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I know, this is again just a short chapter, but I hope you'll like it anyway.
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A blond woman is sitting down on a chair next to Adam's desk and smiles. "Did she ruined it again?"
Adam stops typing on his keyboard but he isn't looking up because he already knows who it is. "No, the rehearsal dinner went perfectly fine."
She huffs and leans a little closer to him. "Some of us are making a bet if she is canceling again. I said when will cancel two days before the wedding."
He takes a deep breath so he won't bite her head off in the middle of the bullpen, in front of the others. "Listen carefully, Zoe." He hisses harshly. "That what happened between us over a year ago won't happen again. Never ever, all right. We had a great night together when Liz and I had been separated, but that's all. We do not have anything else in common. So stop hoping that my relationship with Liz is failing, all right."
Zoe Ramsey is looking a little hurt at him and feels the urge to slap his face, but it's not like she didn't know that she had no chance with him, but somehow she still had a little hope. "No need to be rude, Adam."
"Obviously you don't get it the other way." He is still hissing and his eyes are hard. "Stop it, Zoe!"
Zoe is about to replies something but stops as soon as Liz is entering the bullpen.
Liz can see the odd interaction of Adam and Zoe and furls her eyebrows as something is telling her that this wasn't just a friendly conversation between two colleagues. She is Vice, he is Homicide. What the hell do they have to discuss?
Adam clears his throat and gets up from his chair. "You really should talk to Detective Laskowski about that case, Ramsey. I can't help you with that."
Liz is keeping her distance and crosses her arms with furled eyebrows. She has never heard her fiancé talking so cold, so clinical, and something is telling her that there is more behind this. She is probably one of the two women he had been with as I broke up with him. She can feel her anger bubbling up from deep inside and she has to force herself to keep a straight face.
Adam can see that something is wrong and he grabs his jacket from the back of his chair. "You ready to go, Liz?"
Liz eyes are never leaving Zoe and she nods slowly as she walks to her own desk to get her stuff, clenching her teeth. She takes a deep breath and starts to walk again. Liz is sighing a little as soon as he places his hand on the small of her back and frowns. It's not like he hasn't done that before, but this time it feels like he has to show everyone around that they belong together.
She is punching the button of the elevator and looks up at the display. "Is Zoe Ramsey one of the women you have slept with when we haven't been together?"
Adam is gritting his teeth and is looking up as well but doesn't answer the question.
Liz is sighs loudly and starts to shake her head lightly. That's all she needs as an answer and it angers her, it drives her crazy, and she doesn't know why he can't simply say yes. It didn't bothered her to know that he had been with other women in that time, but she never had thought that she would have to look into one of that women's faces day in and day out at work.
She has seen how Zoe had looked at him from the first day he started to work at the headquarters, she could see what she wanted from him and she got it. She can feel something break inside of her and has to swallow hard. It would be the perfect excuse to tell him that she needs more time, but she knows that Adam wouldn't give it to her and leave her for good. It's not like you have been the first woman that he have been with, Liz. You have no idea in how many faces of women you already have looked that Adam has been with. You never asked for names and you don't need to know. But why on earth did he have to sleep with Zoe Ramsey?
Adam is stepping closely behind Liz as soon as the door closes and let his hands roam over her shoulders. "It didn't mean anything, Elizabeth." He whispers now.
"Was she any good?"
"She wasn't you."
"I take that as a yes."
Adam closes his eyes for a second because he didn't expect a touch of jealousy that would come from the normally so controlled brunette. "She was not you. It was just -"
"Sex?" Liz asks and turns to him all of a sudden, turning the corners of her mouth downward.
He furls his eyebrows and is studying her face, and he can tell that Liz is trying to pick up a fight. "Can we discuss this at home, because I have the feeling that we are going to yell at each other.
Liz is huffing and emerges from the elevator as soon as the door opens.
Adam groans and rolls his eyes, following her.
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"Really? Are you going to punish me with silence just because I had sex after you called our engagement off?" Adam asks frustrated as soon as they enter their apartment and throws his keys into the bowl. "I didn't know that I haven't been allowed to be with someone else."
"It's not that, Adam." Liz replies and hangs her jacket on the coat-tree. "It's okay for me that you have been with other women."
"Does your face know that too?"
"Zoe Ramsey, Adam."
Adam shrugs because he can't understand what she is meaning. "So?"
"She has been smitten by you since the day you started to work in headquarters, Adam. And you have slept with her."
He steps closer and furrows his brows. "How could I have know that, huh? I didn't think about that. I was lonely that night and I jumped at the chance, and I do regret it but I can't turn back the time, Liz."
"Adam, you see her every single day," she suddenly says louder.
"I see you every day too." He replies as loud as she did. "I do know how you look like when you are naked, just as you know how I do look underneath my clothes."
Liz is pressing her lips together and shakes her head. "I am suppose to know how you look like underneath your clothes, I am your girlfriend."
He pulls his head back and his brows shoot up high. "My girl … What exactly is this all about? The fact that I saw her naked or that Zoe knows how I look like without any clothes? Or is it just another excuse to get out of all of this?"
She looks away and takes a deep breath.
He is waiting for an answer and laughs humorlessly. "You know what? I go and grab my stuff, I am outta here in no time."
Liz realizes what she has done and inhales shakily as the lungs start to listen to her again. She needs a second before she is following him. "Adam -"
Adam gets a bag out of the closet and shakes his head. "Obviously you are not ready to take the last step with me and I've run out of patience. I'm done, Elizabeth."
"Adam, that's not what I wanted to say with that." She says and has to sniffle as tears are threatening to fall. "I want to marry you and I wasn't about to cancel the wedding. It's just -" She trails off because he isn't stopping to pack. "Would you please stop and listen to me!"
He is doing as she asked and straightens up.
Liz steps into his personal space and runs her hands over his collarbone. "Adam, I had no intention to call our wedding off. It's just … I never had to face one of your … I never had to face one of the women you have been with, and knowing that you have had sex with Zoe Ramsey is driving me crazy."
Adam is holding her gaze and nods a little, he can see that the brunette is telling the truth and somehow he is happy about the fact because now she knows how he is feeling every day.
"Don't have such a satisfied smile on your lips." She says and wraps her arms around Adam's neck.
He tries to turn serious again and shrugs as he fails. "I can't help it."
"Oh, good one." She laughs and pulls his head down.
Adam is still chuckling until she pulls him even closer and almost every single thought is wiped from his mind as she deepens the kiss.
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Liz is laying in the bed and is studying Adam in his sleeping state as he sleeps on his belly. She can't believe that she is doing that this time because normally she is the one who was watched. She never realized how relaxed he is looking when he is deep asleep or how the muscles in his back are showing even though his body is relaxed too.
She let the tips of her fingers wander over his back and smiles as he mumbles something unintelligible. How on earth can you be so strong, and yet so gentle? I do not deserve you. She let her fingers wander up to his face and has to smile as he wrinkle the nose. "Jesus."
"Adam." He mumbles without opening his eyes.
"What?" She says confused and blinks a couple of times. It can't be that he is having a sex dream in which he is having sex with himself. That would be more than gross.
A smile starts to play around his lips now. "My name is Adam, not Jesus."
Liz starts to chuckle as he cracks an eye open and runs her fingers through his hair. "Damn it."
"What," he asks and groans loudly.
"And I was calling out Jesus the whole time." She says with a mischievously smirk.
He sighs dramatically and frowns. "Well, I wish I could say that I hope that our future child won't look Mediterranean, but then I'd lie."
Liz is snickering and wiggles her brows. In the past, she started to freak out when the topic children came up, especially in her relationship with Hanley. Well, I am beyond grateful that nothing like that had happened back then, she thinks to herself and let her hand wander over Adam's bare back. When she accidentally broach the subject now it is feeling right, she is okay with the imagination of her starting a family with Adam because she knows that he would do anything to make her happy, that he'd do anything for their still imaginary child.
"A penny for your thoughts," he says and sighs loudly.
Liz caresses his neck with her thumb and has to smile a little. "I can see us in twenty years and I can see us with a bunch of kids."
Adam's eyebrows shoot up high and he turns on his side. "A bunch of kids, really?" He asks and is a little taken aback by her confession. It is the first time that they are broaching the subject on purpose and it is doing something to him, something good. "What do understand under a bunch of kids?"
She is holding his gaze and shrugs. "I don't know. Two or three. What about you? How many do you wanna have?"
"It's up to you, Liz," he says laughingly. "I mean, I have the easiest part in it."
Liz slaps his arm with a huff. "I am serious, Adam."
"So am I," he replies and is rubbing his arm.
"So, you are telling me that you'd get me preggers and then you wouldn't care anymore?"
Adam is interlacing their fingers and frowns. "Of course I still would care, Elizabeth. You should know that by know. I might am a only child, but family is top priority for me too. And the day you are telling me that you are pregnant I will do anything to lay the world at your feet."
She smiles broadly and can see in his eyes that every single word he says is true. "I know, and I actually don't know why I asked you that."
He nods slowly and frowns a little. "What about your career as a detective?"
"You know, we do live in a century in which women can have children and work in the same time." She replies and arches an brow. "And you could take extended paternity leave as well."
Adam nods again and takes a deep breath. "It sounds like we have a plan."
"Yes." Liz agrees with a whisper and is tugging at his hand with a smirk.
He is hovering over her and smiles back at the brunette. "You wanna try to start a family now, like right now?"
Liz rolls her and is scoffing. "Don't be ridiculous, Adam. You know that the effect of the pills don't wear off that fast."
Adam chuckles amused but then he turns serious again as he let his eyes roam over her face.
"What," she whispers and swallows hard.
He shakes his head and takes a deep breath. "I don't know how I got so lucky to have you, Liz."
"I was thinking the same," she whispers and pulls his head down.