His Queen (18+)

Bonus Chapter

THE UNSERIOUS

We lost a lot of things in the fire,
So it took a year for me to find out,
I can't lose you babe

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BONUS CHAPTER

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“ARACELI,” I CALLED out her name softly, breaking her out of her daydreaming and making her look up at me from where her head rested on my chest. “You're very quiet today,” I pointed out as I placed a hand on her forehead to get her temperature. “Are you okay?”

She quickly slapped my hand away from her head, making me chuckle as she leaned up to kiss my lips as a form of an apology. “I've just been thinking,” she said, her voice coming out soft as she gave me a small tentative smile.

“About what?” I asked, making her sigh again as she pursed her lips.

“It's been three years I put in my IUD,” she began, making me furrow my eyebrows at where this was going. “That means ny appointment to get it replaced is near but...” she trailed off as she delicately placed her hand on my chest, a hopeful smile on her face. “I was considering that maybe I don't get it replaced.”

I stayed staring into her eyes silently before looking down at her stomach briefly. “You want another baby?” I finally asked after a long moment of silence as I met her gaze again.

She nodded in response, her big brown eyes staring up at me in adoration and love and hope before she rested her head on my chest, allowing me time to think about what her words meant.

There really wasn't much to think about. She wanted another child and she wanted me to give it to her. She trusted me enough to want to have more children with me; to want to start a family with me.

The question came when I wondered if I wanted another child. I had never been a family oriented person until she had come back into my life with the little family I didn't know I helped her create. That's when everything changed and as I envisioned our future, her in my arms, rubbing her swollen stomach with Teo running around us, I realised I did want a family. A family of more than two children really, but she'd be the one to decide how many she had.

I'd give her as much babies as she wanted.

Not until I married her though. Which then posed a question. She wanted a baby now and I wanted a baby now, so naturally I'd have to marry her now.

“Marry me,” I said after a long moment of silence, making her look up at me with humour dancing in her pretty eyes.

“Didn't I already say I would?” she asked, her voice sounding like the sweetest of melodies ringing through my ear. “Or maybe I was hallucinating.”

“I mean, marry me Araceli. Next week,” I explained  specifying what exactly it was I meant so it didn't sound like I was experiencing a sudden bout of amnesia. “Be my wife.”

Her eyes widened with realisation, her lips slightly parting with shock of what I was requesting her to do before, slowly, a small smile had stretched across her face. “Okay,” was the only thing she said before she rested her head back against my chest and snuggled tighter into me.

Okay. As long as I didn't screw up, she would legally become my wife next week and I would be happy. Not that I wasn't already now, but I would be happier. I didn't think that was possible before, but I was beginning to realise that surprised were a normal, expected thing when it came to living life with Araceli. Nothing was ever as it seemed and that was okay.