Ari turned her head and took a deep breath. What is she thinking?
“Okay. Did she give you the appointment date, time, and doctor? What information did she give you?”
“Um, well, right before I came over, she sent me a text with her appointment time and directions to the doctor’s office. ”
Ari jumped up, reached for my phone, and then handed it to me.
“Can I see it?”
I nodded my head. “Of course, you can see it. ”
I opened up the message and showed it to Ari. She made a face and then handed the phone back to me.
“Is she going to drop the stupid-ass restraining order against me?”
Oh hell, here we go.
“No, I asked twice. She feels like it would be…safer for her to keep it up until the baby is born. ”
“Okay, she’s a weirdo. Does she think I would actually hurt her? Holy hell! What else did y’all talk about?”
I lay there for a moment, thinking about if there was anything else I left out. I really just wanted to put the whole thing as far out of my mind as I could.
“Well, we talked about her having a high-risk pregnancy. She can’t get upset and that kind of shit. She talked about painting the baby’s room and putting up a crib. Ah shit, I don’t know Ari. I wasn’t even listening to her through half the conversation. ”
Lying back down under the covers, Ari moved slightly away from me. Shit! Not again. After we’d just spent probably the best night of our lives together, she was pulling away from me again. I couldn’t believe how much I’d wanted her earlier. She’d looked so unbelievable beautiful, her skin glowing, as her eyes filled with love.
“Ari, please don’t pull away from me again, baby. ”
She rolled over to her side to look at me. “You can’t let her pull us apart, Jeff. Promise me that you won’t let that happen. ”
I pulled her closer to me, and she put her head on my chest. I started to run my fingers through her hair. She smelled so good. Something was making my heart pound hard in my chest. Maybe it was just this whole bullshit with Rebecca. I was so afraid that I was going to lose Ari over this. I can’t let that happen. I won’t let that happen.
“I promise, baby. She won’t pull us apart. I promise. ”
Ari reached up, putting her hand on my check, and then she kissed me gently on the lips. I wanted her so badly again. I deepened the kiss as I rolled her over, climgin on top of her.
“Jeff. ” She moaned.
“I love you so much, Ari. ”
I started to make love to her, my cell phone started to ring.
“Ignore it,” Ari said as she pushed her hips up into me.
No problem.
My voice mail notification went off.
“God, Ari, you feel like heaven. baby. ”
Ari smiled at me, and my heart melted. I would never get tired of seeing that smile. She rolled us over, so she was sitting on top of me. Pure fucking heaven.
“So, what are our plans today, cowboy?” she asked as she moved her hips.
I started to laugh, thinking about all the packing that we had to do.
“You really want to talk about our plans for the day…now?” I groaned.