Chapter 26

Grace

I am embarrassed and annoyed at myself for reacting this way. It’s just been such an overwhelming day. Probably the pregnancy hormones don’t help. Although ever since I got pregnant, everything down there is way more sensitive. And right now, I’ve never felt this good.

Or this desperate for sex.

And here I am, reacting like a fool.

“Think of it this way,” Leo says, smiling down at me, “at least you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant.”

I can’t help but laugh.

“Besides, now we get to have skin-on-skin bare sex, and it feels so much better than using a condom,” he says.

“Using a condom didn’t do much the first time,” I say, laughing.

“Oh well, things turned out just fine,” he says.

Leo trails kisses down my neck, but my mind wanders. How did I get pregnant when we used a condom? How is it possible?

His hips tilt, and suddenly my walls are stretching as he pushes himself into me. All thoughts of anything vanish as I’m overcome with the feeling of being so full.

“Fuck,” Leo mutters to himself.

He begins moving in me, his skin rubbing against mine. I wrap my legs around his, pushing my hips up for more of him. His thrusts get faster and faster and all the heat in my body pools between my legs. It’s like I’m a volcano, about to blow.

The longer he pounds into me, the more my body becomes a ball of tingles. I want to do this forever and ever.

A sound forms deep inside me and leaves my mouth as a loud scream.

Leo yanks himself from me, and flips me over like a rag doll. My breath is ragged, and I’m unable to beg for his cock back.

Pulling me to the edge of the bed, he forces his way deep inside of me again. This time there is no gentleness in his actions, and my walls throb in response.

“I need to fuck you like this before your belly gets big,” he says, his teeth gritted. Gripping my hips, he drives deep inside me, grunting as he moves.

He reaches around, and searches through my folds for my clit. He presses on it with his index finger and rubs it back and forth so hard and fast that I can’t focus on anything else.

The world seems to melt away, and all I know is how good Leo makes me feel. There’s a giant crash, and an enormous orgasm rips through my body.

I’m vaguely aware of Leo falling on top of me as the waves of pleasure wash up and down my body.

He grunts, and drives deep inside me with his own orgasm.

My body is a quivering mess and I melt into the mattress in pure happiness. Leo’s dick pulses and throbs, prolonging my orgasm.

I become aware of his rich laugh, and open my eyes.

“What?” I say.

“Look around you,” Leo says, laughing.

Somehow, the entire bed has collapsed. The mattress is askew on the box spring, and the legs seem to have disappeared completely.

“You really did make the Earth move,” I say and burst out laughing.

Leo pulls out and flops onto the mattress beside me. We are about a foot lower than we started, and the bedside table and second bed tower over us.

Neither of us gives a shit.

Rolling onto my side, Leo’s gaze catches my own, and we simply stare at each other, grinning like fools.

He leans over and kisses me on the forehead, while tracing the outline of my body with his finger. When he reaches my waist, he splays his hand over my belly.

“You have my baby in there,” he says, a broad smile across his face.

“I do.”

As the words leave my mouth, my earlier thoughts come back to me. How did I get pregnant?

“This is going to be fun. You are going to be a great mother.”

“I wanted to have a career. I didn’t think I’d be a mother for another ten years.”

“Careers are overrated, family matters more,” he says, still cupping my belly.

“Easy for you to say, you’ve had one.”

“Exactly. And I’m telling you from experience that there nothing to get excited about. All I want is out of mine.”

“Maybe you can be a stay-at-home dad, and I’ll go out and earn the money,” I say, and stroke the back of his hand.

“Baby, we don’t need any more money. Now is the time to spend it.”

“Shut up,” I say, and chuckle.

“I’m serious. I’m selling my company as soon as this baby is born, and were going to have a ton of fun spending the cash. My whole life all I’ve ever done is work my ass off. It’s finally time to enjoy the rewards.”

“Are you serious?”

“Very. And I want out of New York City, too. I want the perfect family life, and to give this baby the best childhood ever.” His voice is full of earnestness, and I don’t doubt him for a second.

“Where do you want to live? On an island in the Caribbean?”

“I don’t know yet, but I can’t imagine leaving the States.”

“We can move here to Tennessee and be near my mother,” I tease.

“Easy, I wouldn’t go that far. I was thinking more like a nice place in the mountains in Vermont.”

“That sounds much more enticing,” I say, my mind wandering again. I could easily picture myself in a big house in the country, with lots of dogs and maybe some horses.

Horses would be great, as long as we have someone else to clean out the stalls.

I shake my head at the thought. Is this really my future?

How did this happen?

How, indeed.

“How did I get pregnant?” the words leave my mouth without me even realizing it.

“Well, when a sperm reaches the egg—”

Interrupting him, I say, “No, how does it reach the egg when there’s a condom in between?”

Leo purses his mouth and is quiet for a moment before shrugging his shoulders. “Sometimes condoms fail.”

“I guess it doesn’t matter now.”

“No, it doesn’t. What matters is that we’re both committed to the baby.”

“You sure are a rare breed. I don’t think many men would be reacting to the news the way you did.”

His eyes soften, and he says, “I told you that day we were in the hotel, I’ve always wanted to be a father but after my ex-wife, I never thought I would be one. Or if I was, it would be with someone who viewed it as a financial arrangement. I wasn’t about to buy a child. But now, it’s this strange twist of fate, and the greatest gift I’ve ever been given. With the most perfect woman I could ever want. Baby, I’m serious when I say you’re mine.”

Though I try to fight it, tears stream down my cheeks. I’ve never felt so cared about.

So loved.

All I ever had was my unloving mother and my indifferent sister. No one has ever made me feel wanted in my whole life. Warmth spreads through me, replacing the earlier heat.

I push on his shoulder and say, “Damn you, setting off my pregnancy hormones like this.”

Using the back of my hand, I wipe my cheeks and eyes. Leo pulls me closer so that our bodies touch and our legs intertwine.