A Love from racing

Part Four

As I get down to the last stair and hop off I find Ali sitting on the couch with what looks and smells like hot chocolate. Moving closer I throw myself on the couch next to her and give her a big grin.

"Finally. You're up took you long enough, its almost two" she looks at the gold watch on her wrist while bringing the coffee coloured mug to her lips, taking a long sip of her hot drink.

"Well maybe that's because you kept me up all night with your gorgeous body and that very, very talented tongue of yours" I whisper the last part, kissing under her ear adding flare to my seduction. Her cheeks turn the colour of crimson. "Its part of the reason that baby is in there right now" I glide my hand across her small bump, smiling widely.

She smacks my arm "Em! oh my god. Stop" she laughs then takes another sip of her drink.

"Ow, Im just speaking the truth babe, I have a very talented girlfriend with a lot of skills" I say through a slight laugh.

"Anyway I have a surprise for you today" I wink "I think you're going to love it"

Ali smirks from behind her coffee mug. "If its what I think it is, I think its safe to say we did enough rounds last night. I'm exhausted but I could probably go one more round" she shrugs her shoulders, while I shake my head with a smile.

"Ali I think you broke me last night I couldn't go again even if I wanted too I couldn't move when i first woke up this mor- well afternoon" I finish and she just gives me a 'yep that's damn right' grin from behind her mug. "Anyway no, its not that. I want to take you out somewhere but its a surprise so you cant know where we're going" I fidget in my seat from excited with a goofy smile.

Ali squints her eyes at me "hm k" she continues drinking her hot chocolate.

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I have my hand over Alison's eyes blocking her vision from seeing where I've taken us "Em, this really isn't helping my nausea"

"Right. shit, sorry" I uncover her eyes so she can finally see what we're in front of. She swiftly turns to look at me "A dog shelter!" Ali shouts with the biggest smile ive ever seen well second biggest, the first being when she told me we were pregnant I'll never forget that one.

"I told you you'd like it" she grabs my hand pulling me towards the entrance "Ok. we're going in, yep" I say practically being dragged I didn't know she'd be this excited.

"Oh look at this cutie, oohh or this beautiful girly. My god Em, I want them all" Ali huffs as we pass the many kennels lining the room.

"They're all really cute but we can only take one Ali. We have a baby on the way remember, so it's probably best we dont have a house full of dogs"

Ali pouts "I know, but think about how cute it would be to have all those cute dogs around our insanely cute baby, how sweet would that photo be?"

"Well I agree that would be crazy cute. But we're only taking one dog babe" I tell her holding my ground.

Ali huffed crossing her arms. "Fine" causing me to laugh under my breath. I swear she's too cute sometimes.

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After what felt like forever Ali picked out a dog. I glance over at her in the passenger seat of my Raptor every now and then watching her for seconds at a time as she coos over the cardboard carrier in her lap that contains our new 5 month old Siberian Husky rescue who we named Hulk. What can we say, we loved Mavel so it's only right we needed him after our favourite character. We had them micro chip him, with his name and our contact info and of course they had given him all the necessary shots he needed when he was born. So we didn't need to worry about that we had all the paperwork we needed to have and he was ours.

"I can't believe it took you over 3 hours to pick out a dog" I turn back to the road.

"You have to feel a connection Em, just like i had too with you. Had to make sure you were the one just didn't realise how annoying you'd be but unfortunately I cant take you back to the kennel" she gives me that cheeky smile. I smile and shake my head at her playfulness.

"Careful Ali, or i won't put out" she turns to me with wide eyes and a raised eyebrow causing me to internally laugh. That got her.

Once we get back to the house Ali takes the dog out of that cardboard carrier which I can only imagine is uncomfortable for the little guy. Myself and Ali gated off one of the rooms in the house so the dog wouldn't destroy anything whilst he gets accustomed to living in our house and not a kennel. The lady at the shelter said the move could stress him enough that he'd want to have a bit of a chew sesh with our furniture so we decided it was best to gate him in for now, until he got used to our home being his.

Although he went straight to the dog bed we stopped off and brought. Well I guess the drive back home tired him out. We sit in the room with him so he gets used to us being around even if he is asleep right now. And plus Ali was to excited to leave him she just wanted to be around the puppy.

Ali's snuggled up to my side as we sit on the floor as I sit reading a pregnancy book. I've been reading alot of them recently anywhere I have free time. I want to be as prepared as I can be for our baby so I can be the best partner to Ali, and parent to our child. And if that ment reading as many baby books as my assistant could find then that's what I'd do.

"So why get a dog all of a sudden?" I looked away from my book and at Alison.

I shrugged "well I'll be on the road again soon as testing starts, and I wanted you to have company when you couldn't come along anndd the dog could protect you and birdie when I'm away with racing" I kiss her cheek.

"You think that little pup is going to protect us" she laughs cutely "he went straight to bed and fell asleep. Plus he has alot of growing to do before he takes down imaginary burglars" I look over to our sleeping Husky. Well I guess she has a point.

"Oh hey, did you know that at 15 weeks our little birdie is the size of and orange, oh my god that's so adorable. Can you believe that. How cute is that?" I smile widely running my hand over her stomach it seems like just yesterday we were looking and this weird little dot shape for the first time. I glance at Ali and see her smile reaching her eyes lighting up her whole being, giving me a look I can't place.

"What?" I ask she smiles at me still and leans in connecting our lips "nothing. It's just really cute how excited you are for this" it's my turn to smile brightly at her and lean in for a long and slow kiss, putting all my love I have for this woman into it and then pulling away.

"Im excited too babe" she tells me. I stand up and hold my hands out to pull her up "come on, lets go get you something to eat" she grabs my hands and I pull her up "we'll play with him abit later to let him get used to us but there's not a lot we can do whilst he's asleep" I tell her.

After making myself and Ali food we're back with Hulk whose awake and very lively. We both sit on the floor, Hulk in Alisons lap while she pets him but he doesn't sit there for long before we know it he's jumping over to me and beginning a game of tug of war with the soft rope toy I have in my hand.

"Well looks like someone's awake" Ali says through a laugh. Hulk stops playing with the toy and bounds back over to Ali to be petted again. She wastes no time with petting him between the ears.

"And looks like someone's the favourite" I observe the two.

Ali looks over to me "don't be jealous honey" she smiles.

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After bonding with Hulk for the past four hours we decided to call it a night when Ali started to fall asleep petting a sleeping Hulk. It was the cutest thing I'd ever seen.

When we are both ready for bed I climb under the covers and pull Ali into me kissing the back of her head.

"Thank you for today babe" say whispers in the darkness of our large bedroom. I lean over to kiss her cheek to say your welcome and go back to my original position of holding her while we fall into a deep sleep.

A/n: first update of 2019! Hope you had a great New Years.

Published 21.2.19