A Beautiful Forever (32 page)

Turning around in his arms, I slide my hands around his neck
to kiss him, “Good morning my love, how was your sleep?”

“Freaking awesome, that’s what it was,” he tells me,
trailing soft kisses down my neck. He sighs, “Mum just called me. Grace is a
bit upset, so she offered to bring everything to us. I think she’s desperate
for a sticky beak at the renovations actually, because I couldn’t hear Grace at
all,” he laughs.

“That’s fantastic, because honestly, I don’t want to leave
–I feel like I’m in a design magazine. Oh! Did you ask her to bring the pin
board?”

“I did,” he says grinning proudly at me.

“You’re a good husband. How long do you think we have before
they get here?” I ask, smoothing my hands down his body and gripping his firm
naked arse suggestively.

“Oh Paige, we will have to be so fast, they were loading the
car then she called me,” I tell her already becoming hard.

“I’ll meet you in the shower then,” she says winking at me
and slapping me on the arse as she saunters off.

I’m quick to follow and we just make it to dressed and ready
before the buzzer for the front door goes off.

I leave Paige in the kitchen cleaning up the mugs from the
coffees we never drank and bounce down the stairs to meet my mum, Steve and
Grace, who I have missed so much overnight.

Steve is unloading the boot of the car, so I give my mum and
Grace a quick kiss and hold the door open for them to enter before going over
to help with the bags.

“Gday Elliot, this is an easy way to move house isn’t it?”
Steve says as I approach.

“Yeah, it is – this was such a wonderful surprise. Did you
know about it?”

“Sure did, are you happy to be back here in the old place?”

“Yeah I am actually. I thought it would be weird, but it’s
not.”

We carry the bags up the stairs together and deposit them in
the dining room. Voices filter up the hallway and I can hear Paige and my
mother talking from inside Grace’s room.

“I can’t believe how different this place is, you should
have seen it before Paige, it was so old and out dated. I have to give Erica
credit; she has a great eye,” Kathy says as she inspects Grace’s room. Grace is
happy bouncing in her new jumperoo. Every time she jumps it sets off lights and
music in the toys surrounding her. I’m not sure that smile will ever come off
her face.

“Thank you so much for taking care of Grace last night
Kathy, we both really appreciate it.”

“It was no trouble, you two didn’t get a honeymoon, so we
all thought that for one night, you could just be a couple. Little Grace is
such a good little girl, I'm happy to look after her any time – and you know
I’m all set up to have her whenever you need me.”

“Thank you Kathy, that means a lot.”

“What are you two ladies gas bagging about?” Steven booms as
he enters the room.

“I was just telling Paige how lovely Grace was last night,
and that we’re happy to have her whenever they want to go out.”

“Yeah we’re really going to miss the little one, bring her
over whenever you like,” Steven says as he watches her bounce.

Elliot comes to stand by me, and after we finish showing
Kathy and Steven through the flat, I offer everybody coffee. I’m dying for one
now after skipping the one I made earlier.

We all settle around the dining room table, drinking coffee,
chatting and eating biscuits, while we pass Grace between us as she makes a
game of reaching out to us all.

By the time Grace gets grouchy, signalling that she’s ready
for a nap, Kathy and Steven are preparing to leave, congratulating us on our
new home as they do. We thank them for everything they have done for us.
Supportive parents mean the world to me. I can only hope that I’ll be half as
good to my family as they are to theirs.

Once Grace is sleeping and Elliot and I are alone again, we
spend some time sitting together on the couch, enjoying the peace while we
watch some television.

“Elliot,” I say to get his attention.

“What is it?” he asks, kissing the side of my head
affectionately.

“I’ve never really thanked you – for coming into my life,
for understanding me…and especially - for forgiving me,” I say turning to face
him.

“Paige, you don’t have to thank me.”

“But I do Elliot, eighteen months ago I never, never would
have even let myself dream that my life could be like this. I didn’t think I
could ever be this happy. But you,” I pause as I climb on his lap and face him,
“have given me everything, Elliot,
everything
.” I hold his face in my
hands and bring my mouth to his, putting everything I am feeling for him into
my movements as I kiss him.

He holds me to him kissing me back with equal intensity
before carrying me off to the bedroom to have his way with me again.

As we lay together afterwards, I trace my finger over the
name tattoo on her wrist, the vine artfully wrapping around and the letters of
my name entangled with it. One of the leaves coming off the vine has Grace’s
name on it, mine is the same except it wraps around the widest part of my
forearm and has Paige’s name replacing my own. We’ve had some mixed reactions
to these tattoos. So many people think we’re crazy putting our spouse's names
in permanent ink within our skin. But as far as we’re concerned, our life
together is permanent. Nothing going to change the way we feel about each
other.

“So how many of these leaves do you think we’ll need?” I
ask.

“Well, that depends. How many were you thinking of?” she
asks in reply.

I roll up on my elbow and pull her close to me. “I could
make babies with you forever Mrs Roberts,” I murmur softly as I dip my head to
kiss her neck.

“Well then Mr Roberts, I think in a couple of years, we
might need dip into my trust fund and get a bigger house,” she replies,
pressing herself against me.

I reach my hand up and brush it through her beautiful hair,
marvelling at the woman before me. Truth be told, I’m the one that should be
thanking her, before meeting her, I was totally lost. I had no direction in my
life and spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself for all the time I wasted
on things that didn’t make me happy.

Now I know that if my life hadn’t felt like a total waste, I
never would have gone to the UK, and I never would have met Paige, who let’s
face it, gave me a life worth living, she gave me purpose and she gave me a
family of my own.

As I roll back with her on top of me, I vow that I will
spend every moment of the rest of my life loving her. Seeing her happy means
everything to me, because when she smiles, when she genuinely smiles, I feel
like the luckiest man on earth.

THE END

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