"Mommy!"
"What's wrong, Eren?" Hayley asks, watching her son rush towards her.
"Slow down, sweetheart," she adds.
Eren hugs her legs after reaching her and says, "Mommy, I missed you."
He is wearing his pajamas. Since it is family sleep-in day, it is not unusual for her to see him dressed like this.
Hayley finds him very cute dressed like this with his smile.
While smiling, you can see that he has lost a front baby tooth.
Hayley takes him in her arms, Eren wraps his little legs around her waist and his arms around her neck, and Hayley kisses him on the cheek.
"I missed you too, sweetheart," she says, hugging him a little tighter.
Her son is the most beautiful unexpected gift her wife has given her.
The sound of quick footsteps echoes and approaches. Hayley knows who it is without needing to look up, so she enjoys her son's warmth a little longer.
Then she feels her source of warmth being taken away. Eren, who is happy to be reunited with his other mom, is not bothered by his sudden separation from his mother.
"You could have left me my human radiator a little longer," she says, frowning.
Veronica knows that she must not upset her wife.
Her wife is already angry with her for a reason she cannot help, but her wife has a stubborn grudge.
Veronica puts her son down on the floor, and he, realizing that his mother is about to be scolded again, runs away. Veronica watches her shield flee, unable to do anything about it.
She is afraid, she can feel her heart beating intensely in her chest. She doesn't want to sleep on the couch again. She wants to have her wife in her arms tonight.
She tries to smile, but her smile suddenly freezes when she sees the dark look her wife gives her.
Veronica then says, trying to save her case as best she can, "Honey, I'm not trying to upset you, you know? You're pregnant, and I don't want anything to happen to the baby."
"Oh, okay!" Hayley says sarcastically, alarm bells ringing in Veronica's head.
"The baby is all you care about. If that's the case, you can go sleep in the nursery until the baby arrives."
Veronica was overcome with panic. Three months without her wife was impossible.
"No! Honey, you know I worry about you too when I worry about the baby."
Hayley turns away and shakes her head, "Hmph!"
Veronica puts her arms around Hayley's waist and pulls her closer.
Hayley glared at her dangerously, but Veronica doesn't back down. She wants to sleep with her wife, and she'll fight for it.
"Honey, I love you so much. You're the love of my life." Veronica notices Hayley's expression beginning to soften.
Realizing that expressing her emotions is the right thing to do, she continues in a soft voice, "You are beautiful, my love. Every day I wake up and see you, I am so grateful to the force that brought us together. You are the moon of my heart in the darkness of this world, and the love you have for me is the sun of my soul. I love you so much, you can't imagine how much."
Veronica sees that Hayley is touched by her words. Her eyes are full of love for her.
Veronica's face moves closer to her wife's, but Hayley, embarrassed, turns her head away. Veronica smiles and kisses her wife's cheek, now tinged with pink.
Then, deciding that this is not enough, she removes one of her arms from her wife's waist and places the index and middle fingers of her free hand on her wife's chin, turning her head towards her. She looks into her wife's beautiful eyes and sees that they are focused on her lips. A smile forms on her face, her wife's gaze finally meets hers, and her beloved spouse's eyes widen.
She's been caught. Hayley realizes that Veronica has seen what she's done. Hayley feels her cheeks grow even hotter. She wants to look away again, but her wife's hand stops her.
Veronica sees Hayley looking at her helplessly, and Hayley's watery eyes have a direct effect on Veronica, who leans in to kiss her.
"Mom!" Veronica feels Hayley push her away.
'FUCK!?!', thinks Veronica, her ticket to bed now completely ruined.
She looks up and sees her wife walking quickly towards Nifah, who is holding Eren's hand and shouting his name with a smile on her face.
Then she takes him in her arms, and Veronica feels an enormous jealousy deep inside her.
She looks at her son, then closes her eyes and sighs softly, 'Don't forget that he's your son... He's your son... He's your son with your wife... Your beautiful wife... who really needs to stop making you sleep on the couch...well, he's the fruit of your love... You mustn't despise him... Jealousy like this is bad...'
She suddenly hears the sound of a kiss, opens her eyes, and sees Hayley kissing Nifah on the cheek. Nifah has an indulgent expression on her face. Like she is used to this display of affection from Hayley.
'Nope. My woman, my wife, not yours.'
Veronica quickly moves closer and separates them, ignoring Hayley's cries of protest.
Seeing Veronica's glare, Nifah takes Eren into her arms and quickly leaves.
"Why did you do that?" Hayley asks, trying to escape her wife's grip.
Veronica turns to her, and Hayley stops when she sees her cold face.
"Oh..." Hayley says softly.
"I think you forgot who your wife is for a few seconds, darling. I have a duty to remind you."
Hayley quickly shakes her head. "No," she says.
Veronica nods with a smirk and says, "Yes."
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Veronica lies on the couch in the dark. She whimpers quietly. You can see her body shaking under the blanket.
The office door finally opens, and her body freezes. "A ghost?"
She hears footsteps approaching and doesn't dare come out from under the blanket.
Suddenly, her blanket is pulled off. She closes her eyes, too afraid to open them.
Hayley sighs and orders, "Get up."
Veronica hears her wife, quickly opens her eyes, and gets up.
Hayley sees her keeping her head down. Hayley sighs again and complains, "I told you to take it easy, but you never listen."
Veronica drops her head even lower, and in a tiny voice, she says, "Sorry."
"I know you're not sorry at all for what you did," Hayley says sternly. Then she heads for the office door.
Veronica, who had been hopeful, sees her hopes evaporate.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go. Unless you want to stay here all night?"
Veronica quickly gets up and shakes her head. She takes a step closer to her wife, and takes her hand.
"Let go of me," Hayley says, but Veronica doesn't listen. On the contrary, she tightens her grip.
Her survival instinct tells her that Hayley secretly appreciates what she's doing.
///
Finally, she has her wife in her arms. Veronica lets out a sigh of relief, moves closer to Hayley, kisses her neck, and says, "Good night."
She hears her wife respond, then slowly falls asleep.