Hey everyone
sorry for the late update, my daughter has special needs and the last fortnight has been
challenging to say the least.
so here's the next chapter, hope you like it,
please let me know what you think x
CPOV
I open my eyes to find a pair of grey eyes staring at me. Theo was laying on his side wrapped in Ana's embrace staring at me. his dog held close and the dreaded thumb in his mouth. He gives me a beautiful smile when he sees I'm awake. I give him a matching smile and glance at Ana. She's still fast asleep, she's been working so hard lately, I don't want to wake her. I motion for Theo to keep quiet as I gently release him from Ana's embrace careful not to wake her. He crawls over to me and we both quietly slide off the bed. I quickly grab a t-shirt and sweats and head out the room followed closely by Theo.
"why don't we play with your toys while mommy is sleeping." I smile at Theo as I head into his room. Theo rushes to his toy box and pulls out the cars I had placed there last night. I couldn't help but smile at his eagerness. He looked slightly shocked his cars were still there. He placed the cars on the mat and neatly lined them all up before handing me an orange car to play with. I watched him play so intently and carefully with his cars as we drove them around his play mat, lost in his own imagination. I lost track of time as we played happily together. I could hear music playing from downstairs and then Ana's beautiful voice joined in singing.
"Aa!" Theo suddenly gasped as he sat upright and put his hand to his ear looking at me wonderingly and I know it's because he can hear Ana.
"that's mommy singing." I smile at him. He smiles at me as he listens before standing up and rushes out the room. I follow him and find him standing in the doorway of mine and Ana's room looking around the room. "Theo mommy's downstairs." I smile at him and he rushes back to me as I head for the stairs. He looks at the stairs tentatively as if unsure, attempts the first step and then things better of it. "It's ok buddy." I say as I hold out my hand to him to help. He looks at it, then at me before putting his arms out for me to pick him up. I couldn't help the huge grin that spreads across my face as I gently lift him into my arms. I head towards the kitchen and see Ana in there singing and dancing away to the music as she's making breakfast. I stop and watch, I love seeing her like this, so carefree. My heart swells at the site of her, she's still wearing my t-shirt from last night, but she's put on some pajama shorts. I look at Theo and see he's watching her mesmerized, he has a big beautiful smile on his face as he watches Ana dance and sing. How did I get to be so lucky? I have a beautiful son and the woman of my dreams, yeah, I'm one lucky son of a bitch.
Ana turns and starts as she sees us standing there, both with huge grins on our faces.
"Oh!" she gasps smiling, "There's my boys." She says smiling at us with that breath-taking smile of hers, "Breakfast is nearly ready."
Theo points to the floor and I let him down, he rushes over to Ana and puts his arms up to her. She scoops him up into her arms and sits him on her hip while she flips a pancake with her other hand. Theo rests his head on her shoulder and places a hand to Ana's mouth. She kisses his little hand making him smile.
"aa" Theo says and places his hand on her mouth again. Ana looks confused about what he was trying to say. I walk up behind them. My hand goes around Ana's waist as I kiss Theo on the head then Ana on the lips as she smiles at me.
"He wants you to sing." I smile at her and Theo nods lifting his head to look at me then Ana. Ana laughs, and I see that beautiful blush of hers creep over her skin as she starts to sing along with the music. Theo looks at her as if she was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen before resting his head on her shoulder again.
I grab the orange juice out of the fridge and pour a glass for Ana and me and fill a sippy for Theo, I hand his to him and he smiles as he takes it but doesn't lift his head. Ana starts to serve up one handed not wanting to put Theo down. I smile and help her as her phone starts to ring, she goes to grab it as I finish serving up.
"Hello?... yes…really?... when? …err sure that'll be fine…ok, thank you."
I look up and see the happy carefree Ana was gone, now she looked flustered. "What's wrong?" I ask as I'm at her side in an instant. Theo lifts his head to look at her as my hand finds her waist. She looks at Theo and stroked his hair, giving him a loving smile.
"That was the detective on Jack's case." She says as she walks over and places Theo in his chair where his breakfast was waiting for him. I feel myself tense up at Jacks name, what now. She busys herself cutting up Theo's pancakes and covers them with syrup.
"Ana, your killing me here." I sigh agitated, "What did the detective want?"
APOV
I smile as Theo tucks into his breakfast. I turn back to Christian who was standing extremely close to me now, worry clearly all over his face.
"They think they've found the other guy from the alley." I tell him "they want me to come in and do a line-up." I sigh as Christian instantly pulls me to him as his arms wrap around my waist, he's watching me, he knows I'm not telling him everything. I glance back at Theo, Christian follows my gaze and then walks us backwards further away from Theo for more privacy.
"Ana." He says quietly and gently tilts my head so I'm looking at him.
"Jack's being transported back to Seattle today." I finally sigh.
"What? Why?" Christian says a bit too loud and Theo looks over at us frowning. I give him a quick smile
"Since his crimes started in this state, they feel it only right for him to face judgement for his crimes here." I explain glumly, Christian doesn't look pleased with the news. "Come on let's just eat breakfast." I sigh as I see Theo watching us curiously, his mouth full of pancake.
"When do you have to go in to do the line up?" Christian asks as he sits on one side of Theo and I sit the other.
"today at 10:30." I say as I stab my pancakes, no longer hungry. I suddenly felt sick.
"I'll let Taylor know after breakfast."
"Taylor's off today remember, so is Miss Jones." I smile at Theo, who is one big sticky mess, but is eating away happily. "It's Gail's sister's wedding." I remind him, smiling at the thought of Taylor and miss Jones together.
"Of course. It completely slipped my mind." Christian says as he looks at Theo and took a sip of his drink. "We'll still take the SUV as Theo's car seat is in it." he added absently
"You don't have to come. You can stay here with Theo, it won't take long." I say as I move my food around my plate, but not eating any of it.
Christian frowns and shakes his head. "Yes, I do. I'm not letting you do that alone." He says determinedly making me look at him.
"But what about Theo, it's not really a place for him." I say as I gently stroke Theo's hair, it could use a cut, he gives me a very syrupy smile.
"Yeah, but I doubt he'd stay with anyone else."
I nod, it was true, Theo had relaxed with Christians family but if Christian or I moved to far away from him, he'd come running after us, no matter who was with him.
"And I had an idea to run by you." Christian says after a few minutes silence.
"Oh? What?" I ask intrigued
"What do you think about moving?" he asks as I sip my drink. I look at him shocked, he loves living here. "I was thinking now we have Theo, we needed a family home, with a garden and stuff." He explains making me smile, "so what do you think?" Christian asks looking at me hopefully.
"think it sounds like a really good idea." I smile at him and he leans over Theo to kiss me lovingly.
"great I'll have a look and see what's on the market. We could always knock the property down and get Elliot's company to rebuild if we find the right location." Christian smiles happily, "You're not eating." He suddenly says worriedly as he spots my plate.
"I'm fine." I say as I see him look at me worriedly, "Did you like your breakfast Theo." I smile at him, clearly changing the subject. Theo nods as he drinks his juice. "I think you have more syrup on you than you had on your pancakes." I laugh at him. "Come on little man let's get you washed up." I smile at him as I help him down off the chair. I feel Christian watching us. I look up at him and he grabs my hand pulling me to him so I'm standing in between his legs. I kiss him lovingly on the lips. "Stop worrying. I'm fine, just feeling a bit sick." I smile at him as I stroke the side of his face. He searches my eyes for a moment before nodding.
"aa." Theo says and we both look at him. He's frowning at his hands as he scrunch's his hand in a fist and opens it again, not liking the sticky feeling. Christian laughs
"Come on buddy let's get you washed." Christian smiles. "You wash our son and I'll do the dishes." Christian smiles at me as he stands and kisses me quickly on the lips before letting me go.