Page 84 of Temporarily in Love

“And you want my babies?” I joked.

She grinned. “I do! So much! I want to get married to you, have babies with you, and wake up every day in your arms.”

“I want that too. I’ve always wanted that. But maybe we chill on the marriage talk right this second?”

She shook her head. “No, baby, I’m getting old. I need that MacGregor baby now.”

I laughed. “Patience, my love, you know I like to set the pace.”

She grinned. “And I love that about you.”

My mind was spinning in a thousand directions. Lila, the only woman I ever loved, wanted me. She wanted to marry me and have my babies, and she was moving back to Drakesville.

I pulled back. “You’re really going to leave the career you built up over the years behind for me?”

She nodded. “Dec, I don’t want to be a lawyer anymore. And working at the bar the past couple of weeks, I want to do that. I’m moving back, and I’m doing something different with my life. That’s all.”

“Okay, well, let’s go find us a flight!”

“What?”

“You said you need to go home and sell your house, right? I bet you have to pack it up too, huh?”

She nodded.

“Well, I’m coming with you. I’ll be there with you every step of the way.”

Her smile cracked her face, and then she kissed me again.

“Oh my god, that’s it!” Lila exclaimed and taped up the last box.

I grinned as I scrubbed down the counter in her kitchen. Her place in Palo Alto was baller as fuck, but a pain in the ass to clean. We’d been here for about a week trying to pack up all her stuff and see what we could sell. She was going to sell it furnished since trying to move all of it across the country would be too expensive and a headache. I told her we’d get new stuff when we bought a place in Drakesville. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the asking price when her listing went live. She would definitely have no problem affording to buy her parents’ bar.

“Are you sure you want to throw your career away?” I called to her.

She walked into the kitchen and put her hands on her hips. “Baby, we talked about this. I wasn’t happy. I’m much happier working at the pub.”

I smiled. Since we changed the name, she started calling it the pub instead of the bar. She had already made it her own. She stormed into the place a month and a half ago and made changes left and right like she was in charge, and now she was. She and her dad still needed to work out the bill of sale, but the plan was to sell her house, buy the pub, and then we would live happily ever after.

“I want to make sure this is what you really want,” I said.

She walked over to me and put her arms around my neck. “You’re what I want, Dec. I want to move back to Drakesville. I miss the seasons and cheesesteaks.”

I smirked. “Just those two reasons?”

“And watching the Bulldogs!”

I laughed. “You’re ridiculous. You can watch our terrible hockey team from here.”

She wrinkled her nose. “It’s not the same. Hey! We should go to a game sometime soon. I can’t remember the last time I went to a hockey game for a team I actually like.”

I laughed. “Yeah, okay, love. Nolan and Avery would love that. They’re both such Bulldogs fiends.”

“Double date!” she cheered.

I shook my head. “Ridiculous.”

“You love me.”