Two months later

I always knew she could do it. I'm trying to hold the tears back as I watch her walk across the stage to accept her diploma, white coat and all. Top of her class at Yale med school.

Balancing two kids and an internship, she still remained at the top of her class doing online schooling. Two semesters ago she had to live on campus to do lab in person, pregnant and all since some things couldn't be done online, but I was able to stay home with Izzy. That's the least I could do since she decided not to go on the study abroad program. Marriage is about compromise, and I'm proud to say we've both stood by that.

After marrying Maddie I wanted to keep my promise to her that she could always chase her dreams, and as difficult as it was for her to be away for three months pregnant with our son, I knew it would be worth it, and right now, with our son in my arms and daughter beside me watching their mom graduate from med school? Yeah. It was definitely worth it.

"Madison Elizabeth Holden." The announcer says into the microphone, and I cheer loudly along with her parents, practically screaming at the top of my lungs.

"That's my wife!" I shout, and Maddie's cheeks turn a deep shade of red as she turns around to hold her diploma up into the air.

I'm so damn proud of her. My heart is so full as I watch the remainder of the graduates accept their diplomas, and finally, once the ceremony is over with I see her exit out the doors to meet us in her white coat, and damn, she looks sexy as hell.

She jumps into my arms, her legs wrapped around my waist as I spin her around. The smile on her face is completely infectious.

"I'm so damn proud of you, Mads." I say and kiss her quickly. "You're going to do incredible things."

"How about we go get some ice cream to celebrate?" Mary suggests, and in seconds Izzy starts jumping up and down from excitement.

"Ice cream, ice cream!" She shouts. "Please?"

"Sure." Maddie grins. "That sounds nice."

Ethan scoops Izzy up into his arms and says, "we'll go get the kids in the car."

Mary pushes Everett in the stroller as Ethan carries Izzy over his shoulder, Richard carrying the diaper bags as his girlfriend holds onto his arm and Maya follows close behind with Elias on her hip. I'm just thankful everyone is getting along so far today. It's what Maddie deserves after being put on the back burner by her family for so long.

She's still in my arms smiling from ear to ear as I glance down at this dress she has on underneath her white coat. "So... does this mean we can play doctor and patient finally? Because this little outfit is very intriguing."

Playing with the ends of my hair, she rolls her eyes. "Same old Cam."

"Would you expect anything less?"

"No, but to answer your question..." she trails off. "I think role play is definitely something we can try."

Oh, Maddie...

"By the way..." she smiles and reaches into the pocket of her coat to pull out a white slip of paper. "Here. I wanted to surprise you."

Setting her onto her feet, I open up the paper and see UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center written in the top left corner. She got into the residency program for the pediatric unit, and it's only fifteen minutes from our house.

"Mads!" I exclaim in disbelief. "Baby, are you kidding me? This is incredible! God, you are unbelievable!"

I pick her up again and twirl her around as her head is thrown back with laughter. "You're so damn smart. I'm so fucking lucky it's insane."

"Says the pro NFL football player." She retorts. "We're lucky to have each other."

"Very true." I say. "Shall we go and get ice cream now with your amazing family and our beautiful, beautiful babies?"

"Mmm..." she bites onto her lip before she gives me a gentle kiss. "I think that sounds like a lovely idea."

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Izzy missed her nap time because of the graduation, so on the way home after ice cream all she did was scream. Everett always feeds off of his sister, and in minutes of hearing her he was doing the exact same thing too. It took both Maddie and I to get them to go to bed, and after all is said and done, when we're finally surrounded by silence, I'm so fucking tired it's not even funny.

"Parenting is no joke." I groan and strip myself of my dress shirt, flinging it on the floor before I head into the bathroom to turn the shower on. "They were a lot today."

"I know." Maddie calls out from the bedroom. "I appreciate you taking the brunt of the temper tantrums. You didn't have to."

"Babe, it was your graduation day. Did you think I was going to let you deal with all of that? Today was a day to have with your family and to celebrate you. It was for you to be Maddie, not mommy."

I step into the hot shower and let out another frustrated sigh. All of that crying seriously gave me a migraine. My head is pounding, so I rest my forearm against the wall of the shower to lean my head against it. The hot water feels good, and in seconds I feel my body begin to immediately relax.

"I think..." Maddie trails off and steps in behind me, wrapping her arms around my waist from behind to press a kiss to the back of my shoulder. "You're a little too perfect for your own good, Cam."

I turn around so that I'm facing her now, pulling her into my chest. "I'm really not. I'm just in love."

"Still?" She teases.

Maddie is so naive. I've been in love with this girl since I was thirteen. It's always been her.

"Very much so." I reassure her and gently kiss her lips, loving the way she grabs onto the sides of my face like she always does to bring me closer. My hands travel down her back, and in seconds we're too wrapped up in each other to seem to stop.

The water is beating heavily onto my back as I pick her up into my arms, her naked body feeling so familiar against mine. This girl is home to me. I could be anywhere on this earth, but as long as she's with me I have full confidence that I'd never be lonely for a second.

"If I didn't mention it already a thousand times today, I'm so proud of you." I pant against her lips. "You're incredible, Maddie, and I can't believe that I get to be with you forever."

I turn with her still in my arms so that the water will hit her too, smiling when those blonde ringlets deflate when they get wet, framing her face perfectly when I kiss her again. Her little moan makes me groan with lust, a surge of need for her going straight to my groin.

She adds tongue, the kiss growing more intense. I back her against the wall of the shower with her legs still around my waist, but when I bring my gaze to hers, seeing those blue eyes blazing with nothing but desire, reflecting mine completely, I set her back down onto her feet so that I can sink down onto my knees in front of her.

This is how she likes me best. Before her I used women to get what I wanted, but after that first kiss with Maddie I knew that I was completely done for. I'd give anything to please this woman and she knows it. She's squirming beneath me already as she awaits what she knows I'm about to do, unable to keep her eyes off of me.

I blink up at her innocently, placing a kiss gently to her inner thigh. "We should celebrate you, right?" I ask with a coy smile.

"Cam." She warns, a death glare sprawled across her face from my teasing. "Please."

"Please what?"

Letting out a sigh of frustration, she wraps those fingers into my curls and desperately tries to push my head exactly where she wants it, and I'm so into her that I can't even find it within myself to tease her anymore. I let her drag my head right between her legs, running my tongue along her most delicate spot.

"Fuck. yes." Maddie throws her head back against the wall of the shower with a loud thud, her fingers tightening in my hair from the feeling. "God, you're so good at this."

I reach up to grasp onto one of her breasts, my eyes never leaving hers. I love watching her react to my tongue. I love the way her head gets thrown back. I love the way her eyes roll back into her head when she's close, her teeth tugging on that bottom lip like she's about to make it bleed. She's the most insatiable woman on the planet and she doesn't even realize it.

"Are you going to come for me?" I ask breathlessly but quickly let out a laugh when she moves my head back to where it was.

"Not if you keep talking." She replies with a little laugh, but her dominant side is all she needs to show in order to get exactly what she wants. I could never say no to her.

I wrap my arms around her ass and push her further onto my mouth, and I've studied her long enough to know exactly how to push her over the edge. I know her like the back of my hand, so I groan into her, the vibrations causing her to let out another moan before I stick my tongue completely inside of her. It's never taken long like this. I watch her jaw drop open from the feeling, her back arching slightly off the wall.

My head follows her movements as she grinds along my face, and damn, nothing tastes better than her. I'm clinging onto her as much as I can from her moving so much, but finally, after another minute or so, her legs shake as she lets herself go. She calls out my name, her wetness getting all over my tongue. I lap up every last drop of her before I pull away, a smug grin on my face as she stares down at me.

"Shut up." She rolls her eyes. "You aren't that good at it."

"Oh?" I arch a brow. "Are you sure?"

Her eyes scan my face before they settle onto my lips. "Mmm..." She trails off and pulls me up off the ground before she spins me around, pushing me down onto the bench of our shower and straddles my thighs. My hard on is throbbing against her lower stomach, and when she grabs it, stroking her hand up and down, I seriously think I'm going to come.

"Fuck, baby. Just like that." I sigh and close my eyes, the feeling of her soft hands being absolutely exquisite.

"You deserve to be spoiled too." She whispers seductively into my ear, and I glance down to look at her breasts, which are now right in front of my face. "Would you like me to return the favor?"

"Is that even a question?" I can hardly choke out.

The way she's stroking me feels all too good. Maddie is dangerous as hell for me. She's my one weakness in life and she knows it. She knows how much she gets to me, and she's teasing me.

"And how do you want to finish?" She whispers.

"Maddie." I groan.

"Hm?" She asks innocently, speeding up her hand against my dick. "Where do you want to come? My ass... my breasts.... my mouth...?"

"Oh, fuck." I pant, but with her talking like this, and with her hand rubbing against me like that..."Wait." I plead, but she doesn't stop her motions. It only makes her stroke harder, and my god it feels so damn good.

It doesn't take much at all with her. It never has.

"Oh!" She leans back when I explode all over her, throwing my head back against the wall when she strokes me faster. It's so overwhelming that I can do nothing but cry out in bliss, sinking my nails into her ass to somehow show her how good this feels.

And then she slides right onto my dick, and I'm so sensitive from having just come that I cry out from the pleasure, gripping onto the sides of the bench. She holds onto my shoulders and rides me quick, a proud smile on her face from how vulnerable I am beneath her.

We've stopped caring about birth control. We both want another baby, we've said so ourselves, so if it happens it happens. The more babies with her the better.

It feels so good that I can do nothing but sit here and take the pleasure. I'm panting and squirming beneath her as she rides me, and it's so damn wet from the water that she's sliding all over me.

"Fucking hell." I groan and grasp onto her ass before I finally bring my gaze to hers. Her cheeks are flushed from the humidity in this shower, her chest rising and falling rapidly as she draws closer to her orgasm.

"Sit up a little." I tap her ass slightly, and when she raises her hips, still on her knees, I begin to thrust inside of her.

"Oh, yes." She whimpers, her legs already quivering as she takes every inch. I know it's deep this way, but she's taking me like a champ.

Her breasts are bouncing up and down as I pound continuously into her, eventually bringing her closer so I can stick one into my mouth. Her nipple is hard and erect as she cries out in bliss from all of my thrusts. This woman is everything to me. I want to give her all I can offer. Anything to give her the greatest amount of pleasure.

I lap my tongue over and over onto her nipple until she's begging me not to stop. Those cries of hers are so fucking hot, and in seconds I'm begging her to finish before I do for the second time.

With one hard smack to her ass, she sinks her nails into my shoulders, and as I peek up at her, her breast still in my mouth, the look on her face is all I need to spill inside of her.

She falls limp into my chest, nuzzling her head between my neck and shoulder as my arms come around to hold her. I kiss the top of her hair with a smile on my face, letting out a sigh of content.

"I love you so much." She whispers, and even though I can't see her face I can tell she's smiling as she traces her fingertips between each of my defined abs before running them up and down the small line of hair at the bottom of my stomach.

I've got the girl of my dreams and I swear nothing on this earth could be better than this. Our kids are in bed in our incredible dream house, and she just became a doctor today like she's always wanted to be. All of the things we talked about as kids are coming true right in front of us, and it's like it's not hitting me until just now.

I never thought Maddie and I would ever become a couple. I always thought we couldn't. But after I kissed her in that closet I just knew I'd never be able to say no to her ever again. I knew I wanted her to be my forever.

And now she is my forever.

Kissing the top of her head once more, the smile still remaining on my face, I pull her tighter against me and say, "trust me when I say I love you all the same, Mads."

A/N:

I JUST CANNOT

SO PROUD OF MY BABIES

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

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