Page 6 of Needing Forever

“Also, I have some big news. I’m pretty nervous about it actually. We haven’t talked about it much, but I’m bursting to tell you,” she says excitedly. I finish up the dishes and turn to her. The look on her face portrays her excitement.

“Tell me.”

“I’m pregnant.”

“Can you tell that soon?” I blurt out. That’s not exactly what I wanted to say. Her face falls and I feel like a giant bag of dicks. “That’s not what I meant baby. I’m sorry. I am so fucking happy,” I say.

“Are you sure? We didn’t exactly talk about it, except in like a sexy way,” she says blushing. I chuckle.

“I am positive. You’ve made me the happiest man in the world. I love you.” She looks up at me.

“I love you, too.” I was going to do something special for a proposal, but this is better. The perfect moment.

“I love you,” I say again. She smiles and kisses me softly. “Be my wife?” I ask pulling the ring box from my pocket.

“No shit?” she says before slapping her hand over mouth. I laugh again.

“No shit. Marry me.”

“Yes. Of course. Fucking yes,” she says jumping up into my arms. I support her by gripping her ass. I kiss her face.

Thank God, she said yes, because I don’t know what I would have done.

“When did you do this?” she asks looking down at the diamond her finger after I’ve set her back down on her feet.

“At lunch today, though I have been thinking about it since the day we met.”

“It’s perfect. You have good taste, Mr. Dickerson.”

“So do you, Mrs. Dickerson.”

“Mrs. Dickerson? God, Ilovethe sound of that.”

So do I.

I never thought that a dating app would find me the love of my life, but I’ll be forever grateful that it did.

Epilogue

Shaye

Ten Years Later

I sit on the back porch breastfeeding Grace, our sixth child, watching Clayton and our other five children play on the playground. They have already had dinner and since it was still light out, I decided they should come out and waste some of the energy before bed.

Clay had specially built for them. It's in the shape of a boat with swings on one side and the inside is basically a tree house. They spend most of the summer trying to camp out here. We can barely get them in the house. I am not going to complain though after all that, the house tends to stay cleaner when they are outside. Unless I am cooking then the kitchen is a complete wreck. Luckily, Clay just kisses my cheek and cleans up after me as I go.

My life is better than I could have ever imagined. How can your dreams turn out even better than you thought they would be? Grace sighs and I know she is done. I put my boob back in my shirt then put her on my shoulder, lightly patting her back.

“How are my girls doing?” I look up to see Clay walking towards us.

“Hey baby. We are good. How was work?” I ask as he leans down and kisses me.

“It was good. I actually have some big news that I want to talk to you about”

“You are going to retire aren't you?” I have known that he hates being away from us and he is ready to be retired. I have just been waiting for him to decide what he want to do. His eyebrows shoot up.

“How the hell do you always know what I want to talk about?”

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