Here's chapter 20, its shorter than what I usually do. I'm kind of blocked. Enjoy.
Olivia pulled her legs up close to her body, wrapping her arms around her legs, and dropped her head to her knees, letting the tears pour out. She felt Elliot's hand touching hers; she looked down to see Elliot on one knee once again.
"Liv, I'm sorry you had to find out that way, that I was with someone else. But you have to know it's just you and me now. No one and I mean no one could ever come between us. I sent Alyssa away, she miscarried but yes I guess she was carrying my baby but I never wanted anyone but you to carry my babies. Liv, I love you with every ounce of my heart. I would never intentionally hurt you, she was a mistake I was sad and upset; I was trying to bury my sadness from losing you in something, anything that got my mind off of you for any length of time. It was so wrong, I know that. Olivia, I don't want to be with anyone but you. Please forgive me, I don't know how else to say I'm sorry, but to tell you how much I love you and still want you to be my wife."
Elliot got up and sat next to Olivia on the couch pulling her in close. He whispered in her ear,
"I love you, and only you. Will you please forgive me and be my wife?"
Olivia leaned into Elliot, and he pulled her into a tighter hug. She whispered one word into his chest.
"Yes."
That's all it took one simple, one syllable word. Elliot had a grin from ear to ear, he leaned in and kissed Olivia then wiped her tears away.
"Liv, I will never do anything again, that will make you doubt me or us. I love you, its going to be you and me forever. I promise."
"I love you too, El. Let's go to bed."
"Wait you forgot something."
"What?"
"You forgot to put your engagement ring on."
Elliot took her left hand and slide the ring onto her ring finger. The ring was gorgeous; a simple princess cut diamond with a diamond on each side.
"El, it's beautiful. I love it."
"Only the best for you, come on let's go to bed before it's time to get up."
In bed they laid snuggled together, Olivia felt so safe and content laying there with Elliot's arms holding her. There was nowhere else she would rather be. They fell asleep like that in each other's arms with Olivia head on Elliot's chest.
Olivia woke in the morning hearing soft cries. She got out of bed and went to the baby's room thinking it was her but she was still sound asleep; she looked so peaceful. She went to Lizzie's room and found her curled up in a little ball, crying. She walked over, sat down on the bed and pulled the little girl into her arms.
"Oh sweetie, what's wrong?"
"Mommy, I had the worst dream ever. We had to go back and live with her and weren't allowed to see you or Daddy anymore. It was horrible."
"Sweetie, that's never going to happen, I promise. Come on how about we go make some chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast."
Elliot woke to soft gurgling noise; he smiled when he realized it was Ella, he could hear her over the baby monitor. He got up, walked to the nursery and picked up the gurgling baby. She was once again trying to get her toes into her mouth; he noticed she was doing that a lot lately. He was walking into the kitchen when he heard the giggles of his fiancé and their second youngest daughter. They were whispering to each other, he laughed quietly to himself when he heard the conversation between the two of them.
"Daddy is going to be so mad when he sees the kitchen, we made such a mess."
"You really think so baby girl?"
"Yep, Mommy where did you get that ring it's so pretty."
"Daddy gave it to me. I don't think he'll be mad that we made a mess, he might be a little mad that we didn't invite him to help."
Lizzie laughed at Olivia, as Elliot entered the kitchen with the baby. He looked at two of his favorite girls covered in flour.
"What are you two up to?"
"Daddy, we are making chocolate chip pancakes. Want to help, Daddy?"
"Not this time sweetie, I'm going to feed the baby."
Elliot set up a bottle, walked over to Olivia and gave her a good morning kiss while he was waiting for the bottle to warm. The flour on her face rubbed off on his nose, Lizzie looked up and began to laugh. Dickie walked into the kitchen asking what was so funny, the minute the question left his mouth he knew and began to laugh himself. Fifteen minutes later, they were all sitting around the table eating breakfast and having a good time. When breakfast was over, Elliot cleaned up the kitchen while Olivia got the kids ready for the day; it had become natural to them, like they had been doing it for years.
Olivia had the kids ready for Casey by the time she got there. She had the baby down for a nap; Dickie was working on a puzzle while Lizzie was playing with Barbie's in a doll house.
"Casey thanks again for doing this. I really wanted to run out to the jewelry story with Elliot real quick, but it's for the kids so we can't really bring them."
"What are you guys doing? Usually the guy buys the ring for the girl when he proposes, what are you two up to?"
"I want to get each of the girls, a diamond necklace or something and Dickie a watch with an embedded diamond or something. I want them to feel included and I think this will be a good way to do that. We are going to get the girl's stones' to match the main one in my engagement ring and then have a saying written in the box when we give it to each of them, the same with Dickie's watch."
"Liv, you are such a thoughtful person, including them like that."
"I just want them to know, how much we love them and want them to be involved with the wedding. We don't want them to be left out. Okay, so we are leaving now we should be back in two hours tops."
Casey sat down on the couch and helped Dickie with his puzzle. She kind of envied Olivia's life but she was so happy for her. She saw how devastated Olivia was when Elliot wasn't there for her pregnancy. Casey couldn't wait until she found a love like Olivia and Elliot's and was able to have a family.
What did you guys think? Okay so as you already read, I'm blocked. Your reviews really inspire me, so please show me some love and inspire me. Also, I write this chapter by chapter it's not prewritten. So if there's something you wanna see in here let me know. =]
