| Chapter 10
A month had passed since Dillon woke up from his coma, and after staying a week in the hospital for observations he was released and came home. Now, three weeks later things were starting to settle down and everything was returning to normal. Dillon had willingly told Lorenzo that he wouldn't be working for him anymore, in which Lorenzo graciously agreed to, saying he wasn't going to ask him to run anything else for him for Dillon's safety as well as mine and Emma's. The only affects from him getting shot was the small bandage on his back that covered his rapidly healing wound, any other signs were no where to be found. I woke up around two in the morning with a sickening feeling in my stomach that I couldn't shake so I drove to the store on the corner of the road and 30 minutes later I crawled back into bed to be greeted by Dillon's arms enclosing around my waist. He pulled me up against him and buried his forehead into the back of my neck. "Where did you go?" He whispered half asleep. His breath warm down my neck making me shiver. "I ran to the corner store, I wasn't feeling to well, but I feel better now." I said as I turned around in his arms so I was facing him, and wrapped my arms around his neck. I lightly kissed his lips and he laid their with his eyes closed. I traced small circles on the back of his neck with my fingertips and watched as he fell back into a deep sleep. Completely in love with my life, my child and the man in my arms, I too allowed sleep to take over me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **The next morning** I woke up later that morning to Emma crawling into the bed between Dillon and I. "Hey babygirl, you're up early." I said as I looked at the clock on the wall that read 7:30. "Wanna lay down with mommy and daddy?" I asked as I pulled the covers back, allowing her room to crawl under the sheets between us. "Is daddy feeling better?" She asked me as she stared at me with her big beautiful brown eyes. "He feels better and better every day." I said as I played with the ends of her hair. She had naturally curly hair that spiraled perfectly. I looked up at Dillon and was suprised to see he was awake. He was laying there just staring down at Emma and then up to me. He winked at me and then stretched his arms out and rolled over partially onto Emma, who was squealing with laughter under him. "Daddy, your squashing me!" She shrieked and she tried unsuccessfully to push him off her. "Oh, is that you under there? Imagine that." He said and he rolled back over as Emma sat up on her knees. "Daddy, can we go to the park today?" She asked as she leaned onto Dillon's chest and looked up at him, waiting for his reply. "I don't know, let me check with my schedule." He said as he held his hand up like he was reading something off of it, causing Emma to giggle at his antics. "I'm free, but only if you give me a kiss." He said as she jumped up and kissed him throwing her tiny arms around his neck. "When can we go?" She asked excitedly as she jumped up and down on the bed. "Tell you what, you go make sure your room is clean and pick out something to wear and I'll call Alexis and Lily's parents. Maybe they can come with us, we'll go pick them up." I said as her eyes grew wide with excitment before she jumped off the bed and ran out the door. "So what else do you want to do today?" Dillon asked as he laced his fingers in mine and kissed the tips of my fingers. "I don't know, I want to stop by and see how Maxie is doing. She told me yesterday she feels ready to pop. Her due date is next week, but she thinks she is going to go into labor before the end of this week." I said as I swung my leg over so I was sitting on him. I leaned down and rested my head on his chest snuggling closer to him and breathing in his scent: soap and Addidas cologne. Five minutes later Emma ran back in the room and over to the side of the bed where Dillon and I were. "Can I wear this?" She said as she proudly showed off the outfit she picked out which consisted of a pink shirt with green flowers on it, and a very non-matching pair of red shorts topped off by her favorite pair of blue sneakers. "Babygirl, how about we go get that pink summer dress with the matching shorts that you like." I said not wanting to hurt her feelings by telling her the outfit didn't match. Unphased, she turned and ran out the room. I layed my head back into Dillon's neck as he rubbed my back. "God, we are really lucky, you know that?" Dillon said as he rested his hands on my thighs on either side of him and kissed my shoulder. I simply tightened my arms around him and kissed him with every ounce of love and passion I had in me and then whispered into his ear "Pretty soon, we'll be twice as lucky!" |