And now everyone … this is it, the epilogue for God Love Her! I just can't believe that it has been almost a year since I started this story, and I just want to say here a great big thank you to every person who has read, reviewed, enjoyed, favourite and hated this story – I love you all

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Enjoy!

Two years later …

"Eric …. Ella, I am home, where are you …" I called out as I entered the house, after coming back home from work, and kicked off my shoes. However, my daughter and my fiancé were still nowhere to be found, and I was just about to call out once again whenever I entered into the living room, but that was cut short whenever I saw that he was lying on the sofa, all sprawled out (even though he was still in a sitting position), and he was holding the television remote in his left hand, while my year and a half old daughter was lying on his chest, with her head lying right on top of his heart and her arms wrapped tightly around his waist. Eric's right hand was also holding on to her back, and his head was cricked to the side as if he had been trying to lay it on top of Ella's head.

The whole sight made my ovaries tingle, as I fell in love with Eric just that little bit more, and I just couldn't resist pulling out my phone and taking a picture of the two of them. Unfortunately, the click of taking the picture was enough to wake Eric up from his peaceful sleep.

"Wakey, wakey sleepy head" I teased, as Eric blinked a few times and then stretched out his left arm, and then his both legs as much as he could considering that our daughter was still lying on top of him all fast asleep, and snoring softly.

"I am awake, lover" he grinned.

"Aha" I said. "You look very comfortable lying there"

"Yes, Ella and I were watching TV earlier, and then she got sleepy so she decided to climb up on top of me and go to sleep" Eric explained, and the movements then made Ella wake up, who slowly fluttered her eyelids.

"Mameee" she said, sounding excited while still a little sleeping.

"Hello, princess" I said, and held my arms out to her as I picked her up from the top of her daddy. She immediately cuddled down into me.

"Did you have fun with daddy today?" I asked her, and she nodded.

"Daddy play" she said.

"Did you and daddy play today while I was away at work?" I asked.

"Yeah" Ella replied.

"We should probably go on up and get ready to go before long" Eric said, glancing at his watch.

"Yeah. We both know that dad would have a fit if we were late" I said.

"Come on, princess. Let's go and get changed" Eric said, and then stood Ella down on the ground, taking the hold of one of her hands.

"Granda?" she asked

"Yeah, we are going to go and see granddad tonight" Eric said, which caused Ella to cheer out. She really did love it whenever we went out to see my father, and his new girlfriend, Erin.

"Me go" I heard Ella ask from the top of the stairs.

"Yes, you are going to but we have to get dressed first" Eric replied.

Just over an hour later, the three of us were pulling up outside of my father's house to see that Jason, and his new boyfriend, Christopher were already here, as was Erin since both of their cars were sitting outside.

"Hey, there's my little girl there" dad called out as we approached the front steps of the home that had once been my own, and luckily during my parent's divorce, he had been able to keep the house and pretty much everything else, since the judge had ruled in my father's favour.

None of us had heard from my mother ever since she had come to mine and Eric's place just after my brother had moved out to live with his boyfriend, Christopher, about 12 months ago now – to beg for money from me in order to fuel her expensive lifestyle, and to inform me that she wanted access to her granddaughter.

Or she would go to the social services and inform them that Eric and I were neglecting Ella.

My answer to her was that she should fuck off, and then I oh so carefully slammed the door in her face. The child protective services were at the door the next morning, but fortunately after an investigation, my mother's claims were found to be complete and total lies.

And then shortly after that, she was caught trying to steal a $3,000 dress from an upmarket clothes shop. And then they phoned the police, as was their policy.

Unfortunately, however, my mother did get away with a caution since it was her first offence, and after that, as far as I know she went to Mexico.

Meanwhile, back home here after the divorce – which was happening the very first week of the new year, whenever Ella was just about a week old (she was our very own Christmas day baby), my dad then shortly after began seeing Erin, and they have been together ever since, which is a good thing since she adores Ella as much as everyone else in the family does and gets along with both me and Jason.

"I'm not so little anymore, dad" I replied, pulling myself out of my musings.

"I wasn't talking to you, Sook" dad said, with a grin as he crouched down onto his knees and held out his hands in front of him for Ella, who Eric had just unbuckled from the car and then placed her down onto the pavement – she immediately ran into his arms and gave my dad a kiss on the cheek.

Eric and I just laughed, before clasping our hands together.

"We have one cute kid, lover" Eric said, as he gave me a kiss on the side of the head while dad carried Ella in through the house and outside to his garden, where we were having a family barbeque. Eric's parents, as well as Pam, Amelia, Tray and Alcide were also invited alongside some of the rest of my dad's family.

"We do … I love you, Eric" I said, and then leaned up to give him a proper kiss, which he eagerly returned, and we wrapped our arms around each other as tightly as we could.

"I love you too, my lover" he replied, whenever the kiss broke, and I placed my head down onto his chest for a few moments while we both tried to get our breath back.

"And you two just couldn't keep your arms off of each other for one night could you?" I heard Godric say whenever he and Helen arrived just a couple of minutes later.

So … I know I already said this at the beginning of the chapter, but I couldn't have done it without you! I will be sad to see this story go, since I have lived with these characters for almost a year now, but alas I do have a good few other stories I have yet to complete as well as a hell of a lot of new ideas swirling around in my head (with only a few of them written down) but I am planning to get some more new stories out there this summer and my notebook (and pen) will be travelling with me on my holidays so I should get some writing done – especially on the plane since it is a 9 hour journey each way!