ETHAN CARTER
'Jaxon",Aliya called but Jaxon hid behind my leg refusing to talk to her.
I couldn't believe she had just done that! Karen was her mother and she had her arrested? We could have solved everything as a family.
Even though I could see how bad she was hurting when Jaxon rejected her, I felt rather disappointed in her. Maybe she was right, she had changed a lot. The Aliya I knew would not have her mother arrested, the Aliya I knew loved her mother above everything.
'Why don't I take the children inside",Mila commented taking both Elise and Jaxon in her hands as she led them up stairs. I turned around telling Jai to help me spread the word that the party was over.
'Thanks so much for coming, Mr Duncan", I said.
'Thanks so much for coming", I said to another ignoring how they looked at me suspiciously wanting to ask what was going on.
'It's a good thing Landon didn't come",Crystal said hugging me goodbye.
'I'm sure you'll fill him in", I joked.
'Yeah, this was by far the best birthday Elise has ever had. She is growing up, Ethan and you need to be prepared for that"
I nodded in agreement seeing her out. Once everyone left, I went back to the dining room where Aliya was. She was seated in one of the chairs with one of Mila's blanket over her shoulders.
'Hey", I greeted settling myself next to the chair near her.
'I messed up..I'm a bad person..she is my mother, Ethan and I was so mad at her. I was so jealous that I let it cloud my judgement-' she sobbed.
'Hey. Hey. Everyone fucks up once in a while", I assured.
'Well I fucked up big time that too infront of my children. Do you see how Jaxon looked at me? He hates me and I hate myself. I'm a bad mother, a bad daughter too",she sobbed the more and I bridged the space between us taking her into my arms.
'The good thing about mistakes is that they can be rectified", I assured.
'Do you think so? Isn't it too late to drop the charges?" She asked, her emerald eyes peering at me for an answer.
'Aliya only you know the answer. Do you really want to make your mother spend the rest of her life in prison? Or do you want her to be free? Or do you want to put all this behind us, forgive and forget. Look at what will be and not what was"
Which is why after that, minutes later we were entering the San Francisco PD, with Aliya talking to the deputy about dropping the charges. It took a lot of convincing for the deputy to let Karen go.
Apparently the deputy's son was a big fan of mine and he wanted to be just like me. I promised to visit the deputy's son at his school if he let Karen go and pretend that nothing happened.
'I'm so sorry. I was so mad at you that I wanted to—you are my mother, I would have never expected you to do that to me but you did that for the right means and I'm so sorry",Aliya cried hugging Karen.
'I'm the one who's sorry"
And everyone in the station witnesses a tearful moment between mother and daughter.
I drove Aliya back to the house so that we would talk to our kids together. They needed to know the truth and delaying it would only hurt them in the future.
'I'll let you do all the talking", I said once we were home.
She turned around to look at me, her emerald green eyes staring at me like how she did years ago. With so much love.
'You are not a bad father and you are certainly not a bad man, Ethan Carter. It's time I also told you the truth. You were my first love and even after all these years you are the man I dream of whenever I think of a perfect family
You are the man who makes my heart beat without even lifting a finger. You are the father to my children and I couldn't be more proud. I know it will take a lot more years to work on forgiveness but I deeply hope you forgive me for keeping Jaxon away from you.
I should have never done that..I should have never judged you so harshly without listening to what you had to say. I love you, Ethan and don't know if I'll ever stop loving you.
You don't have to say it back..God knows, I do not deserve to your love—"
And before she would continue any further, I had her in my arms kissing her like a hungry wolf who needed his hunger filled.
I had missed her scent, I had missed how she tasted, how she smiled, how she looked so good in the morning. I missed every inch of her skin.
'I love you too", I said grabbing her empire waist and hauling her to me.
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Four years later**
'Fuck, fuck, fuck aah-ah…faster. I'm…I'm com-'
Before my wife would claim to have her release, I bucked my hips against her butt harder feeling myself reach the peak of my release.
I hear her moan name and I collapsed next to her covering both of us while we lay in each other's arms.
'That was—"
'Even better than yesterday?" I asked and she slapped my chest.
Yesterday's love making had happened in my office, my wife had decided to bring me lunch dressed in a skimpy dress and I couldn't resist.
I had bent her over my desk ramming into her until she could barely form a cohesive sentence in her mouth.
Aliya and I got married three years ago having the longest honeymoon in Hawaii while our kids stayed with Landon and Crystal who were parents to a boy called Chase.
I envied Jai and Nina who at the moment were in their fourth honeymoon. For me and Aliya going on another honeymoon wasn't possible given that our kids called us every time when we were away.
I was in the middle of encouraging Aliya to have another go at it when someone knocked at our bedroom door furiously.
'Mommy, are you awake?" Elise asked .
'Ofcourse she is awake, you woke her up",Jaxon retorted and I rolled my eyes groaning.
'No I did not"
'Did too"
'I did not"
'Yes you did"
'I did not"
'Yes you did"
'We could just ignore them", I said and Aliya shifted beside me getting up from bed and picking a huge robe from the floor.
'If we ignore them, they'll never let us rest. They might wake baby Jace and we both know how that will go"
I loved my kids truly but at times they were a huge pain in the ass. Aliya opened the door and they both came running inside.
'Mommy, Jaxon woke up Jace!"
'What?" Aliya exclaimed and the sound of Jace's shrill cry resonated in the entire house.
I covered my head with the sheets, this is how it felt having a family.
THE END
