I almost want to stick my tongue out at her, but manage to stop myself. Instead, I pick up a cracker and place some meat and cheese on it and hold it to Lexi’s lips. She opens her mouth and allows me to pop it in. I smile as I love to see her eating and getting healthier. I hand her a glass and she sips the wine from it.
My mother on the other hand has downed hers and is pouring another. “It’s been so long since I’ve had wine, and this is delicious.”
“Tell me, Sissy, what type of work do you do?” Lexi asks and I pop another beef-topped cracker into her mouth.
Sissy shakes her head. “I’m on disability on account of my back.”
“What state pays you that?” I ask.
“Texas, silly,” she says and takes a long drink. My head spins around back to the fact she just told us that she was living in California. I’m not sure if her mind is addled from the drug abuse or if she’s just a big, fat liar.
“So you’re unable to work, that’s too bad,” Lexi says and taps my hand as if I’m supposed to offer something. I shake my head at her, slightly. Her hand squeezes mine. “What’s your plan then, Sissy?”
My mother looks away and wipes at her eyes again as if they have tears in them, which they don’t. “I tell you, child, I just don’t know. It’d be real nice if Randy could see fit to allow me to stay with him. I’ve missed him all these years, you know. I never wanted to give him away, but the state threatened to put him in foster care and I didn’t want that.”
Lexi leans her head on my shoulder and I know she’s falling for this sad little tale my mother is weaving. “Well, it is important not to leave a child alone when they’re little. I wouldn’t exactly put the blame on the state,” I say and stroke Lexi’s cheek.
Her dark blue eyes look up at me. I know what she thinks I should do and I don’t want to do it. She gives me a nod and I shake my head. She pulls her head up and looks at Sissy. “What will you do if Max refuses to let you stay?”
And here we go with the melting thing again, only this time it’s the chair she melts into as she whimpers, “I’ll probably give up on life. With no family to care for me, why live?”
Lexi’s eyes go wide, and she looks at me. “Perhaps you and I should talk alone, Max,” she says.
I take in a deep breath. “Lexi, there’s nothing to talk about. I told her she could stay one night, and that’s it.”
“This isn’t like you,” she whispers to me.
I know it isn’t, but there’s just something telling me I can’t fall for this. “What would you have me do?”
Lexi tries to stand up and I stand and pick her up and take her to the wheelchair. She looks at my mother. “We’ll be back in a little while, Sissy. Just relax and feel free to turn on the television if you’d like to.”
I wheel her out and off to another room where I’m pretty sure she’s going to attempt to talk me into letting my mother stay.
Alexis
Max picks me up and sets me on his lap as he sits on a sofa in his office. I run my hand over his cheek and bring a smile to his lips. “There’s that smile I love to see,” I say.
I bring my lips to his and kiss him. His arms wrap around me and our bodies seem to pull together like magnets. My heart swells with the love I have for him. After my experience, I’ve let the fear of loving him so fiercely go and cling to it for every moment I can experience it. I pull my mouth from his, finding I feel weak, so I lay my head on his wide chest.
“I don’t want to do it, Lex.” He kisses the top of my head.
“This place is huge, and she’d not be in your way,” I say as I run my fingers over his stomach.
“She makes me hate myself,” he says as he runs his hand along my back.
I gaze up into his dark green eyes. “She doesn’t have the power to do that, Max.”
He bites at his bottom lip and moves his hand to my neck and pulls me into him and drops his lips on mine again. They quiver as he pushes his tongue past my lips and runs it over mine. I turn on his lap, sitting facing him and feel him getting aroused. I run my arms around his neck and tangle my hands in his hair. His hands tangle in mine as his kiss grows hungrier.
With a quick yank on my hair, he pulls my lips from his and moves his mouth to bite at my neck. I groan as his teeth nip at my flesh and feel heat flow through me. “Oh, Max, you’re driving me crazy.”
His teeth rake me as he moves his mouth down to my chest. His hand pulls my shirt down along with my bra, exposing my breast. I arch up to meet his hot mouth as he takes in my breast. My hands run over his back and my stomach twitches as he nips and sucks it.
Slowly, he softens his mouth and trails gentle kisses up over my chest, up my throat and lands softly on my lips. “Damn it, I love you so much, Lexi.” His eyes search mine and I smile at him.
“No one can change you into something you’re not.” I place a kiss on his lips. “You’re a good man and I have faith you’ll do the right thing by that woman.” I kiss his earlobe and pull it into my mouth to nibble at it.
His arms tighten around me as he makes a low groan. “What you do to me is unbelievable.”
Trailing kisses down his neck, my lips move over his warm skin as I say, “You know what I want you to do to me, Max?”
“I do and don’t think you’re strong enough to do that twice in one day, not yet anyway,” he says, but he runs his hands over my back and through my hair until he pulls my head up and puts his lips back on mine, making the fire in me burn twice as hot.
I unbutton his shirt as his mouth consumes mine, taking it as his own. With a quick movement he has me on my back on the sofa and pulls his mouth from mine just long enough to undress me then himself as I smile up at him. “I think this is better physical therapy for me anyway.”
He laughs then moves his body over mine. The hard length of his erection finding its way right to where I crave it the most, making me arch up to meet his first thrust as he looks into my eyes. “Just so you know, Lexi, this may cause you to have my baby. I don’t want any misunderstandings like we had before.”
“I get it,” I say and pull him close so I can whisper in his ear. “I want to have your baby, Max.”
He pulls his head back and gives me the widest smile. “You don’t know how much I’ve wanted to hear those words come out of your mouth, princess.”
“I kinda do know. You haven’t exactly made that a secret, babe.”
He chuckles and his deep laugh shakes my entire body. Then he kisses me and moves himself deeper into me before pulling his hard cock all the way out and thrusting it in as deep as it’ll go. I pull my legs up and he grabs one and pulls it up higher and I feel him go even deeper into me. I moan and he pulls his mouth off mine to graze his teeth over my neck.
I’m already pulsing inside as I rake my fingernails over his back and arch up to meet every thrust. “Harder, Max!”
“I don’t want to hurt you,” he mumbles as he kisses my neck.
“You aren’t,” I say and grab his hair, pulling him to look at me. “Fuck me hard, like you used to. I ache to feel that power you have again.”
His lips curve into a grin and his eyes go dark with desire. “You think you can handle it?”
“I can, give me all you got, please.”
His mouth comes down hard on my breast as he bites at my nipple, igniting a yelp from me. He slams his cock hard into me. My breath is pushed out of my lungs with every stroke as he pushes himself deeper and deeper with each one. My insides start to quiver as he sucks hard on my breast.
My body arches up as I come undone and find myself screaming, “Oh, fuck, Max, God!”
He hasn’t come yet, and he pulls out of me and flips me over on my knees. His hands grab my hips and he slams into me as he pulls me back to him. “Tell me you want this, Lexi,” he says through gritted teeth and rams his swollen cock even deeper into me.
My hands are gripping the sofa cushion and I’m moaning into it to try to stifle the noise I’m making. I lift my
head and say, “I want this! I want to have your baby, Max!”
I feel him stiffen and hot fluid rushes into me as he shouts, “Oh, fuck me!” A moan follows quickly after. He eases his strokes as I pulse around him until we both pulse no more.
He eases his body down on mine and moves to the side to face me. “I love you, Lexi.”
I smile. “I love you, too, Max.”
Max
Just as life’s getting to the good part. Lexi loves me and wants to have my children, so that’s getting to where I wanted things to be. Then my mother has to show up and want to be a mother to me.
She’s never been one, so this is new. Lexi and I told her she could stay, and I set her up in a suite in the other wing of the mansion. We took her shopping and at Lexi’s coaxing, I bought her a car. Nothing fancy or expensive, but a nice one and she loves it.
Somehow, me doing this for my mother has Lexi looking at me with more stars in her eyes than she had before, and there were already a lot of them. A month has passed since my mother came and Lexi and I began working together on having a baby. I bought a pregnancy test and am about to see if Lexi wants to check it out.
To say I’m impatient is an understatement. Lexi comes out of the bedroom just as I get to the door. “Hey, baby,” she says with a smile. Her eyes go to the bag I’m holding. “What ya got there?”
I hold up the bag and lift my eyebrows. “Wanna see if I knocked you up yet?”
“Already?” she asks with a smile and grabs the bag out of my hand. She turns back to go into the bedroom and I pick her up and carry her in. “I can walk now, Max.”
“I know,” I say and drop a kiss on her cheek. “But I kinda like carrying you around.”
Her giggle fills my heart and I hope she feels as excited as I do about having a baby. I put her down, and she goes into the bathroom. I sit and wait for what seems like forever. The door opens, and she’s frowning. “What’s wrong with me?” she asks with a pout on her pink lips.
“Let me see it. I want to be sure you’re reading it right.” I take the stick out of her hand and look at it. My mouth drops open and I look up at her. “You little minx!”
She loses the fake frown and has the biggest smile I’ve ever seen on her. “I fooled ya!”
I grab her and twirl her around. “You’ve made me so happy!”
“You’re gonna be a daddy!” Her arms are tight around my neck.
I finally stop twirling and sit on the edge of my bed, keeping her in my lap. “I love you, Lexi. Now will you consider marrying me?”
“I’ll think about it,” she says with a grin. “But I don’t want some over the top thing. Just something small and only family there.”
“Whatever you want that’s how it’ll be,” I say and move her off my lap so I can get something I’ve been dying to give her. “Wait right here.”
Taking a black box from my top dresser drawer, I go back and get on one knee. Lexi’s eyes are already getting glassy. I open the box and the light hits the enormous diamond engagement ring I bought all the way back before I took Lexi with me to the children’s home and introduced her to my house mother. I was going to propose to her there, in front of Mom, but she got pissed at me and I felt she’d tell me no, so I didn’t do it then.
“Alexis Mathews, will you do me the great honor of becoming my wife, forever and always?”
Tears flow over her pink cheeks and her lips quiver. “Yes,” she says and my heart overflows with joy.
She extends her left hand and I place the ring on her finger. I had to have it adjusted since she lost so much weight, but it fits perfectly. I pull her up into my arms and she breaks into sobs and takes me on the damn emotional journey with her. “This is so amazing, Max. We’ve both almost died, and I was such an idiotic person and I thought I’d never see you again, but I did and we made up and you didn’t marry Kate like I thought you did,” she pauses and I think she might stop her rambling. Then her mouth lands on mine and she’s kissing me.
I kiss her back as our tears mingle on one another’s cheeks. Then she pulls her mouth away from mine. “Let’s go tell Marcos and Kate!” she says.
I let her go and grab a couple of tissues off the nightstand. “Damn it, girl, you got me cryin’ too!”
She laughs and I have to laugh too. “We’re going to be a real family, you and I. I can’t believe it!” she says and breaks into sobs again.
Is this how it’ll be for a while, a cryfest?
Alexis
The air is warm as we walk back into the mansion after going to see Marcos and Kate and telling them our good news. And they shared theirs with us, as our angel, Kate, is pregnant too and they’re jetting off to Vegas to get married, then off to Paris to do it over there too.
Max holds me close to him as we make our way to the kitchen to tell our news to Hilda. As we round the corner, we see Sissy in the kitchen and Hilda’s frowning at her. “Sissy, are you sure you’re feeling okay?”
“I am. Stop askin’ me that,” Sissy says as she grabs a bag of frozen peas from the freezer and holds it to her left arm.
“What’s happened?” I ask as I break away from Max and go to Sissy. I take her arm and move the bag to find a bloody spot along a very swollen and blue vein. “Sissy, what happened?”
She jerks her arm from me and places the bag back on the injury. “Nothin’ I can handle this!”
“Hey! Watch how you talk to her,” Max says with a stern tone.
I shoot him a look I hope he realizes means to be more compassionate with her. “I’m not saying you can’t handle it, Sissy. Maybe we should take you to the doctor is all.”
“I don’t need anyone’s help. I’ve been taking care of myself a long time and made it just fine!” she says then stomps out of the room.
We all stand in stunned silence, then Max starts to go after her. “No!” I say and he stops. “We aren’t letting that stop what we came to tell Hilda.”
Hilda wipes her forehead with a dish cloth. “You came to tell me something?”
Max smiles and takes me by the waist, then grabs my left hand and holds it up. She spots the ring and her hands go to her mouth. “Oh! Finally!” She hugs us both then steps back and smiles. “You’ll be so happy together.”
Max kisses my cheek. “I know, and there’s a bit of bad news for you.”
“Oh! If you’re talking about me making a fabulous engagement party or a wonderful wedding reception, don’t worry. I already have the whole plan figured out. I made it when Lexi came home from the hospital. You will both love it.”
“Well, it won’t be enough,” Max says.
“I beg your pardon?” she asks and her hands go up in the air. “I beg you to remember I worked for the president of Mexico for a time and I know how to throw a party.”
“Did you ever throw a baby shower?” he asks.
She stops throwing her hands around and stares at me. “No!”
I nod and she runs and grabs me up in her little arms. “We’re having a baby,” I say.
She lets me go, and she’s beaming. “Finally, I have a family to feed. You have no idea how long I’ve wanted this.”
Max laughs. “Glad we could help you out with your dream, Hilda.”
Hilda moves back to the counter and pulls out a notebook. “Oh my, I have so much work to do. I have to make up a diet for you, Lexi, and of course I have to start on healthy foods for the baby. I will make all the baby food, no preservatives will ever go into the child. So much work, so little time. A baby shower menu. My, my.”
With a tug on my arm, Max says, “Come, we must give her space to make recipes for the future baby, Lane’s we have.”
I look at him as he pulls me to him and holds me at my waist. “Tell me, Max. Now that your mother knows who you are, will you change your name back to Randy?”
“No way!” he says. “That dude is gone and has been for a long time.”
As we walk to the main living area we pass in front of the staircase which le
ads up to the other wing that his mother has her room in. A loud crash comes from up there and we look at each other, then move quickly to see what happened.
Max
A crashing sound led Lexi and I up to my mother’s room and we found her passed out on the floor. Her arm is bleeding and as I look around, I see a needle half full of some black stuff. I pick her up and lay her on the bed. She’s like a rag doll and Lexi grabs her cell and calls 911.
After she gets the ambulance coming, we comb the room, looking for what else she has in here.
“See!” I shout. “This is why I didn’t want her here. This is one of the best damn days of my life and she’s fucked it up!”
“Calm the bippety, boppety down, Max!” Lexi says. “Our day isn’t ruined. Nothing can ruin this day.”
My mother begins to flail about on the bed and Lexi runs to grab her before she falls off the bed. Her eyes open as Lexi grabs her by the arms.
“Who are you?” she screams. “Get the Hell away from me!”
In slow motion, my mother’s legs pull up and I break into a run, trying to move Lexi before she’s hurt. Her legs jut out and Lexi flies back as she’s kicked in the stomach. Lexi lands on the floor with a thud as her hands go to her stomach.
“No!” I scream as I fall to my knees beside her.
I watch in horror as Lexi can’t take a breath. The kick knocked the wind from her. Her eyes lock on mine and panic fills them. Then I feel something slam into my head.
Alexis
Beeping machines fill the air around me as Max, Sissy, and I were all taken to the hospital. Sissy had busted Max’s head open when she hit him with a lamp. I began bleeding from her kick to my stomach and probably have lost the tiny fetus which had just begun to grow inside me. Oh, yeah, and apparently Sissy is back on heroin.
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