by Thomas, C. M
“Is it like that all the time?” she sobbed. I wiped the tears away from her face.
“No, this is because they want to know who you are. And they want to know who is the mother of my child. They will not be this aggressive when they know that,” I said, hoping that what I was telling her wasn’t a lie.
“He is right. They will keep this up until they have the story they want. But we will keep you safe. I’ve talked to the hotel, they have a back entrance where you guys can get in without everyone knowing you’re staying there,” Dax said. I looked up at him. I thought he was driving, but it was Mark who was driving.
“Thanks.” I nodded at him before looking back at Evie. She was still resting in my arms. I knew we would talk more about this when we were alone.
The drive to the hotel was short, and twenty minutes later we were in our hotel room.
Alone, away from everyone.
I set our bags in the bedroom and walked out to see Evie sitting at the small couch, looking out on the skyline. We were on one of the top floors, and the view was amazing. The lights from the city glowed through the windows. The skyline was lighting up with a lot of lights from the different buildings. And the sky was almost cloud-free, so you could see all the stars sparkling.
I walked over and sat beside Evie, pulling her over to me so she sat between my legs, with her back against my chest. She rested her head back against me.
“That was scary.” She turned her head so she could look at me. I couldn’t help but give her a kiss. She was so beautiful.
“I know. But know that Dax and the team will keep us safe—always.”
“I know. But what about Alana? I can’t expose her to that. I know that being your daughter, I can’t keep her away from the reporters and mostly the paparazzi. But this, tonight, that was just too much.” The tears were back in her eyes.
“I’m sorry, Sunshine. We will figure this out. I think the best way to keep them away from her is that we make a statement with a picture of the three of us together.” I looked at her. “They want the first picture, so if we take that away from them, then maybe they will back off. They will always be there, but we will do what we can to make her childhood as normal as it can be.”
“But this is scaring me. They were like hungry lions chasing after their first meal in months.”
“They are like that sometimes. Mostly it’s just Zane who they follow.” That made her laugh, and the mission was complete. The smile was back on her face. “You’re beautiful when you smile, Sunshine.” I kissed her again.
“Thank you. And thank you for this. You didn’t need to do this. We could have celebrated back home. That would have been fine by me.”
“I know. But I wanted to do this, and I wanted us to get a break from everyone.” I smiled. I felt something vibrate in my pocket. I took my phone out and looked at the display. It was a text from my mother. I opened it and saw a picture of her, my dad, and our girl. They were sitting on the couch under blankets and with a big bowl of popcorn watching a movie. I smiled and showed it to Evie. “Looks like our girl is having fun.”
“It does. But why is she not sleeping? It is way past her bedtime.” She tried to sound mad, but the look on her face was telling a different story. She had a big smile on her face.
“Let them. That way she will be tired tomorrow,” I said. “She is fine, and she looks happy, that is all that matters.”
“I know. Thank your mom for sending that. I needed it.” She rested her head back on my chest. I held her tightly while texting my mom.
Me: Looks like you guys are having fun, thanks for sending us the picture. We miss her.
Mom: We are. She hasn’t asked for you guys once, so don’t worry about her. We will be fine here, enjoy your time together.
Me: We will. See you tomorrow.
I put my phone on the table and focused back on the woman in my arms.
“I have something for you, but I need to get to my bag to get it.” She turned in my arms again.
“I told you I didn’t want anything. This is more than enough.”
“I know you did. But I want to give you a gift on your birthday. Don’t argue with me on that, you will never win.” I smiled at her. She moved from my arms so I could get up from the couch. I walked over to my bag and got her present before walking back to her. I gave her the present and sat back down, pulling her back in my arms. “I thought a lot about what to give you. You gave me the most precious gift I could ever want: Alana.”
“You gave me her too,” was all she said. And she was right, we gave each other Alana.
“I know. But back to that.” I pointed at the present in her hands. “I wanted to give you something special. Something that would mean more than a normal gift. I thought it was time we added some more charms to this.” I took off the necklace she had on.
“Don’t take that away, I love it.” She tried to take the necklace back from me.
“I’m not taking it away. Open the present.” I looked at her. She did as I said and started opening the present. She opened the black velvet box and looked at the two charms in it. The first one was a small heart with an A in it. The second one was an infinity sign.
“They are beautiful. Thank you.” She turned her head and gave me a kiss.
“You’re welcome. The heart is obviously for Alana, the other is for our future together. This time no running. I know it wasn’t you running away. But I want you to know that I’m in this for the rest of my life.”
“I love you, Liam. Thank you for this and for giving us another chance.” She put the box on the table and took the necklace out of my hands before putting it next to the box. Then she got up, took my hand, and started walking over to the bed. I held my breath. We hadn’t had sex since we got back together. We had done other things, and if Alana hadn’t interrupted us more than once, we would have had sex. Tonight, there was no one to interrupt us. It was just me and her.
“I love you too, Sunshine,” I said when we reached the bed. I pulled her close to me and wrapped my arms around her waist. She looked up at me and smiled.
“Kiss me,” she whispered. I kissed her. This time it was not just a small kiss on the lips. We both devoured each other, and our tongues were almost fighting to win the battle. I broke the kiss when we were both out of breath. I looked into my girl’s beautiful eyes and smiled.
I turned her around and pulled down the zipper in her dress. When the zipper was down, I took off her dress. She now stood in front of me in the sexiest black lace underwear I had ever seen. I wanted her bad, my cock was hard against the zipper in my pants, but I didn’t want this to be just a fast fuck. I wanted to make love to her.
“God, you’re gorgeous,” I said when I turned her back around, so I could look her in the eyes. She blushed and tried to hide her body from me. “Don’t do that. I love your body, okay?” She looked up at me with tears in her eyes.
“But I’m not fit like I used to be.” She bowed her head and looked down her body. I took her hand and placed it over my very hard cock.
“Feel what seeing you standing in your underwear does to me, Sunshine,” I said, loving her hand on me, even though I still had my pants on. She moved her hand from me and wrapped her arms around my neck.
“How about you show me instead?” she said with a smile on her face. I pulled her close to me and lifted her up. She instantly wrapped her legs around my waist. I could feel her hotness against my erection. I didn’t know how long I would last. It had been years. I hadn’t had sex since the last time Evie and I had sex. I never wanted anyone else.
I walked over to the side of the bed and moved us both onto the bed, me on top of her. I put my hands on her cheeks and dove in for a fiery and passionate kiss. Her arms moved down my body and pulled my shirt from my pants. She moved her hands under my shirt and worked them up and down my back. In this moment, it was ju
st the two of us. The world disappeared around us, together with the worries, the loss of the last three years. Just everything.
Our bodies melted together, as if they were always meant to be like this. Which if I had anything to say about it, they would be. We belonged together, and the way our bodies fit just confirmed that. Kissing her was by far my favorite thing to do, the feeling of our warm, slightly swelled lips connecting and our tongues doing the perfect dance. We both breathed heavily, and I broke the kiss to take off my shirt.
I started kissing her again, first her lips, then I kissed her all the way from her lips to the top of her bra. Just featherlight kisses. She moaned and moved under me, trying to get pressure on her clit. I opened the front clasp of her bra, letting her perfectly natural and soft breasts out. Her nipples were hard, small, pink beads. I took one in my mouth and moved a hand to her other breast. I devoured her breasts and nipples, kissing and playing with them. She moaned loudly and moved her hands to my pants, trying to open the zipper. When she let out a small frustrated breath, I sat up on my knees and opened the zipper.
“This what you wanted?” I asked her. She nodded and moved my hands. She sat up on her knees in front of me, pulling my pants and boxers down, or as far as they could with me sitting like this. I moved over beside her and lay down, so she could take my pants all the way off.
When she was done, she bent down to kiss me again. I wrapped my arms around her waist and moved her, so she was straddling my cock. The moment I felt her heat against my naked cock, I growled. She moved a little against my cock, the only thing between us her panties. Her very wet panties. I could feel her arousal against my cock. She moved down my body and kissed my chest with her warm lips. She kissed me all the way down to my cock. She looked up at me and licked her lips before she kissed the top of my cock. I growled loudly and fisted my hands. She smiled before she licked the precum off and took my cock fully inside her mouth.
“Shit, Sunshine… that’s amazing,” I moaned. Her hot mouth moved up and down on my cock, using her tongue against the length of me. I was getting close, and just before I was about to fill her throat with my come, I pulled her off me. “I want to be inside you when I come,” I said, moving us around, so I was on top again. She just smiled and licked her lips.
I took off her panties and tossed them aside. I looked at her pussy; it was all red and wet. She was totally bare down there. I looked up at her, raising my eyebrow.
“Got that done this morning,” she said, smiling, like she knew what I was going to ask. We hadn’t had sex since she came back, but I had eaten her pussy more than once, so I knew she had this done in the last couple of days.
“I think you’re trying to kill me, Sunshine,” I said, moving up her body and kissing her. When our lips met, I put two fingers inside her. Her back arched, and she moaned loudly. I moved my fingers in and out of her, kissing her hard.
“I need you,” she said between her moans. I looked at her, smiling.
“Condom?” I didn’t want to use one, I wanted to feel her bare. Skin against skin.
“I’m on the pill.” She shook her head no. “Please, Liam, I want to feel you now.” I pulled my fingers out of her wet pussy and replaced them with my cock. I eased in slowly. She was so tight, that I was afraid I might hurt her or that I might come before I was even all the way inside her. When I was all the way inside her, I looked at her.
“You okay?” She nodded and wriggled under me, her body asking me to move. I slowly move inside her, pulling almost all the way out before I slowly moved back in. I kissed her passionately and made love to her. Feeling her pussy starting to squeeze around my cock, I knew she was almost there. I put my hand between us and pinched her clit twice before she came. I pushed inside her one more time before I went still and came hard. The sweat was running down my back.
I lay back down on her for a minute before I pulled out of her and rolled us over on our sides. “Love you, Sunshine,” I said, and kissed her forehead.
“Love you too, very much,” she said before resting her head against my chest. Moments later, we were both asleep.
Chapter 17:
Evie
Buzzing, I heard buzzing in the distance. Then there was movement beside me and I opened my eyes to see Liam crawl out of bed. He looked over his shoulder and smiled.
“Morning, Sunshine.”
“Morning.” I smiled back at him. He walked over to his pants and took his phone out of the pocket, then he came back in bed to me.
“Looks like my mom really wants to talk to us,” he said. I looked at the display on his phone and saw he had five missed calls from his mother.
“Call her back, what if something happened?” I immediately got scared that something happened to Alana. That this was a mistake, leaving her and coming here. Liam pulled me close to him and pulled the cover over us.
“Calm down, I’m sure everything is fine.” He kissed my forehead before he called his mother back. “Morning, Mom, everything okay? I have you on speaker.” I looked up at him, trying to calm down. Coleen has raised five kids, she knows what to do, I kept telling myself.
“Morning, of course. Alana just wanted to say good morning to the two of you. Sorry if we woke you up, but she kept asking.” I smiled. Thank God everything is okay. I could feel my body slowly relaxing again.
“It’s okay. We just wanted to make sure everything is okay.”
“Everything is fine, she slept in our bed last night. And this morning she talked your dad into letting Buddy and Bear come up in the bed and cuddle with her.” Coleen laughed.
“Are you serious? He always forbids that they even come into your bedroom.” Liam chuckled.
“I think she can get him to agree to almost anything,” Coleen said.
“I’m sure she can.” I laughed.
“I will just get Alana, she is watching cartoons with Gia.”
“Told you everything was fine,” Liam whispered, and kissed me. “Mom, use FaceTime, so we can see her,” Liam said so Coleen could hear him.
“Okay, let me just get Gia to help. I don’t know how to do all these fancy things on the phone.” Moments later, we saw Gia and Alana on the screen.
“Mommy, Daddy.” Alana clapped her hands and smiled.
“Morning, baby girl, did you sleep well?” I asked her.
“Yay. Me sleep with Granny and Papa.” She smiled.
“That sounds like fun. We miss you,” Liam said, holding me close.
“Miss you too. When you come home?” she asked.
“We are going to be home when you wake up from your afternoon nap, okay?” I said.
“’Kay.” She looked at something beside the phone. “Zay,” she squealed, and crawled down from Gia’s lap.
“Guess that was all she had to say to you two.” Gia laughed.
“Guess so. See you later,” Liam said before ending the call. “Looks like she is having fun. And I can’t believe she convinced my dad to let the dogs cuddle with her on the bed.”
“It’s her puppy eyes. They are almost impossible to say no to.”
“You’re right.” He moved down in the bed and pulled me with him. We lay down instead of sitting. “Are you okay?”
“More than okay. Last night was amazing.” It really was. I felt like last night was the next thing that had to happen for us to keep moving forward. The sex with Liam was the most amazing thing I’d ever done. We had sex before, of course, but back then we were teenagers, and neither of us really knew what to do. I knew that I hadn’t slept with other people than Liam, and he told me that I was the only one for him too. But still, last night felt like we both had gained a lot more experience than we had before I left.
I still didn’t know how I felt about the reporters and paparazzi. I wanted this to work, more than anything, so we had to find a way for me to live with the paparazzi following us. But it sc
ared me how aggressive they were last night. Could I live with that? I couldn’t live without Liam, so I had to find a way to be okay with the paparazzi. Maybe I should talk to Anna, she had been through this. Going from being nobody to being Zane’s girlfriend.
“I couldn’t agree more,” he said before he kissed me.
We spent the rest of the morning talking, cuddling, and eating breakfast in bed. I didn’t want to leave this hotel room. It was like we were in our own little bubble and the world outside didn’t matter. The only thing missing was Alana. I missed her. Missed cuddling with her in the morning. That was one of the things she loved, and every morning she came to our bed and watched cartoons and cuddled before we got up to eat breakfast. Today it was just Liam and me. And I loved that too, but our girl was missing.
“I miss her,” Liam said, like he could read my mind.
“Me too. I was just thinking that the only thing missing for this to be even more perfect is our baby.”
“Yeah. But we needed this, Sunshine.” He held me close and kissed the top of my head.
“I know. And I wouldn’t change anything about last night or this morning.” I looked up at him. “Well, except for the reporters last night. Have you heard from Dax or Anna?”
“Not yet. Texted Anna that I didn’t want to hear anything unless it was absolutely necessary. She texted back that she would meet us at our house when we got back. Dax won’t say anything unless our safety is in danger.”
“Okay.” I really didn’t want to hear or read what the reporters wrote about us. But at the same time, I wanted to know where we stood in all this.
“Ready to go home?” Liam asked.
“I am.” I got up from the bed and got ready to go home. Home to our little girl. Home to the reality, home to face what last night’s meeting with the reporters had brought to the story about me and Liam.