Then she said, "Never a dull moment with you Elon is there?"
She leaned up and started kissing me and I returned the kiss, but I was surprised when she shoved me back against a tree and ripped the front of my shirt open.
I broke the kiss and grabbed her hands, "Whoa! Time out here! Zora are you seriously trying to convey to me that you want to make out in this bug infested, snake ridden environment in the midst of nature in all of its decaying rottenness as opposed to a nice clean Iowa wheat field?"
Her tone was exasperated, "Elon you really know how to kill the mood sometimes!"
I grinned as I grasped her hands, "How about we go about……."
Our surroundings abruptly changed and Zora looked around in surprise at finding herself in front of the mansion on the Greek island that we had celebrated our first time together intimately just several weeks past.
Her eyes swung to mine and I finished my statement, "……making a baby somewhere more comfortable?"
She giggled and grabbed a hold of my torn shirt front to lean up and kiss me passionately before breaking off and backing away with a wild look in her eyes, "You have to catch me first!"
She tore off then shrieking playfully without a concern or care in the world and I followed along after her in the same spirit. I'd catch her eventually, as it was an island with no boats. I was due to enjoy a very long vacation.
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The sun was setting over the horizon casting and orangey glow across the pillar at my back as I held Zora in my arms before me as we both watched the sunset unfold before us. Zora's hands lay over top of mine that were splayed wide on her pregnant belly.
In a reflective tone Zora asked as she leaned back against me, "How do you think it will all end?"
I didn't really have to think about the question much. "Scripture will be fulfilled and the end will be as it is written in the Word of God. Whether I will live to see that day and see my Master return for me I cannot say. I have begun to age physically again as the way of all creation since the curse was begun in the Garden of Eden.
"So have I." Zora commented softly.
She glanced up at me and smiled, "So what are your plans for your now diminishing life?"
"To lovingly care for you and the family we'll raise together, even as I continue to be an agent for good and do whatever the Lord would have me to do."