Burn for Home (Part One) : Starlight by Ash Elko

Author:Ash Elko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, erotica, scifi erotica, science ficition, romance scifi, scifi action adventure, romance and sex, romance and scifi, romance action suspense

Chapter 4

A tear on my cheek: was it mine? I searched Andrew’s face. No, it was his.

“I love you,” he said.

“I love you,” I said.

Another tear, only this time I knew it was mine. Both of us: so happy we were tearing up. He rolled to his side, and we existed there, like that, holding each other for a few moments. Neither of us spoke. We didn’t have to. There wasn’t anything we had to say. A smile crept on to my face. We had done it, I thought. We had actually done it. “Do you feel any different?” he wondered aloud. His voice sounded somehow softer, gentler than normal, like velvet or fine silk. He practically cooed. I knew it was a voice he saved for me, only for me, when the two of us were alone. I let my body speak to me and waited. Something did feel different. I concentrated, tried to narrow it down to what, specifically, had changed. What felt different. What felt new. Part of me scolded myself. It was too soon, way too soon, for anything to actually be different. But another part of me argued back. It said that now everything was different. Everything would change. We were making a family, together.

Andrew put his hand on my stomach. I held it with my own. We both wanted a baby. Our baby. Our family. My whole life before now, sex had meant something else. Honestly, it was about pleasure, about stimulation, about orgasm. It was about having fun, both with your body and your partner’s. Procreation was something to be avoided, not celebrated. For most of my adult life, I associated it with fear, not love and definitely not happiness. Having sex and wanting to get pregnant, wanting Andrew to be the father of my child—that was a new experience for me. It was a profound shift to have something I once dreaded become the very thing that enhanced the desire. It was like a switch was flipped inside of me. I never felt so connected with another person. It was hard to describe. The boundaries between Andrew’s body and my own blurred for a while. Together we were something different. Our lives had combined to shape something that was based in us but still something unto itself. All the fear that I had vanished. I wasn’t afraid anymore. And I don’t mean that I was stoically staring down my fate, hiding my emotions. On the contrary, I was excited and exuberant, even ecstatic, at having Andrew’s child. At becoming a mother. Experiencing my body in a completely new way. To nurture life. Before that night, I thought I knew what it meant to be happy. I was wrong. Everything I had felt before had only been a pale imitation of the feeling I had. It was overpowering. It was love in its purest, deepest form.

Andrew and I were both scientists in one form or another. He had his lines of computer code, and I had my equations.

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