This was a huge gamble for me. It showed Kayden that I believed in our relationship, that I trusted him. Regardless, I was still nervous about the move and even more nervous about the conversation I was going to have with my children. After all, Kayden and I were not even married; and here I was getting rid of my apartment, moving in with him, and having his baby. What was all that talk about independence I was feeding them a few months ago?
"What's wrong, baby? You don't like this arrangement? If you want to, we can buy a house, that's what I want to do ultimately."
"No, this will work for now. I'm just worried about the kids and how they will react to all of this. It happened so quickly."
He came to my side and put his arms around me. "When do you want us to tell them? Or do you want to do it alone?"
"I'm trying to decide whether we should talk to them before I go to Madrid or after. Next week it's Thanksgiving and Damien will be here. I want to tell them all at the same time, perhaps dinner here the Wednesday or Friday of that week. What do you think?" I asked Kayden, wanting his input.
"I'd rather we tell them sooner rather than later; tomorrow would be my preference. Waiting for the day after Thanksgiving will make the holiday awkward. Besides, I was hoping we could all go somewhere that weekend, to get to know them better. What do you think about a quick weekend trip to Cancun or the Bahamas?"
"I don’t know if they would want to go after I tell them, Damien especially; he has always been my baby. I know that he had hoped that Julian and I would get back together at some point."
"We just have to convince him that your love for him will not change simply because you are having another child. Besides, in a few years he'll be having children of his own! And as for his hopes for his father and you, the sooner he knows that I'm not going anywhere, the better for all of us." He kissed my forehead to reassure me but I wasn't convinced that Damien would come around that easily.
Monday afternoon we headed for the hospital. I decided to find an obstetrician in the city and a hospital closer to me. Kayden called Carmelo to ask for recommendations; he wanted the best in the field. Kayden personally called the doctor and told her about our situation and that I already had an appointment for an ultrasound. He explained that I had seen a doctor in Miami and she had recommended the ultrasound. She told him to keep the appointment but to make sure that the results of the test were sent to her, then he scheduled a visit for Tuesday after work.
Kayden went in with me for the ultrasound. I was nervous and I could tell Kayden was a little anxious. I had gone through this process before, but for him this was the first time. We were going to hear the heartbeat of our baby for the first time! I didn’t think I could be this excited.
The technician was very professional. She kept checking back and forth; we were beginning to get nervous.
"Is everything okay?" Kayden asked her.
"Yes, I just want to double check the heartbeat," she responded. "Let me find a doctor to corroborate my findings." The technician stepped out of the room for a second and returned with a young doctor who proceeded to follow the same steps as the technician.
"I believe I hear two. Do you want to hear your babies' heartbeats?" he said.
Kayden turned very pale; he looked like he was about to faint. I panicked.
"What do you mean babies?" I asked, bewildered. "It should be only one, perhaps you are mistaken, there are no twins in my family."
"There are twins in mine," Kayden said, turning amused, scratching the back of his head.
"Carmelo and Camila are fraternal twins. My father has a twin brother as well."
"And were you planning to tell me this?" I had thought I could do this. One, yes; two I was not so sure. That's when I truly panic. Then I heard the sound, that wonderful sound of my babies' heart rhythms and I began to calm down. We can do this, yes, we can do this, became my new mantra.
We left the hospital in silence, overwhelmed by the news. Kayden held my hand as we walked to the limo. He was stunned; I think that he had just gotten used to the idea of being a father and now he might have two children. Imagine me, I was going to be the mother of five in just the blink of an eye. Lord have mercy, was all I could think of, twins; what kind of cosmic joke was that!
When we arrived at the penthouse, Kayden went into his office to call his dad. I think that his father, having had the experience of having twins and being one, was the only one who could relate to what he was going through. I needed to talk to some one too. I had lost both my parents, and my children didn't know, so I decided that I needed to send a text to my best friends and hope I could meet them sometime tomorrow. Today I just wanted Kayden by my side; I needed the reassurance that we were going to be okay now that things had changed once again.
I decided to go in search of Kayden. When I walked into his office he was still on the phone; he signaled for me to sit on his lap.
"Dad, Mom, I'm going to put you on speaker; Ellie is here." He placed a soft kiss on my forehead, and then said, "I told them about the possibility of twins, they are very excited about it."
Sure they were excited, they weren't the ones having them. I was sure that by now they had forgotten about all the hard work of taking care of two.
Kayden's hand went to my belly and caressed it gently, then he kissed my lips and smiled. He covered the receiver and said, "Don’t be scared, we're going to be fine."
Yes I was scared, but what good would it do? Throughout my life every time I got scared I just marched ahead; what else could I do? It's not like I could run away, It was going to be hard, but I had done hard before.
"Ellie, darling, congratulations. We are so excited about the news! As soon as you have a due date let us know so that we can begin to make travel plans. We want to be there for the birth of our new set of grandchildren," said Sofia with excitement in her voice. "How are you feeling?"
"We are trying to adjust to the news. I think both Kayden and I were preparing for one. Two is a different story," I responded.
"Well, you must know by now that Roberto and I had twins, so we understand the challenges. Please feel free to call us if you have questions or if you just need to talk."
"Thank you Sofia, I very much appreciate that." I leaned my head against Kayden's chest needing to feel his warmth, needing his reassurance. He must have felt what I was feeling because he began to finish the call, "Mom, Dad I'll let you go now. Ellie is feeling tired now and I want to make sure she gets enough rest."
"Love you, son; bye Ellie," I heard them both say and the line was cut.
I wrapped my arms around his back, holding him tight.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'll be," I responded.
He captured my face in his hands. "It will be fine, trust me." He then kissed me so tenderly; with so much love that for that brief moment I knew everything was going to be all right.
"Come on, let's go and get something to eat; now you are eating for three." He laughed and shook his head.
"You are laughing now, but instead of looking like a cow I'm going to look like a building; a huge and ugly building."
"A huge and beautiful building," he corrected. I gave him the evil eye and moved away from his lap. He spanked me as I got up. I squealed, "What was that for?"
"For making me suffer, for doubting me and, because I like your ass."
"Let's see how much you like it when…"
He would not let me finish. "Enough degrading yourself and doubting me, I'll show you how much I like it tonight, but for now let me take you out to eat; I need to fatten you up. At least that's what my mom said, that with twins you'd need to gain lots of weight now. What do you feel like eating?"
"Other than you?" I thought I would be cute, but he took it seriously.
"You can eat me before I take your ass tonight." I closed my eyes and squinted, the image not a pretty one.
"Why do you have to be so crude?"
"Why do you have to be so greedy?"
; Okay, I was getting nowhere with this line of conversation. So I changed it to food. "I want a hamburger with fries and a shake," I told him; if I had to eat a lot I might as well go for something I rarely eat.
"I know just where to take you." And off he went, happy as a clam, forgetting all the stress of the news.
I ended up ordering a half-pound cheeseburger with truffle oil fries and a chocolate shake. I could barely breath after I finished. Kayden ordered the same, but spent most of the time watching me eat. The reality was that I had lost a lot of weight during the first few weeks of the pregnancy and maybe the babies needed to catch up now.
"I don't think I have ever seen you eat like that," Kayden said in astonishment. "You sure you don’t want anything else?"
"No thank you," I said with a smile and then saw this delicious chocolate cake go by me and I followed it with my eyes. Kayden just shook his head, made a signal to the waitress and ordered chocolate cake for me and coffee for himself.
I took a bite of the cake and was in heaven; unfortunately I could not eat more than that. I was just too full.
"You know, this news changes everything," he said reflectively as he took a sip of his coffee. "We need to find out from the doctor if you can travel, and who knows how long you are going to be able to work." Kayden spoke softly, as if not to make me upset.
"I know," I responded. "I will do whatever is best for the babies; but you know I want to work as long as possible. Ron is pretty understanding about this."
"What about Mateo? Is he understanding too?" he said in an off tone.
"Please don't tell me you are jealous of Mateo. You have nothing to be jealous about, we are just co-workers," I told him with sincerity.
"I am jealous of anyone who might want to take you away from me or take the time you should be giving me."
"I truly don't know why I love you so much, you are such a pain in the behind," I told him, baffled by his statement.
"Pain in the butt, ah; I'll show you pain in the butt later tonight. Let's go, I have plans for you before those two take over." He sounded so playful that it was contagious.
He paid the bill, grabbed me by the hand, and off we went. The limo was waiting outside but I needed to walk after such a big lunch.
"Can we walk back? Otherwise I am going to collapse when we get home."
"You know why I don’t like to." Then he saw my face and changed his mind. "Okay, fine, but we are going to have to get a security detail. I can't risk it anymore Ellie, I need to keep you and the babies safe. It would kill me if anything happened to any of you, knowing that I could have done something about it."
"I understand, Kayden."
"I don't think you do. A man in my position can be the target of a number of different attacks. They will always go for a soft target, and that would be you. So I will assign a couple of people to travel with you; you won't even know they are there."
I didn't know what to say. I knew he was right, but the feeling of someone watching over me made me feel uncomfortable.
Walking felt wonderful. The November air was crisp but not too frigid. We walked arm in arm, like young lovers, just talking and laughing. Kayden could be so funny when he wanted to. He was telling me a story about his brother and sister, how they always ganged up against him and how competitive they were. In some ways Kayden was like an only child. He was five when the twins were born so he had his parents' attention all to himself during those first five years. Later on he had to fight for attention, usually not in positive ways.
"There is so much I want to do with you before the twins are born, before it gets harder to do those things," Kayden said in a sad voice.
"Hey, we are not heading to the guillotine, we are going to be parents; parents, my love." He smiled again, just like he did every time I called him my love. "So what sort of things do you want to do during the next four months, before I'm too big to travel?" I asked.
"Well, I want to take you to Brazil, I want you to learn about the country that I consider home. I want to travel with you to other places too. And I want to get to know you better than you know yourself; to explore every part of you and make you feel pleasure in ways you never imagined before. I want to dance with you, laugh with you and love you. And I want you to love me like you have never loved before."
"Well, Mr. Hale, I think you have accomplished quite a few of those already. But if you want to go through the rest of the list you'd better get going."
"So, which ones have I managed to pull off?" he said, bumping my side in a playful way.
"Well, I would say that the last item on the list is pretty much complete," I told him with a smile.
"What about the pleasure one?"
"Well, I don’t think you have explored every part of me, so I would say that it's eighty percent success."
"I don't believe in leaving things incomplete; so let's get moving, I want to get to ninety percent by the end of the night and with any luck I might reach one hundred percent fairly soon."
"Umm, ninety sounds like such a good number. I guess we have time before you get it perfect." He stopped right then and there, in the middle of Michigan Avenue and kissed me passionately. Then he waved Aldo, who must have been following us, for the limo to come. We were back home in no time.
"Now, what were you talking about? Ah, perfection. I think I'm pretty damn good at making you come; I mean, you have to give me credit for that, or at least for trying," he whispered as he nestled my ear. "So… what am I missing? Where haven't I gone?"
His sexy playful mood was giving me goose bumps and sparking my desire.
"Well, self-evaluation is a key component of every major undertaking; perhaps you should spend some time reflecting on your actions."
"Or maybe I should retrace my steps to figure out with more accuracy my true grade?"
"I think I'll take door number two."
"Oh Ellie, I think you made the right decision," he whispered in my ear.
He walked me to our bedroom and gently pushed me onto the bed. His clothes came off in a split second and I had the benefit of ogling his beautiful body. He turned around to find a bottle in the cabinet and I got wet just from looking at his glorious ass.
"What is that you have in your hands?" I sounded curious, but something in the back of my mind suspected what it was.
"You'll find out soon enough. Now let's take that dress off." He pulled my dress over my head and then took off my bra. "You. Are. So. Beautiful," he said in between soft kisses to my lips. "I don't know if I can possibly desire you any more than I already do." His kisses continued, gently, reverently. His hand began to caress my body, and before I realized it, his hand had found my sex.
"This is mine, all mine."
"Yes Kayden, all yours." I was breathless already and he had not done anything yet. Slowly, oh so slowly he began to rub my clitoris. With the pad of his index finger, he gently rubbed up and down, up and down, stroking my clit over the thin layer of my panties. His eyes never left mine but his focus was on the sensitive nerve endings. Our connection was so intense that my orgasm hit me like a tidal wave.
"Let's get rid of these panties, shall we?" I couldn't answer him, could not speak, still reeling from my orgasm; he appeared calm, in control. "Let's see, perfection; tell me when I get there."
Before I realized it, Kayden's head was between my legs devouring me, feasting on me. My hands for the first time went to his short sable hair and grabbed it hard. The harder I pulled the more he consumed me until the walls of my core began to tighten and the orgasm came.
I was in a daze, totally spent and ready to fall apart. "We are not done yet baby, this is just the warm-up." My eyes opened wide and he laughed. With one arm he turned me around; I was lying on my front now, my back to him. "You have such a beautiful ass, it's perfect." His hands caressed the round mounds, his lips biting them softly. Suddenly and without preamble, he slid two fingers into me, and began to move them in and out, in and out. Abruptly, another finger wa
s in me, this time there; two fingers were in front, one in back, simultaneously stimulating both crevices.
"Do you like it? How does it feel?"
It felt…amazing! But I could not answer; I had lost my voice. He was stimulating nerve endings I did not even know I had.
"Lift your hips." I did as instructed, feeling empty without his fingers inside me. I heard a squeezing sound and waited for a heart beat when all of the sudden Kayden's hand was on my clit again. Before I could begin to savor his touch, or figure out what was going on, his cock was on my ass as he began the slow penetration, oh so slowly.
"Are you okay? I'll go easy, just tell me if it hurts too much." I nodded, too afraid to talk.
He moved a little further, then more, and more until he was fully in. Then he stopped, letting me absorb the fullness of his possession.
"I am going to move now, let me know if it gets unbearable, if you don't like it." His voice was soft, seductive, his tongue licking the sensitive skin below my ear. And I was in a trance, totally seduced by his words and his slow movement. Two fingers went into my sex; he was now penetrating both the back and front. Then the rhythm began, in and out, the sense of fullness so complete. And I don’t know if it was the penetration or the intense connection between Kayden and I, but my body began to tense, my core tightened and I came screaming his name as Kayden emptied himself in me.
I woke up from a long nap with Kayden gone. I found him in the kitchen preparing some pasta. When he saw me he wrapped his arms around me and kissed my neck. "Did you have a nice nap? I figured I'd let you rest and get started on dinner. Is pasta okay? With all the meat we ate earlier I thought pasta would be a nice change," he said cheerfully. He was in such a good mood!
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