Javier turned with a quiet sigh in bed and felt around in bed after her - she was not there.
"Please don't let it be only a dream," he murmured, and didn't want to open his eyes because he wanted that it was reality. He want that he and Lanie and Maya were really a family.
He heard the bedroom door opened and then a pat of bare feet on the wooden floor. He took the smell of fresh coffee and heard as a tray was set down next to the bed. Then he felt someone sat down beside him on the bed.
"Wake up, Mr. Esposito," Lanie whispered before she bit him gently into the earlobe.
A smile spread across his face. "Good morning, beautiful," he murmured with closed eyes.
"How do you know, I'm beautiful? You haven't opend your eyes yet!" Lanie laughed.
Javi opened his eyes and smiled at her. "Because you're always beautiful. Yesterday, for example, you were absolutely stunning - just like now," said Javier, when he noticed that she was wearing only his shirt.
"Thank you," murmured Lanie.
"You orderd breakfast," he demanded, looking down on the tray.
"Yes, I woke up and was hungry, but this is not surprising after last night," she grinned, gave him the tray and then slipped to him under the covers.
After they had breakfasted Lanie snuggled back against his bare chest. Her fingers gently drew one of his surgical scars. "Javi?" She had something on her mind and wanted to get rid of it before they would go back tomorrow.
"Hmm ...," was the only repley by her husband while he was playing with a strand of her hair.
"I ... I would like to have a second child," she said quietly and slipped a little from him, to look him in the eyes while her hand stayed on his chest.
Javier looked up in surprise. "Didn't you once say you want only one child," he wondered.
Lanie chewed nervously on her lower lip. "I know. But when you asked me then whether Maya ever gets siblings, everything was different. I was at this time with Jason. And I didn't lie to you, I really wanted to this time, no more kids. What was mainly because I never wanted to get a child from another man as from you," said Lanie nervous.
Javier was speechless for a moment and gently stroked her hair behind her ear.
"I hope you don't think that that's the only reason why I married you," Lanie whispered, getting his silence the wrong way.
"Lanie, I was just totally speechless for a moment. Believe me when I tell you that was the most beautiful declaration of love that you could give me, "said Javier, before he pulled her to him and kissed her long.
"Then you also want a baby?" Lanie wanted to know breathlessly as the kiss had ended.
"One? When it up to me I would like three or four," Esposito laughed before he kissed her again. He turned around so that he was lying half on top of her, without breaking the kiss. While his lips traveld slowly from her mouth to her ear - or rather, to the point just below her ear, where she was absolutely sensitive, he undid the buttons of the shirt she was wearing.
"You want to start practecing right now?" Lanie sighed as she buried a hand in his hair and her body arched against his caressing hands.
"You bet," he muttered, before he dived under the sheets and kissed his way down over her breasts and further down.
Later, Javier lay pleasantly exhausted in bed, Lanie used him as a pillow and had fallen asleep a few minutes ago. He also was tired after two rounds of lovemaking, after all, they had made love a good part of last night. But still he fought against sleep, he wanted to enjoy this moment and never forget.
He had moved in with Lanie and Maya as soon as he was out of rehab. After only a few weeks, Maya got uesd to it and since then she called him Dad. This was the first time the case when she came crawling in their bed the middle of the night because a thunderstorm was raging outside. He had sworn Lanie that this was the best night of his life ... but the last nights followed closely. 3 days ago they married and now they were gone for a long weekend in the Hamptons, while Maya stayed with Castle and Kate. Since they checked in, they had left their room only to go to a restaurant, and even then they could barely keep their hands off each. And this morning Lanie had really made the most beautiful gift he had ever received. She wanted a child and he hoped that it'll work, he wanted to experience a pregnancy with his wife. With this in mind and a smile on his lips he fell asleep.
Hey everyone!
Thanks for reading! Right now I'm not sure if I'll post another chapter.
And I want to say sorry to all the Caskett fans, but I just didn't see them in this story. Besides there are tons of Caskett storys without any sign of Esplanie, so I'm not really that sorry!
Reviews will maybo motivate me to write another chapter!