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December 29th
Cruz watched as Aaliyah bit her lip at the sight before her and she couldn’t help but smirk at the brunette’s reaction.
“You’ve literally seen me naked before. What’s so special about this?” Cruz asks genuinely as she looks at the photo of herself.
Aaliyah having access to Cruz’s personal phone was all made possible by team visiting the CIA yesterday. They had all visited the CIA together yesterday to tell a shortened version of the whole ordeal to a group of the highest officials they could find.
These officials suggested that they take this to the White House, which they were scheduled to do so on January 1st.
After they finished talking to the CIA officials, they were given access to the possessions that Karl and Paul had put in “storage” prior to the mission.
So, this meant all of their personal belongings including phones, clothes, keys to their houses, and much more.
Despite getting the keys back to their personal homes, everyone opted for the time being to stay in the mansions provided to them for the mission.
The CIA had informed them that they would make accommodations for them until they figured out how to adjust to “normal life” again.
Cruz and Aaliyah had no plans of staying in this house any longer than needed and expected to begin the search for their dream house very soon.
“I’ve never seen you like this.” Aaliyah replies, still not looking away from the phone.
Cruz shakes her head as Aaliyah continues to ogle the photo of the Marine in full uniform, holding a big ass gun.
She was wearing a pair of shades that made her look even more badass. Her hair was disheveled and her body covered in sweat. Aaliyah couldn’t help but drool at the sight.
The photo aroused Aaliyah beyond belief. She had only ever seen her lover in uniform once before and that was when Cruz was rescuing her and Santi on Jarvis Island. And that was definitely not the time nor the place to be aroused.
But now, in the comfort of their house, Aaliyah could drool all she wanted over the Marine.
Cruz scoffs in amusement as she watched Aaliyah zoom in on her muscles.
Cruz goes to take the phone away but Aaliyah quickly pulls it away and Cruz watches as she begins to type something.
“What are you doing?” Cruz asks confused.
“Sending it to myself.” Aaliyah merely replies before finally handing the phone back over to Cruz.
“I need to save that for later.” Aaliyah replies with a playful wink.
Cruz smirks before shaking her head. She’s sure that once they returned to the bedroom tonight that Aaliyah would request to look through her camera roll more thoroughly. She had only seen a couple photos and Cruz knew she had a couple more thirst traps in her phone that Aaliyah had yet to see.
“I still don’t get it.” Cruz replies playfully.
“Oh really?” Aaliyah asks with a raised eyebrow before unlocking her own phone and searching through her camera roll.
The second that Aaliyah showed Cruz a photo of herself in full uniform, the Marine’s mouth dropped open in awe.
“Okay never mind I get it.” Cruz replies almost immediately.
Aaliyah smirks to herself. That’s what she thought would happen.
Her smirk grew even bigger when she realized Cruz couldn’t look away from the photo.
Aaliyah was in full uniform and flexing her muscles playfully for the camera. It was hot.
Cruz’s cock twitched at the sight and she smiled awkwardly before reaching down to subtly readjust her cock. But apparently it wasn’t subtle enough for Aaliyah, who easily noticed it.
Aaliyah smiled to herself before placing her phone down and taking a step towards the Marine to shorten the distance between them.
Aaliyah smiled up at Cruz before placing her hands on the Marine’s waist.
Cruz swallowed nervously as she looked down at her lover. The close proximity along with the photo was quickly arousing her.
Aaliyah let her eyes flicker from Cruz lips up to her dark intense eyes.
She could see the passion burning within them, slowly growing stronger the longer they held eye contact.
Aaliyah slowly dragged her hands from Cruz’s waist, down to the Marine’s crotch.
Cruz’s breath hitched the second she felt Aaliyah’s hand softly cup her bulge.
Aaliyah opened her mouth slightly as she began to softly squeeze Cruz’s hardening cock.
“Since I have my phone back, do you know what that means?” Aaliyah whispers, her lips inches away from Cruz’s and the Marine was having trouble focusing.
Aaliyah had started slowly stroking Cruz’s cock through her pants and the Marine inhaled sharply at the sensation.
She merely shook her head, realizing she was incapable of speaking at the moment.
A small smirk appeared on Aaliyah’s face before she leaned up and placed a long, soft kiss on Cruz’s lips.
When they parted, Aaliyah only pulled back slightly before whispering, “It means you get to facetime my parents.”
Cruz immediately tenses at the words and Aaliyah laughs lightly before taking her hands off Cruz and taking a step back.
“That’s not fair.” Cruz says as she rolls her eyes playfully.
“I didn’t do anything wrong.” Aaliyah replies with a shrug.
“You can’t rile me up like that and then drop that bomb on me.” Cruz replies as she readjusts her hard-on.
Aaliyah smirks to herself as she shakes her head “It’s not a bomb Cruz.” Aaliyah says, amused.
Cruz was so dramatic sometimes.
“That’s easy for you to say, I don’t even have any parents for you to meet!” Cruz quickly responds.
Aaliyah shakes her head once again before taking a step forward and cupping Cruz’s cheeks.
“Baby, you have nothing to worry about. I love you, so they’ll love you.” Aaliyah says seriously.
Cruz knew Aaliyah meant that, but she couldn’t help but tease her a bit more.
“Yeah well, will they still like me when they find out it took me less than three months to get you pregnant?” Cruz asks with a raised eyebrow.
Aaliyah smirks at the words, “We’ll leave that for a bit later. I don’t think its best to tell my parents about our entire situation over the phone.” Aaliyah replies truthfully.
She didn’t even want to imagine her mother’s reaction if she told her over facetime that she was both engaged and pregnant. She’ll just stick to introducing Cruz as her fiancé. Everything else can wait until they visit her family in Riyadh.
“I agree. I don’t want your parents thinking I’m some sex crazy horn dog.” Cruz jokes as she smiles down at Aaliyah.
The brunette smirks in amusement before taking her left hand off Cruz’s face and dragging it back down to Cruz’s crotch.
“But you are baby.” Aaliyah teases, as she softly squeezes Cruz’s hard cock.
Cruz instantly jumps back.
“Stop teasing me!” The woman says and the brunette couldn’t help but laugh at Cruz’s childishness.
“Okay, okay.” Aaliyah says, raising her hands up in surrender.
“Why don’t I show you and Santi some photos of my family?” Aaliyah asks seriously.
Cruz merely nods in response as she tries to force her boner to go away. Aaliyah always knew how to tease her and unfortunately for Cruz, Aaliyah enjoyed doing it quite often.
After Aaliyah went and got Santi from the playroom, the family sat down in the living room and began looking at some of Aaliyah’s photos.
“This was the last time I visited my family in Riyadh. Right before the mission started.” Aaliyah says as she shows the photo to Cruz and Santi.
Cruz hummed in response and couldn’t help but frown slightly when she noticed the sadness in Aaliyah’s eyes. She knew that Aaliyah was very close to her family and that prior to the mission she would visit Riyadh frequently. So, she was sure being away from them for more than five years was difficult.
“I can’t wait until we visit them and I can’t wait for them to meet you two.” Aaliyah says with a genuine smile, looking up from her phone.
Santi smiles before looking back at the photo.
“Who’s that?” The boy asks, pointing at Aaliyah’s father.
It was a professional family photo where Aaliyah’s mother and father sat in big, elegant chairs. The four boys stood on the left near Aaliyah’s father while the three daughters stood on the right near Aaliyah’s mother.
“That’s my Baba, my dad.” Aaliyah says, earning a nod from the boy.
“So, he’s your Jid, so your grandpa.” Aaliyah continues.
The boy nods and Aaliyah points to her mother next.
“And this is my Ommi and your Jiddah.” Aaliyah says as she watches the boy process what she is telling him.
“And these are your aunts and uncles.” Aaliyah says, motioning to her siblings.
“Like Uncle Ameer?” Santi asks, a bit of sparkle showed in his eyes at the mention of Ameer.
“Yes, like Uncle Ameer.” Aaliyah replies with a nod.
There was no reason for her to tell Santi that Ameer wasn’t an actual sibling of hers. It would be pointless.
Ameer was as close to her as all of her brothers.
Santi stopped paying attention after that and opted to watch TV instead.
Neither woman minded thought as it gave Cruz time to actually thoroughly look at the photo.
“So, this is my Baba. Asmar Ali Amrohi.” Aaliyah says, motioning to her father.
He was a handsome man with salt and pepper hair, a fully grey beard, and incredibly green eyes.
Cruz could see who Aaliyah inherited those from.
“He’s handsome.” Cruz says almost immediately, earning a smile from Aaliyah.
“And my Ommi. Maha Amrohi.” Aaliyah says, pointing at the woman who sat beside Asmar.
She was a beautiful woman with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. She exuded elegance and grace and Cruz wasn’t afraid to admit that she was slightly intimidated by the woman.
“My oldest brothers, Mohammed and Malik. This is an old photo. They are 36 now but 30 in this photo.” Aaliyah continues, earning a nod from the Marine.
So that would mean Aaliyah was 25 in this photo. Cruz quickly let her eyes flicker to Aaliyah and felt her cock throb at the sight. She looked hot as hell.
“Hey! This isn’t about me.” Aaliyah says, quickly realizing where Cruz’s gaze had gone.
“Sorry, sorry.” Cruz says as she shakes her head and tries to regain her focus.
Aaliyah smirks to herself before continuing to speak.
“My oldest sister Farah. She’s 33.” Aaliyah says and Cruz lets here eyes wander across the screen.
She was very pretty and slightly taller than Aaliyah but they shared the same green eyes.
“My younger brother, Ahmed. He’s 27. So, he’s changed a lot since this photo.” Aaliyah says with a small smile.
Cruz smirks as she looks at the boy. He was only 21 in this photo.
“I’ll show you more updated photos later.” Aaliyah says, earning a nod from the Marine.
“My younger sister Jamila, she’s 24.” Aaliyah says and Cruz couldn’t help but smirk as she remembers how Aaliyah told her the story of how she attempted to bring Jamila back to the hospital.
“And then my youngest brother, Amal. He’s 22.” Aaliyah concludes.
Cruz hums as she looks at the young boy. She wonders if Santi will look like him when he is 16.
“You have a beautiful family.” Cruz replies truthfully.
“I wish I could say the same for mine. We all looked like we were on crack half the time.” Cruz says awkwardly.
Aaliyah frowns slightly because she knew there was some truth to Cruz’s jokes. She knew that the Marine’s parents did drugs and that they frequently didn’t even have enough money to properly take care of themselves.
Cruz may claim that she doesn’t care anymore but Aaliyah knew she did.
“Do you want to show me any photos?” Aaliyah asks softly.
“Nah.” Cruz says quickly brushing it off as she goes to stand up.
Aaliyah quickly grabs the woman’s wrist softly, regaining Cruz’s attention.
“Why don’t you show me a photo of Josecito? Do you have one?” Aaliyah asks softly.
She knew Josecito was the only person in Cruz’s family that she truly loved.
Aaliyah watched as Cruz contemplated it for a second before nodding and sitting back down.
It took a couple minutes but eventually Cruz pulled up a photo and showed it to Aaliyah.
Aaliyah smiled at the sight of a teenage Cruz standing beside her little brother. She had her hand behind the boy’s head and was making bunny ears with her fingers as she smiled largely.
The boy, completely oblivious to his older sisters’ antics, smiled just as big.
It was amazing how alike they looked. Josecito was a carbon copy of Cruz. The only difference was that the boy’s nose was a bit more crooked and he was missing a couple of teeth.
He was cute though.
“He had just gotten in a fight a couple days before.” Cruz replies with a small smile as she shook her head at the memory.
“The boy had beat him up pretty good but Josecito was tough. We both had to be after what we endured.” Cruz says seriously as she continues to look at the photo.
She hadn’t seen this photo in five years and she honestly had forgotten how much she liked it. She had forgotten how much comfort it had brought her, but also how much pain came with it as well.
The second Cruz felt tears brimming in her eyes she turned her phone off and placed it down on the table.
Aaliyah frowned before reaching a hand up to softly turn Cruz’s face to look at her.
“Thank you for showing me.” Aaliyah says softly.
A small, but pained smile appeared on Cruz’s face as she looked into her lover’s eyes.
She didn’t regret looking at the photo but she couldn’t deny that it was still painful for her.
Cruz nodded before leaning in to place a soft kiss on Aaliyah’s lips.
“I’ve never shown anybody else a picture of him.” Cruz says honestly, once they part.
Aaliyah was surprised by the words at first, but she quickly understood why.
Cruz was protective over the boy and rightfully so. He was the only person she could count on for a very long time.
“But there is nobody else I’d rather show than you.” Cruz says truthfully as she places her forehead against Aaliyah’s.
There was nobody else she’d rather be vulnerable with than the love of her life.