Chapter 21

Fitz and Liv walked back into the house after cleaning up their mess on the beach. Liv couldn't stop looking at her ring and smiling. After they put away the remaining food and straighten up the kitchen, Fitz needed time to get his other surprise ready.

He stopped her in the kitchen. "Stay right here. I will be back in a few minutes." He ran upstairs while she walked around downstairs. She removed her shoes and cardigan as she admired the house. Everything was exactly the way she left it. She thought for sure that he would have changed something or thrown things away but it was like she never left. She took a picture of her ring and sent a text to Abby, 'Engaged to Fitz! Will call you tomorrow!'

As she sent it, Fitz came back downstairs with a rose in his hand, "For my beautiful fiancée!"

She felt all giddy inside, "Thank you, baby."

He extended his arm and walked her upstairs. He opens the door to the master bed room to reveal scented candles illuminating the room, rose petals on the bed with another bottle of wine sitting on the night stand.

"Wow, Fitz. This is amazing." She walked into the room as if she had never been in it before.

He closed the door behind them, "I wanted tonight to be extra special for us."

She turned to face him as he walked towards her, "I could get used to you spoiling me like this."

He put his arms around her waist, "Good, because I plan on spoiling you for the rest of our lives."

He pulled her lips to his. He ran his tongue across her bottom lips before gaining access to her mouth. He could still taste the wine from earlier on her tongue. She tasted so sweet. He cupped the side of her face as he walked her to the bed. She reached and started unbuttoning his shirt but he stopped her when she got halfway.

He moved and started licking and sucking on her neck, "Tonight I want to go extra slow. I want to take my time and show you how much I've missed you."

Getting lost from the sensations that were shooting through her body, "What did you miss about me?"

"I missed you. I missed your smile, your eyes, your laugh, your lips, your mind, your body and your soul." He stood her up and unzipped her dress letting fall down to the floor.

Looking her in the eyes, "I missed kissing you and touching you." He started kissing her again. She moaned in his mouth as she felt his hands roam over her body. He used his hands and unhooked her bra in the back.

He laid her down on the bed staring at her almost naked body. He will never grow tired of looking at her beautiful body. She looked like a goddess that should be worshipped. He was so caught up in her beauty.

"God you are so beautiful. Soon you will be my beautiful wife. How do you feel about that?"

She stared back at him, "I can't wait."

He leaned down, very careful not to put all of his weight on her, and resumed kissing her neck while massaging her breast. "I missed your breast and how they felt in my mouth."

He moved down her body and started sucking on her breast. Ecstasy was what she felt at that moment. All was right with her world. He was kneading on breast while sucking on the other. Then he switched. She gripped his hair as she ran her fingers through his curls. She wanted so much for him to be inside her right now. She was so wet. She was long overdue for a good fuck. She went two years without sex before she met him now it was killing her to go a few days without having him inside her.

He left her breast and started kissing her stomach. "I missed this stomach that will one day hold my child." His erection was aching to get out of his pants. As much as he wanted to release it, he knew that tonight had to be about her. He was the one that nearly destroyed them. He had to make it right.

He kissed down one legs and back up the other. Liv enjoyed every second of him pleasing her. His tongue, mouth and hands touched every inch of her body. He grabbed her laced underwear with his teeth and slowly removed it from her body.

He brought his mouth back up to face as he spread her legs. He took his hand and cupped her core. Looking into her eyes, "I missed this most of all. Don't ever take my pussy away from me again." He moved his face down in between her legs. He placed her legs over his shoulder then he inserted his tongue in her core.

Her back arched as he licked it slow and steady. He had a tight grip on her hips so that she couldn't move while he continued to assault her core with his tongue. He buried his face so deep that he had to come up for air to breath. She gripped his hair and clawed at his shoulder while he fucked her with his tongue. An orgasm shot through her body as she screamed Fitz's name.

He licked her essence before returning to her mouth. "You taste like heaven baby. I missed that taste." She loved the taste of herself on his tongue as she kissed him.

She sat up on the bed pushing him up off. He stood and removed his shirt while she worked on his pants.

He looked down at her as she freed his erect cock from his boxers, "Did you miss your dick?"

She looked up at him stroking his cock with her hand, "Yes, I missed it. Is it really mines?"

"It's all yours baby and I promise you that no one else will ever touch it but you." He threw his head back from her ministrations. "MMMM. Tell me where you want me to put your dick baby. I will put it anywhere you want me to."

She stroked him harder and faster than before, "I want it in my mouth. Can I have it in my mouth?"

Before he could answer, he felt his cock go in her warm mouth. "Fuck yes….that feels good…I love you baby."

She was bobbing and sucking on his cock. It was driving him insane. She started massaging his balls as she deep throated his cock. He was slowly starting to come undone. He grabbed her by her hair when it started to become too much for him. In his mind he wondered how did he get so lucky to find her. He pulled back out of her mouth when he felt that his orgasm was close.

After he was able to stop his pending orgasm, they scooted back up onto the center of the bed. He stood on his knees in between her slit. He teased her core with his tip. He loved that she was always wet for him.

"Fitz, stop-"

Before she could finish, he had entered her. He lifted one of her legs as he gave her time to adjust to his size because she was tight. He slowly started moving in and out of her. He was going at a pace that she could feel every vein with every stroke.

"Do you feel that baby? How does your dick feel?"

She was unable to answer. The only things that were coming out of her mouth were moans and screams.

"I love my tight pussy." He kissed her leg that on his shoulder, "Don't ever take my pussy from me again. Do you hear me, wife?"

She responded with a breathless, "Yes."

He lowered his body towards her face giving him deeper penetration. He picked up the pace as slammed harder into her core. She was clawing and scratching his back as she was overcome with pleasure.

"OOOOO…Fuck…Fitz… I'm cumin…"

"Cum for me, Livvie. Cum for your husband, baby."

"OOOO…Fuckkkkkkkk!" Her orgasm rushed through her body as her muscles tightened.

"Shiit, Livvie." That was enough to cause him to spill his seed in her. He released her leg and rolled to the side of her.

Their breathing was fast and heavy. He sat up and walked to the dresser. He brought back two bottled waters. "Here, I figured we might need these."

She looked at him, "Thank you baby. For everything."

He sat back down on the bed against the headboard. She finally mustered enough strength to move in between his legs. They both sipped on their water as they slowly caught their breaths.

He kissed her head, "So what's on the agenda next, future Mrs. Grant?"

She smiled at him, "I guess I have to tell my parents tomorrow."

He kissed her on the cheek, "Your parents already know."

She turned slightly to see his face, "What do you mean?"

He smiled, "When I spent the night with Allie, your mom cooked dinner. We were sitting around the dinner table and I asked them for your hand in marriage. I told them the minute I get you back, I am going to ask you. I called and told them that you were coming back so they knew I would ask."

"So they had no objections. Not even my mom who has an opinion about everything I do in my life."

He held left hand with the ring on it, "No, they just said that they would be proud to have me as a son."

She laughed, "Okay, so who else knows?"

He thought for a moment, "My dad, my sister, Cyrus, and Juanita. Oh and Allie. She gave her daddy some good pointers."

She laughed harder than before, "Okay, so since I am the last one to know. When is this wedding supposed to take place?"

"I was hoping we could do it next weekend."

She sat completely up and turned to face him, "Are you fucking serious? Fitz, there is no way I can plan a wedding in a week."

He took her hand, "Yes you can. We can hire a wedding planner. I can give you my credit card and we can rush order everything."

She started freaking out, "Ok, is there anything else I should know that comes along with marrying you?"

He closed his eyes to brace himself as it slowly came out of his mouth, "My father wants you to sign a prenup to protect my family's assets that are in my name."

She let out a manic laugh that kind of scared him. She scooted over to the nightstand and opened the bottle of wine. She poured herself a glass and downed it in one gulp. "This is great. My fiancée of a few hours wants to get married next week. Now his father thinks I am a gold digger." She let out another manic laugh as she downed another glass.

Fitz scooted himself to sit behind her. "Hey, nobody thinks you are a gold digger. The prenup will just protect my family's assets not mine. You are entitled to everything I own. The reason I want to marry you next week is because I don't want to wait forever for you to be my wife. I would marry you tomorrow if you let me. I just want a chance to make all of your dreams come true. Can we just sleep on it and talk about it in the morning?"

"Sure." She drank another glass before sliding under the covers. She looked at him in the eyes, "Baby. I love you and I thank you for this special day."

He kissed her, "You are so welcome baby."

"Good, now who is going to clean up all of these roses on the bed and blow out the candles?"

He laughed, "I guess I didn't think it all the way through, huh?"

He got out the bed and removed all the rose petals off the comforter. He blew out the candles and joined her back in the bed.

He slid behind her so that they could spoon. He kissed her on the cheek, "Sweet dreams, baby."

They both went to sleep. They experienced the best night of sleep either of them had had in a long time. They made it through the rough patch in their relationship. Now they just needed to conquer the next chapter: marriage.

X X

The next day, Liv and Fitz were sitting in the conference room at his lawyer's office. In front her were three separate documents.

His lawyer started explaining the documents to her, "Ms. Pope, this first document is a prenuptial agreement. This only protects the assets that are passed to Mr. Grant through his family. In the event of a divorce, you are still entitled to fifty percent of his assets and anything that is acquired during the marriage. This is not your typical leave with what you came with agreement. Mr. Grant requested that you be taken care of financially if you should divorce. You will receive two million dollars for each year you are married until you reach ten years then you will receive five million for each year after that. So let's say you stay married for 15 years, then you will receive $43 million dollars in the divorce. Are you following me so far?"

Liv shook her head yes. Then something in the document caught her eye, "What is this? What's a fidelity clause?"

"Ok, Ms. Pope, this fidelity clause simply states that if you are caught cheating or that the reason for the divorce is infidelity on your part then you are only entitled to 30 percent of the marital assets."

She looked at Fitz, "You asked for this."

Fitz looked at his lawyer because he was just as shocked as she was, "No, I didn't ask for this. Why is this in there?"

The lawyer shrugged, "It is just something we always put in these types of agreement."

Fitz replied, "Take it out. I will not have her sign this with this clause in there."

"Yes sir. I will have it removed at once."

He moved that document out of the way, "Let's move on to the next one. This is an adoption petition for Mr. Grant to adopt your daughter and adding his name to her birth certificate as her father. Her name will officially be changed to Allison Melissa Grant. She will receive everything that comes with the Grant name such as trust fund and college fund as if she were his biological child. She will be sent to the best private schools and receive the best education that money can buy. In the event of your untimely death, she will be well taken care of."

Fitz saw Liv tensed up thinking about dying and leaving her daughter. He rubbed her shoulder, "Are you okay?"

She whispered, "Yeah, I'm fine."

Fitz looked at the lawyer and gave him a signal to move on.

"Ok, Ms. Pope this third document is a partnership agreement."

She looked confused when he said that, "What do you mean, partnership agreement?"

Fitz raised his hand to stop the lawyer from talking. He turned her to face him, "My dad wants us to run the company together as partners. When he turns the company over to me, he is going to be turning it over to the both of us."

"But Fitz, it's your company. You worked hard to get your turn at running it. You should run it by yourself."

He took her hand, "Baby, this was my idea. I want you by my side. I want you to be my partner in every sense of the word. You are going to be a Grant. Grants don't work for people, people work for them. You deserve to have everything that name entitles you and Allie to. I want you to sign it."

Liv started to panic. She jumped up, "I need to get some air." She ran out of there so fast that Fitz couldn't catch her. She walked out of the building and kept walking. She didn't know where she was going but she needed to get away. She finally stopped when she made it around the corner of the building. She started hyperventilating as she tried to catch her breath.

She took her phone out of her pocket. She needed to talk to her mom.

After a few rings, Maya answered, "Hello."

Still struggling to breath, "Mommy…I can't… do it."

Sensing the urgency in her voice, Maya became stern, "Liv, listen to me. You can do anything you put your mind to. You are strong and confident. I wish I was half as strong as you are."

Calming down a little but still struggling to breath, "He..wants..to..get..married. Everything…changing."

"Baby, life is always changing. You can't stay in the same place. As long as it is changing for the better then that shows growth. Don't be afraid to move forward. Listen to your heart, Liv. Listen to your gut. You always overthink things. You always panic but you are stronger than anything you face. Follow your heart. Don't be afraid to jump in with both feet."

Slowly her breathing started to regulate, "Thank you, mommy."

"Anytime baby."

She hung up the phone and walked back towards the front of the building. Fitz was standing in front trying to figure out which direction she went. He ran to her when he saw her walking back. He hugged her tightly.

He kissed her all over her face, "I thought you had left me again."

She could see the look of worry on his face, "No, I just needed some air."

"Look if you don't want to sign those papers then don't sign them. If you want to wait a few months or a few years before we get married then we can. We can do anything you want as long as you don't leave me."

She put her hands on the side of his face, "I want to marry you next weekend. I can't wait to become your wife. I promise you that I am not leaving you. So let's go back in here and get this over with so we can go and get our daughter."