A Love To Last, Katie [reading fiction txt] 📗

to be there everyday threw her pregnancy and then everyday after. I want to marry her and love her and raise our child together and not watch her try to be happy to please you or watch another foolish man try to raise MY baby. I will not have that.” Josh let his voice dropped after he raised it high. He didn’t want to make her mother upset at him, but he had to let her know where he stood. He would step up and is stepping up right now. He looked at Elizabeth and brushed the hair back behind her ear and she leaned her head into his hand. She closed her eyes and breathed in deep.

“Now, young man, I know you love my daughter. And despite what my wife says, you WILL do right by her and marry her, and you will do so before the town knows she is carrying your child. I will be damned if I say I don’t see the way you adore each other. I want my Lizzie happy, and if you make her happy well then damn, I wish we had just seen it sooner.” Elizabeth’s father looked tired and weary as he patted Josh’s hand and walked out of the room with her mother trailing behind him as she still fumed. They had done it. Josh smiled at Elizabeth and kissed her gently.

“I love you Josh.” That was all she got the chance to say before Josh crushed his lips back onto hers. He couldn’t get past the overwhelming warmth and excitement at everything that has happened. He was really going to marry her. He was going to marry his beautiful Lizzie and they were having a baby. It seemed like nothing could go wrong now. He didn’t see anything, but her as he pulled back and watched her smile and blush deep.

“I love you Elizabeth. Mrs. Chisum.” Her blush went deeper as he picked up her hand and kissed her palm, sending shivers down her spine.

Elizabeth watched Josh as he lay his head on her stomach just listening and talking to their unborn baby. She raked her fingers threw his hair and couldn’t believe she was actually getting everything she could ever dream of. A man to love her as much as she loved him and a baby to share this love with as well. She would have the man of her dreams soon. Josh looked up at her when she stopped playing with his hair and smiled at her. He slowly moved up the bed to kiss her. She deepened the kiss when he tried to pull away. She didn’t want him to stop. He smiled and kissed her back and gently pulled back enough to look into her eyes.

“Lizzie, my love, be careful. You what it does to me when you kiss me like that.” He smiled cockily at her and she blushed. She did know what it did to him, and maybe it was wrong but she wanted him.

“I know, I’m sorry, I just I want you.” He leaned in and kissed her with more passion this time before he pulled back and away from her. She could see in Josh’s eyes that he wanted her jus as much and hated pulling away from her.

“I know, but we can’t not here at the doctors. What if somebody walks in the room?” His argument was lost when she kissed him again and reached down the front of his slacks, but before she could get into his pants he grabbed her hand and intertwined their fingers, he did want her so bad, but he’d rather wait and be somewhere more private, maybe if she wanted, his house.

“Josh, nobody is going to walk in here.” She couldn’t be sure but she had to try to convince him, she was beginning to tremble she wanted him that bad. It was unbearable to feel this way. She tried to deepen this kiss but Josh stood up and paced the room instead. She really wished he would just come back and sit down next to her.

“I don’t want to do that here Lizzie, I’m sorry, believe me I am. I need you, god I need you, but I thought maybe the next we did that we could maybe go to my house, instead of the woods and instead of here.” He stopped pacing and came back over to her and held her hand. Elizabeth’s heart sighed as he kissed her gently and that was all it took for her to do as he asked.

“Ok, I understand it’s ok. I’ve never seen your house before. When do I get to see it?” Her eyes lit up as she thought of being in the place he lived. Seeing the way he lived. He smiled at her and kissed her again. He needed to talk to the doctor before she could go anywhere.

“Well, my love, let me talk to the doctor, and if he gives the ok, we can go right now.” With a slow heat building kiss and a wink Josh left the room in pursuit of the doctor. He was eager to get her out of this awful place and somewhere that they could simply enjoy each other’s company more freely. He smiled to himself as the blush crept up his cheeks.

After he spoke to the doctor and he helped Elizabeth out of the office, he couldn’t help but notice all the stares as they strolled toward his house. The stares didn’t bother Elizabeth as she proudly held onto Josh’s hand and smiled as she let him lead her to his house. She was eager to see his house and gasped when they stopped in front of it. It was a little ways away from her house, and sat almost completely alone. It was also the biggest house in town.

“It’s wonderful.” She exclaimed as she rushed off to the door without him walking right inside. Josh laughed as he caught up with her in the parlor and caught her wrist. She looked back at him and smiled as she pulled him with her as she looked threw every room on the bottom floor then moving up to the next. It felt like hours before she was finally satisfied she had seen the whole house and everything that there was to see.

“You like it then my love? All of it is yours as much as it is mine.” He said as he kissed her neck making her lose her bearings. She tilted her neck giving him better access as he trailed his kisses across and then up to her lips. Moaning as he kissed her Elizabeth lost all thoughts completely and melted against him. He wasn’t sure how, but he had managed to lead her to his bedroom and lay her down gently on his bed. He felt like he had waited centuries to see her there. She sat up trying to pull him down with her but he caught her around her waist and in one quick movement she was on top of him as he lay under her. She smiled and bent kiss him again as he reached up and let her hair fall loose. “I have never seen anything more beautiful than you Elizabeth.” She blushed and he flipped them so that he was now on top as her hair spread over his pillows, wanting her scent to be trapped on them and he smiled.

As Josh trailed kisses all over her making her blush from head to toe each time he said something charming about her that he loved. Somehow quicker than she thought possible Josh had her dress off of her and tossed aside on the floor. As he looked at her, really looked at her he asked himself just how he got so lucky to have her. She furrowed her brow as she looked at him and pulled back down to her. He smiled around her lips as she kissed him greedily.

It seemed to Elizabeth that each new time they joined and made love it was better than the last. They seemed to be made for each other, fitting perfectly. Like puzzle pieces. As she cried out in sheer ecstasy, he followed right behind her, losing all will to stay up he fell gently on top her and she smiled. This was what was right. Being here with Josh in his bed, soon to be their bed. She thought of the rooms she had passed threw as Josh shifted off of her and pulled her to his side and played with her hair. Elizabeth wondered which room they would transform into a nursery and then which would later become their baby’s room as it grew older. She knew that even after this child their would be more, human babies or not, she wanted to have his children and as many as he wanted. It was one of the few things she could give to him besides her love and acceptance that held value to her.

Josh knew as soon as Elizabeth drifted off into sleep when he breathing became slower and more even. He shut his own eyes and held her closer to him, more pleased than he had been in a long time, knowing that she didn’t have to rush off to leave him so soon after they shared each other. It was a marvelous feeling, holding her as he drifted off into sleep soon after she did.

Chapter Ten

Elizabeth sat back and rubbed her growing belly as she looked out the window. She caught herself doing this a lot lately in the last four months. She was just about five months along in her pregnancy and couldn’t be more excited. Her and Josh had had the most marvelous wedding, everything she had ever dreamed of, and now she was Mrs. Elizabeth Chisum. She had her happy ending.

“Oh my.” Elizabeth held a hand to her belly where she had felt the kick strong as Josh flew into the room. He looked so frantic as if the sky was falling down on them that second.

“What? What’s the matter??” His eyes huge he frowned as Elizabeth only smiled at him. She motioned him to come to her and when he did, she placed his hand over where she felt the kick. When he felt it he smiled. It was marvelous, nothing at like he had ever thought it could be like. When he smiled and kissed his wife, he went back to his desk.

He had just received a letter from his brother, Logan. Logan had been cast out of the family years ago, and finally ran out of the money their parents had set him up with so he found Josh. Saw Josh’s marriage announcement in the paper. This really was the last thing he needed. He was already worried enough about Elizabeth’s pregnancy. Josh couldn’t find any other time in ’born’ vampire history of one of them mating with a human. Not once. There was no way to know if both Elizabeth and the baby would make it threw the whole term. Josh prayed every waking moment he could. Shoving his hair back with his hand in a rough but fast movement, he looked out to the yard.

The sun was setting. It looked beautiful. As Elizabeth crossed the yard to sit in her favorite spot. Laying back cradling her stomach watching as the sun went down. Josh usually sat with her, but something was bothering him all day. She couldn’t imagine what on earth could upset him so much, especially with her pregnancy going very smoothly, since he didn’t allow