by Ash, Nikki
Bentley’s face turns into a frown as he opens his mouth to argue. I cover his mouth with my fingers. “Nope. No arguing. It’s your Birthday and we are going to celebrate. They know what to do and Faith will be fine.”
I grab the suitcase, give Faith one more kiss, and take Bentley’s hand to drag him out the door.
Once we are in my SUV he starts his complaining. “I don’t want to leave her, Kayla. What if she thinks we aren’t coming back? We just left her the other night to go to that club…What if they don’t know what to do if there’s an emergency? I don’t like this… Maybe my parents should have watched her.”
“Stop! You have been super dad and partner since we brought Faith home. We have only left her once for a couple hours to go out. One night away will be good for you. Plus leaving her with your parents would mean Hayley and Caleb wouldn’t be stuck in the house together all night.”
“Wait! What do you mean night? Like all night? Like as in we aren’t coming home tonight? And woman, leave my boy alone! Don’t try to play matchmaker.”
I let out an audible sigh. “Yes, all night. Just chill out. It will be fun. Trust me. And I am not playing matchmaker… I am just giving them a little shove in the right direction.”
He mumbles something under his breath but I choose to ignore it.
We pull up to the Mirage and I have the vehicle valet parked. I grab the suitcase and head to guest services to check-in. Bentley is busy on his phone probably texting Caleb to get an update on Faith.
I order room service for dinner and dessert, and have a bottle of liquor sent up as well. I am given the keys and we head up to our room.
Bentley
Kayla pulls up to a hotel and while the entire drive my thoughts have been on Faith and worrying if she will be ok without us all night, the moment I see the hotel come into view my thoughts shift. It’s been six months since I have gotten laid so you can’t blame me for what enters my mind when I picture Kayla and I alone in a hotel.
The problem is I am not budging on how I feel. The last time I gave in, she fucked me and left me, and while I don’t regret it because it’s how Faith was brought into the world, that shit isn’t happening again. I don’t bother to ask her where she is going with this. I know what she is hoping for but if she thinks I am just going to give in, she has another thing coming to her. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy a night away with Kayla. I thoroughly enjoy and welcome her company in any way I can get it.
After Kayla checks in and orders food for us we head to our room. She unlocks the door with the key and goes straight to the bedroom without saying a word. I sit down on the couch and wait for her to make her move. I know it’s coming. While I am waiting I text Caleb for the second… ok, maybe the fifth time checking on Faith.
Me: How is Faith?
Caleb: See above for the same damn answer I gave you three minutes ago.
Me: Send me a picture.
Caleb: (Insert pic of his ugly mug!)
Me: Fucker! Send me a picture of my daughter!
Caleb: (insert picture of the most beautiful baby in the world)
While I am staring at the picture of Faith chewing on her hand, Kayla comes out and she is in a blood red string bikini. She walks past me and her bottoms are those sexy as fuck cheeky things that are barely bottoms at all. She looks fucking beautiful. Before getting pregnant she was skinny. Not bony but toned. Now she is a bit thicker and it’s clear pregnancy has agreed with her. Her breasts are a bit more voluptuous and her ass and thighs are even more perfect. Her stomach is soft from recently giving birth. Everything about Kayla post-baby turns me the fuck on.
She grabs a towel from the bathroom and throws my bathing suit at me.
“Go get changed Birthday Boy. There’s a private Jacuzzi calling our names,” She says with a wink.
I get changed and we head out to the Jacuzzi. She switches on her iPhone to some slow song I have never heard of and heads to the steps to the Jacuzzi. I stand still taking her in as she enters the water slowly. Her nipples peak slightly from the change in the temperature and then are covered from the bubbles in the water. She looks absolutely exquisite without even trying.
“Are you going to stand there or join me?” She asks with a devilish grin on her face.
I get in on the other side and sink down into the water as well. It’s warm and the jets feel good against my back. She sits across from me just staring at me with a sly smirk on her face.
“What?” I ask.
“Nothing,” she says coyly.
I feel something hit my dick springing it to life. I reach under the water and feel Kayla’s foot trying to rub on me. I grab it and pull her towards me, her body hitting the water. Her hair is drenched and water is dripping down her face, but instead of being mad, she cracks up laughing. I love to hear that laughter. It’s probably one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
She stands up and with her hands on her hips, she mock glares at me. I know what’s coming next so I beat her to it. Cupping both hands I splash her with water right in her face. It’s dripping all over her and she’s spluttering the water out of her mouth while trying to wipe the water off her face.
I stand up and walk towards her. Taking her face in my hands I give her a soft kiss on her wet lips and tuck her wet hair behind her ear so I can see her face.
“That’s better.” I say admiring how beautiful she looks when she’s happy.
She stands there for a moment staring at me and when I think she is plotting her revenge, instead she says, “I want this.”
There’s so much she can mean by that so I raise an eyebrow silently asking her for clarification.
She suddenly looks shy as she whispers, “Us. I mean if you still want us that is.”
Her eyes are half-lidded and she has never looked so vulnerable in this moment. I grab her sides and yank her towards me as I sit back down. She lets out an audible gasp and it quickly turns into a nervous giggle. I pull her up into my lap so she is straddling me. “Say it again.”
She chews her bottom lip for a second. “I want us. I want to give us a real shot.”
“You sure?” I ask. I need to be sure this is what she really wants.
She nods her head yes slowly. “Woman, if you are doing this to get me to have sex with you we are going to have major problems. Once I am inside of you, you are mine. Do you understand me? No going back.”
Her eyes go wide and she nods faster. “No, I need to hear the words.”
“I am yours. No going back. I have wanted to tell you for a while but wanted it to be romantic.” That’s all I need to hear. I bring my mouth to hers and my need for her consumes any other rational thoughts that I might have. My tongue plunges into her mouth as she comes closer until our bodies are flush. The water shifts from our bodies grinding up against each other. Her warm pussy is rubbing up against my hard erection and while I would definitely enjoy Jacuzzi sex I need more.
I grab ahold of her ass and pick her up as I stand in the water. I step out of the Jacuzzi and lay her down on the balcony floor. I take a second to look at the beautiful woman in front of me and then kneel between her legs to remove her bikini bottoms. Her pussy is perfection. It is clean cut but not completely bald. Trimmed perfectly. I spread her legs wide and slowly begin to stick one finger into her.
She isn’t quite wet enough yet so I move up her body to her perfect tits. Moving the tiny triangles out of the way I put my mouth around her nipple while pinching her other nipple with my thumb and forefinger.
“Oh God, Bentley. Please.” Kayla lets out a soft moan.
I continue to suck, lick, and pinch her nipples causing her to squirm. I move one hand back down to her pussy and stick one digit in again. It is definitely wetter. We are getting somewhere. One finger, then two fingers deep, and her back is arched, as she continues to thrash her hips down on my fingers so I will go deeper inside her.
And what my woman wants, my woman gets. I remove my fingers from her and she
sighs from the absence of me. I begin to trail kisses along her jaw down her neck as I remove my swim trunks with one hand, then I guide my hard shaft into her warm, wet pussy. Dropping my forehead on her shoulder, I stop halfway in and pray I don’t blow my load before this even begins.
She buries her hands in my hair holding me close, and I begin to slowly thrust in and out. She feels so good, so tight; her pussy is gripping my cock. I can feel her pussy beginning to contract and know she is close. I bring my mouth down to her tits and latch on to her nipple sucking on it and pulling it the way I know she likes it. I angle my cock to go a bit deeper while it grinds up against her clit.
“Oh…oh…Bentley…fuck! I’m coming.” She says through her moans. I pump into her several more times, releasing myself completely into her.
My head drops down to the dip in between her tits and I hold my breath waiting for the excuses to come. Only they don’t. I know she is awake because her hands are in my hair gently massaging my scalp but she isn’t saying a word.
I finally decide to stop acting like a pussy and look up at her. “Do you still want us?”
Kayla
“Do you still want us?”
I look into Bentley’s beautiful navy-blue eyes that are open like a window to his soul. He has always been this way with me. Every step along the way he has left his heart open and vulnerable welcoming me in with open arms while I have pushed him away at every turn. I have had sex plenty of times in my life but what we just did wasn’t sex. It was making love. This man loves me. He wants me and only me, and I vow to show him every day how much he means to me.
He must take my lack of response as a no because his face morphs into anger as he shakes his head and attempts to get up. I grab ahold of his hair tighter and pull him down to me.
“Yes, I still want us. I am so sorry it has taken me this long to get on the same page as you, but yes, I want us. I need you, Bentley. Just please don’t break my heart. I don’t think my heart could take it if you broke it.” I plead. I don’t know where the words come from but I feel like I need him to understand that this isn’t easy and I am so damn scared.
He gets off me without saying a word and then scoops me up bridal style and heads back inside into our room. He lays me on the bed and then hovers above me. We are both still wet and naked soaking the sheets. He begins kissing me all over my body, my forehead, each of my cheeks, my nose. He moves to my ear and sucks lightly on my lobe, then brushes his lips on my neck and moves downwards to my collarbone. He lays wet kisses on each of my breasts and moves further down to my belly kissing a trail leading to my mound.
He doesn’t stop there, though. His body moves downwards and he nips on my thigh making me laugh.
“Bentley! That tickles! What are you doing?”
He looks up at me and grins. “I am making sure you are real.”
I laugh harder at his antics. He continues to kiss down my leg and when he gets to my foot, he nibbles on my toes throwing me into a fit of laughter.
His grin widens. “Is this real? Are you really mine?”
My cheeks hurt from smiling so hard and my stomach hurts from laughing. He is so adorable. I nod my head yes. He comes back up my body until we are face-to-face and kisses me softly. His lips linger on mine, sucking my bottom lip out as he releases it and pulls back.
“I promise you, Kayla. I will never break your heart, baby.” And then he moves his lips down to the skin right above my left breast and kisses my chest right over my heart.
“Thank you, baby, for having faith in us. You won’t ever regret it.” He gives my heart another kiss and then comes up to lay with me.
The food arrives and after we change the bed to dry sheets, we eat in a comfortable silence with me sitting on Bentley’s lap as he feeds the both of us. I have my arms around his neck and I have never felt closer to someone than I do to Bentley right now. There is a new vibe between us and it feels good. Once we are done eating Bentley plugs his iPhone into the speaker and says, “Dance with me.”
The tears well up in my eyes as I have flashbacks to the dinner in our apartment when he asked me to dance for the first time and then again at Liz and Cooper’s wedding just before I gave birth to Faith. This time the song playing is faster paced. Sam Smith is singing the lyrics to Stay with Me through the speakers as Bentley holds me closer and once again whisper’s the words of the song to me like he did the first time we danced together. Our bodies sway back and forth as he holds me tightly to him, almost as if he’s afraid I might change my mind and leave him. What he doesn’t realize is I am not going anywhere. I know it’s going to take time to prove it to him but I will. This man is all I want.
He whispers into my ear as the song ends. “Darlin’, stay with me.”
“Yes, Bentley. I will.” He lets out a sigh of relief as I answer his unspoken question and then picks me up carrying me to the couch where we make love for the second time tonight.
I wake up to the sun shining through the windows and the feel of Bentley holding me close. I feel him move slightly and know he is waking up as well.
“Want to order breakfast?” I ask.
“No, baby. To be honest I just want to go home to our little girl and spend the first day of the rest of our lives together as a family.”
As we drive home to our little girl, holding hands, my heart is so full of love. It feels like the switch has been turned back on, like I have been stuck in the dark alone all this time, and now I am no longer alone. Only I didn’t have to stumble and find the light myself. Bentley was here this entire time ready to switch it on for me. All I had to do was have faith in us.
Eighteen
Bentley
The crazy thing about babies is that they grow like damn weeds! It is the end of November, Thanksgiving just passed, and Faith is officially five months old. She is sitting up, eating solids, and when she is on the floor she does this cute rocking thing on her knees, which confirms what all the moms say is true from Mommy and Me; She is getting ready to crawl. Yes, that’s right. I belong to a mommy and me group I found online. I still think it’s ridiculous that it isn’t called Parent and Me but I will pick my battles since I am the only dad actually in the group.
Faith and I have a great schedule going on. We usually start off our morning with some oatmeal or rice with fruit, we join the other moms at the park later in the morning until it’s time for Faith’s nap, and then I head to the gym to visit Kayla while she is at work. Some days she will take Faith home while I work out with the guys and other days I will go home to make dinner for when she gets home.
Right now, I’m heading to the park to meet the other moms. My phone rings over Bluetooth and Faith makes a bunch of sounds in the backseat.
“Hello?”
“Hey there Mr. Mom! What are you up to?” It’s Liz calling and I know it’s because she is home and bored. We haven’t hung out with the babies yet other than when we all hang out together as a group. She has mentioned it several times but I figured I would let her and Kayla hang out. They can get their baby and best friend time in at once.
“I am heading to the park with Faith. What’s up?”
“Really? Would you mind if Nathan and I join you? Bella is at school until later and Cooper is at the gym.”
“I am meeting my mom’s group there but I guess you can join.”
“Mom’s group? Why don’t I know about this? Am I not cool enough to be part of your group?”
Oh lord. Here we go…
“If you want to meet us, then meet us. It’s not that big of a deal.”
“Ok, text me the address of the park you are going to. Be there soon! Bye!”
We get to the park and I spot Monica and Sara right away. They both have daughters that are just a little older than Faith. They wave to me and I head over to them putting the diaper bag down on the bench along the way. There are four swings and two are empty so I put Faith into the swing and push her lightly. Her giggles start up immediately and I snap a pic
ture to send to Kayla.
“Hey Bentley!” Both women say in unison and laugh.
“Hello, Ladies. And hello to you precious little girls,” I say to their daughters tickling each of their tummies. They both give me a baby giggle.
I go back to pushing Faith as we discuss our babies’ recent milestones.
“Tori is finally crawling!” Monica announces excitedly.
“Amy is almost there, but she is standing up for a few seconds against the couch before she falls back down on her butt. Maybe she will just go straight to walking and skip crawling,” Sara chimes in.
“Nice! Faith is still doing the whole rocking on her knees thing. I have baby proofed the entire apartment though just in case.”
“Just in case what?” I hear from behind me. I turn around and see Liz standing with Nathan on her hip, her eyes darting between the two women next to me and me. Damn, she got here fast.
“Hey Liz. This is Monica and Sara.” I point to the two women. “I was just telling them how Faith is almost crawling so I baby proofed the house this weekend. Ladies, this is Liz. She is my friend Cooper’s wife, and this little guy is Nathan.”
“And I am also his girlfriend’s best friend,” she adds in with a tone that kind of sounds off.
Both women say hello and we continue the play date. A few of the other women in the mom’s group show up and soon there’s almost a dozen babies crawling, walking, and running all over the park. Liz is sitting on the bench while Nathan sits in front of her as she looks intently at her phone.
I sit down next to her and place Faith on the ground to play with the sand toys.
“Cooper?” I ask nodding towards her phone. She looks up and glares at me for a second but quickly relaxes her face into more of a grimace.
“No, actually it’s Kayla. You remember your girlfriend, right?”