by Jessie Cooke
Nicole felt her heart swell as she looked at the picture, but when she looked up and saw the look on Zack’s face, she thought it just might burst. He looked slightly confused as he stared at the monitor, but the awe in his eyes was apparent. At last he looked down at her and said, “He looks just like me, lucky little bastard.”
“He’s a she,” Nicole said and burst into laughter.
46
Five Months Later
Zack and Nicole had gone around and round about her working. He wanted her to stop months ago, but she wouldn’t hear of it. Armand had a mini-stroke and he was having trouble doing the things he normally did around the bakery, and Nicole insisted until she got the new woman trained to her specifications, she was going in to work every day. Zack had put off going back out on the road and in the meantime, a lieutenant position came open with the club and he took it. Nicole was worried he’d regret being grounded, but there was no place he wanted to be but with his family…even when his seven-months pregnant wife came home from work a little bit grumpier every day.
Zack had been planning on surprising her with dinner that day. She’d worked late and he knew she’d be exhausted when she got home. He had taken Liam to Nicole’s mother and picked up Thai food on his way back to the little house they’d rented in Nashville. He knew it might mean more if he actually cooked for her, but a man had to draw a line somewhere. He set the table with the good plates and put a little vase with a rose he’d picked out front in the center of it. He had to admit, if only to himself, that he was hoping she’d be so happy and relaxed after dinner that she might want to have sex. They didn’t have that a lot lately and it was killing him. When they did, it was still the best he ever had and it left him satiated and wanting more at the same time. But between the pregnancy, his working a lot with his new position, Liam, and her work, they’d settled into a routine that altered between being nice and comfortable and making him want to shoot something.
He heard the front door just as he put the last of the food on the table, and went over to greet her. He’d been gone on a run that morning when she left for work, so he hadn’t seen her. He smiled when she came through the door, big belly first. She was wearing a light pink dress that buttoned up the front. She had a white sash tied underneath her breasts, which had almost doubled in size since she became pregnant. The buttons strained across her bust and her belly, showing just enough skin to make his cock throb. Zack knew she worried that he wasn’t going to be attracted to her while she was swollen in various places, but surprisingly even to him, he fucking loved it. The very sight of her was like taking an aphrodisiac. She kicked off her sandals and looked at him. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Because my old lady is fucking hot,” he said, leaning in to give her a kiss. She gave him a peck and he said, “How was work?”
She wrinkled her nose and walked over to the couch and sat down. “It was okay – busy. Julie seems to have a big learning curve and it’s killing me. I’m not sure she’ll be ready to handle things by herself before I have the baby and poor Armand is…” Zack leaned down and covered her mouth with his. At first she stiffened, like she was angry at him for stopping her, but she quickly softened up and gave herself over to it. She put her arms up around his neck and pulled him deeper into it. His cock was growing in his pants while they kissed until they were both on the verge of needing CPR. When he pulled back so they could breathe he said:
“Are you hungry?” Her dress had ridden up, thanks to her big belly, and it was so far up on her thighs that Zack could almost see that beautiful pussy. He wanted to put his hands between her legs and see if she was wet, but he didn’t want to piss her off.
“A little,” she said. “Where is Liam?”
“He’s with your mom.”
Nicole smiled. “She can’t get enough of him. Did she call and ask for him again?” Zack decided to go with that. A little white lie never hurt anyone.
“Yeah, said something about your dad teaching him to drive the Polaris.”
Nicole smiled. “Now that I know you made up. Mom is much too paranoid to let that happen. Although I wouldn’t put it past Dad to try. I’m so glad they both want to have a relationship with Liam. He’s crazy about them too.”
“Well, I can’t speak for him, but I can’t imagine anyone not made from stone being able to resist that kid. Have you noticed he’s picking up some of my charm?”
She giggled. “I have noticed,” she said. “Let’s hope he doesn’t also absorb the conceit.”
Zack grinned. “I just don’t buy into all that false modesty stuff. I’m sexy and I know it.”
Nicole shook her head at him. “Yes, you are. I wish I felt sexy lately.” He started to tell her how sexy she was but she went on to say, “Maybe a shower would help. I feel so grimy.”
“Okay, go shower. I’ll heat up the Thai food.” For the first time Nicole looked over toward the table.
“You got takeout, how sweet.” She held onto him and pulled herself up to her feet. Giving him another sweet kiss she said, “Thank you, babe. I won’t be long.”
Zack watched her go down the hallway toward their bedroom and he was tempted to follow her, but he talked himself out of it and went to gather up the Thai containers and take them back into the kitchen to reheat them. He was putting them back on the table when he heard the shower shut off. A few seconds passed and he heard Nicole say:
“Baby, can you come here for a second?”
Zack put the last container down and wiped his hands before going down the hallway. Her voice sounded funny so as soon as he stepped into the bedroom he said, “What’s wrong?” She was naked and even though he was slightly worried, his cock finished filling with blood. He now had a raging hard-on and a tent in his pants. She was probably thinking he was a fucking pervert. “What is it, babe?”
“Does it still turn you on to look at me?”
Zack laughed and looked down at the front of his pants. “Are you serious?”
Nicole smiled, almost shyly. “I’m so horny,” she said.
Zack let out a sound that was somewhere between a growl and a sigh of relief. “Thank God,” he said. Nicole giggled and moved into his arms. He kissed her again, long and hard and passionately. She broke the kiss first and took a step back before pulling his head down into her chest. Zack didn’t hesitate to take one of them into his mouth and begin to roll the nipple against his tongue. Her nipples were bigger, like the rest of her breasts, and he loved the way they felt in his mouth. He began to suck on it, and Nicole moaned and lifted one of her legs up off the floor, rubbing her thigh into his as he licked and sucked and took little bites of her gorgeous tits. He let his hand find its way down between her legs at last and he wasn’t disappointed when he felt how wet she was. He let his fingers play in her warmth while he moved his head over and sucked on the other nipple. Nicole began moving her hips against his hand, and he slid a finger up inside of her. She moaned loudly and moved her hips faster. Zack slipped a second finger up inside of her and he began moving them in and out in time to the thrusting of her hips. The sounds that she was making were almost as sexy as how she felt rocking against him and how her nipples felt and tasted against his tongue.
“Zack?”
He reluctantly let her nipple fall out of his mouth. “Yeah, baby?”
“Can I suck your cock?”
He laughed again. “You ask the funniest questions. Have a seat on the bed. I’ll get him out for you.” Nicole smiled and went and sat on the bed. Zack couldn’t take his eyes off her as he stripped off his clothes as quickly as he could. He couldn’t understand how she couldn’t look at herself and see how sexy she was, pregnant or not. Once he was completely naked, he went over to her, and she didn’t waste any time taking his throbbing erection in her hand and then moaning as she let it slide in between her lips. Zack moaned too and then let out a groan as she slid her hand down to cup his balls while she sucked on his hard cock. She sucked and licked and used her other hand to sl
ide him out and rub his head across her sexy, wet lips. Zack watched her, getting more turned on by the second. “Baby, touch yourself while you suck my cock.” Nicole slid a hand down between her thighs and spread them open further as she began to rub. Zack couldn’t see past her belly to watch what she was doing, but just knowing that her fingers were pressing against her swollen clit was driving him crazy. He could hear how wet she was as she rubbed harder and faster, and he loved the sexy slurping noises she was making as his cock slid in and out of her mouth. She used her tongue to circle the head of it each time she let it slide out and then sucked it back in like a vacuum cleaner. He felt his balls tightening up as he listened to her breaths become more ragged, and he knew that she was about to make herself come. He pulled back and let his cock pop out of her mouth and then, taking her by the legs, he moved her back onto the bed and spread her thighs wider. “Come for me, sexy.” Nicole was so into what she was doing that she barely missed a beat. Her fingers went back to work on that sweet pussy, and Zack reached down and stroked his own cock as he watched. She was thrusting her hips up into her hand, and she’d drawn her legs up and let her knees fall open. She was moaning and panting, and just before she came she opened her pretty hazel eyes and looked at him. “Fuck,” she breathed out as he body tensed up and she let the orgasm take over. Zack lay down next to her and replaced her hand with his. He stroked her gently until her body stopped shaking and she said:
“I need your cock…please.”
Zack rolled over so he was flat on his back and said, “Get up on top, baby.” Nicole hesitated and he knew that she was worried about being too big, but he wanted to watch her ride him and he wasn’t going to take no for an answer. He grabbed her by her ass and helped her up until she was straddling his waist and then he led his cock to the opening of her hot, soaking-wet pussy. Nicole sat up and then lowered herself slowly until he was so deep inside of her that he was almost worried about the baby. She must have read his mind because she smiled and said:
“I’ve read all the books. It’s fine.” That was good enough for him. He reached back and grabbed both cheeks of her ass and as she moved up and down on top of him, he held onto her tightly, massaging and caressing all that gorgeous flesh. Zack let her set the pace for a while. She felt so good, so tight and warm wrapped around his cock, that he never wanted it to end. She also looked so good sitting up on top of him, and he let go of her ass and reached up to tweak her nipples. After a few minutes, she leaned forward and put them in his face. He gathered the mounds of flesh in his hands and once again licked and sucked them, this time harder. The harder he sucked and the more she moaned, the closer he got to his own earth-shattering orgasm. He began to buck up off the bed, harder, and she bounced up and down on him faster, each time their hips met, and the slap of their flesh together sent a thrill through him.
“I’m going to come, baby.”
“Mm-hmm,” she said, breathlessly. “Yeah, baby.” Nicole rode him harder and faster, holding onto his chest now and digging her fingers into his flesh. “Fuck, Zack.”
“I know, baby,” he said in a breathless voice, just before gripping her ass like a vise and shooting his come up inside of her. “Jesus. Fuck. God…you’re going to kill me.”
Nicole let out a little laugh as she dropped down on top of him. They were both sweating, and he loved the feel of her warm skin pressed into his as their bodies slid together while they kissed. When she broke the kiss, and rolled off him she said, “Don’t go anywhere. I might want to do that again in a few minutes.”
“Not that I’m complaining,” Zack said, kissing her on the side of the face. “But, what suddenly made you so horny?”
“It wasn’t sudden. I’ve been horny every day this trimester. I’m just so big…”
Zack rolled on his side so they were face to face. “Hey, stop that. You are so fucking hot, baby. Did you not just see how much I enjoyed that? You make me crazy – pregnant, not pregnant, I don’t care. You’re sexy and gorgeous and you’re…Nicole, you’re fucking everything, baby. You’re everything and I’m so fucking glad that you’re mine.”
She pressed her body into his and rested her head on his shoulder and said, “I’m so glad to be yours. I love you so much. Nobody ever made me feel like you do. I want to feel like I do when I’m with you forever.”
Zack kissed the side of her face and said, “You won’t, baby…because it’s going to get even better.”
47
It was midnight before Zack and Nicole could drag themselves out of bed long enough to eat the food he’d already reheated twice. It was dry and tasteless by then, but Zack was starving and Nicole was so sweet and grateful that she pretended like she didn’t notice. After they ate, she was beyond exhausted and so was Zack. They left the dishes for morning and climbed back in bed. As soon as she snuggled into him she fell asleep, and Zack was just about to go under himself, when his phone started ringing. He didn’t want to move to answer it but after the third ring Nicole opened her eyes and said, “Are you going to get it?”
“Nope.”
She sat up suddenly. “I think I left my phone in the kitchen. Maybe it’s Mom about Liam.” Zack smiled at her and sat up. He got slightly annoyed sometimes when she worried for no reason, but he really couldn’t have asked for a better woman to be the mother of his child and he knew it. Coming from Mona himself, he appreciated even more how much Nicole loved and sacrificed for her babies.
He reached over onto the bedside table and picked up the phone just as it stopped ringing. He had a missed call from Detective Samuels. “Shit,” he said, before he realized the look of panic forming on Nicole’s face. “It’s okay, baby. It’s not your mom. It was that detective from Texas.” His phone dinged with a voicemail, and he and Nicole both looked at it. He hadn’t heard from Samuels in six months. He had to guess that at almost one a.m. it meant only one thing…they’d found Mona.
“Are you going to listen to it?” she asked in a sleepy voice.
“In the morning,” he said. He started to put the phone down and she said:
“You’re not going to sleep all night thinking about it.”
He sighed; she was right. He picked it back up and pressed voicemail and then he put it on speaker so Nicole could hear. “Mr. Leoni, I’m sorry to call so late but I thought you biker types kept late hours.” Zack rolled his eyes as the detective went on to say, “We located your mother. She’s quite…interesting. Anyways, she’s not talking to us, but that’s no surprise since she managed to keep her part in this a secret for over ten years. She is asking to talk to you, however. Give me a call when you get a chance. Good night.”
Zack sat looking at the phone after he’d pressed “End.” Finally, he said, “What the fuck does she want with me?”
Nicole reached over and ran her hand through his long hair, brushing it back out of his face, gently. She let him sit quietly for a few minutes and then she said, “I know you don’t want to see her, but maybe it would be better to just get it over with.”
He was thinking the same thing. But if she wasn’t talking that meant she didn’t plan on pleading guilty and he’d have to see her eventually anyways, in court. He still couldn’t fathom the idea of being the witness that sent his mother to death row. “Fuck,” he said, running a hand through his own hair. “I wish I thought I could talk her into taking a plea.” Nicole knew how badly he didn’t want to testify against his mother, no matter how badly Mona deserved it. He’d have to live with that forever, and he hated the thought of it.
“Maybe you could talk her into it. Maybe if you tell her, face to face, how badly you don’t want her to get the death penalty…”
“Did I say that? I never said I didn’t want her to get it, just that I didn’t want to be the one that sealed it.”
“Zachary, this is me. I know your mother was horrible to you, but I also know that no matter what, we always have that bond with our parents. It’s okay for you to not want her to die.”
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��She’s a terrible person.”
Nicole laid her head on his shoulder and pressed them both back into the bed. “I know, baby, but you’re not.” She kissed him and said, “I will support you, whatever you decide to do.”
Zack put the phone down and pulled Nicole into his arms. He almost wished they had never found Mona because Nicole was right, horrible woman or not, he still didn’t want her to die.
Detective Samuels was waiting for Zack when he stepped off the plane at the San Antonio airport. He would have much preferred taking his bike, but with Nicole so close to delivering the baby, he didn’t want to be two days’ ride away. “Mr. Leoni, thank you for coming.” It had been three days since the night Samuels called. It took Zack that long to decide he had to go talk to her – he had to at least try and make her realize that she might as well be suicidal if she went to court on a dual murder charge in Texas.
Zack shook the detective’s hand and as they walked toward the entrance he asked, “Did she get an attorney?”
“Court appointed,” Samuels said.
“Is the D.A. going to offer a deal?”
They walked through the exit and toward the detective’s car that he had parked in the loading zone right in front. Once they were inside the car Samuels said, “Twenty-five years without the possibility of parole as long as she pleads guilty to all charges and tells them what happened to the rest of the jewelry taken that night. I guess there was a diamond taken from one of the benefactors of the benefit that was worth over six hundred grand and it wasn’t with the jewelry they found.”
“Fuck. Who wears a diamond worth over six hundred grand?”
The detective chuckled as he pulled the car out of the airport exit. “Spoken like a true biker. You’re not shocked by the robbery, only that someone who paid for that diamond would wear it.”
“I’m not a thief.”
“I didn’t say you were. But you are of a certain mindset.”