It had been 7 months since AJ had broken his neck and against doctor's advice he had slowly began trying to get back into wrestling shape.

"I'm so proud of you" Ashlynn massaged AJ's bare shoulders. Her hands dipped down to massage his chest. Grazing over his pecs and down to his washboard abs.

"For what?" he asked lazily opening up one eye to look at her.

"For everything ... dealing with your divorce, or how about coming back from a very devastating injury and making it seem like a scratch" her fingers ran along the scar he now had on his neck.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Go for it"

"What do you know of your birth parents?"

Ashlynn sighed. She wasn't a big fan of talking about her birth parents.

"I really don't know anything about them other than the fact that my birth mom was young and that she was a friend of a friend of my parents"

"So how did you end up with the Johnsons?"

"Like I said she was a friend of a friend and my parents heard about her and they wanted to help her out cause apparently she was homeless at the time and I guess they just kinda started liking the idea of having another kid and they decided to adopt me" Ashlynn frowned "something like that".

"Did it bother you that you looked different than your parents and brother?".

"Only when the kids at school brought it up but even then it was fleeting".

"You were extremely lucky then" he said. She could hear the bitter indifference in his voice and knew he must have been thinking about his own childhood.

"Don't let it beat you down baby" she kissed his shoulder.

"I'm not ... one good thing came out of it I now know how not to treat our kids".

"Our kids huh?" Ashlynn asked with a laugh.

"Yep, of course they'll be at least one more after this little one" he placed his hand over her stomach, caressing it with this thumb.

"Isn't it the woman's job to plan the future out?" she asked.

"Well I had a lot of time on my hands".

She laughed at him. He loved to hear her laugh, it made him smile.

"I have a surprise for you" he got up and pulled her to her feet. He covered her eyes and led her out to the garage.

"Ok you can look now" he removed his hands from her face.

"It's a cradle"

"Not just any cradle it's the same one me and my brothers slept in" he gave her an enthusiastic smile "after you told me you were pregnant I called my mom and asked her to send it to me".

"Aje don't you think it's a little early for that?" she asked him but she couldn't keep the smile from spreading over her lips.

"It's never too early" he assured her.

"I'm really lucky you are so into this" she told him "some guys wouldn't be"

"How can any guy not want to be excited about being someone's dad ... I look forward to teaching our boy how to play football and take him fishing and camping"

"What makes you assume this baby is going to be a boy?" she asked placing her hands on her hips.

"I just have a feeling he's gonna be a boy" he replied.

"And if he is a she?" she asked.

"Then I'd better start practicing my aim with a shotgun now" he laughed.

"You are a foolish man" she rolled her eyes. "But a foolish man that I love".