HANNAH'S POV

The end of a random dream stirs me awake and my body struggles to find its way back to reality. I reach over to my left hoping to find a warm body but I come up blank. With a frown on my face I blink my eyes open to find myself alone in bed. I'm disoriented for a moment because I'm pretty sure I slept next to a very gorgeous man last night but here's not here.

Or was it one very long beautiful dream?

I sit up from the bed, the covers falling away exposing my naked body to the morning chill. I suppress a shiver and reach for the closest piece of clothing and shrug it on. Immediately I'm surrounded by Santiago's scent making a chesire cat grin surround my face.

He's really here, it wasn't a dream.

With renewed energy from the knowledge of the fact that my man is close by I get out of bed in search of him but first a trip to the bathroom.

After doing my business I take a couple of extra minutes to wash my hands, face and brush my teeth. I look at myself in the mirror as I moisturize and the girl smiling back at me is happy. I haven't been this happy in a long time and it has everything to do with a certain gentleman who's been filling my heart with love and satisfying my body with endless orgasms.

Unable to stay away from my man anymore I leave my bedroom wearing his t-shirt and a pair of panties. I find him in the kitchen in nothing but a pair of jeans and an apron tied around his neck. I can't see inside the pan he's cooking in but whatever it is, it's mouth watering. I lean against the entrance just gazing at him unable to keep my eyes off him. He's so in his element, working flawlessly as if he belongs there. He probably does considering he worked in the kitchen at FCI.

"You're gawking." He comments without turning around to face me.

I grin as I walk up to him and wrap my hands around his waist kissing his back muscles.

"Good morning." I whisper laying my cheek on his back.

"Morning mami, sleep well?" He asks lifting one of my hands to his lips for a moment before letting it go to keep stirring whatever he is cooking.

"Yes I did, would have been better if I woke up with you by my side though." I reply.

"I woke up an hour ago and couldn't bear to wake you when you were sleeping so peacefully. Thought I'd make us some real breakfast seeing as we've been eating nothing but take out the past few days." He explains.

He's right, we have door dash on speed dial having been too wrapped up in each others arms to bother with cooking.

"You cooking half naked in my kitchen, I could get used to this." I comment happily.

"Well then why don't you sit and let me serve you." Santiago says turning off the stove as he turns around to face me.

"How about I get a morning kiss first?" I tease smiling at him.

"You never have to ask." Santiago grins bridging the gap between us.

The moment his lips meet mine I get lost in his embrace clutching tight onto his biceps. The fact that I can kiss Santiago right now and hold onto him is enough to bring tears to my eyes. We've been through so much in the short span of our relationship but he is finally here with me in my home and that makes me incredibly happy.

Santiago pulls back with a frown on his face that only gets deeper when he sees the tears cascading down my cheeks.

"Why are you crying? Did I do something wrong? Do I have onion breath?" He asks making me chuckle amidst my crying.

"No silly, these are happy tears." I reply with an assuring smile.

Santiago's face relaxes in relief as he cups my face swiping the tears away with his thumbs.

"I'm just glad that after everything we've been through, I get to kiss you in my kitchen as we have breakfast together." I explain.

"This seems unreal to me too mami but I'm here to stay, you're not getting rid of me ever again." He promises me.

"Good because I never intend to let you go."

In response Santiago kisses me again, a short but much sweeter kiss this time around.

"I love you." He whispers our lips a breath apart.

"I love you Cesar." I echo finding his lips once more.

I am in love, my man in free and life is finally looking up. I couldn't be happier.

"Why don't we eat out in the patio? It's a nice morning." I suggest feeling like we've been couped up inside the house too long.

"Okay, I'll serve and bring the plates out there." Santiago agrees.

"Need any help?" I offer.

"Nope, just your sexy ass out there." He assures me kissing my forehead.

"Okay." I shrug stepping away from him.

Santiago spanks my ass as I walk away earning him a playful glare from me.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. It was right there." He defends lifting his hands up in surrender.

I wiggle my ass just to torture him some more and sashay away smirking in satisfaction when I hear him groan behind me as if he's in pain.

Out in the patio, I take a seat on one of the sofas under the cabana overlooking the vast Arizona dessert. It's a quiet sunny morning, perfect for breakfast under a nice shade with my hot boyfriend, not that we've labeled our relationship or anything. To me it's just a title and I have his love which to me is more than enough.

Santiago walks out of the house with a tray with two heavy laden breakfast plates, coffee, juice and a single rose stem clutched between his teeth. He's ditched the apron leaving him shirtless, something that mami likes very much. He sets the tray down on the table in front of me and holds out the rose for me.

"Thank you, you don't have to try so hard you know. I'm already yours." I smile at him bringing the rose to my nose.

It smells fresh meaning he's plucked it right out of my front rose garden. I'd be pissed that he's messed with my flowers if it wasn't such a sweet gesture.

"Mami the day I stop trying to earn your love or the day I stop showing you just how much you mean to me, I want you to kick me to the curb and run me over with your car, then back up over me to make sure I'm really dead." Santiago demands with a very serious look on his face.

"Or I can just unleash Jada and Tom on you." I reply with a smile.

"Even better, I'll deserve it. You've been so patient with me, I've seen relationships and marriages fail because a partner has been incarcerated. The fact that you were willing to date me knowing I'd be in there for two more years speaks volumes about how great you are. I don't deserve you Hannah that's why I will spend the rest of my days showing you just how much you mean to me. You are my world mami and I love you so much and that will only become truer as the days go by because my love for you grows stronger by the minute." He declares looking at me dead in the eyes.

"Since when did you become such a poet?" I sniff wiping away a couple of tears.

Why am I so emotional this morning?

"I honed my skills over the constant letters and phonecalls this past few months." Santiago grins at me.

"Well I love you too Cesar, you are everything I didn't know I needed in my life." I confess.

He smiles and kisses me softly, our lips dancing in a gentle tune that lasts too short a moment for my liking.

"Let's get some food in you before it gets cold." Santiago declares taking a seat next to me.

I set my rose down and pick up a fork digging into my breakfast.

"This is delicious." I exclaim as the flavors burst into my mouth.

"I know." Santiago grins cockily.

I let him have it because I can't remember the last time I had something so good. I keep praising him all through breakfast.

"I'm never letting you leave, I need all my meals cooked by you." I declare rubbing my food baby belly after I'm done eating.

"Yes ma'am, that I can do that." Santiago agrees kissing my temple.

I pick up my now warm mug of coffee and slowly sip on it as I let my stomach settle from eating everything off my plate. Santiago does the same, wrapping his arm around my shoulder and pulling me close. We sit like that for a while, drinking coffee, our sides glued to each other enjoying the morning breeze and warm sun kiss our skin.

"I have something to tell you." Santiago declares breaking the silence sometime later.

I turn my head to face him and he's already looking at me with a serious expression on his face.

"What? You're already bored of me aren't you?" I ask with a pout.

We have been together since he picked me up in the hospital and as someone who's used to being alone, I might be invading his space too much.

"What? No! There's nowhere I'd rather be. How can you think that?" He asks scoldingly.

"I was only joking but I needed the confirmation." I reply with a relieved smile.

"You little ... " Santiago grits out with a playful glare.

"Baby there's nothing little about me, now you were to tell me something." I remind him.

He sighs and the smile fades, back to being serious.

"Yes. I am quiting the gang." He announces.

I sit up right surprised by his declaration and set my coffee mug down.

"I thought its impossible to leave a gang once you've been affiliated with it." I ask.

"How do you know this?" Santiago counters.

"I've been doing some research." I answer.

I knew what I was getting into dating a convicted drug dealer so I had to do my research. I'd already mentally prepared myself to talk him out of it or be ready to be in a relationship with a drug dealer and accept all the risks that came with it. Looks like he had chosen the former saving me a very awkward conversation.

"Oh, okay. It won't be easy but I can't run with them anymore. I have Diego to worry about and most of all you and the future I want us to build together." Santiago explains.

His words make me happy but worried at the same time. I've heard horror stories of what happens to people who try to leave their gang especially those who've been affiliated as long as Santiago has.

"I don't want anything bad happening to you. I just go you." I express worriedly.

"Nothing will happen to me, I promise." He assures me.

"I can't lose someone else I care about, it'll ruin me." I cry trying not to imagine losing Santiago.

I just lost Darius, if I lose this man, I don't know if I can come back from that. I am not that emotionally strong.

Santiago tips my chin up with his finger, forcing me to look up to meet his eyes.

"Mami you are good, pure, everything that is right with this rotten world we live in and believe me I've seen some fucked up shit. Then there is me, the complete opposite of that..." He says.

"Cesar ... " I cut him off unimpressed by how negatively he's speaking of himself.

"Let me finish, please." He pleads.

"Okay." I nod.

"I've done some terrible things in my life, I've sold drugs, I've hurt people and done things that I regret. I don't deserve you Hannah, I am not worthy of you but somehow you managed to see the good in me. I am a different man because of you and for that I will spend the rest of my life trying to be worthy of you. I love you with every fiber of my being, my heart beats for you. You own my mind, body, heart and soul. I am yours forever if you will have me, with my imperfections." He declares bringing tears to my eyes.

"I don't want anybody else, I love you so much Cesar." I sniff.

Santiago smiles and kisses me softly.

"I love you more beautiful, so much more than you can fathom." He whispers.

"I might have a hint." I grin as I lean in to kiss him once more.

As much as I'm enjoying kissing him, a thought pops into my mind forcing me to pull back.

"Have you given a thought as to what you'll do now work wise?" I ask him.

"I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life and then some but I also want to do something more. I've never had a job outside dealing drugs before." Santiago answers.

"Yes you have."

"Huh?"

"You worked in the prison kitchen dummy." I remind him.

"Who you calling dummy?" Santiago growls tickling me.

I laugh uncontrollably, kicking my legs as I beg him to stop. Finally he has mercy on me and let's me go, kissing me soundly before tucking me back into his embrace.

"But seriously you can open a restaurant." I suggest.

"I love to cook yes but that's too much work. I also don't want anyone working for me and I need a lot of staff to run a restaurant." Santiago protests rejecting that idea.

"Okay how about a food truck? You can do it yourself?"

"Never thought of that. It's a good idea." He nods.

"I know, I came up with it." I grin at him feeling very proud of himself.

"Then I'll consider it, thank you mami." He smiles and kisses my forehead.

"You can thank me another way ... " I smile seductively already done with talking for now.

"I'm all ears."

I grin as I straddle Santiago's lap and pull his shirt over my head.

"This way." I grin at him as I watch his lustful eyes glaze over my naked breasts.

"No protest here." He whispers lowering his head to kiss the valley between my breasts.

I buck my hips forward as my barely covered pussy rubs over his cock sheathed by his jeans.

"Mami."

"Enough talk, just fuck me." I groan struggling to undo the button on his jeans.

"Yes ma'am." Santiago smirks as he helps me take them off.

I am pleased to discover that he is going commando underneath. I take his pulsating length in my hands my mouth watering with the desire to taste him but the need to have him buried inside me burns hotter.

"I'm all yours baby." Santiago invites kneading my ass.

I push my panties to the side, align his leaking mushroom head with my wet pussy and let my walls take him all the way in.

"Fuck." We both groan simultaneously at the union.

I take a moment to adjust to his length because even though we've done this a couple of times, my vagina is yet to get used to it.

"Move. mami, please." Santiago begs through gritted teeth.

Happy to oblige, I start out slow rotating my hips driving us both crazy with desire. Santiago cups the back of my head and brings my face closer to his kissing me with raw need. I kiss him back hungrily matching his tempo as I speed up the movement of my hips.

"God you're perfect." Santiago declares as he lowers his head wrapping his mouth around one of my nipples.

I lose it when he buries his face into my chest, hugs me close and slightly pulls me up, fucking me from underneath. My hips were beginning to burn but with this new position, he's doing most of the work, driving me to heights I never knew I could reach.

"Cesar." I scream when he hits my g-spot.

My hands sink into his hair as I pull him impossibly closer, rubbing his face all over my cleavage.

"Again." I beg in desperate need for that feeling.

Santiago does not disappoint as he fucks me harder, hitting that spot over and over again.

"I'm gonna cum." I scream a minute before I shatter around him.

My whole body feels like it's exploded unto a million pieces opening up my nerve endings into unlimited pleasure. My walls tightening around Santiago's dick triggers his own orgasm as he cums with a long animalistic groan holding me tight.

We ride out our orgasms, with him buried inside of me our arms wrapped around each other.

Frank and I had good sex but what Santiago and I have is borderline heavenly. Each time I orgasm it feels like I've died for a few seconds and gone to heaven. The euphoria is never ending.

"Do you want me to move?" I ask him once I have my breathing under control.

"Nope, stay right where you are." He replies.

I nod and relax in his arms knowing that he can handle my weight. It took a few days but after he did ten push ups with me lying on his back just to prove me wrong, I kinda had to believe him.

"We haven't been using any protection." Santiago randomly comments breaking the silence.

I pull back giving me enough space to look at his face.

"You're not freaked out at all saying that and you didn't bring it up before now. If I didn't know any better I'd think you were trying to knock me up." I reply.

I was only joking but the silence that follows leaves me in shock.

"Cesar ..." I scold slapping his arm.

"I'm not sorry. I've actually imagined you pregnant and round with our baby. You looked beautiful." He grins at me as if the thought is still on his mind.

It doesn't sound so bad having some mini Santiago's and Hannah's running around but I'm not ready yet.

"Well unfortunately for you I'm on contraceptives. I was on them while dating my ex and I never stopped." I inform him.

"Any way I can talk you into getting off them." Santiago asks kneading my ass.

"Sure in like a year or two. I want you all to myself first." I reply.

"You have all of me." He assures me.

"Good, now shut up and kiss me." I demand as I start grinding my hips once more driving us both wild.

After another round of sex Santiago and I carry the dirty dishes back into the kitchen. We decide to take a shower together that leads to more sex. I cannot have enough of this man.

Finally we end up on the couch cuddling as we watch a random movie wrapped up in each others arms.

"How haven't you asked the question of what are we yet?" Santiago asks me.

"What do you mean?"

"You're either the most secure girl who doesn't care about labels or you're waiting for the perfect time to pounce." He explains making me smile.

"First one, I love you and you love me, that's more than enough for me." I assure him.

"You are perfect. What did I do to deserve you?" He asks kissing me soundly.

"You were yourself." I whisper.

"But still, will you be mine?" He asks and my smile only goes bigger.

I didn't care much for labels but it still feels nice to be asked.

"I thought I already was." I grin at him.

"You are but I don't want you to have a doubt in your mind when you talk about me to your friends or when you have to introduce me to someone. So Hannah Claire Johnson will you do me the honor of being my girlfriend?" He asks again.

How can a girl say no to that?

"I'd be a fool to say no. Yes I'll be your girl." I nod pulling his head down for a kiss that turns heated pretty quickly.

Before I know it, we're both naked with me bent over the couch with Santiago fucking me from behind.

I am a moment away from orgasming when all my friends walk into the living room finding us in a very awkward situation. We jump apart in surprise and I nearly fall over but Santiago catches me.

"Jesus Christ Hannah." Jada exclaims covering her eyes.

They all turn back around giving us some privacy but I'm still mortified by what they've walked in on. Santiago is much quicker to react than I am as he uses my throw blankets to cover our nakedness.

"What are you all doing here?" I asked breathlessly.

I do not appreciate the interruption. In was so close.

"Movie night remember." Renee answers holding up a couple of rented movies.

"Is that today? Wait when is today?" I ask looking around for something that will tell me what time or even day it is.

We've been couped up in my house too long. I even forgot that I had friends or that we had plans.

"Saturday? You were supposed to host us." Jada reminds me.

"Oh yeah, we sort of lost track of time." I chuckle eyeing Santiago's abs.

They've been very distracting.

"We can see that." Jada teases sneaking a peak.

She sees that we are somewhat descent with all important parts covers so she turns around fully and the rest follow her cue.

"Is he the reason you've called in sick to work all week?" Tom asks jutting his chin at Santiago.

"We had some catching up to do." I grin at them.

"Indeed." Ben nods looking at our clothes strewn all over the living room.

"We'll go get dressed. Make yourselves at home." I whisper collecting said clothes before taking Santiago's hand and leading him to my bedroom.

As soon as we are in there we burst out laughing and begin to get dressed.

"Ready to meet my friends?" I ask him.

"They are already acquainted with my ass so I might as well." He nods.

"And there goes our bubble." I comment sadly.

Santiago pulls me into his arms and kisses me.

"Reality was going to catch up sooner rather than later but I'm glad we had the past couple of days to get to know each other better in all ways. Now more than ever I know that you're the one for me." Santiago declares.

"Me too, I loved every minute of it." I smile standing up on my tiptoes to kiss him.

We pull apart before it goes too far and leave my bedroom walking hand in hand back to the living room.

All four are already comfortable with chips, drinks, popcorn and candy laid out. Now they are just arguing on which movie to watch but they all go silent when we walk in.

"It's nice to meet you all. I'm Santiago." He speaks up shaking everyone's hand.

"Likewise, you look much better dressed." Ben comments making us all laugh.

"I disagree." I declare.

"Me too, you have the ass of an underwear model. Good going girl." Jada grins giving me a high five.

"Thank you, I'm flattered." Santiago says with a cute blush.

"Enough talk about his ass, what are we watching?" Tom ever possessive of his girl asks.

Santiago takes a seat on an armchair and pulls me onto his lap, wrapping his arms around me.

My friends welcome Santiago with open arms once we are over the whole nudity awakwardness. They don't treat him like an ex-convict, even Tom who is usually very selective of who he lets into the inner circle which makes me very happy.

After losing Darius, I didn't think that this kind of happiness was possible but now here I am, in the arms of the love of my life, my career on the right path surrounded by the love of my friends who are actually family.

The only thing that would make my life more perfect is Darius being here but I know he's watching over us from heaven. That thought is comforting enough for me.