She looked over at AJ sleeping next to her. His arm was wrapped tightly around her, like he thought she might try to sneak away in the middle of the night. The sunlight danced off his wedding ring in such a way that it caught her attention.

She pulled her hand out from under the blanket to look at her own ring. She still couldn’t believe it.

"It’s about time!" Nick’s voice rang in her head.

She smiled again as she silently agreed with him. Looking over at AJ again, she lightly grazed his cheek with her fingers. He was so sound asleep, he didn’t move.

"I love you so much," she whispered, kissing his eyes so lightly, his long eyelashes tickled her lips, then kissing him softly on the lips.

She pulled away from him quickly as he began to stir. His eyes fluttered open and he looked right at her.

"Ssshhh, go back to sleep, baby," she whispered as she lightly ran her fingers through his hair.

He smiled at her as he pulled her closer to him and closed his eyes. Within seconds, he was fast asleep again.

She laid there for a few minutes just watching him sleep. She loved to watch him when he was sleeping. His face, so smooth and free of any thoughts or worries.

With everything that had happened in the last few months, she didn’t get to see that too much when he was awake. There was always some catastrophe going on in their lives.

‘This is a new beginning for us,’ she thought to herself.

It was then that she told herself that she would let go of everything that had happened in the past and concentrate on their future together. There would be no more of anyone or anything coming between them, no more secrets, lies, or miscommunications.

They had so much to look forward to, so much to be thankful for. Their love for each other, a beautiful daughter, a baby on the way, successful careers, a nice house and more than enough of everything they could possibly want or need.

Everything was perfect. They couldn’t ask for anything more.

Dawn sighed as she turned and stared at the ceiling. She had to go to the bathroom, but she didn’t want to move and wake AJ up.

She stood next to the bed watching AJ. He was laying on his back with one leg outside of the blanket. Other than that, he was naked. His right arm was covering his eyes as he slept. Dawn smiled slyly as an idea came to her. She quietly made her way under the blankets and pulled them over her head….

As AJ slept, his body tingled from the great dream he was having.

Dawn’s lips were roaming all over his body, her mouth was gently sucking, licking, biting…it felt so good, he never wanted to wake up.

Suddenly, just when he thought it couldn’t get much better, she made her way lower…and lower, until she finally took him in her mouth.

"Oh God," he moaned, just barely above a whisper, as her mouth expertly slid up and down his shaft.

One of her hands gently caressed his balls. The other stroked him, slowly at first, then faster and faster as she circled the head of his aching member with her tongue. His breath caught in his throat as he felt himself ready to explode. He just hoped that his dream didn’t end anytime soon.

Suddenly, Dawn took one of his balls into her mouth and gently sucked on it. He moaned loudly, trying to keep his eyes closed, knowing that if he opened them, the dream would be over. He couldn’t help it, though, his eyes flew open as Dawn began to work on his shaft again. His breathing was heavy, and his body began to tremble.

Strange thing was, this was no dream. This was really happening.

He looked down and removed the blankets from his body. Dawn looked up at him and smiled slyly at him. He lay his head back on the pillow and clenched his eyes tightly closed.

Dawn’s mouth moved faster and faster up and down his shaft. His grasp tightened around the blanket next to him. He reached down and firmly placed his hand in Dawn’s hair, pushing her mouth further and further onto him as he moved his hips to meet her mouth.

"Oh God, oh yessss…." He rasped as Dawn took him deeper and deeper into her mouth, her hand aggressively stroking him at the same time.

Just when he thought he couldn’t take anymore, she deep throated him and he couldn’t hold out any longer.

"Damn baby…..shit!" he moaned as his grasp tightened in her hair and he exploded in her mouth.

The feeling was so overwhelming, he couldn’t help but cry out in pleasure. It had been awhile since Dawn had taken him by surprise like that.

She eagerly swallowed his juices, listening to his moans of ecstasy. She loved it when he was loud, it turned her on beyond belief.

She felt his body relax as he tried to catch his breath. She slid herself up his trembling body, his eyes still tightly closed.

"Good morning, baby," she smiled as she stroked his hair.

He was still trying to catch his breath as he opened his eyes and smiled at her.

"Good morning, Angel".

"Are you okay?" She chuckled.

He laughed, still trying to bring himself back down to earth.

"I’m more than okay. I thought I was dreaming".

"So, I take it you liked that?"

They both laughed.

"I wanted to make up for us not being able to make love on our wedding night".

"You didn’t have anything to make up for…but I’m sure glad you did!"

Dawn smiled and kissed him on the lips.

"Your turn!"

He flipped her over onto her back and playfully bit her neck.

"So, tell me something," he said softly as he kissed her neck, his naked body pressed hard against hers.

"What’s that," Dawn asked as she leaned her head back and closed her eyes.

"Is that how you’re gonna wake me up every morning now that we’re married ?"

He smiled as he looked up at her.

"Maybe," she opened her eyes and looked down at him, now kissing her chest.

"God, I love being married," he smiled as he dipped his tongue into her navel.

"Depends on how good you are," she smiled slyly at him.

"Oh, I’ll show you just how good I am," he rasped as he disappeared under the covers and made his way further down her body.

A couple hours later, Dawn and AJ were in the kitchen making breakfast. Dawn was making french toast and AJ was cooking scrambled eggs.

"Do you realize that we haven’t eaten breakfast this late in years?" AJ said as he grabbed two plates and scooped some eggs onto them.

"Yeah, I know, what time is it? Almost noon?" Dawn chuckled as she placed a couple pieces of french toast on the plates AJ handed her.

"Mmmmm," he said as he walked up behind her and put his arms around her, nuzzling his nose against her neck. "But it felt sooo good…"

"Yes it did, but don’t get used to it," she laughed as she tried to wiggle from his grasp. "With a baby coming soon, we won’t be sleeping in for quite some time".

He got a hold of her again, then began to kiss her neck.

"Oh, and what would that be?" Dawn giggled.

"What? You think we’re finished? Hell, we’re just replenishing our energy! After we eat, we’re going right back to bed until it’s time to get our daughter!"

"Why eat?" Dawn joked to see his reaction. "Let’s just go at it right here on the kitchen table!"

He looked at her, surprised. With the way Dawn had been lately, he thought she just might be serious.

"Shit, it’s not like we never did that before, Mrs. McLean," he emphasized.

She blushed as she chuckled.

"Why do you get like that when I call you that?" He asked.

"I don’t know, I guess I’m just not used to it yet," she answered. "Plus, when I hear someone say ‘Mrs. McLean’, I look around for your mother!"

She pulled away from him, grabbed their plates of food, and walked over to the table.

"Oh, you’ll get used to it, because I intend on saying it every chance I get!" He sat down at the table.

Just then, the phone rang.

"I’ll get it," Dawn said, walking over to the phone.

"Hello?"

Dawn’s face fell as Noah’s voice came through the phone. She turned her back to AJ, hoping he didn’t hear whom she was talking to.

"What do you want?" Dawn whispered, trying not to sound too rude.

"I wanted to congratulate you on your nomination."

"I’m not. You’re an amazing artist."

"Thank you," she blushed.

"Noah…"

She turned to look at AJ and saw that the was looking at her with a strange look on his face. She knew that he knew who was on the phone and it almost looked like he was happy that Noah had called.

"I mean it. I’m proud of how far you’ve come." He paused. "I keep remembering the tour and how close we had gotten. I miss that. I miss you. I miss talking to you."

"Please, don’t…"

"Noah, I really don’t think that…" AJ took the phone from her and held it to his ear.

"Noah! So nice of you to call!"

Noah cringed at the sound of AJ’s voice.

"Hello AJ," He said dryly. "I just called to congratulate Dawn on her Grammy nomination."

"That is so nice of you. We’re all absolutely thrilled by the news! We couldn’t be more proud of her. We got a couple, too, you know," AJ stuck his tongue out at Dawn and she giggled.

"Yes I know. Congratulations to you too."

"Why thank you. You know, they always say that you remember where you were the first time you heard news like that. Would you like to know where we were Noah?"

Dawn’s eyes got wide, realizing where he was going with this. He winked at her and smiled.

"I would love to know where you were AJ," Noah said, rolling his eyes.

AJ slammed down the phone and looked at Dawn. She was trying to hold in her laughter.

"Spank me," he said, wiggling his eyebrows and pulling her in for kiss.

Noah stared at the phone still in his hand. He slammed it down and hit his fist on the table, causing some of the Scotch he’d been drinking to spill out of the glass.

"Sonofabitch! She married that asshole!! She’ll be sorry. Man will she ever be sorry."

He downed the remaining Scotch in one gulp and threw the glass against the wall, shattering it in a million pieces.

"Alex," Dawn said as AJ lay in their bed next to her, gently stroking her hair.

"I was thinking…..you know we said that we weren’t going to tell anyone about us being married, not unless they found out and asked, right?"

"Uh huhh," he answered as he started to kiss her ear, down to her neck.

"Stop it, I’m serious, we need to talk about this," she said, pushing him away.

AJ looked at her puzzled.

"What? What’s the problem?"

"You were laughing about it before," he stated. "What do you think he’s gonna do? We’re married now, he can’t do anything to us".

"I don’t know, you know what he’s capable of, I’m sure he’s pissed off now".

"Who cares if he’s pissed off?"

"I care, Alex! What if he tries to do something to hurt one of our careers?"

"He won’t, I won’t let him," he answered, pulling Dawn to him.

"I just can’t help but think that he’s over there concocting some sort of plan to get us apart again," she said softly.

She turned on her side with her back to him, still worried.

"Angel, trust me," he said over her shoulder. "Everything will be fine. Stop worrying and just savor the last few hours we have left of being able to walk around the house butt naked, okay?"

He smiled as he caressed her cheek.

She turned back to look at him.

"I love you so much," she said, looking into his eyes.

"I wish I could put into words how much I love you," he replied.

Dawn ran her fingers through his hair, her nails gently running along the base of his neck, sending chills through his body. AJ slowly lowered his head and pulled her into a tender kiss.

Noah picked up the phone and dialed the number that was written on the piece of paper in front of him.

"Hello?"

"Hello. Is this the Tom Parsons with the National Intruder?"

"Yes sir it is. How can I help you?"