Daryl woke up first the next morning as he laid there staring at her in the sunlight, he realized he had everything he ever wanted in life now. If he died tomorrow, he would be a happy man, he would have had his heart's desire.

The thought even two years ago that he and Paulina would be together and married one day had been so far from his mind. This was his reality now, she was his and he was hers for the rest of their lives. He swept her hair from her face to see her clearly and her eyes opened.

"Morning," She said as she stretched, and he smiled.

"Morning honey," Daryl answered as he ran his fingers down her neck.

"How long were you laying there looking at me like a creeper?"

"Just a few minutes but the view was spectacular," He replied with a grin as his hand found its way down over her shoulder.

"It doesn't feel real sometimes doesn't it?"

"No, it doesn't, but it is, it's finally you and me forever and ever now Paulina," He kissed her softly, "Nothing is going to keep us apart ever again."

She kissed him back and wound her arms around his neck, sliding her leg over his and finally pulling herself over him. Daryl gazed up at his wife, the only woman he had ever loved.

"What's this?" He asked as she pushed her hips against his, and he slipped his hands under the oversized T-shirt she had on, "Morning sex? And it's not even our birthday?"

"Oh, you just wait till our birthday this year, I was thinking we can come back here, maybe do some fishing and hunting, just you and me?"

"Are you for real?" Daryl grinned up at her.

"For real and forever." She leaned down to kiss him. "I always loved your hair long like this," She said as she pushed his hair out of his eyes. She leaned down to kiss him and just as she did voices floated up from the first floor.

"Mom," The girls called up, "Daryl, we made French toast."

Both of them sighed but laughed, this was life with kids.

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For the rest of the week they spent time with the kids, Daryl did show them both how to use the crossbow but warned them never to touch it unless he was with them. During the day they fished in the lake and Paulina cooked whatever they caught.

At night they made campfires and sat outside talking. Daryl told the girls stories about their mother when she was young and promised to take them hunting. When the girls fell asleep at night, they carried them in and put them to bed.

A few times they went out on the back deck in the hot tub and sometimes they just went right up to the loft. Most nights it was the hot tub then the bed.

"Ever do it in a hot tub before Lina?"

She shook her head, "You?" She quirked her eyebrow at him.

"Nope," He grinned, "But there's always a first time isn't there?"

Paulina stepped into the tub and sat down leaning against him as he wrapped his arms around her. She settled down against his chest and let out a sigh of contentment. His wet arms were so massive and his body so hard against hers. It felt so good to be in love.

Paulina moved around and got comfortable between his legs and her head was just below his shoulder as Daryl leaned over and kissed the side of her head.

"I could stay here all night," She said.

He pulled her closer. This was a huge tub with enough water to cover them both, but he wanted her as close as possible.

"I know you were stressed, I could tell. This will help yeah?"

She nodded. It would more than help.

"Thank you."

He reached up and started to rub her shoulders, he really was perfect, wasn't he?

"Daryl, you don't have…."

"Shhhhhhhh." He whispered against the back of her head. "Just lay here and take it."

She nodded slowly and then he was lifting her and turning her around so he could rub her feet too. He did one and then the other, kissing each of her toes and looking at her through the curtain of his hair that was hanging over his eyes. He moved his hand through his hair, swiping it away with some water and then went right back to rubbing her foot.

She really couldn't believe she was in a hot tub getting her feet rubbed by a gorgeous man when just a few weeks ago she thought her life was over.

Life really had a way of giving you unexpected things at just the right time, didn't it?

After a while she turned around so that she could face him and sit on his lap, kissing him softly she whispered into his ear, "Here's to a lot of firsts for us."

They poured some wine and drank a few sips and toasted each other in the quiet of the night. There was nothing but the sound of crickets and the moonlight augmented by a few candles they had lit around the deck.

Paulina grinned and leaned back as she pulled off her bathing suit top, making sure to give him a show. Daryl's eyes went wide at the sight of her wet flesh before him.

"Oh fuck yes, that's what I'm talking about…" He growled at her.

He sat up more in the tub and she was on his lap now with one leg on either side of him. She rose up to put their glasses down and her breasts were right in his face. He reached up, because what man wouldn't, and she arched her back just right. He couldn't get his hands on her fast enough. The moonlight lit up her skin, or was it the candles? Something and his hands and lips were on her in a second. He let out a groan at the feel of her breasts in his hands, so good, so perfect. Daryl's hand slid against her wet skin over her hips and back up to where they were. She sighed as his hands palmed her breasts and his tongue slid against hers.

This was not the skinny kid behind the school or at Merle's party afraid of his own shadow anymore. She liked the man he had become. He was self-assured and a little cocky, and his words just threw gasoline on the fire that burned in her eyes all night anyway.

Paulina settled on his lap and could feel his dick, hard and ready against her and she was already in a sweat from the heat of the tub. He kissed her like he meant business and his hands on her certainly meant business.

Daryl pulled her close to him and brought his lips to her skin and the feel of his lips on her made her sigh out loud. He made her feel so good and it had been a long time since she was with anyone before just a few weeks ago.

"This ok?" He asked and she nodded her head, digging her fingers into his hair. His lips went from one breast to the other and she was almost there.

"Don't stop." She moaned bringing her hips across his lap and she huffed out a breath as she felt him against her. "Don't, I'll kill you if you do."

He grinned with his cheek against the side of her breast as he brought his hand over her stomach and traveled lower. The steam was rising out of the bath and making them both sweat and Paulins felt like she was on sensory overload.

"I'm not stopping." He whispered against her skin and his hands traveled all over her body. "Not till you're screaming out my name."

"Fuck, Daryl…" She cried when she felt his fingers touching her. He loved how responsive she was to him.

He slid his fingers against her and she moaned out loud, the sound of her made his dick ache and with every stroke against her. Some girls kept quiet, not knowing what a turn on words really were, not Paulina. She was going to make him come just by all the talking she was doing.

"Fuck don't stop." She said laying her head on his shoulder.

"I won't." He answered, sliding one finger inside her and then two. His lips were on her neck, sucking softly and she was in complete bliss. "I won't baby, I won't."

"Mmmm." Was all she could choke out as she felt the pulling start from her gut and all the way to her toes.

"Come on baby, give it to me." He breathed into her ear. "I want you to cum, Paulina"

He could feel her body reacting and he wasn't letting up on her until he got what he wanted. She was boneless in his lap as the water sloshed over the side of the tub and her breathing got more ragged.

"Now, Paulina…now."

She kept her head on his shoulder and held on to him as the waves rushed over her body, steady and delicious.

Then Paulina pulled his face up to hers and kissed him hard. "Fuck me Daryl."

Before he had a chance to grasp what was happening, she had raised up and her hands were on his shoulders. Paulina was above him and grinning down at him.

"Ready?" She asked. Usually it was the other way around and he was struggling to please whatever woman he was with and she was asking him? It had happened so fast with her and he was more than ready.

He looked up at her and nodded and she smiled the most perfect smile he had ever seen. Her hair was hanging down in little ringlets around her face and she was moving over him. Then he felt her around him, and he threw his head back, almost knocking over his wine on the back of the tub.

His hands gravitated to her hips and settled there as she rocked back and forth slowly. Paulina watched as his eyes closed and his face relaxed, she leaned down and kissed him softly.

"Jesus…" He groaned out against her lips. He was trying to hold out, but it wasn't going to happen, and he finally just went with it. She felt so hot and wet around him and he couldn't hold back.

The feeling overtook him in seconds, and he was exploding inside her in a rush of passion and curses. Then he held her tight against him as both their breathing calmed down.

"I'm sorry I'm so loud." She whispered as the sound of night creatures in the forest

"Are you kidding me?" He pulled her close. "That's the best part."

She smiled at him. "You weren't so quiet either I guess."

"Told ya, ain't nobody around to see or hear anything." He said shivering as the water cooled off.

She stepped up and reached for a towel and glided out of the tub as he watched her, with hungry eyes. He already wanted her again. He got out and leaned over to kiss her again, Daryl would never grow tired of kissing his wife.

"What's this you don't use a top sheet?"

"I never have," Daryl replied and he could see her mind working, "Only in the military when I had to but at home never."

"Daryl, neither do I, I must have remembered that from when we were together," Paulina replied, "I just thought I was a weirdo," She laughed.

"Well, you are..." He laughed and she loved him so much then and knew they would be together for the rest of their lives.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Kevin dropped off the planet it seemed, and the girls didn't hear from him for almost seven months. It didn't matter, Daryl was their father now and they had ever started calling him Dad. The flu was bad that fall and all four of them were just recovering from it when Kevin called and dropped his bomb.

For a man who threw a shit fit when she took "his kids" to live with another man, Kevin never came around to even see the girls now.

Paulina hung up the phone and turned to Daryl, "He's moving to New Jersey," She hissed, "He met someone on EHarmony."

"What?"

"He's on his way over to tell the girls now."

"Jesus, is he nuts?" Daryl replied, even though he himself was known to do some crazy things for love, like carry around pictures for fifteen years; but this made no sense though.

Kevin came and took the girls out for ice cream and explained to them that he was leaving in two weeks but would keep in touch with them, he was just leaving as Selena pulled up.

"Ew, what did he want," She asked as she got out of the car and as Daryl took the girls inside Paulina explained it all.

At dinner Selena dropped the bomb that she had tickets to an out of town concert and wanted Paulina to go.

"Come see Pearl Jam, huh it's a few months away so no excuses, we're having a girl's weekend."

Paulina looked over at Daryl and he brought his head to hers, "I can handle the kids you go have fun…"

She smiled at him and he winked at her.

"I'll just take it out of your ass tonight…" He whispered to her.

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Paulina was in heaven, just as he had promised she would be.

At the moment Daryl was pulling her to the edge of the bed slowly by her knees and putting them over his shoulders. He had managed to get her out of her clothes in three minutes when they got to their room.

He licked the inside of her ankle and already she was squirming already. Some men didn't know what they were doing between a woman's legs, but she had married someone who did, thank Christ. He knelt at the foot of the bed in just his boxer shorts, holding her legs up on his shoulders.

He looked at her sideways and she swore she saw his sixteen-year-old self just then.

The way he looked at her, the turn of his eyes and that crooked grin, she swore it was that gangly kid looking back at her.

The memory would have knocked her off her feet if she had been standing.

"Mmmmmmmmm." he said moving up to her inner thigh and she could feel his hair on her leg and the scruff on his face. He kissed her thigh and moved his face against her.

He was driving her crazy on purpose.

"Stop teasing." She said trying to get up on her elbows.

"I'm not." And he grinned at her again and it was a grin of bad intentions. Then he made his way slowly to her with his fingers first.

She loved his hands, she loved the way they looked and what they could do to her. She couldn't stay on her elbows very long and she just fell back. He laughed and pulled her up to his face saying 'c'mere' into the skin on her thigh.

She let out a long sigh as he licked her, he knew exactly what he was doing, but he was a tease. That only made her crazier to the point where she wanted to grab him by the hair and keep him where she wanted him.

That was when he would grab her hands and hold them against her stomach to keep her still and he did just that, like she expected. He always knew when she was reaching for him and he'd get her hands before she could do it.

Every single time, so then he had both her hands against her stomach, holding her in place and she couldn't do anything. It equally drove her mad and excited her.

Paulina didn't get upset when he held her that way. They trusted each other the way best friends did.

She had lost her best friend, and now he was back.

She wiggled, trying to get t0 the edge of the bed so she could move herself against his face. She needed to cum and she couldn't help moving her hips around now.

He hummed against her and spread her legs wide, rubbing his hand up her thigh. He felt her legs start to tremble there was a difference between a guy going down on you because he wanted something in return and a guy doing it because he liked it.

It was obvious he really liked it, he made it his mission to pay attention so every movement and every sigh she made, and he didn't stop until she was a screaming, trembling mess.

Daryl held her hands against her stomach with one of his as he set out to reduce her to a puddle of jelly and smiled to himself as she came screaming his name.

He crawled up to her and laid down next to her, but Paulina climbed on top of him kissing down his neck the way he liked.

She made her way down his chest leaving wet kisses and little bites along the way until he was going out of his mind. Then she was at his chest and going lower, and now he had his hands in her hair.

When Paulina reached his stomach, he let out a groan, low and deep, and then she was tugging on the waistband of his boxers. He lifted his hip so she could get them off and she made quick work of it.

He brought his hands to her hair. "You don't gotta."

She looked up at him, winked and licked him softly eliciting a moan of total absolute pleasure out of him.

"I want to."

He laid back and her hot, wet mouth was all over him. His cock was ready to explode and he watched as she slid it in and out of her mouth.

He couldn't take it though it was too much, and he was going to lose it if he didn't stop her right away. He wanted to be inside her, he always wanted to be inside her. But she wouldn't stop, he dug his hands into her hair and rode out the wave of sensation she was giving him.

"Oh god Paulina…" He groaned as he felt his balls start to tighten, now she was sucking harder and there was no turning back. Daryl tried to stifle the roar that came out of him then as he watched her swallow every drop of him and then she smiled at him. He pulled her close to him until they were all wrapped up in each other and slept a peaceful sleep that neither of them had had in a really long time, but they had often now that they were next to each other every night.

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