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Lucas heard the satisfied sigh escape his wife's lips as she nuzzled her body closer to his. He had spent the last few weeks lying in bed with her, avoiding being this close, but now they were finally in a place where they weren't walking on eggshells about the physical nature of their relationship.
He heard her giggle as she tried to encourage action from him. "Riley I thought you were asleep."
"I was, but" She let her hand run down his arm to take his and place it where she wanted to be touched, "I woke up, and realized you could touch me, you could touch me the way I've wanted you to all this time."
He kissed the back of her neck as his hand slipped under the waistband of her pajama bottoms. "Whatever you want Princess."
Riley gasped at his touch as her eyes rolled back, "Lucas" she bit her lip, "Claim me take me."
His lips moved down her neck as his other hand pulled her bottoms down before pulling his away. They didn't speak as they moved becoming one, quick, needy movements, desperation to feel the other, to confirm that this was real.
She cried out his name, her fingers digging into his hair and leg as she held him close.
He pinned her body against him as her name escaped from deep inside of him.
Riley gasped for air, feeling his embrace, "That might be the best way to wake up on a Saturday morning."
He kissed the bare skin of her shoulder, "It's been difficult to be so close to you every morning and not make love to you."
"We don't have to worry about that anymore." She rolled her body to face him, planting little kisses along his collarbone as she pulled his t-shirt collar away. "I wish we could just spend the entire day in bed."
Lucas chuckled, "Oh what I wouldn't give for that, but I have a game to play."
Riley sighed with a pout of her lip, "Alex is excited to get to sit in the family seats today."
"I'm excited to have her; she's going with Wyatt, right?"
Riley shook her head, "No, Shawn and Katy's son. Wyatt has to get ready to leave for camp in a few days."
Lucas nodded, "Okay, good to know." He sighed, "I should shower and get up for the day."
"You should." She sighed, feeling him pull her as close to him as possible. "Lucas Friar what are you doing?"
"Bringing my wife with me to the shower" he grinned.
She threw her arms around him, "Oh that I am so very down for."
Emma looked to Brian before she knocked on the penthouse door. It was taking everything inside of her not to smile as the door opened. "Is Noah Allen here?" She asked the young woman that answered the door.
The girl pulled on the edge of the t-shirt she wore, "Noah, come here babe." She bit her lip nervously as she backed away from the door.
Noah came out from his bedroom, "What's wrong babe?" He stopped when he saw Emma and Brian, "Detectives, what brings you by?"
"Noah Allen, you're under arrest for the attempted murder of Reese Collins." He whipped out a pair of handcuffs as he read him his rights.
"What, I'm innocent." Noah argued, "It was that Matthews woman, just ask Reese."
Emma leaned in, "We did, and he named you. Let's go cowboy, you've got a date to have some mugshots taken and get finger printed before we get you in front of a judge."
Noah turned to the girl in his apartment, "Call my lawyer call Lansing!"
"Okay Baby, I'll do what I can." She leaned against the door, and Noah wasn't sure his latest little hook up would actually make the call.
"This is amazing." Sonya looked around the apartment as Auggie was in the kitchen making them lunch.
"Yeah, I didn't even know Riley had it, but she said I can stay here rent free for as long as I want." He looked over the counter to his girlfriend.
"So what's your plan for after lunch?" She sat at the table and took a sip of her iced tea.
Auggie came over and placed a plate in front of her before sitting in his own seat, "I hadn't really made a plan, why did you have something in mind?"
Sonya looked to her food for a moment before looking up, "We've been seeing each other for a while now, right?"
"Yeah we have." He watched her, feeling the pit in his stomach, he knew what was coming.
"I like you Aug, a lot, more than anyone else I've ever dated." She sucked in her breath, "You haven't tried to have sex with me yet, do you not want to?"
"Sonya, I think about it, I think about it a lot." He confessed, "It's not that I don't want to have sex with you, it's that" He paused as he took a sip of his own iced tea, "I'm a virgin."
The apartment was silent for what felt like hours before Sonya took his hand, "That's amazing, what exactly have you been waiting for?"
"My high school girlfriend, she wanted to Prom Night, I wasn't ready and she broke up with me not long after." Auggie kept his eyes on his drink, "I went to college, and never really connected with another woman, and then Law School who had time to think about a relationship."
Sonya nodded trying to find the words she needed to say the right thing, "Okay, so um it's not because you don't want me. It's because you're not ready, and that's okay."
"Thank you for understanding." He felt a weight lifted from him.
"I was starting to worry you weren't into me that way."
"Sonya, I promise you, I am very much into you that way." He leaned in close to her, kissing her, "When I'm ready, and the time is right, I will let you know."
She reached up to caress his cheek, "I'm happy to hear that, please don't feel like you have to make yourself ready. If and when we do make love, it will be because we're both ready."
"You're glowing" Farkle greeted Riley as she joined him at a table for lunch.
"What's the male version because you are as well" Riley took a sip of her water as she looked at her oldest and dearest friend. "So, you and Sarah, I take it that's happening or did you meet someone else?"
"Sarah and I are together." He tried to study his menu, "I plan to propose at the end of the summer."
"That's wonderful, but if you know why are you waiting?"
"My father made me promise." He sighed as he looked to her, "You and Lucas, what's going on?"
"We're together we're going to have a vow renewal on New Year's Eve."
"Riley" He put the menu down, "Vow renewals are for people who are already married."
Riley smiled, "Remember how you guys tossed Lucas and I into a room together a few years ago in Las Vegas, and we disappeared for a while?"
"Yeah it was New Year's Eve, we were all drinking having a great time—oh no you didn't."
"We did." Riley giggled, "I couldn't really remember it, except in my dreams, but Lucas has the video, all the paperwork and it's exactly what I would dream about. I'm Mrs. Lucas Friar he's my husband, the love of my life, the father of my daughter, and God willing we'll have more children."
Farkle looked back to his menu.
Riley took it from him, "What is going on with you?"
He sighed, "Okay, so um I think Maya is pregnant and it might be my child."
"Whoa" Riley leaned back in her seat, "Why do you think that?"
"We slept together on my birthday, a few weeks ago I saw her, and she was getting a copy of What to Expect. I mean I researched it all online and the timeline matches up that it's possible."
Riley closed her eyes, "Farkle, it's Maya if she thought it was a possibility she would tell you. I mean come on."
"I know, but it's nagging at me. Sarah's told me to drop it, because if I am, all I'm going to do is alienate Maya by pushing this." Farkle tossed his napkin on the table, "Was life simpler when we were younger or did we just think it was?"
"Different problems, ones I wouldn't wish on anyone else."
"Alex what are you doing in the family seats, I thought your Mom broke up with Reese" Asked a boy from her class whose father played outfield.
"My Dad is the shortstop." She sat back in her seat.
"Oh that's bull crap," He rolled his eyes.
Alex stood up and looked at him, "Listen Chester, you might not believe that my father is Lucas Friar, but he is. So shut up, sit back and let's see whose Dad is the better player."
"Al, calm down." Nate had forgotten how riled up she got during a Yankees game, and he realized now that her father—which he still found hard to believe, "Watch the game, enjoy your Dad playing."
"Oh are you cheating on your boyfriend Wyatt?" Chester called out.
Alex looked back, "Why worry about who I'm hanging out with when you should be worried about which boy Shelby is texting during science because I know it's not you."
Chester was silent glaring at Alex when she turned back to him and faced the field.
Nate was chuckling, "None of the girls in Arizona are as biting with their words as you."
"I don't know if that's good or bad." She confessed as she looked out as the game started.
"I think it's a good thing." Nate smiled as he took out his phone and started to type away at something, glancing at Alex every so often as he paid more attention to her than to the game. He cheered when she did, he jeered when she did, but he really didn't know the game the way she did.
"What are you doing on your phone?" She grabbed it from him as the ninth inning started, the Yankees in the lead.
"Nothing" He lied as he watched her start to read what he'd been writing.
"Sunshine, smiles, flip flops, heart drops, she doesn't know, she never will." She looked to him, "Aww Nate, you're crazy about a girl. Is it that Kelsey girl you told me about, or not wait I bet its Lydia."
"I'd rather not talk about it." Nate too the phone as Lucas caught the ball, winning the game.
Alex jumped out of her seat cheering, "Yes, go Dad!" She turned back to Chester and smirked.
"Hey Friar great catch" His teammate sat on the bench next to him now that most of the press cleared out.
"Thanks, what's up Sam, don't you usually rush out of here to hang out with your kid?"
"I usually do, but Chester showed me something this morning." He pulled out his phone, "He goes to John Quincy Adams Middle School he's…classmates with Alex Matthews."
Lucas stuffed some stuff in his bag, "And he showed you that little family picture huh?"
"So what she and Reese broke up and you thought you'd get a piece of her?"
"No, Riley and I met in middle school, we dated in high school and college, I'm Alex's Dad she's my daughter. My relationship with Riley isn't some tawdry thing; it's not about one upping Reese. She's the love of my life, and we're going to be together and no one is going to come between us."
Sam put his hands up, "Dude, I didn't know, none of us knew. Last we saw Riley hated you."
Lucas sighed, "It was complicated, but we worked through that and we're moving forward, together, as a family."
"Good for you, just know it's not easy being a Dad."
"I'm sure it's not. But I'm going to do the best I can, and I'm going to be the best husband I can be." Lucas grabbed his bag, "I'll see you later Sam."
The intern for NYSN pulled out his phone and looked up Alex Matthews and found the picture. "Hey Dennis," He called out when he caught him in the hallway going back to the news van.
"What?" Dennis rolled his eyes at the young kid.
He looked down at the Instagram post and then up at his boss, "What do you know about Riley Matthews and like her family situation?"
Dennis shrugged, "Single mom, never talks about the father, probably doesn't know who it is. Word is she spread her legs for any jock that wanted a go."
The intern thought for a moment, "Her kid posted this on Instagram last night."
Dennis rolled his eyes but he took the phone to look at the picture, "Lucas Friar, that's who she picks to name as her kids father?" He chuckled, "Oh Riley, I hope you're ready for what I have in store for you now."