Resolution (Saviour) (46 page)

“
What news? The wedding’s off? Couldn’t keep it in your pants again Gabe?”

I want to smack her right between her skinny eyes, on her skinny head, I feel my finger s flex and jaw tighten as I fight to get a grip, all that’s stopping me right now is the fact that it would cause one almighty shit storm of a custody fight for Gabe if she reported me to the police and pressed charges
. I take a step back.

“
Dya know what, I don’t know why we bothered? We came here because we thought it was the right thing to do but you know what? Fuck ya. You want to fuck with me, then bring it on darling, I’m done being nice. You want to act like a cunt, I’ll show you cunt like you’ve never seen it before.”

I look between her and Gabe, unsure of whose mouth is open the widest, I use two fingers under Gabe’s chin and lift his jaw to close his
. Still holding his hand I turn and walk down the hallway where Ava’s bag waits with her dress for tomorrow night covered in plastic hanging from the back of the door. Gabe silently picks them up as I call back to Nina. “By the way darl, you may or may not be interested to know that your daughter has a new half brother and sister on the way. Gabe and I are expecting twins next year, a boy and a girl. That will make us all one big happy family.” I wink at her as I turn towards the now open front door, I want to slam it really hard behind me but I know how much it pisses me off when someone reacts the opposite to what you expect so I leave it wide open and join Gabe at the car, he stands from putting Ava’s stuff in the boot and grabs me around the waist. “Thanks for the back up there Rocky, you could have said something.”

He leans back so he can look me in the eyes but doesn’t let go of my waist
. “Well for one, you did just fine on your own and for two, you made me so fucking hard when you went off like that, I couldn’t string a sentence together.” He kisses me on the mouth.

“
Let’s go and collect my daughter and tell her she’s going to have to learn to share her kingdom with another Daddy’s little princess.”

“
Oh Joy.” Is all I can muster.

We wait till we are home and Ryder has arrived before breaking the news, Sophie is being dropped off tomorrow so we get Ava to ourselves tonight, Gabe called Ryder earlier and told him to come over for a beer after work and we
now have Sonny on FaceTime. Ava is sitting on a bar stall at the bench top, she’s sitting next to Ryder whilst staring down at the lap top swooning over Sonny, her and Sophie have told me that they think that he’s hot and she’s blatantly flirting with him now as they banter over which code is harder, AFL or Rugby Union. This is all quite worrying really, seeing as Ava is ten years younger than Sonny and even worse, is holding her own with the argument they’re having.

“
Anyway.” Gabe interrupts. “The reason we have got you all here together, is because we have news.”

Ava looks at me straight away
. “Have you set a date for the wedding?” I shake my head and smile at her.

I actually haven’t really given the
wedding any kind of thought in days. Weeks even, it’s obviously more important to everyone else than it is to me. Gabe pulls me in front of the laptop so we are standing between Ava and Ryder. All of us looking down at Sonny. “We just wanted you all to hear together that we’re pregnant. Your Mum, Lauren’s having twins.”

“
No fucking way!” Sonny’s big voice bounces from the laptop and around the room.

“
Twins! You’re having twins, you’re pregnant? Oh, my fucking God.”

“
Ava.” Gabe and I both say at the same time. She bursts into tears and throws her arms around her Dad’s neck. “I’m sorry. I’m just so fucking happy.”

“
Ava!” Even Ryder and Sonny join in the reprimand this time and we all laugh. My eyes travel back to Sonny’s on the screen. “Do you have a problem with this news Sonn?”

“
No. No Mum, not if you don’t. But fuck Mum. Me and Jess were only talking about having kids ourselves the other day. Twins, bloody hell mother, do you know what they are?”

“
Yeah. One of each.” Gabe and I both say together.

Ava starts to wail louder
. “I’m getting a little sister, I’m finally getting a little sister. I’m so Totes Emosh right now. I need to call Sophie.” She heads down the stairs. Her high pitched wail going with her.

I realise Ryder hasn’t said anything but Gabe beats me to it
. “Are we okay with this dude?”

Ryder shakes his head
. “Man. You knocked up my mother. What the fuck bro? With twins no less. Now I have to share my inheritance with three other kids, probably four in fact, what with the way she treats Ava as her own. Can you just make sure that you cap it at two? Take up knitting or something Mum and stop keep having sex.”

Bloody hell
, he had me there for a minute, I actually thought I was going to vomit over the laptop! We spend the next ten minutes laughing and joking with the boys before Sonny has to head to training. Ryder stays and has a few more beers, he’s joined by his girlfriend Layla, who comes by to pick him up so he doesn’t drive home, but then she has a few drinks too as Jo and Jake arrive with champagne after I text her and all of my friends our good news. She actually brings a bottle of non-alcoholic champers so that I can join in the celebrations. We end up with an impromptu gathering of our friends and family. After drinking a number of beers and at least three glasses of champagne, Ryder decides he wants to make a speech.

“
I just want all of you here know, how happy… How fucking over the moon me and my brother are for my Mum and Gabe. These two babies are so lucky, she has done such a stellar job raising Sonny and me. You all know the shit she has been through with my Dad but she kept all of that. We could have had a truly terrible childhood, but I can honestly say, hand on heart we had the best of times growing up, she always kept the shit side of my Dad away from us and always made sure we were safe and protected from it. And if, despite all of that I was given the chance of the happiest of childhoods. I can only imagine what a great time these two new babies are going to have being raised by not only my amazing Mum, but also this bloke here. Coz he’s pretty special too and I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever that together, they are going to make brilliant parents. In fact, I’m actually a bit jealous of Bruce and Sheila. Gabe, how about you adopt me? Is it okay if I start calling you Dad now?”

Despite laug
hing at Ryder’s jokes, I watch as Gabe’s eyes fill with tears at Ryder’s words and I know how touched he is by them. I watch as he shakes hands with my son and then pulls him in for a man hug. Right at that moment, I feel an overwhelming sense of calm, I am so happy and content with my life right now, my boys are happy and loving life. The babies I have growing inside me are well and healthy and whatever else life might throw my way, I can deal with it, because right by my side I have with me Gabriel Wilde. The man who will love beyond measure for the rest of my life. The man that I just know I was born to be with. The man I know was born to be my saviour.

I arch my back and moan out in complete and utter pleasure as Gabe’s expert tongue goes to work on my highly sensitised clit
. He has spent the last half an hour torturing me with his fingers and his tongue, bringing me so close and then bringing me back down.

“
Gabe. Please.”

“
I know. I know, I got ya baby, I got ya.” He slides his body up mine and finally I get to feel his big beautiful cock inside me. It’s a Sunday afternoon. We had a massive night last night celebrating Ava’s eighteenth birthday, finishing up around ten o’clock this morning, although when we slipped off to bed around noon, there were still bodies everywhere. Luckily we have the room at this house; once I convinced Gabe that there was no way I was raising babies in his beachside bachelor pad we started looking around for a new home. Then it hit me. The home Gabe grew up in was sitting empty, Charlie had left it in his will to all four of his children, none of them had the heart to sell it. Until we made them an offer they couldn’t refuse, we spent three months renovating and modernising and I worked on the interiors of each room right throughout my pregnancy.

Unfortunately our babies arrived unexpectedly almost two months early
so we had to move in while it was not yet complete; my pregnancy was okay considering my age and the fact that I was carrying twins. I had spent a total of nine days in and out of the hospital on complete bed rest due to spikes in my blood pressure but the doctors were confident they could get me to full term. As long as I sat around and did as little as possible, which I did, mostly.

A
fter spending a beautiful Sunday afternoon at a local winery, having dinner and celebrating my birthday with all of our friends and family, we received the awful news that Jason had been found dead after a heroin overdose. He had gone to prison for four months for his two assaults on me, when he came out he moved in to Ryder’s old unit, he had the money from his share of the business to live on while he looked for a job but that was soon gone as it became apparent he was back on the drugs. Gabe and I got him into rehab twice more over the next couple of years but each time he relapsed and we hadn’t seen or heard from him in over three months. He was found in a room he was renting in Saint Kilda, it wasn’t an accident, he did it on purpose, leaving an envelope with a birthday card inside it read:

Happy Birthday Little Ren.

This is one that I will make sure you
always remember.

Never Forget

YOU ARE MINE

He got his way, I haven’t celebrated a birthday since. It’s taken three years of counselling and a lot of tears to accept that
Jason’s choices were his own and not my fault. Gabe, once again was left to pick up the pieces that Jason left me in, he held me and soothed me while I mourned for another man, he looked after our new born babies when I couldn’t getting out of bed, because I was so weighed down over the guilt I felt at Jason’s suicide but eventually his love got me through, he was there, my saviour, once again making us face what life had thrown at us together. We had both agreed to counselling and had both learned to overcome our past demons.

I collapsed at the news
of Jason’s death and was rushed to hospital the doctors spent the following two days trying to get my blood pressure under control, Reef Joseph and Ruby Angel Rose Wilde were bought into the world on the twenty sixth of April 2013, at 8:08 and 8:12 am, weighing 3lb 1oz and 2lb 8oz respectively. I missed the entire thing, and the first two days of their lives, thanks to the drug induced haze I was in. Luckily because of their size, they only spent a couple of weeks in the special care baby unit. They are now a happy, healthy, noisy, double bundle of joy; Reef – don’t ask, I let his Dad choose his name, looks like a cherub, with his chubby face and blonde curls, that’s where any resemblance to an angel ends; my son will have to grow up to either be a very fast runner or a very good fighter. Or he will simply have to learn to keep his mouth shut and not have a smart comeback to anything and everything you say to him. And Ruby, ahhh Ruby, where do I begin, my mother reckons I got the daughter I deserved, defiant, strong willed and totally independent, she is scared of no one and is adored by anyone who sets eyes on her, she too has a mass of curls but where her brothers are blonde, Ruby’s are as red as her name, and oh, did I mention she has a temper to match, never did I think that at almost fifty I would be having a daily battle of wills and doing anything to avoid a full on temper tantrum thrown by a three and a half year old, the only person she ever behaves for is her Daddy and that’s because her Daddy never says no to anything, what Ruby wants, Ruby gets where Gabe is concerned. Gabe, my rock, the absolute love of my love, who any second now is going to have me coming like a steam train, something he manages to still do at least once a day. Every single day of the year.

“
Ahhh. Oh God Gabe.” I grab hold of the back of his hair, just as an almighty scream reaches our ears from somewhere in the house. We are both up and grabbing at clothes and pulling them on as we run to where the source of the noise is likely to be coming from, Ava’s room.

“
Daddy!” Ava screams again.

When we redeveloped
, we gave Ava her own space separate from the rest of the house, she has her own bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and rumpus room, which worked out well really as she has lived with us full-time for almost three years now, after the constant arguments with her Mum became too much for the both of them, we all decided it was for the best.

As we reach Ava’s bedroom there are a crowd of people, including Jo and Jake
, who are still going strong as a couple, not bad for a pair of commitment-phobes. The fact Jake works away a lot seems to make it work for them. As we move the audience out of the way we find Ruby, standing in the middle of Ava’s bed, wearing Ava’s favourite Stella McCartney raw silk dress, with Ava’s favourite Channel silk scarf around her head and wearing possibly every piece of jewellery Ava possess around her wrists and neck and her face, quite possibly painted with every piece of makeup that Ava owns. The said makeup also being caked all over the bed and the aforementioned clothing. Added to this on top of her mop of curls are Ava’s brand new Gucci sunnies as well as Ava’s Beats head phones covering her ears as she sings her heart out into an empty beer bottle (No idea where she could have got that idea from) a word perfect rendition of Wonderwall.