Training, Daddy

by M. C. Cerny

  “I think I’d like that.” Our foreheads meet and I let out a deep shuddering breath. Most would feel freedom at letting go but I can’t ever fully let go and I think Jax realizes because he comes sweeping in and takes over just enough so that I don’t have time to think, protest or ask too many questions. He just does his thing and I’m steamrolled briefly, but perfectly.

  “You could wreck me, you know that.” I tell him honestly.

  He smiles, “I’m already wrecked. Let me be the anchor.”

  “Just once.” Conceding is hard.

  “God Diana, I better make it good then or I’ll never live this down.”

  “No pressure, right?” I tease him. We’re talking more than about sex. We’re talking about the forevers, the happily ever afters and the in-betweens.

  “Nope. None at all.” He keeps enough distance between us so I don’t feel his huge erection pressing against his jeans. I sure as hell see it and my nerves ratchet up.

  Jax leans in, his fingers press gently in the hollows of my cheek. He pulls me in closer kissing me. Our mouths meet and I forget to breathe taking him into my mouth. His tongue strokes deep and I go with the flow for a change. My head is woozy and light surrendering. He waits out the roll of tension I feel and keeps kissing me slow and gentle. It’s a miracle I don’t panic and run away. He’s so warm, strong and good to me I barely think about running at all. In fact, I’m sure my legs are cemented in place. His hands span my back pulling me closer. His fingers make an exploratory find slipping under my shirt and resting underneath the hooks of my bra strap.

  “Is this okay?” He asks.

  “Yeah.” I have to clear my throat and I feel the slight pressure and then release of those hooks as my breast sag down heavy under his gaze. He unclasps the back and runs those huge hands of his up and down my back. If feels so good. I don’t think it’s ever felt like this but the only other experience I’ve had was my ex-husband and obviously he was shit in bed. The only orgasm I experienced in the last decade had sadly been one of my own doing.

  Jax sits me down on the end of the bed. I tip back and he leans down to pull my jeans off. Slowly the rough cotton pulls from my legs and he tosses them back. My shoes are long gone so he grips the sides of my panties and pulls those off too. A slight pop in the cotton makes my body flush and wet for him. He isn’t rough but he isn’t gentle either and the combination of him keeping himself barely in check is hot enough to make me moan and writhe on the bed grasping for him.

  “God you are so lovely.” He pulls his shirt off followed by shoes and jeans. He’s naked in seconds and I’m excited to see him in his full glory. “Every inch of you is perfect.” He kisses me dragging it out when all I want to do is touch him and look him exploring every tactile sensation I can.

  “I’m not perfect, Jax.” I pull him down over me. My hands grab for his biceps and he presses into me releasing a fraction of the pent up pressure I feel for him.

  “You’re mine, Diana.”

  “I like being yours.”

  His lips find mine again and we kiss in lingering long strokes of tongue and taste. He crawls over me and I hook my legs around his back barely able to lock my ankles holding him in place.

  “I don’t have a condom, but I’m clean.” He growls into my neck.

  Pausing chagrinned I hadn’t thought that far ahead when I whisper in his ear feeling reckless, “I’m on the pill and I’m clean too.”

  Jax cants his hips forward and pushes through my folds in one seamless stroke grunting when he bottoms out inside me.

  “Fuck. Diana.” He says my name drawing out the last syllable sounding in pain. I flex my hips reveling in the stretch of my legs around his hips and the pressure of his length pressed high against my core.

  “Jax. I want you. I want this.” I try to move but I can’t because he’s, well, Jax and pretty much immovable in this position. Our bodies grow slick and hot. He lets up enough so I can move touching him grinding my clit against him.

  He kisses my neck with nipping bites panting. “Little Warrior, I want you but I can’t be….” He pauses, his head hanging down like he’s fighting with himself. I cup his face in my hand while I hold onto his shoulder with my other.

  “Take me then. I’m yours. Give me your best, Hulk.” I lock my ankles around his hips and prepare for the ride of my life. Jaxon Holden doesn’t disappoint.

  Twelve

  Jax

  When I get to the hospital and see Diana sitting on the edge of the bed I nearly lose my shit. I wanted to find her ex and lay him out feeding him his teeth. She holds an ice pack against her cheek while a nurse pumps a blood pressure cuff.

  “Blood pressure is a little high, but that’s to be expected.” The nurse smiles and offers her a pain pill which she refuses.

  “Diana.” I storm past the chaos of the emergency room to her side and take the ice pack from her hand inspecting the damage myself.

  “Jax.” Her voice is shaky and her anxiety apparent when she leans in to me shaking.

  “What the hell happened?” I look at her face cupping her cheeks scanning her eyes for any lasting damage to her soul beside the large dark bruise forming over her cheekbone.

  “You should see the other guy.” She winces.

  “That is not even funny. Not for one second my little warrior.” I hug her to my chest careful that she might be hurt elsewhere. The need to feel her breath, body, and bones under my grasp keeps me rooted to the spot. If I thought I could get away with punching his head through a wall I’d do it without hesitation.

  “Mommy!” I turn to see Maisy jump down from Milo’s arms running to us. I let go of Diana to catch her picking her up to crawl into her mother’s lap.

  “Baby.” She hugs Maisy tight kissing her head.

  “Are you hurt?”

  “I’m okay. We’re okay.”

  “You know Uncle Milo can put a band aide on it and make it all better.”

  “I’m sure he can, but I only need hugs from you.”

  I give them some space to connect and head out the door where Milo is clenching his fists.

  “I swear to God.” He pacing the hallway.

  “I’m with you on that. Can you tell me what happened?”

  “Allen showed up at her office. Started making demands. Natalie called the police and Isaac pulled Allen off her as they were fighting. Your girl got some good kicks and punches in, he really does look like the shit his is. Piper got the call and I went to pick up Maisy at school.”

  “That motherfucker. I’ll…”

  “Easy, Hulk. Police arrested him and with those witnesses he’s not going anywhere. Go back in there with her. I’ll take Maisy home until she’s discharged and don’t do anything stupid. I’ve only got enough bail money stashed away for my wife.”

  We give each other one of those bro-hugs and Maisy skips out with Milo as I prepare myself to go back in there. Diana’s words nearly break me. She thinks she’s broken. I think she’s my own personal superhero having survived more than I could ever imagine.

  “Jax?”

  “What is it?” I reach her side and she nearly crawls into my lap. I want her to want me, I need her need me.

  “I’m sorry. I let my guard down and he got the first swing in, but right after I got him good.” She cries and thinks I’m upset she didn’t lay him out. Woman is a little crazy but given what just happened I’m more than happy to let that go. She was in a physical altercation that never, ever should have happened.

  “Listen to me, I am so thankful that you’re okay. I don’t give a shit if you missed a block. You shouldn’t have had to be in that position in the first place. He’s an asshole with no boundaries and that ends today.”

  “I know.”

  I shake her once to get her attention in my fear of losing her.

  “No, you don’t know, because if you did, you wouldn’t be apologizing. You would understand how freaked out I am about almost losing you.”

  “But you d
idn’t.”

  She still doesn’t get it. My stubborn little warrior woman.

  “Diana Valentine. I love you. I loved you when I didn’t really know what love was. I’ve loved you for a decade and stood by on the sidelines waiting for you, but I can’t do that anymore. I won’t and I don’t care what crazy obstacles you think there might be. I love your beautiful amazing daughter and the strength you have for the both of you, but by god woman, don’t you ever scare me like this again.”

  “Okay. Okay.” She’s nodding but I’m demanding more.

  “What? That’s all I get. Okay?”

  “I love you too, Jax Holden.” She kisses my lips and our hands cradle each other’s faces as gently as we can because each movement makes her wince.

  “I am not letting you go, you got that?”

  “Good, because I’m yours and you’re mine.” Hallelujah, finally she’s on the same page.

  “You and Maisy.”

  “We’re a package deal, Mr. Holden.”

  “You just wait until I get you home…” And if you’ve ever been at a hospital emergency room, you know the wait is torturous–almost as bad as ten years.

  Epilogue

  Jax

  “Daddy, daddy we’re home!” I stop what I’m doing and go to greet my daughter. Maisy is thirteen now and just when I started to breathe a sigh of relief, the teenage years hit far too quickly. I hadn’t been in her life for very long when I met her mother, but we bonded quickly. Maisy is a loving little girl and I’m blessed to have her in my life. I think coaxing Diana took longer than Maisy. My girls were worth it. All three of them.

  “Daddy!” Coco is a bundle of energy for an eight year old taking after her older sister. There was no fear with this one as she launched herself into my arms with a confidence that terrified me as she got older. Diana would swear she has a wild streak but it’s subtle, Maisy is my thinker like her mother. The boys won’t know what hit them with Coco.

  “Where’s mommy?” I ask hugging the bouncing blond heads.

  “Mommy is right here.” The girls untangle from me and I stand to hug my wife. In almost nine years of marriage my wife hasn’t lost her shyness even with me.

  “I missed you little warrior.” She blushes at the nickname. She will always be my warrior woman, my little Valkyrie.

  “I missed you too.”

  “How are Piper, Milo, and the kids?”

  “Oh my god, I think she’s pregnant again, but she won’t take a test.” We laugh and I wonder what Diana would look like swelled with another baby of ours.

  “I’m sure Milo is thrilled.”

  “Are you kidding, he’ll probably steal her pee to test.”

  “That’s gross.” I cringe thinking about my best friend and her baby crazy husband. I’m not sure if Milo is breeding a little army of his own to take over the world. Dmitri and Danika

  “He’s a doctor. What do you think he’s going to do?”

  I groan thinking about how a pregnant Piper is at work. Life would be crazy and full of food cravings and pillows stacked in the office when Piper goes narcoleptic and falls asleep at two in the afternoon like clockwork. Honestly, I wouldn’t trade my friend’s happiness in the world.

  “Well, then he’s a perfect match for my best friend.”

  “Speaking of which, I offered to take the kids for them for the weekend.”

  “You did?”

  “I did.”

  I groan out loud. I love those kids, heck I’m a godparent and Uncle to them all, but watching four kids plus our two was a circus on a good day.

  “I love you, Diana.”

  “I know. I figured this would be good practice, daddy. Bring you back to training camp.” She says.

  “Practice for what?” I hold her back to look into her eyes.

  “Well, we don’t know yet if Piper is cooking baby number five, but I’m definitely cooking number three.”

  “What? Are you serious?”

  “I am. I think we’re going to finally have to upgrade the Audi.”

  “Oh my god, this is awesome.” I shout twirling her around carefully putting her feet back on the ground holding her close to me. The car could become an airport bus for all I cared.

  “Yeah, it is isn’t it?” Her voice shakes. I do the only thing I can; I kiss her soundly and let the wetness in my eyes fall for what they are. Tears of happiness.

  My wife is having a baby and life is pretty damn good.

  “Eww grown up kisses.” Coco shrieks chasing after Maisy who sings K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

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