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“And what is it that you think you’re doing Lucia?” I gritted my teeth so that I didn’t scare her with my anger. I’d gone in search of her only to find her in the library, ten feet off the ground on a damn ladder.

She turned and looked down at me with a smile, and I was reminded of that day long ago when I’d found her much the same way. “Oh you’re back.”

“Be careful you little fool.” I moved quickly across the room to hold the ladder steady and help her down. “I should turn you over my knee, what the hell were you thinking?” I could barely get my hands around her these days she was so big.

She looked down at her protruding tummy now and rubbed it lovingly and I felt like a fool for thinking she’d risk our child. But dammit, she takes too many risks. Two days ago I caught her running after the damn peacocks like the little hoyden she is.

“I was perfectly safe Ethan, calm down.”

“I’ll calm down after I lock you in our room and throw away the damn key.” I took her hand and pulled her along behind me out of the room.

“Where are we going?” I’d been away from her for a day seeing to my duties to the marines. My cock had been hard ever since I started up the driveway. As much I loved making love to her before, nothing compares to the feeling I get when she’s riding my cock with her engorged tits and the swell of my child in her womb moving over me.

I slammed the door to our room behind me and started pulling at her clothes. She caught on quick enough and once she realized I didn’t mean to make good on my threat and lock her in, she too began pulling at my clothes.

I put her on her back on the bed and buried my head between her thighs, sinking my tongue into her pussy. Only then did I breathe easy. I’ve never been any good at going without her.

I rested my hand on the hard mound of her tummy as I ate at her pussy until I had my fill of her sweet cream. “Now Ethan, now.” She tugged at my hair and thrust her pussy harder against my mouth.

I was in the mood to tease, plus I needed to punish her for taking such a risk by climbing that damn ladder. Since I couldn’t take her over my knees as I threatened, this was the next best thing.

I ate her out until she cried with need, and even then I didn’t give her what she begged for. Instead I pulled my tongue from her heat and replaced them with my fingers.

“Say sorry you little heathen.” I drove my fingers into her heat over and over and she begged me to fuck her, but still refused to apologize.

“Say it damn you or I won’t give you my cock.”

“But Ethan I missed you.” I could never resist that damn whine of hers but I did my best this time. I nipped her inner thigh and kept up my assault on her pussy with my fingers until she screamed out her apology.

“Fine-fine-fine, I’m sorry damn you.” I drove my cock into her hard, ever mindful of the child in her womb. “I ever catch you climbing shit again I’ll find a way to punish you.” I stroked into her hard with each word.

“I know, I’ll lock you out of the vault, no more historical papers for you.” I had her there. I knew she wouldn’t risk that.

“That’s not fair, you don’t even know what I was doing.” She strained to get more of my cock inside her while I teased her by holding back.

“I don’t care what the hell you were doing, it’s dangerous Lucia.” I covered her stubborn mouth before she argued me to death and slid deeper inside. We were both soon lost in our passions, our mouths locked together in hunger.

I pressed down on her clit as I fucked gently into her, all the love I felt welling up in me with each stroke. She came shaking and clutching at me, her breath choppy and the child moving in her womb because his father disturbed his rest.

I eased out of her and laid on my back, pulling her over my thighs and helping her to sit on my cock. She sat fully until she’d taken all of me. Her eyes shone with mischief as she pinched my nipple. “Ouch.” I slapped her ass playfully before grabbing it between my hands.

“There’s my beautiful girl. Now ride me you hellion.” I massaged her swollen belly as she moved up and down on my cock, taking me deeper each time she slammed her body down on mine. She cried out when I went too deep and I eased her off.

“Easy, easy.” I held her hips between my hands and guided her movements. “So greedy, so headstrong.” I flicked her nipple with my nail before taking it between my fingers and squeezing as her pussy clenched and released around my cock.

“Take more.” She leaned over as far as she could with her tummy in the way, and with her hands planted on my chest, used her ass to fuck herself down harder on my cock. I reared up until I reached her tits and sucked one into my mouth.

She screeched and shook as her pussy tried to suck the cream from my balls. “Not so fast.” I had to slow her down again but she was too far gone to heed me. She was wild in her need, her teeth biting into my chest as I too sucked on the soft flesh of her neck.

“I was only gone for one day baby, what’s this?” I know her very well, know her moods and her every want and need. “I missed you.” She kissed my face lovingly and I held her as close as I could with her tummy in the way.

“I know baby. I missed you too.”

I’d already assured that I wouldn’t leave her again until after our child was born. I knew she was afraid of giving birth, who wouldn’t be? From the shit I’ve read it’s a harrowing business. I couldn’t do it, that’s for damn sure.

Sometimes at night, I watch her while she sleeps with a lump in my throat and a belly full of anxiety. My friends laugh and tell me that women have been giving birth since the dawn of time, but I don’t find much comfort in that shit. She’s my wife.

I took her face between my hands and covered her mouth with mine. My hips moved, thrusting up into her softness and her pussy clung to my cock as she came. I wasn’t far behind her, emptying my seed into her while our lips mated.

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That night she went into labor. I should’ve known some shit was up with her. After I’d had her twice we both fell asleep. I woke an hour later to find her gone from my bed and went in search of her.

She was in the conservatory repotting plants and making a mess. As soon as she saw me she went into a list of complaints of everything that went wrong since I was gone. According to her, in the last twenty-four hours everything that could go wrong had.

I listened with a secret smile hidden behind my hand as she lit into me. Her nervousness was obvious but I didn’t catch on soon enough. She wouldn’t sit still for the rest of the evening, not even at dinner which we shared with her parents.

Nothing she ate was to her liking so it was left to me to go hunt down her list of wants, which she didn’t touch once I returned because she decided she didn’t want any of the shit she’d just told me half an hour ago she couldn’t live without.

It was only once we went to bed that night and I held her in my arms with the baby kicking up a storm that I caught on. We’d barely fallen asleep when she woke me with her screams.

What followed can only be described as total bedlam. She was suddenly calm as a cucumber while I lost my shit. I am enough of a soldier that I handled things with precision, but my mind was on remote control.

I did my best to keep my own fear at bay so that I didn’t scare her, but fuck was that shit frightening. I did everything the books said I should as an impending father, at least I tried to. But her screams of pain sent me to the brink of madness.

I barked out orders at the doctor and nurses, threatened to take over the delivery myself and was a damn nuisance. In the end all was well and my sons came into the world full of health and their mother’s lungs. Lord help me.