I slid my tattooed hand, the one that symbolized the bargain I made with Rhys after the war against Hybern, over the barely noticeable bump starting to grow on my stomach. I smiled to myself as I watched Rhys get dressed after the long night we had. He never failed to please me, make me laugh or glow with happiness, but most importantly he always gives me room to choose. Suddenly, Rhys looked at me and gave me a wicked smile that plunged my body into need for him, to feel him; however, in his eyes there was a flicker of darkness, of what might have come to pass after Hybern.

"Rhys," I murmured, "come here," patting the empty space next to me in the luxurious messy bed, as he slowly started to walk over. It had been a few years since the war yet he still bore the burden of what might have come to pass without Drakon's army, as well as the human armada. It still haunts him, the number of lives lost, lives he was unable to save, still woke him up in the dead of night. I learned in close to him once he was fully situation and whispered, "it's not your fault. You gave everything you could. Hell, you even died for them, many would not have done the same."

He mumbled I love you and placed a soft kiss on my lips as he said, "I know it is not my fault, but I still cannot help but feel that I could have prevented a lot deaths, I keep looking backing wondering how I missed so much of what Hybern was planning. It happened, it is in the past. However, sometimes the present seems like a façade, that I will wake up from this dream and be back Under the Mountain or that Hybern murdered you, killed the Court of Dreams - that is when I do not want to look forward with hope, only back."

A small sob escaped my throat as I blurted, "You died and came back to life. Sometimes this doesn't seem real either; however, when I touch you I know you are alive, when we kiss, I can feel your love, and when you stand near me, your presence fills me with a joy beyond words. Rhys there is so much more good to look for in our future, not the pain in our past."

Besides spending the rest of eternity with you?

Yes.

Please Feyre darling, indulge me in some of these joys?

I smirked a bit as I showed him how the Bone Carver appeared to me and told him that we have a family in the future.

I know we have a son way in our future.

Well, maybe not as far out as we planned…

"Feyre darling," Rhys gasped, "are you pregnant?"

"Yes," I breathed as Rhys' eyes widened with surprise, his eyes were full of joy as tears rimmed the edges. Suddenly, I was lifted of the bed and into his arms as he kissed my face and wept with joy. This, I thought, I could spend the rest of my days like this with Rhys and our future son.