Page 24 of Always Yours

“You have them now. You aren’t going to lose them,” I reply.

I hope he can see that I will do whatever it takes for no harm to come to them.

“You going to claim her?” Bear asks.

I nod my head.

“Yeah, when she’s ready to hear how much she is mine,” I tell him with a grin.

“It’ll be sooner than you think,” Bear tells me.

I sure as fucking hope so. I can’t wait to see my name on her body, and my property cut on her.

I get a text from Bianca saying she needs me. I grumble as I get up and Bear chuckles at me.

When I make it to the room she’s staying in, she’s by herself since three of the other women were just kicked out.

“What’s up?” I ask as I enter.

“I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow. Also, I need some money to get bigger clothes. None of these fit properly,” she whines.

I raise an eyebrow at her. I don’t think that any of her clothes ever fit properly, but I keep the thoughts to myself.

“Alright, we will get clothes after the appointment,” I tell her.

“Can’t you just give me the money, and you can spend time with your little girl,” she whines.

“She’s not a little girl,” I say with a sigh and rub a hand over my face.

“Whatever, I don’t need you to watch me get clothes. I know you would rather be with her,” she says quietly.

“I can make time for the both of you; you are carrying my baby. So, if you want to get maternity clothes tomorrow, we can do that. I thought you just had an appointment though. What’s this one for?” I ask.

Bianca shrugs. “I’m not sure. They called me this morning and asked if I could come in tomorrow.”

I blow out a breath and try not to let my worry show. Hopefully nothing is wrong with the baby.

She looks like she wants to say something else, so I wait her out.

“Why wasn’t I enough?” she asks. She says it so quietly that I almost don’t hear her.

“It’s not that you weren’t enough. While I could have made you my Old Lady, and maybe we would have tried to make it work, we would have eventually hated each other. We don’t have that connection. I saw how my parents were, and I knew that wasn’t us. The second I laid eyes on Lily, it was like coming fucking home. You and I will find a way to co-parent, and you will find someone one day and will know what I’m talking about,” I tell her softly.

“I’d like to be alone now,” she says, turning away from me.

As much as it sucks to hurt her or break her heart, I know that Lily is the one for me. I wasn’t lying when I said that I feel like I am home anytime she looks at me.

When I’m with her, it’s like my soul knows that it has found its other half.

She may not have ever come and I wouldn’t have ever known her. That would have been a shame.

I eat the food Lily made, spend the next couple hours making small talk, and wait until the time when I can bring her to my room again.

I’d love nothing more than to fuck her, but I need to wait until she gives me the go ahead. I don’t want her to feel pressured into fucking with me. Especially since she has never let another man touch her body but me. Fuck, that always gets me hard as a fucking rock.

I love being the only one to touch her and hear her sounds of pleasure.

I’ll do whatever it fucking takes to make Lily mine.

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