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This next part of the story was suggested by one of my readers,ilyezriaforeverandeveerr. I hope you enjoy it because my friends now think that I am writing scenes like this all the time. I tried my best. Hope it's enough!
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Aria slides her hand down the smooth marble-like surface of Ezra's chest as his lips nip at her neck. His hands rhythmically run up and down her legs, making her giggle with uncontainable pleasure. She is cemented to her husband's body, no space left between them. She loves the feeling of his heart against hers; the thrill of his lips dancing across her skin, and the way his arms held her even closer to his agile and wiry body.
Ezra's lips move up to hers and they continue to kiss one another with a fiery passion and unbearable lust. A thin sheen of shin sweat covered both of their bodies as they continued to make love to one another.
Finally, they break away, lying on their backs on the large bed, breathing heavily. Ezra holds his wife with one long arm entwined around her petite waist, his soft lips pressing into her hair, "Wow. That was...Wow."
Aria smiles, playing with Ezra's fingers, "That was way overdue."
"I'd say so." He chuckles as he kisses her temple, "But very much worth the wait." He sighs, his musky yet sweet breath sending pleasure-filled chills down Aria's spine, "I just wish that we had more time for being alone together." Ezra is right. The two are always on the run, either at work, school, or with their children. They haven't had any time alone since the night before Snoopy was diagnosed with his severe doggy cold. And that was over a month ago. Thanksgiving is only a week and a half away and they are driving down to Rosewood to celebrate with their families at Aria's parents' house.
She kisses his hand, her lips lingering at the sweet taste of his skin, murmuring, "We're just lucky that my classes for this morning were canceled."
"Mhmm." Ezra kisses her bare shoulder, his dark smoldering blue eyes drooping with obvious exhaustion, "Thank you Professor Baker and the wondrous virus that is laryngitis." His lips trace down her arms and pauses where the sheet covers her chest and torso.
She plays with his curly bangs as she always does, "And that the kids are already at daycare."
Her husband buries his face into the nape of her neck, "Should we be good parents and go and pick them up, or just hang around the house and," Ezra seductively drew Aria's right leg up gently with his soft hands, kissing her knee, looking at her with a mischievous twinkle in his blue eyes, "continue doing this?" He traces his lips lightly up her leg and they pause as they reach her stomach, tenderly kissing her belly button.
Aria moans with longing and obvious pleasure, "We should go pick them up. But I miss spending time alone with you. It seems like forever since we actually got to do this."
Ezra's lips find their way to hers again and after a small but sweet kiss, "How about if we make up for it by going out to that Italian restaurant you love so much? And then we can take Kenzie, Andy, and Snoops to the park to play in the leaves."
Aria nods into his shoulder, breathing in his musky cologne of Axe mixed with sweat, the most wonderful scent she has ever smelled, "I like that idea very much." She tips up her head only to have her husband's lips just centimeters away from hers, "I have to go take a shower."
Ezra traces the outline of her jaw with his long fingers, "Would you like some help with that?" He wiggles his eyebrows at her with a flash of extremely white teeth, "Because if you insisted..."
She presses her lips softly against his, "If I let you in there with me, do you really think that we'd ever want to go get our children?"
Ezra tucks a lock of her hair behind her ear, "Your probably right. Maybe later when we get them asleep."
Aria kisses her husband once more before hopping out of the bed and skipping to the bathroom. She turns back around and teasingly gestures to him with her index finger, "Now that I think about it, a shower without you isn't really a shower."
Her husband grins from ear to ear as he bounds over to her, picking her up into his arms, spinning her around in a circle as they climbed into the shower, lips locked in a gentle and tender kiss as Ezra turns on the water and Aria squirts shampoo into his hair, scrubbing it furiously. His eyes fall over her bare body with such a hunger it makes her feel small yet powerful. She looks at him as well, with a small smile as she realizes yet again how beautiful he is. His muscles are toned from his morning and evening runs, his hair falling over his forehead in curly wisps, and the outline of his chiseled jaw. His thin but not skinny frame fills her vision, making it the only thing she sees.
Ezra slides his soapy hands down her body, drawing her even closer to him. He blinks water out of his blue eyes, murmuring, "I love you, Aria."
She replies by leaning to kiss his adorable nose, "As I love you, Ezra."
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Ezra looks intently across the table outside of the Italian restaurant, Bella Noche, at Aria. God, how did he get so lucky? They've been together for five years and he still cannot believe that he has such a graceful, gorgeous, and downright amazing woman as his wife and the mother of his two children.
Aria meets his eyes and throws a seductive mile his way, "What are you thinking about?"
He reaches across the table, taking her smaller hand in his, stroking her ring finger with his thumb, "You."
She blushes a light pink, making Ezra's heart flutter with the sight of the way that he makes her feel, "What a coincidence. I'm thinking about you too."
He looks over her with a simple glance, taking in her radiant beauty and then back up into her hazel eyes, flashing her favorite boyish smile at her, "It's hard to believe how far we've come in the past five years. The first two together we were holing in my apartment, eating my leftovers and watching old movies, and now here we sit, having lunch outside one of the most popular Italian restaurants in the city."
His wife smirks, biting her lip, looking down at her glass of white wine, "Then we have two kids and our two year old beagle puppy. Plus amazing families, friends, and careers. We sure have proven those haters wrong."
Ezra leans across the table to give Aria a small and tender kiss, "We sure have." He sits back down, brushing his curly brownish black bangs out of the way of his smoldering dark blue eyes.
The waitress refills their wine glasses and takes their order. When the young woman leaves, the couple left sitting at the table clink their glasses together, the ringing sounding beautiful like a symphony of an orchestra in their ears. Ezra murmurs, "To us."
Aria smiles, "To us." The two drink their wine and when they swallow, she leans on her free hand, staring at her husband whom she loves so dearly, "Have I told you how much I love you today?"
He flashes her favorite smile at her once again, "I thought this morning you showed me pretty damn well." They both chuckle, cheeks staining scarlet and Ezra strokes his wife's cheek, "I love you too, sweetheart."
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Ezra cradles Andrew in his arms on the park bench as he watches Kenzie, Aria, and Snoopy play in a golden and red pile of leaves on the grass. He can't help but smile at the sight. They seem so care free and oblivious to the world around them.
He leans down and kisses his four month old son's forehead, smiling against his soft skin, "Hey, buddy. You finally awake?" Andrew blinks up with his big dark blue eyes, his black curls falling over his forehead, "You want to go join them or stay here with your old man?"
The four month old infant rubs his eyes and spreads open his mouth a wide yawn. Ezra ruffles his son's hair. He loves being a father so much. McKenzie is almost two and Andrew is getting close to sitting up on his own. He doesn't deserve them, Snoopy, or Aria, but somehow God put them in his life and he will forever be grateful.
Ezra's eyes fall on his wife again and he smiles even wider. Here she is, only 22, and already has accomplished so much; a husband and two children. She took extra classes as a sophomore in college to graduate this year instead of next and she already has a steady job at the New York Post. She is planning to leave that newspaper stand when she graduates to join her husband at Columbia as a Teacher's Assistant, only in a different lecture hall. Since she doesn't want to be distracting Ezra while he tries to teach is his students.
His gaze falls on McKenzie. Her long curly dark brunette hair barely fell over her shoulders, bouncing against them as she plays adorably in the leaf pile. She is getting too old too fast for me. She's almost two. It feels like yesterday when I was holding her in my arms in a rocking chair back in Rosewood. Where does the time go? Ezra sighs, remembering when his little sweet pea was still his little sweet pea.
His family finally starts to walk back towards him and McKenzie hops up and down, "Fall is so fun, Daddy!" He smiles at her and reaches up to take one of the leaves out of her ponytail. She giggles and ducks behind her mother, twining her arms around her legs.
Aria laughs, "I know, I know, Kenzie. I wouldn't let your Daddy touch your hair either." She kisses Ezra sweetly, her lips lingering on his. When she pulls away, she takes Andrew from her husband, kissing his forehead, "Hey, Andy. Ready to go home and take a nap?" Her son is already asleep as soon as he feels his mother's arms cradling him. She looks back up at Ezra and Kenzie and murmurs, "I'll take that as a yes, then."
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McKenzie is at the kitchen table, pouting because she hasn't finished the rest of her dinner and her parents won't let her have her favorite type of ice cream for dessert. She rubs her eyes in fake exhaustion.
Ezra is working in the living room and Aria is cleaning up the kitchen, tickling Andrew who is sitting in his wooden high chair, laughing like a mad man. She looks over at her daughter, "Kenzie, if your not going to finish your dinner, then you can go to your room."
The toddler starts to sniffle and Aria hears from the living room the voice of her worried father, "Kenzie! Is everything alright, sweetheart?" Aria hears her husband's footstep's and watches as he picks up their daughter in his arms, "Shhhh. It's alright. Daddy's here, Daddy's got you." He mouths What's wrong? in Aria's direction.
"Great, Ezra. Is this how it's going to be when she's a teenager and she comes in at midnight with hickeys all over her neck and can barely get a word out of her mouth without slurring it? Am I going to be the bad cop all the time?"
Ezra sighs and makes McKenzie look at him, "Honey, if you finish your dinner, then I will let you have some ice cream. Do it for Daddy. Please?"
Kenzie rubs the fake tears out of her eyes and sweetly replies, "Okay, Daddy." Aria rolls her eyes and continues to wipe down the counter as she watches her husband set their daughter down in her booster seat and coax her eating the rest of her green beans.
When the toddler eats the rest of her food and then a bowl of ice cream, Aria tucks her and Andrew into bed while Ezra finishes the rest of his lesson plans. When his wife returns to finish cleaning up from dinner, he calls, "Aria? Can you come in here for a second?"
She leaves the wet rag on the sink faucet and goes to join her husband. She lies across his lap on the loveseat, "Do you need help with something?"
His lips nestle into her neck, making her giggle. His hand teases the strap of her bra and she wiggles closer to him as he murmurs into her skin, "No matter what Kenzie or Andy do when they are teenagers, we'll always have the pleasure of punishing them together."
Aria runs her hand down her husband's leg seductively, "Well, I think we can agree with that."
"Shall we seal this pact with a kiss?"
She bites her bottom lip, willing herself not to smile, "How could we do it any other way?" They both lean forward and their lips press together in a small, tender and sweet kiss.
ONE MORE CHAPTER AFTER THIS! I AM SO EXCITED FOR IT, I AM WRITING IN ALL CAPS. ARE Y'ALL EXCITED FOR IT AS MUCH AS I AM? OH MY GOSH, I NEED TO CALM DOWN.
Okay, author freak out done! Let's talk about the sequel! I am thinking about posting the first chapter a day after I finish Ezra and Aria: A Romance to Last a Lifetime. And I am still brainstorming on titles! I will let you know my decision, but maybe you can help me out! When I Look to the Sky is out but Love I've Found In You as well as Heaven Can Wait, a song by the King of Pop himself Michael Jackson. Listen to both of the songs and get back to me with what you think I should name the sequel!
You guys are amazing. I cannot thank you with enough words to even come close to how grateful I am. So, with that, I am going to shut up and say: "See you next update!"
