Page 32 of Better than Revenge

“How do you feel about maybe…moving in with me?”

“What?” It’s soft but not angry or upset.

“I really want you to move in with me. Or we could even find another place, one that we both choose.”

“You don’t think…it’s too fast?”

“I know I love you and you love me and when I come home all I can think about is you, seeing you again, talking to you, sharing my day with you. If you need more time then I’ll wait for when you are ready, but…I’m more than open for us to be together like that.”

“Can I ask you a question?”

“Sure.”

“What did Zane say that made you go after him?”

Damn! Damn! Damn! I should have realized that would have come up. “Do you really want to know?”

“Yes.”

“How about the abridged version? Otherwise, I’m going back to eating you until you pass out again and can't ask me that question.”

“Alright. That sounds more than fair.

“He made the mistake of thinking he could say something bad about my girl. I explained to him why that would be a bad idea. And strongly suggested he never do it again.”

She starts shaking in my arms and for a second, I’m worried she’s mad but then I hear her giggle.

“You were protecting me.”

“Hell yes, I was! I always will!”

“Even before you found out I love you.”

Things start slowly falling into place. I run my thumb softly over her jaw. “Didn’t matter if you loved me. I already knew I was in love with you. That was all that mattered.”

“Yes! I want to move in with you. Your place is a lot nicer than mine anyway.”

I roll her over so I can kiss her silly and swallow up all her giggles and moans. Never thought I would be where I am, that I would actually have my girl right where I want her. Sometimes…dreams do come true and all I had to do was hold a big ass grudge and think about revenge. The one thing I have learned from Tamsin though, is that love is so much better than revenge. I’ll take love every time.

Epilogue I

Tamsin

Three Months Later

I barely get through the door before I’m rushing up the stairs to the bathroom. I have a big problem, and I'm not exactly sure what to do. Things have been going so well and even on the best days I’m forgetful as hell. But it took my best friend being pregnant to remind me that I’ve not had a fucking period in two months. Two fucking months!

Not to mention me and Sophie have a lot of the same symptoms. She hid hers until after the wedding was over but now she’s talking about the constant feeling of being drained, the queasy stomach, the cravings -oh, God, the cravings! How could I forget something this important?!

Okay, I was busy moving in with Levi, getting ready for my bestie’s wedding, and doing a little bit of gloating when Zane took off and left April, completely fucking ghosting the bitch. Turns out he had a kid two towns over and the mom was coming after him for child support. And the douche took the easiest way out he could think of…he ran! He and his dad packed the fuck up in the middle of the night and took off. Of course, the embezzling dear old dad was doing might have had something to do with the vanishing act too. Hard to say really.

Now, here I am. Trying to pee on this fucking stick before Levi comes home. What am I going to tell him if this thing comes back positive? We just moved in together! We’re not even settled in yet. Right? People change their minds all the time. We’ve not really had time to get tired of one another yet. He might not want to be a father now. He might need more time, damn it.

If his stupid dick wasn’t so magnetic this wouldn’t have happened. I swear sometimes I think I’ve got the opposite side of the magnet inside my pussy and that is why we are drawn so close together. Something that just is and is too good to try to fight against it.

Great! Now I’m horny! I’m freaking out, horny, and more than a little hungry. What the hell? Is this normal? The three minutes it takes to wait for the stupid thing to figure out if I’m pregnant or not is going to be the longest three minutes of my life. I pace, I bop, I wiggle and I still have two more minutes left. Damn it!

Shit! Are those two lines already? After only a minute and a half? Did I take it wrong? Does that mean what I think it means?

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