by S Cinders
I was about to shut the water off when I felt the curtain open. There stood a very naked and terribly aroused Liam.
“I thought he would never leave,” he muttered before capturing my mouth in a soul-searching kiss. My senses were on high alert and every brush of his naked skin against mine upped the ante.
“Jump,” he demanded. And I wrapped my legs around his waist, spreading my core wide against his hot wet skin.
Liam was hard and hot beneath me. And I ached to be filled by him again.
“Is it too soon?” he asked against my lips.
“It’s never too soon,” I replied hotly sealing my lips over his once again. Our tongues dueling together as he eased himself inside of me.
I felt so full, and squeezed my walls knowing that it would drive him insane.
Liam responded in kind, ramming himself up into me as hard and fast as he could. The hot water added to the friction. I had never had shower sex before, and I totally understood the hoopla as Liam thrust into me with his long cock.
His kiss was almost punishing and I was loving every minute of it. He pulled his lips away, “Touch yourself, let me see you.”
I felt embarrassed, I had never let any man see such an intimate act. But somehow, I wanted Liam to see me. I wanted to drive him mad with desire.
I stuck my two fingers into my mouth and then placed it between my legs.
“Holy shit,” Liam ground out, his eyes glued to where my fingers danced around my clit.
His thrusts became harder and I knew that I was close. With my other hand, I rolled my nipple and then pinched hard. While at the same time rubbing frantically on my clit. Suddenly, I was fracturing all around him.
Falling over the cliff of ecstasy and dragging him along with me.
He stood there, my legs wrapped tightly around his waist. His muscled chest heaving from our exertion. “Don’t ever leave me,” he panted.
For the first time, I saw a vulnerability in Liam that I hadn’t known existed.
“I won’t I promise,” I whispered, cupping his face in my hands. “What is this all about?”
Liam closed his eyes, I almost didn’t hear his reply, “Everyone leaves me. My parents, Katie, I know that it’s unreasonable and that we had to grow up eventually. But I am serious Bri, I think that if you left me I would die.” His eyes opened, “I really do love you.”
I couldn’t hold it in any longer, “I love you too.”
CHAPTER 18 – Liam
The next few weeks that followed I filled with ways that I loved Bri. Her expression when I arrived at the elementary school with flowers nearly brought me to my knees. It was obvious that Bri had never been spoiled before. And I made it my mission to do the job.
I left her notes on the mirror. I tried to cook, and when that was a dismal failure because I was too busy kissing Bri, I ordered in her favorites. I went to every appointment. And I rubbed her back and feet when I got home from work.
Bri’s belly was growing as fast as our relationship and I could tell that she wasn’t loving the changes. I bathed her skin in vitamin e and then kissed every angry stretch mark. She was mortified, but they were beautiful to me. Visible signs of the sacrifice she was making for my child, for our child.
I sang to the baby resting my head in her lap. Bri would laugh saying that the baby was terrified, but I could tell that she loved it. Her smile had changed. Laughter came easier to her, and I could finally see that she was starting to believe me when I said she was my world.
She only had eight weeks left, and I could see the toll it was taking on her.
Bri moved more slowly, and it took her a moment to get going. Our little one was pretty wild and kept her up at night with what Bri described as utero gymnastics. The baby would get hiccups and I could feel her belly jump with every single one.
We were so happy, so incredibly happy. Life was good… and then that phone call. The one that everyone dreads.
“Liam?”
“Katie, what’s wrong, is Gracie okay?”
I could hear the tears in her voice and it shook me to the core, “It’s Bri, Liam the baby…”
The line disconnected. I didn’t call my boss, turn off my computer, or even respond to my coworkers when they asked me what was wrong.
I just grabbed my keys and raced to the hospital. I knew that I wasn’t making any sense when I yelled at the attending nurse, but my world was crumbling. I couldn’t live without Bri. I needed her like I needed air to breathe.
“Sir, we are going to have to call security if you don’t calm down.”
Calm down? I couldn’t even function, I had to get to her. She needed me.
At once the nurse stepped back, “I am sorry, Dr. Carlson, I am calling security right now.”
My eyes flashed to Bri’s mom, “Where is she? Is she okay?”
The compassion in her eyes was more than I could stand. I started bawling, like I haven’t done since I found out about mom and dad. Everyone left me. This was my fault. I never should have allowed her to get close to me.
Dr. Carlson took my hand and lead me back to where Bri’s room. “She is resting right now, we had to put her completely out. There were many complications, Liam. She needs you to be strong.”
I grasped her shoulders tightly, “But she is okay, Bri is okay?”
Dr. Carlson nodded slowly, “She will be, in time. But Liam, she may not be able to have any more children.”
I tried to grasp what she was saying, “No more kids? But Bri is going to be okay? How is the baby?”
Dr. Carlson dipped her head, but she raised tired eyes to meet mine. “He is fighting, Liam. We have done everything that we can medically.”
“What is wrong?” I choked out.
“His lungs aren’t quite developed enough. We have given him steroids to help them develop and he’s in an incubator. I am not going to sugar coat this, Liam. We are not out of the woods yet.”
“What can I do?” I felt helpless, more scared than I could ever remember being.
“We can pray,” and then I saw the great Dr. Carlson break down. Later nurses would tell us that they had never seen her cry, not in the twenty plus years she had worked in the field. We were all barely holding on.
And so, we prayed.
***
I am not sure how long I sat beside Bri’s bed, watching her chest rise and fall. Different nurses would come into the room checking her vitals and making sure that she was alright. Bri had lost a lot of blood, there was a tear in the placenta.
They had given her a transfusion to help save her life.
Dr. Carlson came in from time to time to give me updates on Justin. That was what Bri had wanted to name him. I had told her that there was no way I was naming our child after a two prominent rock stars. I was such an idiot. I should have told her that I would name him anything she wanted.
Justin was doing well, Dr. Carlson had said, he has made a turn for the better. But I could hear what she wasn’t saying, they were all concerned that Bri hadn’t woken up yet. Her blood pressure kept dropping and then stabilizing. My heart plummeted through the floor every time the alarm went off and nurses came flying into the room.
We stayed like that for the next forty-eight hours. Bri’s friend Sean was in and out of the hospital as much as he could be with work. And I could see how much he cared about her. I wasn’t jealous anymore, or maybe I was just too worried. But I was glad that he came.
Justin was doing well, almost ready to breathe on his own. But I still hadn’t seen him. I couldn’t leave her. I knew that Dr. Carlson would take care of our son. I wanted the first-time I met him to be with her.
“Liam, you need to rest,” I looked up and saw Katie and Colt in the doorway. I knew that my sister meant well, but I couldn’t respond.
“Have you seen him?” my voice was rusty from unused.
Colt smiled, his all-American boy look made it hard to believe that he was grown up. “Liam, I am Justin’s pediatrician. I have be
en with your son almost non-stop since the delivery.”
How could I have forgotten that Colt was a doctor? “Thank you,” I choked out, “Is he doing okay?”
Katie nodded, “He is stubbornly insisting on surpassing every milestone. He reminds me a lot of Bri with his dark curls.”
I couldn’t help the tears that slipped down my cheeks, “I am so scared I am going to lose her. I can’t do it without Bri. I love her so much.”
Katie flew to my side and enveloped me in a tight hug, “She will be okay. She is just healing. Sometimes it takes a bit longer than expected. That’s all.”
I looked up at my best friend, Colt. He had been there through the loss of my parents and when Katie ended up pregnant as a teenager. Colt had definitely seen me at my worst. But I was beyond that now, I was broken and didn’t know if I could find a way to put the pieces back together.
“I have an idea,” Colt said slowly. “Let me go work out the logistics and I will be back.”
CHAPTER 19 – Brianna
I could hear voices around me, but they were muddled and faint. I was so dead tired, all I wanted to do was sleep. And yet I felt an urgency for something that I couldn’t quite understand.
My body was so heavy, I couldn’t even lift my lashes. The feat seemed impossible.
Someone was holding my hand, that much I knew. And the comfort and peace that came from it was overwhelming.
Liam—it had to be Liam. I love that man more than life.
But, where was I? What about the baby?
My baby! Where was my baby? I started fighting the darkness. A loud beeping noise erupted around me and I heard the voices a little more clearly. And then out of the darkness a keening cry shot right through me. It was tender and precious and I knew that only a newborn baby made that sound. I had to get to my baby, I had to get to Liam.
It was time to come back.
***
“Her eyelids flickered, did you see that Katie?” Liam’s voice was next to me.
Slowly, I forced my eyes open, “Liam…”
Katie was just behind him and next to her was Colt holding a crying baby. But they didn’t have a new baby?
“Is that?” I didn’t have the energy to finish the statement.
Liam had tears on his cheeks, I had never seen him cry, it was disconcerting. I didn’t want Liam to be sad—ever.
Colt walked over to where I was lying on the bed, “Bri, I want to introduce someone to you. He seems mighty hungry.”
Tipping the small bundle so that I could see. Colt showed me the most beautiful scrunched up screaming face that I had ever seen.
“Justin, this is your momma,” Colt smiled at me as he gently laid my baby on my chest. He was careful to support Justin’s head and body because I was still so weak.
My eyes couldn’t get enough of him, his tiny features, his little fingers, he was perfect.
“My baby,” I choked out.
Liam leaned over and kissed my forehead, “He is perfect, Bri. You did such an amazing job.”
I knew in that moment that no matter what came our way I would remember this day for the rest of my life.
Colt and Katie stayed for a few more minutes and then took Justin for a feeding. Colt said that I would still be able to nurse, even though I had been out of it for a while. My mom stayed toward the back of the room.
I motioned for her to come forward, “Thank you, Mom.” I whispered wanting to tell her how I felt, but so exhausted I could feel sleep beginning to overtake me.
My mom’s lips trembled, “I thought we would lose you. But Liam wouldn’t let you go. I have never seen anything like it in all of my years.” She shook her head and wiped her eyes, “I love you baby girl. I hope you know that.”
“I love you too, momma,” I answered and then looked over at Liam.
His face was haggard. I didn’t know how long he had sat by my side. I knew that he hadn’t slept nor taken a moment for himself. The love that I had for this man overwhelmed me.
“You saved me,” my voice was scratchy and I tried to clear it. “You wouldn’t give up on me?”
Liam shuddered, “Never, I will never give up on you, Brianna. You are my life. And that little one is a symbol of our love, I couldn’t let him grow up without his mom.”
I looked to where he was still clutching my hand, “I could feel you holding my hand. Even when I was lost and couldn’t figure out how to wake up. I knew that you were here and that I needed to find you. I love you, Liam McCannon, thank you.”
He lifted our clasped hands to his lips, “Always, Bri, I will always be there. Get some rest, we can talk more when you awaken.”
“You won’t leave?” I asked sleepily.
The smile that broke across his face I felt down to the tips of my toes, “You will never be rid of me, Bri. And that’s a promise.”
CHAPTER 20 – Liam
I rolled over and felt Bri’s warm breasts against my chest. She moaned softly, “Is it feeding time already?”
I smiled in the darkness, our son had a very healthy appetite. And I couldn’t say that I blamed him. I loved his mom’s breasts as much as he did.
“Not yet sweetheart,” I said as I pulled her into my chest.
I heard her contented sigh, “For a baby that started at four pounds, Justin has certainly made up for lost time.”
I couldn’t help my smile, “Eighteen pounds was what Colt’s nurse said. She asked if you were feeding him cream. For a ten-month-old preemie, Justin is right on track.”
Bri giggled against my neck and I felt it all the way to my dick. I didn’t think there would ever be a day that she didn’t have me hot and bothered. I felt her lean up and kiss the underside of my chin.
Damn, it felt good.
I rolled her over so that she was on top of me. Grasping her firm ass in my hands I gently rubbed her against my hardening cock. “Are you too tired?” I asked hesitantly.
Bri moaned deep in her throat, “I am never too tired for this.”
I slept in the nude so it wasn’t much work to slip her tiny panties off and to fling them across the room. In a moment, I was sheathed inside of her—my favorite place to be. Bri was so sexy riding my cock, she flung her nightshirt over her head and grabbed her swollen breasts.
They were leaking slightly. The first time that happened Bri had been mortified and covered herself. But I stopped her. I never wanted her to be ashamed of anything her body did. And to be honest it was erotic as hell. Her breasts were huge when engorged and I loved every minute of it.
Bri started grinding down on my cock. I grasped her hips firmly as I thrust up into her. Her long brown curls teasing my hands as I dug my fingers into her ass. Her nipples started leaking more and I knew she was close.
“Come for me, Bri, come all over my cock!”
It was all the encouragement that she needed. Suddenly her core was clenching like a vise around me and I joined her in oblivion, shooting my load high inside of her.
When she came down from her high we noticed the milk on her belly and my chest. I laughed and gently laid her back on the bed before grabbing a washcloth. As soon as I came back from the bathroom I heard Justin’s cries.
I tossed the rag to Bri and went to get our son. He was standing at the edge of crib screaming in indignation. The moment he saw me he was all smiles.
“If you weren’t so damn cute,” I picked him up and took him to the changing table. Sure, enough his diaper was wet. It only took a moment to get him changed. At this point he was munching on his hand and letting me know that he wanted food—immediately.
“Don’t chew your hand off, buddy. Let’s go see your mom.”
By the time, I walked back into our bedroom Bri had put her panties back on. She reached her arms out and I gave her Justin. He went straight for her breast and started sucking loudly. I couldn’t help but laugh.
“He’s greedy, like his daddy,” Bri teased.
I chucked, “He likes boobs like his daddy, t
hat is for sure!”
Bri shook her head, “I heard you swear again.”
My eyes went to the monitor, “Crap! It was only damn.”
Bri laughed, “You made the rule. Every time one of us curses we get dishes for a week.”
“I hate that stupid rule, I have never caught you swearing!” I grumbled climbing in bed next to them. “But I accept defeat.”
Bri laughed, “My love for swearing is only eclipsed by my love for watching you do the dishes.”
“Your mother is a witch, Justin,” I teased. “She certainly has cast a spell over me.”
“I love you,” Bri reached out her hand to touch my chest.
“Bri, I know that you didn’t want to talk about this earlier, but I have waited a long time.”
Slowly I rose and went over to the dresser. I pulled out the black box that had once been my mother’s. Lifting the lid, I saw the shining diamond that I wanted more than anything to reside on Bri’s hand.
“Oh, shit,” Bri held her breath.
“Brianna Carlson, I love you more than life itself. You and our son hold my heart. Will you please marry me?”
Bri almost dropped Justin and her breast popped out of his hungry mouth. He looked up at her in question.
Bri’s lips were trembling, “Yes, a thousand times yes!”
Justin let out a howl, he could have cared less about the moment. Bri quickly got him to latch back on and I slipped the ring onto her finger. It was a perfect fit. Bri in my life was a perfect fit.
And no matter how many years passed or how life changed she would always remain that way. It wasn’t until I kissed her softly on the lips that I give her my small piece of bad news.
“Looks like you will have the dishes this week after all.”
“Oh shit!” she replied slapping her mouth before anything else could escape.
Man, I loved this woman.
Thank you for reading Barefoot in College. Keep reading for an excerpt from Lovely Lillian, the first book in the SISTERS BEFORE MISTERS steamy regency romance series.
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