Best Night Ever Part I
January looked at Gulliver curiously as they sat shoulder to shoulder to watch the movie they’d picked out. He was munching pizza and occasionally sipping his wine. She watched his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down as he ate and when he laughed at the comedic timing of the female lead of the movie they were watching.
He was a gorgeous man. Thick black lashes rimming bright blue eyes, a strong straight nose which was healed from the punch she’d put to it and plush lips with a perfect cupid’s bow. His jaw was thick with stubble, and she had a very real memory of what that felt like on her sensitive skin. She quickly turned her head away from him with the thought.
He was still bare–chested after his shower. Sitting against the headboard, he was confident in his skin. His torso still sported tattoos and as she turned her head to steal another glance at him and a letter caught her eye. She’d been avoiding looking at his exposed skin but now she was fixated. Her eyes narrowed and her heart thudded in surprise.
She was unable to stop herself as she turned almost completely now to look at the marking on his chest, above his heart, blended seamlessly in the other markings. J.
Her fingers reached out to touch it and he froze, his pizza haway to his mouth as his eyes left the screen to look at
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“What are you doing?”
“When did you get this?” she traced the mark.
“Around the same time that I got the one on my back,” he leaned forward and encouraged her to look at it.
She easily found the tattoo of interlocked wedding bands, each one holding one of their names.
“You put my name on your skin?”
“Yes.”
“When? Why?”
“I missed you. I got wasted with Glenn one night and drew them out. He took me to friend of ours who does ink and I got them done.”
His words made her shake her head in surprise. “You got drunk? I don’t remember you being more than a few glasses of wine
ever.”
“I was so wasted that Glenn carried my crying ass back home after my tattoos and tucked me.”
“Crying?”
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“I was missing you, as I said. It was roughly three months after Duchess got arrested. I kept thinking all the madness of her
was behind me, but I still couldn’t find you and I wanted you. I missed you.”
His words made her smile softly at him. “Did it ever occur to you that you might not ever find me?”
“No. Not ever. I knew my heart would lead me back to you.”
“But I’m not really back with you.”
“You’re in my life, January. Whether it’s as friends, coparents or someday you may come back to me as my wife. Regardless of how you’re in my life, you’re in it. I’m grateful.”
“Really?”
“No,” he gave her a sheepish smile. “Not really. I love you. I want you. I miss you. I would do anything to have you in this bed for reasons other than watching a movie. I want to push you back against these pillows, make love to you until the sun comes up. I want to kiss you good morning. I want to kiss you goodnight tomorrow night and then repeat it all over again. I want to raise our daughter in a house we share. I want to put another baby in your belly. I want to watch it grow, round with our child. I want to take care of your every need. Massage your feet. Hold your hand while you bring another vivacious girl or a bully of a boy into the world. I want to watch first step hear9:47
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first words, laugh at first stumbles and cry over first hurts, and I want to do those with you.”
“Gulliver,” she was breathless at the passionate way he was speaking.
His hand reached out to cup her jaw, his thumb brushing her cheek softly, “I hate that you are dating other men. I hate that it’s not me who gets to see you smile over a dinner table or a cup of coffee. I hate that someone else is harboring hope to do all the things I just said I want to do because I fucked up so bad you can’t trust me.” He moved to his knees on the bed and leaned over her, his body caging her as his laptop tumbled onto the bed. “I loathe myself for the pain I caused you. I would give anything to have all my fantasies come true. I want to be with you again, January. I want to be your husband, partner, lover, baby daddy.” He straddled her as she leaned against the pillows, eyes wide and breathless. “If I could have my way, I would marry you again. I meant what I said. Those words, to me, were as real as any fucking piece of paper. In my heart,” he grabbed her hand and placed it on his solid pec, “in here I married you that day in the courthouse. I know I fucked up not making it legal, but it didn’t make it less real because baby it was as real as the man in front of you.”
She was shaking as he leaned over her, his face inches from hers.
“So no, baby, I don’t mean it when I say I’m happy with getting scraps. I’m not thrilled to be your buddy. I’m not ecst tooly
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get to coparent with you.” His chest heaved as he poured out his heart to her, “I will take the scraps, I will take the coparenting, I will take watching from a distance while you move on with your life because without you in mine, I’m not going to survive. This is me surviving. This is me taking the bare minimum needed of breaths to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I love you January.”
She knew he was going to kiss her. She was trembling with the need of it, and she stared into his eyes, unshed tears shimmering in the glow of the screen he’d kicked aside. She let her eyelids flutter shut as he closed the distance, their breaths mingling as his lips barely touched hers.
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