by Sienna Grant
“Here she is, our little ray of sunshine,” I’m shaking my head at him as he ruffles her hair, “Jack I’m gonna kill you, you’ll mess my hair up,” she shouts at him and slaps him as he walks from my office.
My phone rings not long after, I look at the caller I.D flashing on my screen.
“Hello Mr Roberts, have you got any news for us?”
“Mr Davids, I’ve heard nothing, when I knew you had rang, I chased it up again and nothing, his counsel is saying that Mr Benton has been served with the divorce summons, but he’s still waiting to hear off him too.”
“How can he just disappear?”
“I don’t know, but I promise I’ll be in touch if I hear anything,”
“Okay, thanks.” I put the phone down, pour coffee from the machine and dive back into work. The rest of the day flies by and goes really well until I get the phone call from Lex later on.
I wake to an empty bed, and I can hear Lex in the bathroom being sick. I get up to go to her, I take her glass with me so I can refill it. Lex is on her knees bent over the toilet with her head over the basin, I pull her hair away from her face and hold it away from her neck, I run the cold tap and fill her glass with water.
“Hey baby, you’re okay, I’ve got ya,” she nods in reply, and she lifts her head, I pass her the water and some tissue to wipe her mouth, kiss her on the forehead and go back to the bedroom.
I hear her flush the toilet and the water running again, a few minutes later she comes back in and lets herself fall on the bed, “Come here Princess,” she rolls over to me and puts her head on my chest. “Thank you, Blake,” her voice sounds so weak.
“What for Princess?”
“For being here, for looking after me.”
“Always, sweetheart.” I pull her in a bit tighter to me, not long after she’s asleep again. I get myself comfortable and drift back off to sleep.
I wake to Grady blabbering to himself, Lex is still fast asleep; she’s exhausted. I ease out of bed and go over to Grady’s cot and lift him out. We go into the kitchen to put the kettle on, and I take Grady into the lounge.
“Right buddy, you need to help me out, we gotta change that nappy dude,” I lie him on the floor on the changing mat and sit in front of him, I take his pyjamas off, how hard can this be!
Grady starts to wriggle on the floor and tries to get up “No buddy, stay there,” I wipe the wet wipe around his little sac as gently as I can.
Come on you’ve seen Lex do this enough.
I put the nappy underneath him, Grady puts his legs up and puts his feet in my face so I blow raspberries on the soles of his feet, he chuckles, while he’s laughing I manage to fasten the tapes at the side, just.
What the fuck, you need a degree for these things!
Before I can do anything else Grady has got up and ran off so I leave him to it, it’s on, it’ll have to do. I let him play while I get him juice and toast and scramble some eggs for Lex, pour her some juice and get my coffee.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
ALEXIA
I stretch out in bed, the bedroom is quiet, but it sounds like there’s a riot going on in the lounge - Just from Blake and Grady.
What are they doing?!
I roll to the side so I can get up, I sit on the edge of the bed and go over my current state, I don’t feel sick, or dizzy…yet!
“Don’t move a muscle, princess,” Blake walks in with a tray, a plate of scrambled egg with two rounds of toast and a glass of orange juice. I sit back in bed, and he places the tray on my legs, “eat up,” he kisses my cheek and sits on the side of the bed by me while I eat and sip my juice. “Thank you, for this. You didn’t have to though I was going to get up.” Blake’s watching me closely, he seems a little worried about me.
“What’s wrong?” He goes to speak when Grady comes running in, and I burst out laughing.
“What?” he looks so confused, “erm, Blake, thank you for changing Grady’s nappy but, it’s on the wrong way,” I put my hands over my mouth to stop me from laughing out loud again, “what! No wonder I couldn’t get it to go on properly!” he shakes his head at himself.
“But at least you tried babe, so thank you.” I lean over to him to kiss his cheek, he takes a look at Grady, then at me and laughs too. I eat the rest of my breakfast, get Grady and turn his nappy around so it’s on the right way and get up to use the bathroom, wash and clean my teeth.
When I go into the lounge Blake’s on the phone, so since I’m not feeling sick I try a cup of tea, I make mine and make Blake a coffee and sit at the table until he’s finished.
I sit at the table flicking through the channels on the television, he sits next to me and takes my hand. “How are you feeling now baby?” I take a sip of my tea as he speaks.
“Ugh, I can’t drink that, it’s nasty!” I tip the rest down the sink and settle for more orange juice. “Mmmm, I’m okay, I feel better than last night, I must have picked up a bug of some sort.”
I drink some of the refreshing juice and sit back down, “Well you’ve got me all day today, I’ve just rang Jack and told him I won’t be in and Liv’s getting a taxi to work,” He kisses my forehead tenderly.
“You don’t have to stay here just for me, I’ll be fine.”
“Just for you? Are you kidding? I’m sure that whenever you say ‘I’m fine’ to others, they listen; but not me okay,” he says soothingly.
“I want to look after you.” Wow, I smile to myself, I feel really special right now. “Right you go take a shower or a bubble bath, whatever, and I’ll clean up and watch the little monster. Now shoo – go!” He lightly smacks his hands on my bum and pushes me in the direction of the bathroom. I enter the bathroom and start the shower.
Once I’m refreshed from my shower, I dress in leggings and a baggy shirt and relax all day, Blake is sitting on the sofa while I lie down with my head resting on his legs, he’s stroking my hair while we watch mindless telly. I’m drifting off to sleep when I can feel his phone vibrating in his pocket.
I move off of him so he can get to his phone, when I stand the room spins, I hold on to the end of the sofa to balance me out, “Lex?” I see Blake get up and move towards me, he holds my arms.
“I’m fine, honest,” he casts a worried look my way, “No you’re not, maybe you should go to the doctors tomorrow,”
“Blake, really I’m fine. If it’s still happening tomorrow, I’ll think about going then, okay?”
“Yeah, okay then.” I walk to the kitchen and make a hot drink for us both, Blake goes back to his call and finishes as I’m walking back into the lounge.
I put my cup of tea and Blake’s coffee on the table and settle back on the settee. I take a sip of tea but as soon as it hits the back of the throat.
I bolt up, I put my hand over my mouth, “Lex, what’s wrong?” I run towards the bathroom and empty the scarce contents of my stomach down the toilet.
Blake follows me in and rubs his hand down my back, luckily my hair is in a bun, he fills a glass with water and puts it to the side of me, he kisses the top of my head and tells me his going to check on Grady, and he’ll be back. I’m sitting on the floor when he walks back in, I’ve got my forehead on my bent knees and my arms wrapped around them.
“Hey Princess,” he pulls me into his side and hugs me, “maybe the milk was off?” I look up at him.
“Don’t worry we’ll get you better,” I nod, he pulls me up to my feet, and after swilling my mouth with some mouthwash he leads me to the bedroom, he pulls the duvet back for me, “Come on get in, bed it is for you.”
“Oh, Blake really? Can’t I just lie with you, please,” I plead with him, but it falls on deaf ears, he bends down, kisses me and tells me to rest?
I snuggle down into the duvet, I’m so tired. I hear him whisper ‘I love you’ and I’m fast asleep within minutes.
When I wake it's getting dark, I need to pee so bad, I roll out of bed and across to the bathroom, I’m there for what feels like forever and go int
o the kitchen. Blake and Grady are sat at the table eating baked beans on toast, but the smell of the baked beans is making me heave again.
“Oh god, not again, I spin around to run back to the bathroom, and I must turn too quick because before I can stop it happening the floor is coming up to meet my face, then I hit the floor, I can faintly hear Blake shouting my name.
As I come around, he’s leaning over me, and Grady is sitting on the other side of me calling mummy with his hand on my face.
“Lex, you need to see a doctor! Baby you’re worrying me,” I kiss Grady’s hand and he goes off to play again. Blake picks me up from the floor cradle style and takes me back to bed.
“Oh Mr Davids, this would feel much sexier if it were under different circumstances…” he shakes his head at me and narrows his eyes, “only you can joke at a time like this, Ms Williams,” and he pecks me the end of my nose.
He lays me back in bed and tells me stay put and goes to get Grady ready for bed. I feel awful - I’m leaving all this to Blake…before I can ponder on my thoughts anymore, I’m asleep.
BLAKE
I checked on Lex 5 minutes ago, and she’s fast asleep – again! Grady is sitting on my lap drinking a bottle of milk and rubbing his little hand up and down the hairs on my forearm, he’s slowly drifting off, I put my phone on silent in case it disturbs him and just the television on low in the background.
Once he’s asleep properly, I take him to bed and put him down for the night, there’s no waking him once he’s asleep. I kiss them both, go back to the kitchen, grab a Budweiser from the fridge and sit down with my phone. I’m scrolling through when it rings in my hand.
“Hey dad,” I answer smiling.
“Hey son, is Lex any better?”
“She seemed to be, and then all of a sudden she was sick again, she keeps going dizzy too. I don’t know what’s wrong with her, she has had a lot of stress the last couple of weeks though so maybe it’s that.”
“Hmmm…maybe. Perhaps she should get her blood pressure taken, it could be low. Blake, just a question, but have you been using precautions?”
“Dad, I’m not a child for god’s sake! Yes, she has that injection.”
“I know you’re not a child, son, but you never know,”
“She is exhausted, but I put that down to being poorly…”
“It may be worth either getting a test or getting her looked at.”
“Okay, thanks, dad. If she’s no better in the morning I’ll get it sorted, I won’t go to work tomorrow I’ll need to look after Grady, so I’ll pop around to yours with the monster,”
“Okay then son, I love to see him, you know that, give my love to Lex. See ya.”
Bye, dad.” I decide to open up google and do some research of my own about dizziness and sickness. I pass a couple of hours just scrolling through my phone and nearly dying of boredom. I ring Liv and tell her I’m not in again tomorrow, and she asks how Lex is too. I also ring Jack.
“Hey skiver! How’s Lex doing?”
“She’s fast asleep, she passed out again earlier and she was sick, I’m worried about her mate!” I hear the phone being passed about,
“Hey Blake,”
“Jack your voice has changed, has Amelia got you by the balls again, I’ll ring back, it’s fine…” I laugh at my own little joke, and I hear Amelia laughing on the other end. “Funny fucker ain't ya!” I hear in the background.
“Right then, Blake made you should go get her checked out, just to rule it out maybe…”
“Yeah I think I will, thanks. I need to talk to her first. Not a word to Liv if you see her. I’ll ring you tomorrow.”
“Byeeee.” Amelia sings down the phone at me. I put the phone in my pocket and go back to the bedroom. I strip off and take a shower while it’s quiet.
I stand under the spray and let the water wash away my worries, “It’s a shame I’m not feeling better, otherwise I’d be in there washing your back.” I look over the top of the shower screen and see Lex standing in the doorway, looking tired. She’s got dark circles around her eyes, and she’s really pale.
“I wish you were feeling better too because I’d drag you in here, and you wouldn’t have a choice,” she puts the lid down to the toilet sits down and rests her head against the wall.
“How are you feeling, Princess?” She breathes in deeply.
“Okay I suppose,” I turn off the shower and she hands me a towel, I rub my hair up and wrap it around my waist, I pull her up towards me.
I put my hands on her face and take in her gorgeous face, for once she doesn’t look away from me, so I tell her what she needs to hear “I love you, you know that - don’t ya?” She nods.
“Yeah, I do. I love you too.” I kiss her lips tenderly, softly. I take her hand and lead her back to the bedroom, we sit on the bed, and I make her get back inside the covers.
“Lex?”
“Hmm,” she’s mindlessly scrolling through her phone so I take it from her hands, she raises her head. I put her phone on the bedside table now that I’ve got her attention.
“Do you think you could be pregnant?” I ask her tentatively.
“I’m not sure,” as she quietly answers, I see her shutters going back down, she looks down so I can’t see her emotions. She takes her hand from mine and starts messing with some cotton coming from the duvet. She licks her lips,
“Hey,” I lift her chin with my fingers, she’s frowning, I kiss her lips softly. “What’s wrong?”
She springs her head up at me and looks at me with indifference. “How can you ask me that Blake?! What if I am, we haven’t been together long, what if people think I’ve tried to trap you or something, I wouldn’t do that – I swear to you, Blake!” I pull her into my chest and soothe her, I kiss the top of her head, “look at me princess,” she raises her eyes up to look at me.
“I would never think that anyway, not of you. Look let’s get a test, Yeah, and then we’ll go from there,” She nods her head as I kiss her lightly on the lips until the kiss begins to go a little deeper.
I break away from her and hug her to me “Hang on baby, let me get this wet towel off,” I throw the wet towel on the floor and slide in next to her.
As soon as my body touches hers, my dick wakes up. She shuffles into my side and is stroking my chest with her fingers, through the ample amount of chest hair there which is sending a message to my already half-awake dick that he’s allowed to come and play…
“Princess you’re not well, so you need to stop,” she stops her ministrations, “Sorry,” she timidly answers.
I glance down at her, “look, there’s nothing I want more at the moment, but I want you to feel better. I’ll go to the chemist in the morning, and we’ll find out, okay?”
“Okay,” she says nodding. “Blake, the thought did cross my mind earlier when my tea made me sick, but I was too scared to say anything.”
“Why were you scared?” I carefully ask her.
“I don’t know,” she shrugs her shoulder. “Because we haven’t been together long, I didn’t know whether you’d want one yet.”
“Lex, I have a ready-made family, and I love Grady like he’s my own, so why wouldn’t I want to add to it. Okay so the timing is a bit sensitive at the moment with your divorce coming up, but maybe it’s the right time for us. Until we know we can’t speculate, as long you know I love you, and I’m not going anywhere then that’s all I need, you’re my world, and that’s it.” She’s smiling up at me, gazing into my eyes.
“I love you, Blake,” she touches my face tenderly and runs her fingers through my stubble, I roll her to her back and gently lean over her, I kiss her with every drop of love and passion I have in my heart and gently make love to her.
CHAPTER THIRTY
ALEXIA
I could get used to having breakfast in bed. I feel so lazy, and I’m still tired. After Blake had made love to me, last night I drifted right off to sleep and didn’t wake all night, until I heard him shuffling around
this morning getting up with Grady. I don’t know what I did to deserve him, but I’m so glad I’ve got him, I just need this divorce done and over with, then at least I can be free of Paul, finally.
I decide it’s time to get out of bed, I hadn't spent this long in bed since before I met Paul, it wasn’t allowed. Even after I had Grady I was up, and about the next day, he said I hadn’t got time to rest, I’d had a baby; I wasn’t ill. So I’m feeling like a burden at the moment.
Blake has gone to the shops to get bread, milk and the essentials and he's taken Grady with him, God help knows how that will work out!
I drag my weary body from the bed and go to the kitchen, I pour some orange juice and steer clear of the tea, just in case. There’s nothing to do so I sit on the sofa and drink my juice, I feel lost without Grady being here, apart from when he stayed with his grandparents or at Becka’s.
I’m not going dizzy today so that’s a huge bonus and Blake has made sure I don’t feel sick by making me have some scrambled eggs this morning. I decide to go and take a quick shower while they’re still out.
I’m just sticking my hair in a ponytail as I hear Blake and Grady walking through the front door. Blake has two bags of shopping in one hand, and Grady held in his other arm with his forearm wrapped around his belly. I’m checking him out as he eases to the ground with Grady and puts him to the floor and take the bags to the kitchen, as he’s emptying the bags, I’m watching the contents come out, it’s like a bottomless bag,
“How have you got all this in this bag, why didn’t you just buy another bag?” he looks at me shocked, “buy another bag, you know they’re five pence don’t ya?” I look at him gobsmacked.
“Blake, they’re five pence oh my god! Really?” he plants a smacker on my lips, “Why are you up anyway?” he raises his eyebrows and waits for an answer.
