09. Inspiration

He watched her as she worked...her glasses perched on the tip of her nose as she slipped her shoes on and off. She had decided to work from home today and he found it impossible to stay out of her home office. She was like that enigma he enjoyed figuring out every single day...only he would never completely solve the mystery of her.

"I know you're watching me cowboy," she said, without looking up. He could have pretended that he was scoping out the area that they would be turning into a nursery soon but what would be the point? She always seemed to know the answer before he even asked the question.

"Can you blame me? I'm married to a goddess," he simply said.

She smiled when she lifted her head from her files. "A Goddess huh? that sounds awfully important."

"Oh she's important all right...she inspires so many people every day... starting right here at home...with me."

She slipped her glasses off her face and narrowed her eyes. "How exactly do I inspire you," she asked?

He couldn't help but laugh at her attempt at flirtation...she was very good at it...He would have to be better. He leaned over her desk, his palm resting over hers...his eyes getting lost in the deep brown pools staring back at him.

"You make me want to be a better man...you make me want to be who you believe in...every day...because I don't ever want to be that man I was when I lost you. "

"You wouldn't be here if you were," she said, completely serious. "The man I love...the man I believe in...he sure as hell wasn't that man."

"Then who is he," he joked, taking her hand and pulling her up from the chair. She wrapped her arms around his neck as she looked into his eyes.

"He's the man that massages my feet when I'm tired...who brings me breakfast in bed to surprise me...who listens to me go on and on about my day...who holds me when I'm hurting...and who...I don't know...maybe I should keep this part to myself...I wouldn't want our baby to be scarred before she's born now would I?"

"She?"

"Don't do that Bo...Don't pretend you don't know exactly what I'm talking about."

He laughed as he pressed his lips against her own...nuzzling into a soft kiss as she smiled at him. "What else," he asked firmly?

"Not here," she said. "Not in what will be our daughter's nursery."

She took his hand and led him back into their bedroom. She pushed him onto the bed and let him watch her unbutton her blouse. "He's the man who makes me feel like a woman in every sense of the word," she whispered, as she climbed on top of him. "He inspires me too. He inspires me to be more adventurous."

"And what adventure are we on today sweetheart?"

"The adventure of our lives," she said mysteriously. Before he had a chance to say anything in response, she was tugging at his pants. "What do you say cowboy, are you up for the challenge?"

"I'm always up for a challenge...what are the stakes?"

"Way more then you can afford," she joked, as she pulled another layer of clothing from his body. "Now undress me," she demanded. "I'm taking this one pro bono."

Oh how he loved this woman...she could be pregnant and miserable and still find a way to make him the happiest man alive...He enjoyed finding new ways to make her feel the same. "I love you Red," he said just before he proved his point...and she was purring like a cat in his arms.