If Only

Fourty Three

Charlotte Crawford

I woke on the plane to him staring at me, just as he did when I fell asleep. My eyes shifted to the clock and I had slept for almost eleven hours

"Have you been just staring at me the entire flight, eleven whole hours?" He shook his head

"I've been in and out of rest Bella" his voice was deeper than before causing my thighs to ache "how was your sleep"

"Bad I was hoping to wake to the recent news not being true. But at-least I woke to the view of you" he smiled softly

"How's our baby girl" I removed my hand from my bump looking down "she slept through just as well" I smiled as his gaze stuck on my belly

"When will we be there?" I asked as Nate leaned back into his seat sipping coffee in a mug

"About a half hour" he placed it down and sat up looking at me cozied up in a soft tan blanket

He moved his fingers into the shape of a camera and smiled "a memory saved forever" I chuckled

"Promise to love me forever?" He questioned

"Promise me forever?" He smiled back at me and stood pulling me into his lap placing a hand on my stomach

"I promise you and our baby girl forever" he nuzzled his face into my neck. I couldn't quite believe it, but I had this boy whipped.

Someone who is known to be one of the scariest men, loves me most. For reasons I'll never truly know, but he does and I love him despite it

The plane landed and we got on a boat over clear waters that took us to an island, his island

"Nate what the fuck" I stared at it in shock, it was so beautiful and vast "wh- how? Why?" I whispered and he turned pressing me against his back

"So I could one day take my wife and our children here" I glared at him and he chuckled "alright fine, it was an impulse buy. I rent it out or let friends use it" he shrugged as if it was nothing

"You let friends just casually use your island?"

"Our island baby" he turned me towards it as his hands wrapped around my bump "our island"

"Your actually insane" my hand went straight to my mouth as we stared at it. This man bought himself a whole ass island

"When and why the fuck would you buy this"

"24th birthday, I was in no mood to celebrate as usual. So after many shots of tequila and smoking a bowl , I thought if Larry Ellison could have Lanai then why couldn't I have this?"

"Happy Birthday to you Mister Island man" I looked at it. There was villa's and from a far you could see people moving "do people live here?"

"They house keep the island I guess" I giggled

"They island keep you mean" I leaned back more into his arms in disbelief, I couldn't comprehend the money this man must have, I was honestly too afraid to ask or Google

"Can't believe you own a fucking island, there are some outlandish things. The black Bugatti was fucked, no person needs that power in a car. Nate this is extreme, this isn't impulse buying, this isn't some TLC Wednesday night extreme shoppers special"