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Lis nods, blowing out a breath. “It’s going to change everything, Nick.”
“I know.”
“No, I mean, there’s no going back from this.”
“Lis, babe,” I say, brushing my thumb across her mouth. “I don’t want to. What they’ve done…not just to me but to others too, it needs to stop.”
She doesn’t say anything, her gaze locked with mine as we lie here together. I know she worries I’m going to regret this, but she has no reason to. It’s over and I’m okay with that, and now more than anything, I want to restart my life with her. The life I thought I’d lost once.
“And you’re truly okay with not going to the Olympics?” she eventually asks. “At trying for a medal?”
“Yep,” I reply with a grin. “Besides, I have somethingway betterthan a gold medal.”
“Oh yeah, what’s that?”
“You,” I reply, my hand curling around her neck as I pull her close.
Lis laughs. “Oh my god, could you be any cheesier?”
I give her a quick kiss before wrapping my arms around her, holding her close. “Sure, I can try,” I say with a grin. “But yes, Elissa, I have never been more certain of anything in my entire life. I can’t wait for everything that’s going to happen. You, me, babies and everything.”
“Babies?”
Chuckling, I reply, “Yeah, babies. We aren’t stopping at one.”
She rolls her eyes, but she’s smiling. “Maybe we should at least start with one first before we go making plans for more.”
“Nope, no way, babe. It’s definitely multiple.”
“Multiple?!” she says. “Right now, we live with my mom.”
“Built in babysitter,” I say, like it’s no big deal, because to me, it isn’t. I love Judy and I know she has no problem with me and Lis being here. She’s told us both that she doesn’t care, just like I know my parents wouldn’t care if we stayed at their place either.
“Yeah and zero privacy, you really want to live with your mother-in-law?” she asks. “You won’t even have sex with me here.”
My grin widens as I lift my head and press a kiss to her lips. “Yeah, I’m about to get over that stupid rule real quick,” I whisper. “Besides, now I’ve made an honest woman out of you, pretty sure Judy fully expects that we’re having sex.”
“Cause me getting pregnant wasn’t enough to convince her,” Lis teases.
Chuckling, I slide a hand down to her ass. “Well, that and all the condoms she left out for us when we were teenagers. Sheobviouslyknew, babe. And sheobviouslyhas no problem with it.”
Elissa laughs, her head falling so her forehead rests against my chest. “Oh my god, what am I going to do with you?”
I cup her face in my hands, lifting it so she’s looking at me again. “You’re gonna let me love you and make babies with you and have the best life together.” Lis snorts, shaking her head at me and I can’t stop the grin. “What, you wanted me to be cheesier.”
“You’re hopeless,” she breathes out, laughing.
“I am hopelessly in love with you, Elissa O’Connor, because you are the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Better than any gold medal could ever be.”
“Oh my god, stop!” she says, slapping my chest.
Grinning, I pull her in for another kiss. “We’ll sort out the living thing, babe,” I whisper, my lips against hers. “We’ll do the interview and I’ll have my surgery and before baby comes, I promise we’ll have a plan for what we’re gonna do. Because yeah, I do want us to have that. I want us to have everything.”
She smiles, resting her forehead against mine. “You’re always so chill about everything, like you just know it’s all going to work out.”
“That’s because it will,” I tell her. “I have you and that’s all that matters to me. Everything else will fall into place when it needs to.”
Lis’ hand moves to my jaw now, her thumb brushing along my cheekbone as she looks down at me with nothing but love and happiness. And even though I know there is still so much ahead of us with my coach, with my surgery and recovery, with us finding a place to live and me deciding what I’m going to do for the rest of my life, none of that seems important right now.
