The Baby: A Steamy Rock Star Romance (Cruise Control Book 3)

by Sian Ceinwen

  “Of course, it must be hard being pregnant,” Ariana smiled.

  By the time they reached the bedroom, Lita felt crazy with lust. No sooner had the door closed behind them than Lita grabbed Sebastian and kissed him roughly.

  “So eager, princess,” he said as he took her hand and led her toward the bed. “Not so fast, though.”

  “You promised me that you would fuck me the second we were alone,” Lita reminded him.

  Sebastian grinned. “Well, yes, but part of fucking you is teasing you first.”

  “Consider me teased; it’s like Niagara Falls down there—I’m more than ready,” Lita told him, needing more than ever to have him fill her and ease the ache she felt for him.

  “Is that so?”

  Sebastian reached under her dress, slid his hand under her underwear, and pushed a finger inside her. He began to finger her while using his thumb to rub her clit, and Lita came almost immediately.

  “Maybe you’re ready,” he said as he pulled his fingers out of her. “I’m not one hundred percent sure, though.”

  Lita moaned her disapproval, causing Sebastian to grin before he laughed and kissed her lips softly.

  “I have something for you,” he told her.

  “It had better be contained in your pants because I’m dying here,” Lita groaned.

  Sebastian laughed. “I’ll be back in a minute.”

  He walked out of the room, then came back a minute later to hand her a check, and Lita laughed when she read it. It was made out to Lolita Serafina Ciccone, with today’s date, and in the amount of one million dollars.

  “Very funny,” she told him.

  “It’s real. You can go cash it tomorrow if you want.” He grinned at her. “You really are a millionaire, princess.”

  Lita rolled her eyes at him but smiled. “Only if I cash it, which you know I won’t do.”

  “But you can if you want to, and by fucking god, did you earn it.” He bit his lip and looked at her with hooded eyes as he said, “I’ve been waiting all day to get you into this bed.”

  “What are you going to do with me now that I’m here?” Lita raised an eyebrow at him.

  “Well, for a start, I’m not done teasing you,” Sebastian said, as he removed her dress and left her standing in her underwear in front of him.

  He took his shirt off, then removed his shoes, jeans, and underwear. When he was naked in front of Lita, he sat on the bed and began stroking his erection while he looked at her.

  “I want to see you give yourself an orgasm, princess.”

  “What?” Lita frowned; she hadn’t been expecting this.

  “I want to watch you make yourself come. How do you normally do it?” he asked.

  “Well, not standing up, that’s for sure,” Lita laughed.

  “Lie down and come for me.”

  Lita had never had a boyfriend want to watch her do this, but on some level, she wasn’t surprised that Sebastian wanted to. She climbed onto the bed and lay back before she began to rub her clit. Sebastian stood and turned to watch her, continuing to stroke himself as she did. Occasionally, she would catch his eye, but eventually, she had to close her eyes and focus on what she was doing until she was coming loudly.

  Her eyes opened as she felt Sebastian climbing onto the bed. “Thank you, princess. That was the best thing I’ve ever seen.”

  “I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of women masturbating,” Lita said.

  “None of them were you, though.” He lay next to her and kissed her collarbone, reaching between her legs to continue doing what she’d been doing a moment before. “You are the most fun.” He kissed the swell of her breast. “You are the best.” Sebastian took her nipple in his mouth as he continued to finger her, and Lita felt waves of pleasure take her over.

  “Now I will fuck you,” Sebastian said.

  “About time,” Lita told him as she climbed onto her hands and knees.

  He positioned himself at her entrance and asked, “Should I do it, princess? Or should I wait a little longer?”

  In answer, Lita pushed her hips back onto him, and he slid inside her as she did. Sebastian laughed, which turned into a groan of satisfaction.

  “Okay, I get the hint.”

  He grabbed her hips and began fucking her hard. Lita exulted in finally being filled after hours of arousal. When Sebastian came inside her, he said Lita’s name in a guttural tone that sent her over the edge herself.

  “God, I love you, Sebastian Fox.”

  36

  LEVEL 29.6 – The Gift

  Now that you’ve passed week 28, you should be monitoring your baby’s kicks. It can be a sign if something is amiss. If you’re concerned, the best thing to do is drink something icy cold to wake the baby up. Don’t feel too guilty; your baby will return this favor many times over in the coming months.

  Great news, you’re three quarters of the way through this, and your baby has reached 93% viability if they need to come early.

  Everyone slept in the next morning, but after they’d all had breakfast, Sebastian announced, “It’s time to go record.”

  “You’re going to record a song today?” Lita seemed to be the only one that was surprised by this information.

  “Yes, we are. Do you want to come and watch Cruise Control make a song, fangirl?” Sebastian asked, sliding his arms around her waist from behind as he spoke.

  “What do you think?” Lita laughed.

  “Clearly, that’s a no,” Heather said with a wicked grin. “Okay, everyone else, to the studio!”

  “Wait, I didn’t say that. I mean, I’m not at all interested in watching the guys record a song, but I’ll go if everyone is going. Just so that I’m not all on my own up here.”

  “I’d hate for you to be all on your own, princess. You’d better come down to the studio with us.” Sebastian kissed her cheek, then took her hand and started leading her downstairs.

  Lita was working hard to keep herself calm. She tried to remind herself that Sebastian was her boyfriend and that the guys were her friends, but internally she was freaking out. She couldn’t believe that she was about to watch Cruise Control record a song.

  “So, what song are you recording?” Lita asked Sebastian as they walked down the hallway toward the studio.

  “One I wrote,” he told her.

  “You’re already making a new album?”

  “I’m not sure if this will go on the album or not. We record a lot of songs that don’t end up making it onto the album for one reason or another.”

  Lita’s eyes widened, and she gasped. She knew there was plenty of unreleased Cruise Control music, but she had never realized until now that she might be able to hear it.

  “Can I hear some of them?”

  Sebastian smiled down at her. “Of course, fangirl. I’ll play them for you any time you want. Not at the moment, though. We’re going to record a song today.” He kissed her and held her tightly against him as the others entered the room. Then he whispered in her ear as he let her go, “I love you.”

  Lita sat on a sofa that backed onto the hallway behind them with Ariana as Heather took a seat at the control panel that Hayden was in the process of switching on.

  “I’m a pro at this,” Heather told Lita with a grin. “I’m basically the reason that ‘Rules To Break’ is so awesome. They could never have made it as good without my epic song-recording skills.”

  “You keep telling yourself that, lover,” Sebastian laughed.

  The guys went into the studio and started looking through the song that Sebastian had written. Their voices came through to the control room, and it was odd to be able to hear them as though they were standing right in front of Lita instead of on the other side of soundproof glass.

  “All right, Heather, I’ve got the click track cued so you can just start the recording; I’m going to do the scratch track with the guitar,” Sebastian said, and Heather nodded before pressing some buttons on the control panel.

  Sebastian began t
o play a soft and sweet song. It was unlike any of Cruise Control’s other songs. They had some ballads, but this was a lilting melody, and Lita was curious about what the lyrics would be.

  She had to wait quite a while to find out, because after the initial recording, Hayden went on to record the drums for the song. Again, they were soft, and nothing jarring was in there. Lita could tell that it wouldn’t be the focus of the song because he didn’t start playing at all until the scratch track was some way through. Lita thought that it might be after the first chorus.

  It took a while to get the drums perfect, but when the guys were happy with it, Harrison recorded his bass guitar. Lita was completely enthralled by watching them work. It was unbelievable that she was watching Cruise Control record a song. She couldn’t resist pulling out her phone to text Becky.

  The guys are recording a fucking song in front of me. Everyone is totally fucking chill about it, and I’m just trying not to freak out like a lunatic.

  Whenever she had her fangirl moments, she relied on Becky to help her calm down. They would freak out via text, and Lita could keep her composure in front of everyone else.

  Are you fucking shitting me?! I need to hear it!

  Her phone started ringing about ten seconds later, and Lita laughed.

  “Hi, Becky.”

  “Hey, darling,” Heather called out from the control panel.

  “They’re recording a song right now?” Becky asked.

  “Yes, they are. Listen.”

  Lita didn’t say anything and let Becky hear Harrison’s bass guitar as the track was getting laid.

  “You were late there, Harrison,” Gabriel said, interrupting his playing.

  “Are you sure?” Harrison asked.

  “Yup, on that bit where it goes da DAH da,” Gabriel told him.

  “Cool, thanks. Okay, I’ll go again.”

  They stopped talking, and Harrison started playing again.

  “Holy fucking shit, this is amazing,” Becky whispered in Lita’s ear.

  “You don’t have to whisper,” Lita laughed.

  “I’m so jealous, I could die.”

  “Well, if you’re still alive when the song is done, want me to call you back so you can hear it?”

  “Yes!” Becky yelled, and Lita jerked the phone away from her ear.

  “Even I heard that,” Heather laughed. “They could probably hear it in the studio; it was that loud.”

  “How embarrassing,” Becky said to Lita in a normal volume.

  Lita laughed. “Hey, I do it all the time. At least you’re not here to look like an idiot in front of them. I’ll call you back later.”

  “Thanks, dude. You’re the best.”

  Lita hung up the call as Gabriel began recording the piano for the song. His melody had the same lilting feeling as everything else, and it was beautiful. When he was done, Hayden came out of the recording studio and into the control booth.

  “Are you here to demote me?” Heather asked him.

  “I sure am. Out of my seat,” Hayden grinned at her.

  Heather stood up, then came and sat down on the sofa with Lita and Ariana.

  “What are you doing?” Lita asked Hayden.

  She was so curious about every aspect of this process. It was fascinating to get to see a song being brought to life—a complete dream come true for her.

  “I’m deleting the scratch track. I didn’t want to risk Heather accidentally deleting the drums or the bass.”

  “Hey, do you not trust me or something?” Heather asked, sounding offended.

  Hayden looked around at her and grinned. “Of course I trust you, but do you remember the first time we laid the vocals for ‘Rules To Break’?”

  “I just felt you could do it better and couldn’t possibly stand to keep that recording a second longer.” It sounded plausible until Heather whispered to Lita and Ariana, who were both laughing, “I lost focus for one second and pressed the wrong button. I don’t think I’ll ever live it down.”

  “No, you won’t,” Hayden said as he stood up from his seat and turned to look at Heather while seeming highly amused. “Okay, you can take it from here. Delete anything, and you’ll have Sebastian to deal with.”

  “I’ll use Lita as a shield, problem solved.”

  “You would defend yourself with a pregnant woman, Heather? That’s low,” Ariana teased her.

  Heather shrugged. “A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.”

  “Or, you know, you could just be really careful and not delete anything,” Hayden suggested.

  “Good idea. I guess I’ll try your plan first. The backup plan is still using Lita as a shield against Sebastian’s wrath, though.”

  Hayden went back into the studio, and Sebastian began to record the guitar again. It was almost exactly the same as before, but when it was played back with the rest of the tracks, Lita couldn’t believe how it all came together.

  “It’s just amazing,” she whispered to the other two women.

  “Isn’t it, though? They’re pretty talented,” Ariana agreed.

  “Have you guys seen them record before?” Lita asked.

  “I was here some of the time when they recorded Games We Play. Heather’s seen them record a bunch of times, though.”

  Once the guitar was recorded, Sebastian looked up at the control room and said, “We’re ready to record the vocals. Are you there, princess?”

  Lita stood up and caught his eye through the glass, smiling at him.

  Heather pressed a button in front of her and said, “You can talk to him if you want.”

  “I’m here.” Lita didn’t know what else to say, and Heather let go of the button with a laugh.

  “Good. I was just checking.” Sebastian smiled at her.

  Lita sat on a chair next to Heather instead of back down on the sofa so that she could see them better. The other three men were sitting in various places around the studio, while Sebastian stood alone at the microphone.

  “Are they not singing at all?” Lita asked.

  “Sebastian’s doing lead vocals, so his will be recorded first, then they’ll all record for the harmonies,” Heather replied.

  Sebastian told Heather that he was ready, and she started the recording. Lita stared at him as he sang. There was a sheet with lyrics in front of him, but he didn’t look at them; he looked back at Lita instead.

  The song was about his love for her and their baby. By the end of the first verse, Lita was already crying. It was the most beautiful thing she’d ever witnessed. He sang the entire song through, his voice cracking on the last line, and Lita could see tears in his eyes, too.

  As soon as the recording finished, he left the studio immediately, walked into the control room, and wrapped his arms around Lita.

  “I love you so much, princess.”

  “I love you too, Sebastian.”

  He kissed her, and when it ended, he said, “I have to go back in for the harmonies. I take it that you like the song?”

  “Yes.” Lita nodded and wiped tears away from her eyes. “It’s amazing. What is it called?”

  “The Gift,” he told her.

  Lita felt a fresh round of tears hit her, and she laughed through them as she said, “I don’t think that I can even blame hormones for this one. It’s just…the best song I’ve ever heard.”

  Sebastian smiled at her. “Me too.”

  He kissed her again, then went back into the studio so that he could join the other guys to record the harmonies. Finally, the recording was finished, and they came back out. Lita was surprised when Sebastian took over at the control panel instead of Hayden.

  “What are you doing, Seb?” Ariana asked him.

  “I’m dropping in some other tracks,” he told her. “I’ve made a couple of demos on my own to figure out exactly where to put them.”

  Lita knew that he’d been doing stuff while she was working in the office on the game over the last week, but she’d had no idea that he’d been in the studio a
nd working on this song. Sebastian spun around on his chair to face them all.

  “Okay, that’s all done; someone can hit play.” He walked over to where Lita was sitting on the sofa again. “Can I sit with you, princess?”

  “Sure,” she told him.

  He put his arm around her and pulled her in to him while Hayden started the song playing. It didn’t start the way it had done previously, though. There was a fast thrumming sound now that Lita recognized at once. She had listened to this recording many times before.

  “It’s the heartbeat recording,” she gasped.

  Sebastian smiled at her as the soft, lilting music played throughout the room with Mirabella’s heartbeat constantly thrumming as a background beat to the song. Then his voice began to sing to them all. The first verse was about meeting and being attracted to Lita. When it finished, she heard quiet talking behind the music.

  “I’m just going to have a listen and see that everything’s going okay in there.”

  “Sure, Dr. Fox.”

  It was followed by the sound of their laughter, which faded off as the chorus started. Lita felt as though her heart had stopped beating; her words were a part of the song. She was in complete shock as Sebastian sang about the gift she’d given him, while the harmonies from the others wove their way into the background.

  The second verse was about the love he had for Mirabella and the fear he’d felt when they’d found out about her medical issues. In the gap between the second verse and chorus, there was more of them talking.

  “I love our baby.”

  “Me too, princess. I’ve never loved anything as much as I love our baby.”

  After the second chorus, there was a bridge about how he felt that Mirabella was a miracle and that it was a miracle he’d even met Lita at all. Then it went back to the chorus twice more before the song trailed off to just Sebastian strumming softly on the guitar, and she heard their voices a final time.

  “Posso baciarti?”

  “Sì.”

  Lita had started crying from the moment she recognized the heartbeat playing, and she hadn’t stopped throughout the whole song. Sebastian had his arms wrapped tightly around her, and she felt incredibly exposed. Their love for each other, their love for Mirabella, it was there for everyone to listen to.