“Is this real?” Sofia asks, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears.
Alec nods and wraps his arm around me protectively. “Yes,” he says, smiling at the sonograms in their hands. “You’re both going to be grandmothers.”
Alec presses a kiss to my temple, and I look around the table filled with my loved ones. A few short years ago, I was desperate and all alone. I was on the verge of losing my mother.
And now she sits in front of me, smiling at a sonogram of her grandchild. I’ve got my husband’s arm wrapped around me, his eyes filled with love.
“I love you,” he says, and I smile.
“I love you too, Alec.”
He’s not just made my every dream come true. Every single day, he makes it so that I don’t even want to fall asleep, because my dreams are no longer as good as my life with him is.
Alec smiles and brushes my hair behind my ear. “Tell me you’ll always love me.”
I nod, grinning. “Always.”
Alec leans in and presses a kiss to my forehead, and I can’t help but tease him. “Though… I thought you didn’t believe in forever?”
He chuckles and shakes his head. “I do, if it’s with you. You’ve got me believing in forever, after all.”
Forever with Alec isn’t nearly enough, but it’ll have to do.