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Joe and I pull up in front of the home we share after Hurricane Harvery hit Houston a week and a half ago. We evacuated to my dad's house just in time because our house was in the flood zone. We weren't aware of the damage until now. We get out of the car and make our way through soggy, muddy grass to the front door of our home. I open the door and the house no longer has the fresh wood smell from it being recently built it now smells like dampness and murky water. The foyer floor is covered in mud and murky, windows are broken from the impact of the waters, our furniture destroyed as we walk through the house checking things out. The walls no longer clean but covered in dirt and mud. "This is not what I was expecting," I say as we make our way upstairs. "How does this happen three months after we move in?"
"I don't know," he says. "At least the furniture can be replaced and we thought about removing the pictures, photo albums and stuff for the girls from here before we left. It could have been a lot worse. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as it could have been."
"I agree," I say as we make our way upstairs. "And it hasn't even been hit up here," I say. "That's good."
"I think we were in the better part of Houston for the storm. It's not as bad as the parts closer to the coastal area. If we had been in that area I'm sure we would have lost everything."
"I'm sure too," I say. "Can all this be fixed before the wedding in a few weeks or are we going to need to postpone the wedding?" I ask.
"I'm not sure. I have to talk to the insurance company and we're going to have to get the house cleaned up downstairs, replace all the furniture, repair windows. We might have to postpone it."
"Just what every bride wants to here," I say as we walk around the upstairs and I feel selfish for feeling that way because there are people in our area that have lost everything. We got extremely lucky that Harvey didn't destroy us like them. "I'm sorry. I sound like a bitch and I sound selfish. It's just what are we going to do about all the guests coming to our wedding?"
"I don't know, Willow, we will figure it out. I know our wedding is important but I am sure our guests will understand if we have to push it back for a month or so. We need to get our house together and get it fixed up first before we can even live in our house. Right now you and me and the girls are living at your father's house until everything is cleaned up and fixed."
"I know," I say. "I'm sorry."
"Willow, look, I get it. You've been planning this wedding for a long time. I get it. I know it's important to you. I understand but we'll figure it out. We just have to figure all this out first. I'm scheduled to return back to work but I'm going to need to take more time off to get everything straightened out."
"Joe, you can't take more time off. You've been off since London and Mila were born. You need to go back to work, Baby," I say as I face him in the hallway, tugging at the bottom of his t-shirt as I look up into his dark brown eyes. "If you're off too long and go back in a role where they hail you supreme the fans are going to crucify you again. You need to go back, Baby."
"I will go back. I just need more time off. You know maybe this wrestling thing isn't for me, Willow."
"What do you mean this wrestling thing isn't for you? You worked so hard to get where you are and you're about to reunite with your best friends in a couple months. You're rumored to have a Wrestlemania match to main event again. You have so much coming your way, what do you mean this isn't for you?"
"I mean I want to be home with my wife and my kids," he says wrapping his arms around my waist as I play with his t-shirt. "I don't' want to miss things in London's and Mila's lives. They're already growing so quick. Look at them now, they're 3 months old. It's been a little over 3 months since we had them. They're learning new things every day. It won't be long before they start sitting up by themselves, eating baby food, rolling over, crawling, standing, walking.. I don't want to miss a moment in their lives. I have already missed too much of Alani's life. I miss out on football games that she cheers at and I miss gymnastics meets. I miss first days of school. I miss it all it has been like that for the last 5 years. I have missed so much it's not fair. She's going to be 10 this year. I don't want to miss anymore. Being home these last 3 months, waking up with Mila and London every night, changing diapers, giving them baths, playing with them and seeing their beautiful smiles have been amazing. Being home with my wife has been amazing," he says pulling me closer kissing the top of my head. "Being off the road has been amazing. I don't have to worry about catching a flight, driving into the next city. I haven't been as stressed as I am when I am on the road."
"You know sacrifice is part of the game, Anoa'i," I say with a soft smile looking up at him. "You would give up everything you worked for to be a dad?" I ask.
"I would give up everything to be a dad and not just a dad a husband. Parenting is a team effort, Willow. It's not fair for me to go out on the road leaving you behind with the kids coming home a day or two a week and now Vince is throwing in Christmas as a working day this year. We used to at least get that time with our families off but now," he says. "We don't even get that. I don't want to give up Christmas with you or the girls. I don't want to miss their first Christmas and I don't want to miss our first Christmas as husband and wife. Would you support me if I walked away? If I gave it all up? Would you still be here for me?"
"Joe," I say looking up at him with my green eyes into his dark brown eyes. "I promised you that I would support you no matter what you chose to do. If you think you want to walk away from the business then do it. I can't stop you. I walked away. It was the hardest thing I have ever done but it's what I felt was best for our family and our daughters. Are you saying you're not going back?"
"I don't think so, Willow. My place is to be at home with Alani, London and Mila. It's my job to be the second part of your team not just a day or two a week but every day. I want a normal life with you. I want a normal life with our family. Our kids can grow up with the privacy they deserve, we can have the privacy we want. I won't have to travel away anymore and we talked about having more kids together. I can't be a wrestler leaving you home with all the kids."
"Joe, what are you going to do after you walk away? Do you have a backup plan? I plan to go into teaching when the girls are old enough or opening up a daycare. What's your backup plan?"
"Well, I have my business degree," he says. "I know how to manage a business. I was thinking of possibly opening my own wrestling school here or maybe coach football. I don't know I even like the idea of being a stay at home dad."
"You want to be a stay at home dad?" I ask.
"I have always wanted to do it," he says with a smile. "I love my kids."
"You can be anything you want to be, Baby as long as we are happy."
"We're going to be happy," he says with a smile. "I love you, Willow."
"I love you too," I say with a smile. "You know since my dad has the girls and we still have a little bit of time before we have to get back to them maybe we could use our time wisely," I say sliding my hands up his shirt feeling his firm chest. "What do you say, Joe?"
"You mean I don't have to fight London and Mila for the boobs today?" he asks with a smile.
"Shut up," I say with a smile. "I can't help the Samoan in them make them boob monsters. I feel like they eat ALL the time."
"I've seen your breasts I'm sure I would eat all the time too if I were them," he jokes.
"Shut up," I say. "You're such an ass."
"Yeah I am but you love me," he says with a smile.
"More than any words could ever say, Baby. We don't have a lot of time," I remind him.
"Come on, Baby Girl," he says with a smile before we make our way to our bedroom. He kicks the door shut behind him as I turn to face him wrapping my arms around his neck. I capture his lips with mine kissing him deeply passionately with more want and need than I ever had. Having 3 month old twins we haven't had much time to be together intimately and I am craving him, needing him. He moans into my kiss as he fights to unbutton my teal blouse as I run my hands over his firm chest as our kiss deepens. "Damn it, Willow it's been too long," he says kissing me again after he removes my blouse from my body exposing my black nursing bra. His lips finding my neck kissing it roughly, his rough kisses trailing down to my chest as he kisses around my breasts and down to my stomach as I moan as I play with his hair, "too fucking long," he says before his lips meet mine again. He moves me over to the bed and I fall back onto the bed as he covers me with his large body.
"I want you so much," I say before he kisses me again. I reach between us unbuttoning his jeans before he sits up to do the rest, unzipping them and kicking out of them as I remove my black leggings exposing my black lace underwear.
"You knew this was going to happen today didn't you?" he asks with a smile.
"I was hoping," I smile back. "Now come here," I say pulling him down on top of me, kissing him deep and rough as I feel his erection forming between my legs. I use my feet to pull his briefs down as I comb through is long hair as he kisses me back roughly. He breaks the kiss pulling away from me before he pulls his briefs off and rips my lace panties off. He spreads my legs and places his thick cock between my legs at the opening of my sex. "Joe," I beg. "Please." He smiles and slides deep into me. I let out a gasp. "Fuck," I say.
"Damn it, Willow," he breathes in my ear before he starts to move. His lips on my neck and my chest as he roughly makes love to me, he groans as he fills me with is cock. I move with him trying to take him deeper as he makes love to me. His cock hitting every spot of my sex making me moan, I wrap my legs around him taking him deeper greedily. My nails sliding up and down his spine as he thrusts into me, "I love you," he whispers in my ear as he continues to make love to me.
"I love you too," I say as I feel the passion tearing through my body, his cock sliding deeper in the wetness of my sex. "Joe," I moan as I feel him bringing me over the edge, my toes curling, my nails digging into his back, my legs quake as his lips find mine as I moan into a kiss as lose all control as I hit my climax, my hot juices covering his cock as he continues making love to me, his kiss rougher, his movements rough, his cock throbbing growing thicker inside of me. He lets out a groan as he hits his climax, filling me with his seed.
Joe rolls off of me and lays next to me looking sexy as hell, sweat pouring from his head and glistening his gorgeous body. I look at him with a smile as he pulls me toward him. "I missed that," he says.
"Me too. I miss you, Joe," I say as I trace his chest with my fingertips. "Having babies has really killed our sex life."
"Living in your dad's house is going to kill it even more," he smiles. "That was amazing."
"It was worth the wait," I smile. "And think soon we'll have a whole week till ourselves where we don't even have to leave the bed."
"I'm not taking you to Hawaii for you not to leave the bed. The first day we won't leave the bed but the other days I have plans."
"Sounds good," I say with a smile. "I love you, Joe and I meant what I said. Whatever you want to do I will support you. You're a great dad and a great husband. I want you to be happy with whatever you choose. I just want you to make sure you're positive this is what you want to do."
"It is," he says. "I want every day with you and every day with the girls. I don't want to be away from home days at a time. I don't want to miss my little green eyed babies do anything. I want to settle down and by settle down I mean live a normal life with my beautiful wife and my kids," he says making me smile.
"Do it, Baby," I say with a smile. "You know you're giving them what they want."
"No," he says with a smile before brushing a piece of hair out of my face and tucking it behind my ear. "I'm giving you what you want." And he is not wrong. I have wanted normalcy in our lives since I found out I was pregnant with London and Mila. I didn't want us to be in the spotlight or for our lives to be up for grabs anymore. I just want a chill life with my husband and our kids.
"Baby," I say with a smile. "I love you."
"I love you too," he says before kissing my lips softly. "Do we have more time?"
"Yeah," I say with a smile. "We have time." He rolls me over onto my back quickly and we are making love to one another once again before we have to get back to my dad's house so I can feed the girls.
LATER AT MY DAD's HOUSE:
"So how much damage was done?" he asks as Joe hands me one of the twins so I can nurse Mila.
"The entire downstairs was destroyed. We have to replace the kitchen, the dining room and the living room. We need new furniture luckily it didn't make it up to the second floor," says Joe as he sits down next to me as I nurse Mila while London sleeps. "We're going to get quote adjustments on getting the floors done but we don't' know what to do about the wedding. There's no way that our house will be good to go by the 9th."
"Well, my property is big enough that you two could have your wedding here. I'm sure all the guests would understand."
"I mean it sounds like a good idea, Dad," I say, "but we have to take into consideration our florist and we need to take in consideration the caterer. We don't know what kind of damage they suffered from Harvey. I think we might just have to postpone till a later date."
"And how are you going to do that when Joe has to go back to work?" he asks.
"I'm not going back," says Joe. "I'm walking away. My life is here in Houston. I hate the thought of being away from Willow and the girls I don't like it. I signed up to be a father and a husband not to be away days sometimes weeks at a time. I missed too much of Alani's life I don't want to miss anything of London's and Mila's life not to mention Willow and I want more kids. We plan to start trying again when the girls are 6 months old."
"That's close," he says, "but are you sure you want to walk away from the ring."
"For my kids and Willow yes," he says. "I don't' know what I want to do just yet but I will take care of your daughter and granddaughters," he promises.
"If that's the choice you want to make, Joe then go with it. I want you all to be happy."
"Once I am free I will be happy," he smiles, "we'll be happy and this gives us a life of privacy no more hiding," he says.
"I get it," says my dad with a smile. "And you're okay with this, Willow?"
"Yeah, Dad. I just want Joe to be happy and I support him in whatever it is he chooses to do. Dad, were you serious about letting us use your property for our wedding?"
"Yes, Willow, do you want to?" he asks.
"Joe?" I ask.
"That's fine with me as long as our caterer and florist can still come through. I wouldn't mind marrying you here."
"I'll talk to them and see what they say. I love you, Joe."
"I love you too," he says before he leans down and kisses my lips softly.
*A/N: What did you think? Please review and thank-you for reading. I think the next chapter will be the final chapter of the Willow and Joe series. I do have another story in the works so I think this story is just about over.