by Eva Luxe
“I’m not really sure,” I lied. “I know he likes both of us very much, and that he has a lot of money. But, whatever the full reason, you know that this would be amazing for our family right now. We can finally get a handle on some bills. And it will even help me to pay toward my tuition and set up a college fund for the boys. They will definitely be needing one in the next handful of years.”
I could tell that she was thinking about it more rationally.
“That’s very true,” she said quietly.
Her tone sounded good and gave me hope, but I could tell that she was still torn.
“And besides,” I continued. “It’s not like I can’t come home to visit. It will be like I’m staying at college and can come home on the weekends.”
Her tears had completely stopped.
“Well, that’s good.”
We sat in silence for a few minutes. I waited for her to talk.
“Well, okay, we can always try it out. And if it doesn’t go the way that we hope, you can always come back home and we’ll just have to figure out another way to take care of our bills. There will be a way no matter what. I have faith.”
“Yeah,” I said, smiling weakly.
I knew that I was lying, but I couldn’t bear to see her cry anymore. I figured that I would just deal with things as they came.
“Congratulations on your new job,” said my mother, hugging me tightly.
I hugged her back, knowing that it would be one of the last hugs that we would share for a very long time.
Chapter 23 – Darren
“Thank you for meeting with Mr. King and I,” Wilson, my lawyer, said to Hope. “These are the papers that you will be needing to sign.”
It was crazy that we were signing the contract after we had had sex. I had let my libido get the best of me. That hadn’t been like me at all. But, it had certainly been worth it.
Wilson pushed the papers across the desk in front of Hope, who just stared at them blankly. I started to panic a little when she didn’t immediately reach for the pen and sign. She just stood there, staring in horror, frozen.
Then, her bottom lip began to tremble and tears welled up in her eyes.
What was happening? Why was she so upset? Had she changed her mind already?
Slowly, she reached for the pen and began pressing it to the paper to sign.
“Are you sure that this is what you want?” I blurted out.
Of course, I wanted her to sign, but I didn’t want her to do it if it wasn’t something that she truly wanted to do. A tear fell and she quickly batted it away.
“No, it’s what I want. I’m sorry,” she said.
She signed and placed the pen on the desk next to the contract.
“It’s settled, then,” said Wilson, scooping up the contract, putting it in his briefcase, and snapping it shut.
“It’s been a pleasure,” he said, standing to shake first my hand and then Hope’s.
He quietly slinked away just as quietly as he had come. Now that he had gotten what he had come for and could collect his hefty fee, he was off. And I didn’t blame him. It was a strange deal I had had him arrange, and he was probably relieved it had all worked out.
“So, it’s done,” said Hope aloud, more to herself than to me.
“Not quite,” I said. “There’s one last order of business that I need to take care of. I’m going to send your mom $75,000.”
Hope looked confused.
“Wait. $75,000? I thought that you said $50,000?”
“Yeah, I did,” I said, nodding in agreement. “But, I really want you to be happy with this arrangement and I know that the financial troubles of your family are something that have been weighing heavily on your mind. This way, you can rest assured that they will be more than taken care of. You have my word for it. I will do everything in my power to make sure that nothing is ever the same for you from this day moving forward. Instead, everything will be much, much better. You’ll see.”
Hope’s eyes began to well up with tears again.
“Thank you,” she said, graciously, throwing her arms around my neck and hugging me. I snuggled into her neck, breathing her in. She smelled like dryer sheets, mixed with the woods in front of my house, which she had had to walk through to get to my front door.
I could definitely get used to this, I thought.
“Why don’t you go ahead and get settled in?” I asked her. “I’ll be around in a little bit to help you out if you need anything.”
“I should be able to manage. Thank you so much. For everything.” She smiled sweetly before disappearing around the corner.
Things were finally starting to fall into place.
I wanted to make a phone call, though, before I went off to help Hope get settled.
I dialed the phone.
“Hello?” answered a voice after two rings.
“Is this Harlow?” I asked.
“Yes. Hi!”
“This is…”
“I already know who this is,” he said, cutting me off. “Darren King. I’m so glad to hear your voice. Is everything okay?”
I paused.
“You know, it really is! I just wanted to give you a call to thank you. And I also wanted to apologize for hanging up on you the other day. Things have been pretty rough over here and I think that I took it out on you.”
“No need to apologize, Darren. I completely understand. We have all been through quite a bit in the last few years. It hasn’t been easy for anyone, especially after the accident and after Dr. Davis did even more damage. No hard feelings at all. I appreciate you reaching out, though.”
He sounded genuinely happy to hear my voice.
“Thanks for being so understanding. So, what have you been up to? How are your brothers? Jensen and Ramsey? It’s been ages since I’ve heard from or talked to any of them.”
“Oh, we’ve all been doing well. They are still the same guys you remember. Except, settled down now.”
“Really?” I asked in amazement, shaking my head.
When we were in the SEALs together, they had been as against the idea of getting into commitment relationships as I had been. But, look at me now, moving in a virgin I’d just deflowered, so that she could hopefully have my baby. I guessed everyone changed along the way.
“Yeah,” he said, excitedly. “I have, too. I have a wife, Whitney, and we just had a baby. Well, she’s a couple months old now, but seems like it was just yesterday that she was born. Her name is Bella. And then I have some nephews, because Jensen and Riley have a son named Drew, and Ramsey and Monica have a son named James. We should all plan to get together and catch up. I think that that’d be good for all of us.”
“You know, that sounds really great,” I told him. I didn’t say anything about Bryant. I decided it wasn’t the time or place. But I did want to get together with him and his brothers. It would be a good way to ease myself back into the real world. “Let me know when you’d like to set something up.”
We chatted for a few more minutes and then said our goodbyes. It felt good to connect with him.
I was starting to feel human again.
Chapter 24 – Hope
Darren made sure that I was comfortable in the house and told me that we would get to the “baby business” later. I had to admit that I was slightly disappointed that he didn’t want to get to it right away.
I waited until later that night, after he’d said good night, before I made my move.
I knew what I wanted and I wasn’t about to wait for anything.
I went to his bedroom and walked in without knocking.
“Hope, everything okay?” he asked, sitting up in bed, a worried look on his face.
“Everything is perfectly fine,” I said. “I know that you said that we would wait on things, but why wait? There’s no time like the present.”
I started to undress right there. He swallowed hard, sitting on the edge of the bed, watching me undress under the moonlight.
I
walked over to the bed and pushed him back, climbing on top of him.
“I couldn’t get you out of my head all night long.”
“Good,” he said, sounding surprised. “I was thinking your pussy would be a bit sore from the pounding I gave it yesterday. I was trying to be a gentleman and let you rest and get acclimated to your new living arrangements before I ravished you again.”
“Well, my pussy is still sore from the pounding you gave it,” I admitted.
“There are other things you could do,” he suggested.
“Good point.”
I moved down and began to kiss his cock. It jumped up to greet my lips, getting harder and harder with each kiss. When it was standing at full attention, I took him into my mouth as deeply as I could.
He moaned, trying to contain himself. I moved my mouth up and down the length of his rock hard dick, sucking and licking the head. Drops of precum oozed out onto my tongue and I swallowed them gratefully.
I held onto his balls while I moved my other hand up and down his long, wide shaft. At the same time, I sucked on the head of his cock.
“Mmmm,” he moaned, reaching down to grab my ass. “You feel so good. You’re such a naughty girl, to come in here and start eating my cock like this.”
He smacked my ass, and then grabbed it, hard. I took him further into my mouth, deepthroating him while I groaned.
“Get on top of me, now,” he said. “I don’t want to waste my cum in your mouth. No matter how sore your pussy is, I need to be in it. I need to shoot more cum into you so you can have my baby.”
“Yes, Sir,” I said obediently. I liked it when he told me what to do.
I climbed on top of him, opening my legs as wide as they would go. I sat my pussy lips on his cock and began to circle my hips, working his dick into my tender pussy. It was still tender from the day before, for sure, but I welcomed his thickness into me, holding my breath as I slid down his shaft.
I bounced my moist pussy up and down on his big cock, feeling it go way up inside of me. He looked like he was going to cum at any moment.
Then, he wrapped his arms around me and flipped me over until I was on my back and he was on top of me. He began to stick his dick deep inside of my pussy, working it at all angles, left and right, up and down.
My pussy responded with each move, tightening its grip around his long, hard cock. He leaned down and took my nipple in his mouth, carefully licking and caressing each one with his tongue, all while plunging in and out of my soft, wet pussy. He was driving me wild.
He put my legs up in the air and spread them open wide, driving his cock even deeper into my pussy. The deeper he went, the more I screamed. I thought that he was going to split me open and I didn’t even care. It was the perfect balance of pleasure and pain I’d ever felt, and I loved it.
“Oh, I’m not going to be able to keep doing this. You feel so damn good!” Darren started to move faster and faster. I could feel myself on brink of exploding.
We came at the same time and it was so beautiful. Each shot of cum I could feel deep inside me, filling me up. I held him inside me while all his cum poured out. Then, he collapsed, all the energy drained from him.
I moved to try getting up and he held me down.
“No. Stay,” was all he said, still trying to catch his breath.
He wanted me to sleep in his bed with him?
Things were moving a lot faster than I had anticipated. But, I couldn’t say that I minded. In fact, I rather liked the idea.
I laid there and started to doze off. It felt so good laying there with him.
His arm was around me, holding me tight. He didn’t seem like the cuddling type, but there was no doubt that that was what we were doing. Cuddling after sex. Like a real couple, even though we were only together due to contractual arrangement.
Still, I felt like I could lay there forever.
Chapter 25 – Darren
I woke up every day and still couldn’t believe that this was all happening.
Hope is here in my house and I am trying to have a baby with her.
It made me start thinking about my son, Bryant. I had been wanting to reach out and talk to him, but I wasn’t sure how it would go. I would be devastated if my son kept rejecting me.
But, curiosity got the better of me and I decided to call anyway.
My heart was pounding out of my chest while the phone rang and I waited for it to be picked up on the other end.
“Hello?” came the familiar soft voice.
“Hi, Mom. It’s Darren. How’s everything?”
“Oh, Darren!” she sang out, brightly. “It feels like I haven’t talked to you in forever. It’s great to hear from you. How are you?”
“I’m fine, mom,” I said, chuckling.
No matter what, my mother was always happy to hear from me. She got so excited, you would have thought that it was Christmas morning and she was getting a personal call from Santa himself.
“How is Bryant?” I asked, almost afraid of what the answer would be.
“Bryant is doing just fine! In fact, he’s been asking about you lately.”
“Oh? What’s going on?”
“I’m not too sure. But, he’s been asking about you almost every day, trying to find out if you called, if you were going to come by. I think he misses you.”
I hadn’t expected that. I didn’t even know how to respond.
“Here, he’s about to knock me over if I don’t let him speak to you…”
“Hello?” came a small voice on the phone.
“Hey there, buddy,” I said, as cheerfully as possible. “It’s your dad.”
“Hi, dad! I miss you!” he said.
His childlike innocence warmed my heart. It felt good to hear that he had missed me.
“I miss you, too,” I admitted. “Is everything okay?”
“Yes, everything is great, Dad. Grandma got me this really cool new phone and it lets you video chat. Can I call you on it so that we can talk man to man?”
I had to stifle laughter at the thought of my little boy calling himself a man.
“Of course, son,” I said.
I gave him my phone number and told him that I would wait for him to call.
My heart started to beat fast again and I was beginning to sweat. The last time that he’d seen me had not gone very well. In fact, it ended in him screaming and crying, begging to get away from me.
I knew that he was young and I looked scary, but I had to admit that it also hurt my heart to know that my own son couldn’t stand the sight of me. I was glad he actually wanted to see me now.
When the call came through to my phone and his picture popped up on the screen, I held the phone back a little so that he couldn’t see my whole face. I hoped I wouldn’t scare him too badly all over again. I didn’t know if I could bear that.
“There you are, Daddy,” he said, smiling brightly. “Daddy? Where are you? I can’t really see you.”
I slowly moved the phone so that my face came into view.
“There’s my daddy,” he said proudly. I almost burst into tears seeing his happy, smiling face staring back at mine. “Good to see you, Dad.”
We chatted for a while longer. He was so excited to show me all his new toys and give me a tour of the house, while holding up the phone so I could see everything on my end. He told me that he wished that I could come visit him and I didn’t really give him an answer.
His favorite TV show came on and he quickly handed the phone off to my mother and ran off after saying a quick goodbye.
“He’s so happy to talk to you, Darren. This is wonderful.”
“It really is,” I agreed. “He wasn’t scared.”
“Of course not,” my mom said. “I don’t think he was ever scared to see your scars. It was just that he was only used to seeing his mother, and it was a strange situation for him, so any new face would be scary.”
I breathed a sigh of relief.
“Thank you for taking care of
him for me, Mom. I really appreciate it. You’re doing a great job. He seems really happy.”
“No problem,” she said. “He’s a joy. But, any time you want to take over, be my guest. I already raised you, and wasn’t really in the market for a new baby.”
“I know,” I told her, feeling guilty.
I probably shouldn’t have left Bryant with her, but it was all I could think of to do. And he was clearly in good hands. At least I was getting my act together to change the circumstances, and that was the best I could do. With Hope’s help.
“It seems like you’re in a better place,” my mom continued. “You seem happier, more relaxed. Anything you want to share with me?”
My mother always had excellent intuition, especially when it came to me. I wanted to tell her what was going on, but decided that that was a conversation that should be had at another time.
“No, I just have a new outlook on things and am just going with the flow of life,” I told her.
It was partially true. I just left out the part about Hope and the new baby being the cause of his new lease on life.
“Well, I’m glad to hear it. And it’s really good to hear from you. I think that you being so upbeat is the reason why Bryant isn’t afraid to talk to you. He has been wanting to, but then when he heard your voice, he really wanted to.”
I chuckled, glad to hear it.
“I mean it,” she insisted. “You seem like a… normal person. I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, son, but you know what I mean. Say, I would love it if we could come up and see you sometime. I’d love to see what this new mansion slash cabin of yours looks like, and I know Bryant would be excited to see his dad. Do you think that we could do that?”
“I don’t see why not,” I mused.
In the past, this idea would have scared me. But now, I was warming up to it. Perhaps my mom knew what was best for everyone.
It actually might be a great way for me to tell my mother what was going on and give her a chance to meet Hope. I hoped that Hope would be pregnant by then. I know that my mom would be happy to find out that I was having another grandchild for her. Plus, I think that she would really like Hope.
