by London Casey
And the pregnancy hormones danced again.
“Maya…”
I grabbed the bottle of water and squeezed it as hard as I could.
The water sailed through the air and splashed all over Cole’s face.
I couldn’t have made it that perfect again if I tried two hundred times.
I had no idea where I was going, but I had to make my exit from the kitchen.
I ended up in some area with doors… bathroom, bedroom, closet…
I froze on which one to choose.
Last thing I needed was to try and make a statement then open a closet and walk inside.
Before I could make my choice, I felt hands touch my sides.
“I’m sorry, Maya,” he said. “I’m ashamed of my brother. But I’m not ashamed of you or our baby. Let me make it up to you.”
“How?” I asked. “Are you going to make me live here next? In this stupid fancy place?”
“No,” Cole said. “I have something better.”
I looked back and up at him. “What?”
“My cock.”
Chapter Thirty-Six
Cole
My right hand steadied her right leg, so I had room to keep thrusting at her.
Her back to my front, her head turned so we could kiss, my eyes devouring the sight of the breasts resting on the bed. She was the ultimate everything to me. And I had fucked up pretty good for a second there.
Sending Cody her way…
I chased all thoughts away and focused on the feeling of her pussy clenching my cock tight. The sweet sound of our bodies coming together thanks to her honey pouring for me.
Slowly, I moved my hand up her leg and sought out her clit.
As soon as I touched her, she jolted her hips back at me and cried out.
I curled my middle finger and kept digging at her, making her body shiver as she began to come again. She reached back with her right hand to grab for my face or my hair. I moved a little more over her so I could get closer although, I wasn’t sure how much closer we could get. My cock was buried inside her throbbing body. My fingers played with her clit and then moved up over her beautiful, pregnant belly so I could hold her breasts. Or actually, just one at a time. They were so full and so delicious…
I made a move.
I took my cock from her and put her leg on the bed.
I moved over her perfect body and thrust forward, entering her as fast as I had just exited.
Maya groaned and arched her back for me.
My mouth hungered for her and I engulfed her engorged left breast. I sucked hard… very hard…
Maya cried out and grabbed my hair.
“Cole! You’re going to…”
She lost her breath as I tasted warm liquid.
I pulled away and flicked my tongue up and down her nipple.
I kissed up to her neck and had to arch my own back so I could keep fucking her while staying out of the way of her pregnant stomach.
It was like nothing I had ever experienced before.
And it was something I would never forget or ever want to forget.
My mouth kissed from her neck to her mouth. We kissed like the apartment building was collapsing and these were our last few seconds together.
Speaking of last few seconds together…
My legs drove my body forward with hard thrusts as my cock thickened.
I grunted as I kissed Maya.
“Yes, yes, yes,” she purred into my mouth. “Come right now, Cole. Come right now.”
Now she’s ordering me to come?
I pulled away from the kiss and slammed forward and held inside her, my cock releasing itself.
Maya’s mouth opened and she shut her eyes and whimpered as I pulsed.
My stomach flexed as my body instinctively kept fucking her, always wanting to go deeper…
I kissed the tip of her nose and moved down to her chest again.
I ran my lips over her other breast, breathing heavily, loving her body.
Loving everything about her.
It was more than just sex… and the baby…
My lips closed over her nipple and I gently pulled away with a soft kiss.
I looked up at her and then down at the large stomach between us.
That’s when it all hit me for real.
“Maya… I’m in love with you.”
Sex so good you fall in love?
No, it wasn’t that at all.
I walked from the kitchen with another bottle of water.
Maya was in my dress shirt and nothing else.
She had buttoned the top buttons to her chest but left the bottom ones open.
The woman made my heart jump around in my chest in a way that I couldn’t make sense of.
I handed her the bottle of water. “Are you going to throw this at me?”
“Maybe,” she said.
She looked at me and smiled.
“You like the view, huh?” I asked.
“Yeah. There’s always something about the city that amazes me.”
“I’m not looking at the city, love. I don’t give a fuck about the city right now.”
“Oh, is this an extension of the I love you after you came?” Maya teased.
“I meant what I said.”
“How many times have you said that after sex?”
“Never.”
“I don’t believe you.”
I leaned against the window. I was shirtless. Wearing dress pants and nothing else.
“Maya,” I said as I touched her face and made her look at me. “I’m in love with you. It’s not just about the baby. Or the great sex.”
“Great sex?”
“Best sex I’ve ever had.”
“Now I know you’re lying. Come on, Cole. Look at me. I’m huge. I’m swollen in parts that aren’t supposed to be swollen. I leak milk like a gallon jug at the store with a hole in it. There is no way that-”
I leaned in and kissed her to shut her up.
I kissed her for a good minute or so.
My cock throbbed in my pants, ready to go again.
When I broke the kiss, I took a breath. “I’m sorry about my brother. I’ll handle him like I always do.”
“Meaning?”
“When we were kids, we had a rough life,” I said. “My father left and never came back. Cody would wait for him. And wait and wait and wait. There was no talking him out of waiting. I knew then I had to be his protector. He went in a different direction than I did. I wanted to rise above all that shit and become rich. To me, money could fix everything. To Cody, drugs could numb his pain. So, when he would call…”
I shook my head, rubbed my jaw and walked away.
Maya came after me. “Cole, don’t stop. Please. Trust me.”
I turned and looked at her.
Her belly sticking out of my shirt.
Nothing else on her body… her pubic hair now a thicker stubble… so fucking beautiful.
I moved toward her and put my hand to her stomach.
There was nothing like feeling the baby kick.
A reminder that there was life waiting there.
“I’ll take care of you and the baby always,” I said. “Even if you don’t want me.”
“Don’t change the subject, Cole.”
“I send him money,” I said. “I pay his rent. I get him out of his debts. Gambling, drugs… whatever. I’ve sent him to rehab a few times. Nothing helps. I offered to give him a job at the company, but I don’t trust him. Cody near money? It can’t happen. I wanted to send him out West so he doesn’t fuck up this deal. I had no choice but to send him to the apartment. Just for one day though. I’m going to work out something else. Because you’re right, Maya. That apartment is yours. Ours. Our… family… the three of us…”
I swallowed hard.
Maya’s eyes filled with tears.
She looked up and let out an ooohhh sound as she took a deep breath.
“This just got heavy,” she whispere
d.
“Yeah, it did.”
She blinked fast and looked at me. “I’m sorry about your brother, Cole. I know there’s nothing I can do, but you can always talk to me about it. I’ll always be here for you.”
“That means you love me,” I said.
“Does it?” Maya asked.
“Yeah.”
“I haven’t said it though. You’re the one who threw it out there. Yikes.”
Maya moved to her toes and kissed my chin.
She walked away with her ass dancing in my shirt.
And I realized what just happened.
I was the dumbass fool confessing my love to her… and she left me stranded.
Again, trying to gain some control here.
She was asleep on my chest and I was just about to fall asleep when I felt her body move.
“You awake?” she whispered.
“No,” I said. “Is the baby okay?”
Maya laughed. “The baby is fine.”
“Okay, good,” I said. I hugged her tighter. I loved her naked body against mine. “Get some sleep.”
“I have something to tell you first.”
“What?”
“I love you too, Cole,” Maya whispered.
She kissed my chest and fell asleep.
I looked down at her and smiled.
I fell asleep with a smile on my face.
The next morning, I had breakfast delivered and surprised Maya with breakfast in bed. She looked radiant as she sat up in bed with the covers over her body. Even with all the covers on her, her belly was still showing.
I loved that she couldn’t hide it.
But we weren’t a happily in-love couple just yet.
She was still hiding the truth of the pregnancy from everyone.
Because I told her to.
I sat on the edge of the bed next to her and watched her eat.
“Yeah, this doesn’t work for me,” she said.
“What?”
“I feel like a whale and I’m stuffing my face with pancakes and bacon. And you’re sitting there with your broad shoulders, round pecs, and eight pack abs… it’s not equating.”
“It is to me, love,” I said. “I’m watching the most beautiful woman I ever met enjoying breakfast, which is also giving our baby something to eat. And all I can picture is what your body looks like under those covers. And all I want to do is rip those covers off and have you for breakfast. But I know better than to get between a pregnant woman and her breakfast.”
“But… you know how much I love my morning orgasms, though,” Maya teased.
I quickly slipped my hand under the covers and touched her leg. “So, keep eating and I’ll handle the rest…”
She kicked at me. “Get out of here. You’ve had enough.”
“Oh, there’s never enough, love,” I said.
She waved a hand at me. “I’m done with you for the moment.”
I stood up and reached into my pocket.
I put a credit card on the nightstand. “Build the nursery, Maya. That’s your job for the next… however long it takes. Anything you want. Anything the baby needs. Okay? Same for clothes. Any clothes you need. Or the baby needs. No budget.”
“I’m not some whore you can buy, Cole.”
“I know. But I know you’ve dreamed about spending money like it was free… so here’s your chance.”
I leaned over her and kissed her.
“You’re spoiling me?”
“Rotten.”
“I might get used to it.”
“You should.”
“I might spend a lot of money, Cole.”
“Good,” I said.
“You better close that deal with Mr. Pickle. Or I might have to sleep with him to keep my spending habits going.”
I pulled away and curled my lip.
“Love you, Cole,” she whispered.
“Love you too, Maya,” I said.
I left the room and shook my head.
I had to deal with Mr. Pickle. I had to deal with my druggie of a brother. I had to run a company.
But at the end of it all, there was Maya and the baby.
That’s all I needed.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Maya
“You’re a designer, Bev, so I trust you,” I said. “I don’t want the room to look cluttered, you know? But I want to make sure I have everything. And that it looks good. I mean, I figure I’ll be here for at least a year. Maybe longer. I don’t know. I really like this place.”
Bev stared at me instead of looking around the nursery.
The word nursery was a loose term to use too since it was an empty room with hardwood floors. There was a big ceiling fan above our heads and that thing was going to go soon.
I had to admit, buying that first item with Cole’s credit card was hard to do.
I felt really guilty.
Especially since everything was top of the line. And killer expensive.
I mean… a crib that costs how much?
But I liked it. A lot.
I even sent a picture of it to Cole.
He told me to buy it.
So I zoomed in on the price.
He replied with the same text.
So, I bought it.
That broke the floodgates for me.
Never in my life was I able to just buy stuff without thinking about money and how to pay it back. And it wasn’t like I was buying myself anything. It was for the baby. Our baby. The baby that Cole and I had made.
It took me thirty minutes to spend thousands of dollars.
When I stopped, my face was bright red and I called Bev for moral support.
She wanted to meet at the apartment to look at the nursery, so I had to make sure Cole had gotten his brother out of there, which he said he did.
So that’s why I was standing in the nursery, with Bev, asking questions.
“You’re in love with him, aren’t you?” Bev asked.
“What?”
“You and your boss. It really became something real.”
“I’m not talking about that,” I said. “I wanted to get your thoughts on painting the walls and stuff.”
“Do you want me to paint the walls?” Bev asked. “I can design some stuff.”
“I just wanted your thoughts.”
“You don’t trust me?”
“I trust you. You’re busy.”
“You think I’m going to paint something crazy, don’t you? Like right above the crib, it’ll say Product of Mommy Fucking Her Boss!”
I snorted and laughed. “Now that would be funny.”
“Can I make that into a onesie for the baby?” Bev asked.
“Sure,” I said. “You give me thoughts on the nursery and then go make some shirts for the baby. Deal?”
“Deal. Hey. You’re not going to find out what you’re having?”
“I don’t know. Sometimes I want to know. Sometimes I don’t. I mean, what’s one more surprise, right? It wasn’t all that long ago, my stomach was mostly flat, my boobs weren’t filled with milk, and I wasn’t having hot sex with my boss in a secret apartment.”
“Your life was boring back then,” Bev said.
“It was a lot calmer,” I said. “Quieter.”
“Okay, let me look around and think.”
Bev spent the next hour in the room with a notebook and pen.
While she did that, I spent a few thousand dollars more on stuff for the baby.
It was really easy to spend Cole’s money.
He said there was no budget.
And even if he got a little pissed about something, I could just take my clothes off.
I blushed as I thought that.
I was going to use my pregnant body to get money.
I had no idea who I was.
But I liked it.
One thing I didn’t like was that I hadn’t been working on my book the way I wanted to.
The asshole boss book needed to be finished.
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bsp; Except I was kind of out of material.
In real life, my asshole boss got me pregnant and we fell in love.
In the book, I couldn’t have that happen.
Or could I?
At that point though it would end up as more of a memoir.
When Bev was done, we left the apartment and went our separate ways.
She was going back to her apartment to work on ideas for the nursery, plus some offensive onesies.
I was going to the office to work.
I had to.
I had to make sure Cole closed this deal with Mr. Pickle.
Because I was starting to really enjoy being spoiled.
I organized a stack of folders on Cole’s desk as he walked into the office.
“There’s a sight,” he said.
I looked back. “Oh, right. I’m only pretty from behind.”
“Don’t say that, love.”
He winked.
I felt heat rush to my cheeks.
I turned and touched my stomach. “The baby is very active today, Cole.”
He looked around and moved toward me.
His right hand covered my stomach and I felt safe and protected.
The baby kicked his hand and he smiled.
“What a cool feeling,” he said.
“Yeah, it is. Do you want to know if it’s a boy or girl?”
“Why? Did you look?”
“No. I didn’t look.”
“Do you want to know?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “I don’t know.”
“Let’s just wait and see then,” he said. “No rush.”
He kissed my forehead.
Then he moved around his desk and flipped open one of the folders.
“Is this everything?”
“It’s all there,” I said. “I can’t believe this is going this deep.”
“I can,” Cole said. “This is what he loves the most. The fight. The push and pull. Once the deal is done, he gets bored. Once you’re worth what he is, money is just… blah.”
“Can’t you just take less?” I asked.
“Fuck that, Maya,” Cole said. “I am not going to bend over the kitchen sink for him.”
“But you’d bend me over the kitchen sink, right?”
Cole pointed at me. “Is that any way to talk to your boss? That’s fireable.”