All Areas Accessed - Sequel to Access All Areas

Chapter Forty Four

Nineteen Months Later.....

Beneath an idyllic Californian sky, I smile to myself.

This is what happiness makes you do. It puts a smile on your face and fills your heart with a warm and fullest of feelings.

This is me, at my happiest.

This is me, complete.

I used to think that my fame made me indestructible, but Clara has given my ego a healthy balance.

I now know I'm not indestructible.

I now know I'm not immune to heartache.

But since my sister's death, life has been kind. I did marry Clara. I married the woman who completes me in the most loving and the most strongest of ways. I honestly couldn't be more proud to be her husband and couldn't be more proud of her being my wife. Since permanently settling here in LA and marrying me, Clara has been making a big success out of her new career as a photographer of abandoned and unloved buildings. With determination and her passionate eye for what looks great through the camera lens, Clara is making an impressive name for herself in the world.

Me, I'm creating a new album. This is going to be the most autobiographical music I'll ever make. It's going to pack emotional punches and deliver painful truths. I am pouring my whole life into each and every track, wanting my fans to understand the troubled journey I have long travelled. But this album will also give them upbeat encouragement and the belief in love. Over the years, and throughout difficult times in my life, I have let my fans down. So this album is a big thank you to them, for sticking with me through it all. In my past, I have been stubborn, spoilt, controlling and kind of lost. I didn't even know I was lost until I met Clara. I didn't even realise I had been losing my way, until she happened to find me.

For that, I'll eternally love her.

My girl stayed with me at the lowest point of my life. She stayed because she loved me enough to want to pull me from the fog of blame and guilt that I had long been stuck in.

So yeah, this new album is for her, too.

I have learnt that we all have to suffer losses, in order to feel grateful for what we do still have after going through those losses.

Mom lost her daughter, but has gained a more patient son.

Don lost a step-daughter he didn't ever want to understand, but is now really trying to with me.

I lost my sister, yet now have a beautiful wife.

The losses don't hurt any less, but life always needs to go on.

And my life is going on.

Life is going on great.

"How are my beautiful boys doing?" Clara leans over from behind where I am sat cradling our newborn son, tenderly kissing my head before staring down at our most precious creation with a small smile of such motherly bliss.

"I sung him to sleep." I proudly tell her with one of my own fatherly smiles as I protectively hold my hand upon his very small shoulders.

Walking around the garden chair, Clara brushes the back of her loving fingers across the cheek of our sleeping little boy. "He loves you singing to him." Caressing the soft dark hair that fluffily covers his tiny little head, Clara then looks at me with the truest of adoration. "I love you singing to me." Her fingers soon gravitate to my hand that still rests securely on our cherished son's back. "I love everything about you." Her eyes are bright, full of such teal contentment when she starts talking. "Seeing you like this, with Harry all snuggled up against his daddy, just makes me fall in love with you all over again." Her head is happily tilted, gorgeously now grinning at me.

Using my free hand, I use a slow movement to gently tap my mouth with my now playful fingers. "Kiss me...right here." Leaning over, Clara does so with her soft lips still curled upwards with her lovely, wifely smile. When our married lips eventually and contently do part, I gift her with a proudly owned smile. "I fall in love with you every single second of every single day." My mouth then briefly kisses hers again, just lovingly softer this time. "Our son is perfect, just like his mommy."

Clara's smile is now a serene one as she slowly stands straight, stroking my arm with love at the end of each one of her delicate fingertips. "Our mum's are cooking dinner. It'll be ready in about an hour, and our beautiful boy will soon need his dinner too."

Our fingers slowly and naturally bind our hands together. With my thumb stroking Clara's hand, I gently pull her closer. "Come and sit with us. It's a beautiful day to be sat out here." 

Clara agrees with a soft nod, sitting herself down next to me while I still cuddle Harry on my chest. Our hands are still linked and our smiles are still spread across our faces.

This is happiness.

This is being complete.

Clara makes me feel and care about things, that I never cared about before. She has made me grow up. She has helped me mature.

And I needed to.

Before my girl, I had become someone I didn't like. Fame and Maci had changed me. I became selfish. I became cold. Became demanding. Then Clara beautifully paraded into my life, and made me see things differently. She woke me up. She woke me up to the person I had become and the person I wanted to be. And there have been apologies along the way, namely Cameron. He has since left my team to go and work in New York, but he left with an apology and an open door to return to the Rhys Ryan crew. Before Clara, that never would have happened. Before her, I never apologised for nothing. I saw them as a sign of weakness, but now know that they are a sign of strength and maturity. Clara has changed everything. She is helping me become the man I know I should be. Helping me become the father I know I can be. And be the husband that I always want to be. I will love her, love Harry and any other children that we may have, until the day that I die.

That's my promise.

To myself.

To Clara.

To Harry.

There's no never in happily ever after....

I once said that to Clara, I even recently wrote it in a love song that was dedicated to her and dedicated to us...now, we are living proof of it.

There really is, no never in happily ever after.

                                                               The End

**Author Note**

Well, lovelies..... I hope you loved Rhys's spin on things.
It's a sad and emotional goodbye to him and Clara, it really is.

But thank yoooooou for supporting their story.

Mwah 💋