I nodded, and he let out a whooping holler and scooped me off my feet, gently hugging me as he spun us in a circle. He kissed me until I was breathless and my head spun. My heart raced and everything felt right in the center of my world. He didn't set me back on my feet, not even as I arched back a little to meet his eyes, cupping his cheeks in my hands and tilting my head.
"What do you say?" I asked, smiling down at him. "You want to add another life to this lifetime?"
"I think we can pencil it in," he said, then crushed his lips on mine.
I lost myself in his kiss.
I sank inside the happiness from the life we’d built together, despite the odds stacked against us. The happiness we carved and shaped and made our own. I relished in this new chapter and the new adventures this baby would take us on.
And I knew it wouldn't be easy. I knew raising a child was one of the hardest things we would ever do. The most challenging, but the most rewarding too.
Hendrix Malone had never been able to back down from a challenge.
And neither had I.
Thank God for that, or we never would’ve found our way to each other.
THE END