Mad World (Gone Editing)

Bonus Chapter

Hello everyone! I know times are tough with the Quarantine having most of us on lockdown but today I got some good news and decided to share a little something good with the rest of the world. I hope you enjoy!!

Five Years Later

Cori's POV

My hand shot to my mouth to stifle a gasp as I looked down at the 3 pieces of plastic laid out on the bathroom sink in front of me.

"Love, are you alright in there," Elliot's voice came through the door clearly enough that I knew he had his ear pressed to the other side.

"Yes," I croaked. I cleared my throat and tried again. "Yes. I'm okay. I'll be out in a second."

"Okay, because Tasha and Baleigha are threatening to come up here and find you," he said in a worried tone as though my best friends were going to storm our home and break down the door to get me out.

I chuckled as I pictured the two complete opposites dressed in army fatigues carrying huge machine guns and grease pain on their faces just to get me out of this bathroom.

"Tell them to give me 5 minutes and then they can storm the beaches," I called back.

"Okay." I waited for him to walk away but he didn't. "If something was wrong you would tell me right?"

I sighed, looked at the counter and then laid a towel over it's contents. I opened the door, beckoning him inside.

"Inna?" He asked confusion written all over his handsome face.

"Nothing is wrong per say."

"Then why are we hiding in the bathroom," he asked.

I bit my lip looking up at him. "Well," I said and lifted the towel so he could see the three white and blue pregnancy tests laid out in a row.

"Is that what I think they are," he asked, looking from me to the tests and back.

I nodded.

"But we've been so careful," he said.

I nodded. That was true. We had been very careful for the last almost 6 years but all it took was one slip up to add a child to the mix.

"Remember that time in the car, after we got caught in the rain," I asked.

The rain had soaked every inch of us by the time we made it back down the hiking trail to the car but neither of us was concerned with anything other than each other. As soon as we got back to the range rover, Elliot practically pushed me into the backseat and began stripping my clothes off.

"What if someone catches us?" I asked breathless as his tongue found one of my nipples.

The look he gave me said that he was thinking two very different kinds of dark things at that moment and I cried out at his teeth caught my nipple and held. The pain heightening the pleasure even more than the rush of being so exposed.

"Elliot," I moaned slipping my fingers into his hair.

He gripped the two halves of my underwear and ripped them apart adding to the intensity of the moment. He growled around my flesh as he found me already soaking wet for him, my hips jerking as his fingers traced my sex.

"Fuck," he said in a harsh tone. "I don't have any more rubbers in this car," he with a smirk.

I blushed because we'd had sex in this car more than a few times, just not in the open parking lot of one of Wolf Lake's most prominent hiking areas.

"It will be fine," I told him as I leaned down to kiss his lips.

"Are you sure," he asked like he really didn't want the answer to be anything other than 'yes'.

"Yes."

Elliot smirked, looking down at me. "Yea, I remember that," he said with a smile. Then all at once it seemed to hit him. He bit his lip leaning back against the door. He was staring at my still flat stomach as he asked in a reverent voice, "I'm gonna be a father?"

I nodded.

He closed his eyes and I walked over to him, placing my hand on his chest.

"It's going to be okay, bae."

He pulled me in against his chest. "As long as you're with me I know everything will be just fine."

"We're gonna be parents," he said in a quiet voice.

"We are."

I laid my ear over his heart and listened to the steady rhythm, letting it calm me.

"Are you okay with this?"

I smiled against his chest. "Yeah, I think I am."

He let out a relieved sigh.

A sharp knock on the door broke us out of the moment.

"Corinna, Elliot! Food is ready and this is your house, you're supposed to be hosting," Baleigha called through the door.

"Don't tell me the two of you are in there doing the nasty," Tasha asked.

There were two barks, one from Rocket and one from George.

"If we were, there is no way you all wouldn't know," Elliot said and I didn't have to look at his face to know he was smirking.

The girls giggled annoyingly.

I groaned and rolled my eyes at all three of them.

"Are you ready," he asked in a hushed voice.

"I don't think we have a choice. If we don't come out, they may come in," I whispered back.

"Are we going to tell them," Elliot asked.

"Not yet. Let's let it be our little secret until after we've gone to the doctor and all that."

He smiled and kissed me.

"I love you, Elliot," I told him.

"I love you and I love this child already," he said back.