling waves that pass by, somehow adding an almost dreamlike quality to what really is a fairy tale. If you would have told me I’d have a baby, be married to the most wonderful, sexiest man in the world, and would be fucking his brains out in Bora Bora a couple years ago – I would have laughed at you.

But this is my life now. This is really my life.

For all of the hardships I endured growing up, and for all of my trials and tribulations, I never expected to have a life like this. I never knew I could know love or happiness as deep and profound as what I have right now. And I never knew I could have a life that’s so – perfect.

This life, this love, and this happiness is mine. I am never, ever going to let go of it.

THE END