“Good. Now fuck me like you mean it.” She grinned. I couldn’t refuse those words.
“You want it hard and fast?” I hiked her thigh up around my waist, thrust into her, and rolled my hips.
“Please,” she moaned, “but watch the nipples.”
“Got it, easy on the nipples.” I pulled her legs up straight and over my shoulders and hit her to the very end, setting a punishing pace as I fucked her to the sound of her moans and pleas echoing around the room.
“Tristan,” she shrieked from our bedroom. I flew out of my office and into our room. I saw her standing in the shirt she’d slept in, a pair of panties in her hand and a puddle of water on the floor.
“Fuck,” I whispered and stood stock-still. I couldn’t move. My heart hammered, my eyes as wide as saucers.
The baby was coming today.
The baby was coming now, and my brain couldn’t process what I needed to do about it. Wrigley galloped into the room. The puppy, who was much less puppy and much more gangly dog, made his way to Georgia and sniffed the puddle on the floor.
“Tristan. Don’t let him, oh my God,” she moaned as she swatted at the dog to shoo him away. “Don’t just stand there. Get my bag, get me a towel, call Drew!” Georgia was flipping out just like I was. Bad news. We both couldn’t be flipping out. I was relatively sure two adults who had no idea how to raise a baby was bad news. Fuck, maybe we were in over our heads on this one. We could hardly wrangle two dogs and a high-maintenance cat.
“Tristan.”
“Fuck, yeah, okay. Towel.” I ran into the bathroom and pulled a towel from the rack.
“Not a good one,” she squealed.
“Right. A bad one. Okay.” I pulled an old towel from under the sink and threw it on top of the puddle between her legs.
“Hey,” she called to me. I looked up at her, concern etched across my face. “It’s going to be okay,” she whispered and pressed a soft kiss to my lips. I sighed as she ran her fingers through my hair. I laid my forehead against hers and breathed in the vanilla scent of her, calming my nerves.
“Are you ready to have a baby, Daddy?” she murmured against my lips.
“As ready as I’ll ever be.”
“Good. Now let’s get to the hospital.”
“Right.” I kissed her again. I felt centered. She did that to me. Had that calming effect. I picked up her overnight bag as she pulled a pair of leggings on and we headed out the door and to the hospital to have our baby.
“One more push, baby, just one more and the baby will be here.” I coached her from the top of the bed. The doctor sat between her legs, Georgia practiced her breathing as she pushed with every ounce of strength she had in her.
My wife blew my mind.
I was in awe of the strength she mustered to bring our baby into the world. A year and a half into our marriage, and she was still taking my breath away.
A loud cry pierced the room.
“It’s a boy! Good job, Mama.”
“He’s here? Oh, Tristan,” she whimpered as tears fell down her cheeks.
“You did so good, baby.” I swiped the hair off her forehead and pressed my lips to her damp skin. “You did so good.”
“Want to cut the cord, Daddy?”
My eyes widened in fear.
“Come on.” The doctor waved me over, my squirming boy in her hands. I took the scissors from the nurse and cut where she instructed. Anxiety and happiness in equal parts chocked my throat as I realized that I'd just severed the tie that had connected him to his momma, my beautiful wife. She'd sustained him for all those months, held him in her body and cherished him in her heart and now it was my turn.
“Perfect. Want to hold your son before we start his tests?”
I only nodded. I couldn’t force the words from my lips.
The doctor pushed the baby into my arms and I stared down into his beautiful little face. Round cheeks and grey eyes, a button nose and the most beautiful little bow-tie lips. Georgia’s lips. My son had Georgia’s lips and a fine layer of blond hair. He was ours. A perfect mixture of us.
I swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat. My whole body shook as I held my son and took in his beauty.
“Hey, little guy, we’ve been waiting so long for you.” I placed a kiss on his head. I sucked in a long breath and inhaled him just like Georgia did me. I took him in, made him mine.
He owned me.
His little face owned me completely.
“Baby,” I whispered as I brought him to Georgia. “He’s got your lips.” Tears filled my eyes and trailed down my cheeks as I laid him in her arms. “He looks like you, baby.”
“Hey, sweetheart.” She kissed his little head and his dark little eyes stared up at her face, took her in, recognizing her voice.
She captivated him just like she did me.
He needed her to breathe, just like I did.
Neither one of us ever stood a chance. From the moment we'd laid eyes on her, she owned us both.
“Can you change Brady’s diaper?” she called from down the hall.
“I had the last one,” I yelled as my eyes trained back on the football game.
“Babe, I can’t change the diaper, seriously. It will make me sick,” she whined as she stepped into the room, Brady wiggling in her arms in only a diaper.
“Shouldn’t he be potty trained by now anyway?” I groaned as I stood from the couch.
“He’s only eighteen months old, so no.” She thrust my boy into my arms.
“Jesus,” I held his stinky self at arm’s length.
“Come on, buddy, don’t you want to use the toilet like a big boy?”
“No.” Ah, there it was,
“What a bum deal if you’re going to be like this the whole pregnancy,” I grumbled as I headed down the hall and into the nursery.
“It’s just the beginning that my nose is so sensitive.” She rubbed her tummy softly.
“Better be. If your nose is so sensitive, how is it you’re able to stand in here with me while I change the diaper?” I arched an eyebrow at her.
“It’s just standing right over it I can’t take.” She wrinkled her nose and darted out of the room as a grin split across her face. I had a feeling she was bullshitting me about the sensitive nose thing. I knew she was sensitive to smells, coffee for one, but this dirty diaper sensitivity was way too convenient.
Lucky for her, I didn’t care. I knew she had it rough, carrying a baby while a toddler ran around the house, leaving mass chaos in his wake. If I had diaper duty for the rest of the pregnancy, I was okay with that; it was the least I could do after watching her push our son into the world. That didn’t mean I wasn’t going to give her a hard time about it, though. I couldn’t let her know she owned me so completely and could walk all over me, and I’d still have a smile on my face. Georgia did that to me. Got her way in all things and I happily gave it to her, gave her
