Mimi: First off, you were making ridiculous demands with all the different changes you wanted to make right off the bat. I have to do something to keep you from ruining my gym and its reputation. Second, I’m sure you got the paperwork for me to buy you out, since it’s clear you have never managed a gym before in your career. So, not that we know who each other are, in regards to the gym, where do we go from here?
Sam: I think we need to try to get on the same page as far as the gym goes, since I have decided not to sell my 40%. I’m more than willing to work with you and learn how to run this place as long as you stop teaching classes for the sake of our baby. It took everything in me not to come in today and beat that guy up who was trying to hit you in this classroom. Kyle and Saul, my security chief, had to point out that your sparring partner was holding back and not taking obvious shots if they came anywhere near your belly. Saul also said given his skill level that guy could have taken me out with a few moves. Anyway, making you manager was my way of compromising so that you could still be here, but not have such strenuous activity on a daily basis.
Mimi: Saul is right, Jimmy could take you done rather quickly, and I know he was holding back. He is going to be taking over teaching my classes completely once the doctor’s instructions tell me to cut back. When we go you will see that exercise is a good thing when you are pregnant. It will help keep me in shape so that my delivery will be easier, plus it makes getting my figure back after the baby is born happen faster as well. I’m sure the doctor will back me up on this matter.
Sam: From what I saw, Jimmy is an excellent choice, my love. As for the exercise issue, I will yield until our doctor appointment on Tuesday. Now, can we go get something to eat, I’m starving and you need to feed our baby.
I lean up and give him a quick kiss, before telling him this conversation is far from over. We return back to the office with our arms around each other and see Jeff gathering his things.
Jeff: I’ll be back in the morning to work on this some more. What I have found so far is more than enough for a conviction, but I want to do a deeper dive to see what else I can find.
Mimi: Thank you, Jeff. I will see you in the morning, I have a class at 8:30am so I will be in by 7:30am.
Sam: Well, looks like I will be here most of the day as well.
He shakes hands with Jeff and then takes your keys to lock up the office. Walking about as a group you all make small talk, saying goodnight to the evening receptionist as you leave out the door. Sam holds it open for you and slips his arm around your waist to pull you close as he leads you to his car. Grabbing his phone, you order a deluxe extra-large dripping with cheese pizza to be delivered to your home and he drives to your place. You arrive just as the delivery driver does and as Sam pays as you move to the front door to open it. Going inside you slip off your shoes and head to the kitchen to get plates, glasses and the pitcher of ice tea you made yesterday morning before work. Sam puts the pizza on the coffee table in the living room before taking the pitcher and pouring you each a tall glass. You ask him if he would rather have a beer and he waves you off, so you join him on the couch and reach for the pizza. Before you can take a bite, he pulls you onto his lap and begins kissing you. Though your mind would love to follow through on the promises his kisses are giving you, your body has other ideas as your stomach begins growling loudly. Laughing as he pulls back, Sam lets you move back to sit beside him.
Sam: Ha, it looks like we need to feed our baby before we can feed our desire. Patience, my love, I plan on feeding that all night long.
Mimi: I did kinda miss breakfast this morning due to a certain hot guy who insisted on a round of morning festivities in his bed.
You both laugh and reach to start eating the pizza while it’s good and hot. You cuddle up to him as you switch on the TV to mindlessly watch while you think about today. If he had told you who he was a month ago, you would have broken his nose on the spot. Now, cradled against his chest and feeling it rumble as he laughs at something on TV, you are really glad that everything has worked out the way it did. A month ago, you weren’t open to the possibilities of what you both could become, yes, the baby kinda forced everything to the front and things are moving faster because he knocked you up. But when you met him he was just an annoying guy who kept calling you his wife and causing more than a few erotic dreams revolving around him. Now, that you unblocked your memories and let him back in, you can’t help but be sorry for all the time wasted and lost between you both over the years. He is right, if they had stayed instead of moving you would have been working on a third child by now.
After taking the plates and glasses back to the kitchen, you turn and find him standing right behind you. Trapping you against the counter he begins kissing you passionately, lifting you up to sit on the countertop. You’re legs automatically go around his waist and he growls against your neck as you feel his desire pressing against your core. He turns and carries you like this to the bedroom, kissing you silent when you protest that you can walk on your own. Once the door is closed you lose yourself in each other for the next few hours.
You each take turns talking about the last few years, in between kissing and other things tying up the use of your mouths. He tells you how he never stopped loving you and that is why he couldn’t get serious with any other relationship. He was always searching for someone like you, and finally he gave up and just started to search for you. When he saw you at the club that night, he knew he was never letting you get away again. He didn’t know what was going on, after you and your mom had a falling out around the passing of your granny, but until then his mom had been giving him regular updates. He tells you how thrilled he was that he was your first and how happy he was the condom broke. You chide him for not telling you it broke and instead just leaving so quickly. Telling him if he had stayed you could have had a full month together because you didn’t want that evening to end. You tell him about the erotic dreams you have had about him, especially the one that happened in the shower at work after Sabs wedding.
Sam: My love, that wasn’t a dream. I really did make love to you at the gym that day. I left the condom in the trash before ducking out quickly. I shouldn’t have gone in there, but after seeing how gorgeous you looked when you found my flowers. I snuck in with the key Joe gave me as the investor. I told him before I made up my mind I would need to inspect the place without anyone else around. When I saw you slowly rubbing yourself all over with soap, well it was more than any man could handle. I have never undressed that quickly, but I was already fully aroused so I put the condom on and joined you. I was sure that you knew I had been there.
Mimi: No, I thought the gym was locked up tight and I was just drawing on memories of your touch and kisses. As for the rest, I used to read a lot of romance books and well that position in the shower is quite common. I saw the condom, but was in denial about how fresh it was. I know that some people have intimate encounters at night or in the mornings in the women’s locker room, so I just made sure to clean the liner out to the trash before the “investor” could see it and ask questions. I have to say, I’m glad it wasn’t a dream because it was incredible and I can’t wait to repeat it with you again.
Saying that makes him stand up, in more ways than one, and carry you into the bathroom for a long HOT shower. The next morning, you both head to work and meet Jeff, while you go to teach your class they head into the office to keep looking over the ledgers and books. You explain to every class that Jimmy will be taking over starting Monday for most of your classes, due to your pregnancy and being made the manager. Everyone is happy for you and very glad you aren’t leaving the gym. You still will be around for private tutoring or someone suggested teaching children the basics of martial arts and self-defense. The next day, you switch with Jimmy and you do the warm-up and he teaches the class.
Your doctor appointment comes and goes and everything is fine with your baby. Heading over to Sam’s parents’ house, with the ultrasound, for dinner with both parents, and you are nervous. You haven’t really spoken with your mom since you moved back to your hometown and you aren’t sure how she will react at dinner. You have tried to have a relationship with her since granny’s will was read and dad was ok with what his mom wrote, but for some reason your mother was furious. Everyone else is there when you both enter the house. Your dad hugs you tight as the picture is passed around and your mom looks up with tears in her eyes and walks straight into your arms, begging for your forgiveness. She has been working hard with Sam’s mom to get everything ready for your wedding in 2 weeks. After a few moments you excuse yourself and grab Sam’s arm as you pull him into the kitchen.
Mimi: Moving kinda fast aren’t you, Waters? Having the wedding so soon?
Sam: Honey, if I could I would take you to the court house tomorrow and stand in front of a justice of the peace and make you my wife right there. But this way our family gets to be involved and I for one don’t want to see your dad with his shotgun pointed at me for robbing him of the opportunity to walk you down the aisle to me again. So I will be gracious and wait a couple more weeks before carrying you off to the honeymoon we never got before. I love you, Mimi, always have and always will.
Mimi: Oh, Sam, I love you too.
Both of your dads walk in and break up the make out session that you two were starting to have against the kitchen counter. They joked about you having to wait until after the wedding.