lbv, in the beginning i never thought it would be you

lbv, in the beggining i never thought it would be you by ssaarah 

I scrolled through the listings on my laptop idly, basically just wasting time before I could go home. It was funny, before Gabby? I would spend as much time as I could at work, but now, all I wanted to do is be with her. Even when I was with Melanie I put my job first….maybe that was part of the reason why it never worked, because we weren’t meant to be.

“Mmmm.” I looked up to see my girl, leaning against the door to my office with her hands crossed over her chest.

“What?” I smirked, leaning back in my seat.

“You’re just so handsome it’s hard to handle sometimes.” She smirked and I felt myself grinning.

“Says the goddess in the skin tight dress and sky high heels.” I commented, never actually able to keep my eyes off of her. Some things hadn’t changed. Gabby walked up to me and sank in my lap while she saw my lap top.

“What are you doing?” she asked, squinting her eyes and looking at the page I had left open. “Are you moving?” she asked, looking through the page of apartment listings. I swallowed, not actually planning on having this conversation quite yet.

“Um…..I was thinking about it.” I admitted, shrugging as I nuzzled my head in her neck…she smelled so good….like fruit and flowers.

“Why? Your place is amazing.” She said, looking back at me and raising her brow. I shrugged.

“It’s okay, kind of a bachelor pad.” I had moved to my place when Melanie had left me and I didn’t want to stay in our place anymore. It was supposed to be temporary….turns out the marriage was the temporary one.

“Well it kicks my place’s as.s” she smirked and leaned into me. “And don’t think I'm going to help you move.” She teased, and I looked at her, wondering if I was maybe moving too fast like I always did, wondering if she’d fall back into old Gabby and get scared, but I loved her, I didn’t want to just stay where we were….I wanted to move forward.

“What if we found a place that kicked both our places asses?” I asked slowly. Gabby looked back at me.

“What do you mean we?” I held her close, and opened up a page I had saved. It was a penthouse suite, huge, overlooking the city and a little ridiculously priced, but worth it with the wrap around balcony and gardens.

“I mean….what if we moved into a place that was ours. Together.”

"Really?" Gabby asked, her pretty eyes wide.

"I was afraid I was rushing it, but I know I want to live with you…" I trailed off, "Would you want to live with me?"

 "Does the fact that I spend almost every night at your place not give you any clues?" She asked with a wide grin.

 "But you spend the night there, you don't live there exactly and you always have your place to escape to." she placed a single finger over my lips and I stopped talking.

"I don't need a place to escape to Coult… you are my escape." she smiled, "I would love to live with you."

 "Really?" I asked, feeling myself start grinning like a moron. God she made me so happy….

"Are you shocked?" she joked, "I really do love you and we pretty much spend all of our time together. I hate going to my place to get clothes. It'd be easier this way…"

"Okay." I grinned and then showed her the page of the gorgeous penthouse suite. "What do you think of this place? I mean we can go see it, but I thought it was perfect…" I trailed off.

"It is perfect Coult, but I can't afford that price tag." she pouted.

"I want to get this for us baby." I pushed the hair out of her face.

"That's too much to do for me…" she trailed off, "I love you, but I don't want you to think that you have to carry the financial burden."

"What burden?" I grinned, "I'm buying this for us, so we can start our lives together."

“It still makes me uneasy baby… I don't want anybody, especially you, to think I'm taking advantage of you and your money."

“I already know that and who cares what anyone else thinks?!” I asked seriously but Gabby tensed up and shrugged.

“I have a reputation Coult….I’m trying to pull out of that….” I pursed my lips, because I hated thinking about who she was before we fell for each other. Not that she wasn’t amazing then, just…that other guys got to touch her. I wasn’t a fan of that.

“Doesn’t falling for me pull you out of that?” I asked, nuzzling against her neck again. She smirked.

“Well you are more in my age group….but still. I don’t need you buying me a-“ I put a finger to her lips.

“Us. This is completely different baby. I'm not paying for your apartment so when I'm in town we have a place to fu.ck around, I'm buying US a place because I'm in love with you and I want to give you everything you need.” Gabby’s face flushed.

“I should have done this relationship thing sooner, it gets me all sorts of warm and cozy inside.” She grinned.

“You’re fu.cking adorable you know that?” I asked, leaning in and kissing her swiftly.

“No wonder you want to live with me.” She flipped her hair back dramatically and then leaned into my chest as I pulled her into my body.

“No wonder.”

“Maybe we’ll look at that one. But I want to look to, if you’re buying it for us then I get to help pick.” I smirked.

“Of course you do babe, do you have any requests?” She bit down on her lip and her eyes got bright.

“I want a big bathroom. With a huge tub and an even bigger shower.” She bit her lip and I nodded.

“That’s a start.”

"What do you want?" she asked, but that was easy. I just wanted her.

“You to be with me… Whether it's in a shack or a mansion. I don't care, but I'd prefer luxury." I smirked.

"Well I'm not opposed to that… It does have to have a balcony for Amore." she grinned.

"Right…" I agreed, "Anything else."

"I want it to feel like a home…" she trailed off, playing with the buttons on the top of my shirt, "I don't want it to be just a place we live… I want a home." I nodded,

"And I completely plan on giving you that Gabs and if you want we can go look today."

"Already?" she asked. I nodded,

"I've kind of already talked to a realtor and I have their number. We probably have time to see some places today…"

"Okay then. Let's go." she said with a bright smile smile.

We walked through the large penthouse and I had to admit, it was 10 times better in person than it was in the virtual tour. It was perfect.

"Wow…" Gabby trailed off, looking around.

"Do you like it?" I asked her, holding her hand. She nodded,

"Love it… pictures don't do it justice…"

"I know… I knew you'd love it." I pulled her close to me and she leaned her soft body into mine.  

"This makes me nervous…" she trailed off.

"What do you mean?" I asked, rubbing her back softly.

"Butterflies in my stomach nervous." she grinned, "I just can't believe we're at this point in our relationship." I smiled at her and turned towards the realtor,

"Can you give us a few minutes?" I asked and he turned away with a nod and walked out, "Let's go look around." I grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the master bedroom

"This place is beautiful….

“Do you think this is a place we can start our life together…?" I  asked, trailing off.

"It's beautiful. Really perfect."

"We can look around." I held her head in my hands, "We don't have to pick this place."

"I know, but I don't think there's any place better than this. Then why look when this place is so gorgeous?" she smiled, "There's not reason to look for something better. This place is perfect."

"So you want to do this?" I asked, to make sure once more. she nodded,

"Yes Coult." she gave me a big smile as I noticed her eyes start to get glassy.

“What’s wrong?!” I cupped her face in my hands and she shook her head.

“Nothing….I’m just so lucky I don’t deserve this…I don’t deserve you.” I shook my head.

“Oh please. Remember how I was the one who almost fuc.ked this up? Who almost lost you? I'm going to spend the rest of my life making it up to you.” Gabby smiled…..my god her smile was beautiful. She was beautiful.

“That’s a really long time Coult….” She trailed off and I backed away with my hands up.

“Oh no I take it back! I don’t want to scare off the commitment-phobe.” I teased and Gabby laughed.

“Come back here you.” She squealed, tugging on my shirt to pull me closer. “I want that.” She whispered against my lips before kissing me slowly.

“Thank god.” I whispered back, grabbing her waist and pulling her into my arms tighter.

“Coulter….” She trailed off before I slid my tongue against her lips, kissing her harder.

“Mhmm?” I asked, sliding my tongue into her mouth slowly as Gabby moaned.

“I want to christen our new place….” She said, pulling back and smirking wickedly at me. I raised a brow.

“The realtor could be back any minute…..” I trailed off, watching, totally hypnotized as Gabby pulled her dress over her head and tossed it aside.

“Are you turning me down?” she asked, tilting her head to the side as she grinned seductively up at me. I shook my head slowly and walked up to her, sliding my arms back around her waist and nuzzling my head into her neck.

“Still seducing me Ella?” I growled against her and she moaned.

“Always.” She breathed out. “Push my panties aside and fu.ck me against the wall to our new home Coulter….” I groaned.

“You’re still the hottest woman on earth you know that?” I said seriously, reaching down to rub her through her panties and reveled in the way she moaned.

“So what do you think? I-“ I turned to find the realtor at the door, staring wide eyed at Gabby, who never had any shame. She waved her fingers at him and smirked.

“We’ll take it.” She said seriously, grinning from ear to ear. He just kept staring.

“You want to take a picture or start up the paper work?” I asked roughly and Gabby ran her hand down my chest as I tried to cover her with my body.

“Be nice baby.” She turned back to him. “Want to give us a minute? Or maybe 45?” she smirked and he just nodded quickly.

“Um…yes. With. Yeah. Paperwork. Wonderful. Get to it. Yes.” He shuffled out of the room and Gabby started laughing as I glared at the guy.

"Are you okay?" Gabby asked with a little smile.

"He was staring at you!" I said under my breath. I was normally not a jealous guy but Gabriella? She was a knockout. No man could resist her.

"No I am not!" Gabby bit her lip,

"God I love it when you're jealous. You're so sexy." Well at least she thought that. She wrapped her arms around my neck and played with the hair at the nape of my neck.

"Well I have a feeling that I'm going to be jealous a lot…" I trailed off, "I mean I am with the most beautiful woman in the world…"

"God, you know how to make me hot." I laughed,

"Are you still in the mood?" she nodded, biting her lip,

"I am always in the mood when I see you baby…"

"Oh yeah?" I grinned, leaning down to speak next to her ear. "Then why am I not inside you?"

"Because you're insane?" she suggested with a small smile.

"Good one." I smirked, leaning into kiss her again, wrapping my arms around her bare waist and then there was a knock on the door and I groaned loudly, "What the f*ck?!"

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but the paperwork is all done. If you want to sign we can do a credit check with everything and the place is nearly yours." The realtor said, from behind the door frame, making sure he didn't see anything. Good man. Gabby grinned,

"We'll be there in just a second."

"I'll be in the living room." Gabby smirked at me as she walked over to where she discarded her dress slipping it back over her perfect body,

"I loved that dress more when it was on the floor." I admitted.

"Soon enough baby. Don't be impatient." She said, and then she kissed me.