by Lee Heaven
Mary Beth was looking up at Theo with love in her eyes. I wonder if he ever noticed. I wonder if he slept with her. She turned and looked at me, it was then I saw that she was older than him, probably closer to my age, not like five years makes all the difference. She was shorter than me but taller than Sarah would be. When she stopped looking at Theo and looked over at us she blushed looking at Tyler. “Congrats, Mr. Ellis,” she said to Tyler. She turns to me, leans in and whispers, “They are quite stunning aren’t they?” I couldn’t help but giggle with her. “Congrats!” she said a little louder.
“Thank you,” Tyler and I said at the same time. Tyler continued talking, “Thank you both for coming on short notice. Now if you’ll excuse us, I’m going to take my bride back to that fancy ass hotel room I just paid for and I’ll be loving on her all night long.”
Mary Beth and I both blushed at the same time. But I know it’s true. Tyler will take me back to that hotel and make love to me all night long.
“Tyler,” his name comes out of my mouth on half a moan, half a whisper. His hips thrust faster as he tries to bring me to orgasm again. We’ve been going at it for the last hour. It’s our third time since we got back to the room hours ago. It’s nearing five in the morning and he’s only given me a twenty minute nap in between now and the last time. I can tell he’s getting close, but he’s already gotten me off three times, I don’t think I have a fourth in me.
“Come on darlin’” he grunts at me. He hand shift between us as he searches out my clit. The thing has been pressed, licked, flicked and bit so much over the night that the pressure is too much. It’s almost painful. “One more,” Tyler grunts again.
He let up on the pressure on my clit, it felt like butterfly wings whispering across my skin. I can feel it start to build in the pit of my stomach. Tyler’s fingers keep floating across my clit. I could feel it coming on stronger and stronger. Tyler’s hips pick up speed as he can feel me getting closer. He’s slamming against me harder and harder. I can feel the mattress shifting in the frame. Finally my orgasm rocks through my whole body and I’m left with a weak body. I can feel Tyler’s cock twitch inside me as his thick cum shoots inside me.
Tyler rolls off of me and flops down on the bed. Pulling my body into his, he wraps his arms around me holding me tight against his body. As I drift off to sleep I smile. I just married Tyler Ellis. I just married a Yankee. A major league baseball player. The dream that Sarah and I had growing up had finally come true. We were both married to our dream man.
The phone ringing woke me a few hours later. “Who the fuck,” Tyler mumbled beside me. I slid out of bed and crawled across the floor towards where the ringing is coming from. When it stopped ringing, I stopped moving. It started ringing again almost immediately and I started moving again. Just as I reached my purse it stopped ringing. I pulled the thing from my purse and looked at the screen. Fifty missed calls. Ten from Decker, ten from Tobias and the rest are from Maggie.
I clicked on Maggie’s name and it wasn’t even through the first ring before she picked up. “Where the fuck have you guys been? We’ve been calling both your phones,” she practically yells in my ear sounding panicked.
“Maggie, we’re in Vegas. Remember? Why the hell are you blowing up our phones? We told you we were coming here,” I said as I pulled Tyler’s phone out of his pants pocket and checked to see just as many missed calls.
“Sarah’s in the hospital!” She yells out of breath. “She had a heart attack, they put her in a medical comma. They’re talking emergency c-section.”
“Fuck,” I said as I dropped my head into my hands. I looked at the time on Tyler’s phone. Our flight was still five hours away. “Maggie, our flight doesn’t leave for another five hours. We won’t be back till at least ten tonight.”
“Daniel…he sent the private jet,” she said as she shuffled the phone and talked to someone by her. “He said it should be landing there for you guys in about an hour and half.”
Hour and a half? That means they’ve been trying to get us for over three hours. Fuck! How did we sleep through the phone ringing that many times? How could I have been so careless? This is my best friend. I knew she wasn’t having a good pregnancy, and had all sorts of complications. Yet I was so careless and slept through three hours of them calling us. I was careless and went off to another city in a time when she needed me by her side.
“We’ll be there as soon as possible,” I said as I clicked the end button and dropped the phone on the floor.
It’s too early. She can’t have the babies now.
“Darlin’?” I heard Tyler whisper from the bed.
“Sarah’s in the hospital,” I whispered from where I sat on the floor. I heard the sheets rustle and the light next to the bed turned on. I looked into his worried face. “She had a heart attack. They put her in a medical coma. Talking emergency c-section.”
Tyler slid off the bed, walked over to me and scooped me up, placing me on his lap. “Let’s go find a new flight, get out of here soon as possible so we can be with her and Decker.”
I sigh as I turn into his chest, my big strong man comforting me. We’ve all become a family. Stronger and bigger then my blood family. With all of them by my side I know I can fight and live on after any situation we come across.
“Daniel sent the private jet. Should be here soon.” I looked down at my phone as it beeped with the information of where and when to find the private jet. “We slept through three hours of them calling us. How could I be so careless? She’s my best friend.”
“Darlin’ it’s not your fault. We had no idea.” His hands ran through my hair, as if he was trying to sooth my frazzled nerves. “Come let’s gather our things and head to the airport.”
I know he’s just trying to calm my nerves. We barely have anything. It will take us ten minutes to gather our stuff. Fuck the airport is probably only a fifteen maybe twenty minute drive. That’s a half hour at the most. What about the other hour we have to wait? What am I supposed to do with those minutes? Sixty minutes to pace the floor. Sixty minutes to go crazy about how I let my best friend down. How I wasn’t there for her when she needed me.
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I push through the hospital doors and run for the elevators. I’ve been awake for hours. My clothes don’t match. I don’t even know how I smell. I could smell like BO or sex. I didn’t shower after we had a night filled with wedded sex. I can’t even share the news with her. The happy news that I married Tyler, I can’t even sit there and wait for her to yell that I did this without her, that I should have called.
No, now I jam at the buttons on the elevator hoping the thing would move faster, but it doesn’t. Tyler takes my hand and wraps his fingers around mine. I try to pull his hand from mine hoping to jab at the buttons and move the elevator faster, but he holds onto my hand tighter.
When the doors finally opened I wretched my hand from his and bolted from the elevator and down the hall. I ignored the nurses telling me I can’t just walk back there as I checked the name on the little white boards outside each room. Tyler trailed behind me as he tried to calm the nurse chasing me down the hall. I finally found the room where her name was written on the board and rushed in.
I stopped in my tracks as I stood there staring. Standing there holding the hand of a little baby inside an incubator was Decker. His hand was probably fifty times the size of the little one, his arm barely fitting into the hole on the side of the plastic container. But there he was his one finger holding onto this baby’s hand, talking so quietly. Telling him about his mother’s beautiful blue eyes.
Across the room Maggie slept in a chair while Tobias sat in another with his hand poking through the hole of another incubator, holding the hand of the other baby and talking about how her mother is nothing but trouble and how her kids wouldn’t be anything if they weren’t like her.
My sobs pulled the two men’s attention away from the babies. Decker pulls his arm from the little hole and stands up. Walking over to me
he pulls me into his body. I let loose a bunch of sobs into his chest.
I finally pull away from him after a few minutes of sobbing and look over at Sarah. It’s not the first time I’ve seen her this way, hell it’s more like the fourth time. First when she was attacked in high school, then a year later when she tried to kill herself, then just a few months ago on New Year’s Day when she had to be revived because the anemia made her pass out and her heart stop.
“She’s going to be fine,” Decker said. “They had to do a c-section. They couldn’t wait any longer.” He nodded his head and his feet shuffled a few times as he looked over at Sarah lying in the bed. “They couldn’t wait,” he repeated again. “They couldn’t wait. I had to give them permission, I had to before it got worse. They couldn’t wait.”
Ah fuck, he’s nervous. He’s afraid he made the wrong decision. The only time I have seen Decker less than perfect, or off his game or out of control is when it comes to Sarah. She is the one thing in his life that can bring him to his knees. The one thing that can break his heart and heal it at the same time. I see the way he looks at her, like she is the only thing on the planet that makes his heart tick. She starts his day and ends it. He would give everything up just to make sure she was happy and healthy. I know he loves those kids and her and Josie, but I can see it in the way he looks at her every time something bad happens, he won’t put her through this again. He won’t risk hurting her like this again.
Does Tyler look at me that way? Does Tyler think like Decker? Would Tyler give up everything for me? Do his eyes shine bright when he looks at me?
All I had to do was look over at Tyler standing next to Tobias, his arm now stuck through the hole of the incubator stroking the little girl’s hand. I’m not even sure the hand was bigger than his fingernail. But all three men were gentle. He smiled as he turned to look at me. I saw the love shine in his eyes. I saw the way he looked at me and it screamed ‘I love you with everything I have.’
“What’s their chances?” I asked Decker as I sat in the chair he had just vacated and stuck my hand in the incubator.
Decker started talking about all the complications they had to spend the next long months watching out for. But he also talked about how they have a good chance, how even just hours after they were born, nothing seems to be wrong. But I can see the worry in his face, every time he looked at the babies, and at Sarah.
I watch Tyler as he runs his finger around the little baby’s hands. I still worry that he’s losing out on something by marrying me. He’ll never have a kid of his own. He has my kids, Kris and Felicity, we now have Payton and Cage, and we talk of adopting them when time comes. But can he really be happy not having his own flesh and blood?
Would he tire of me?
Chapter 13
It’s been seven months since Tyler and I got married. Seven months of happiness. Seven months of not telling a soul. Not even the kids knew, we didn’t want them to tell anyone. At first we hid it because Sarah was in the hospital and everyone was worried about her and the babies. Then Tobias planned a secret wedding for Maggie. He may have told her originally that it was all last minute, but it wasn’t him and Sarah spent months planning it. How Maggie never found out we’ll never know because they were almost caught a million times. Then just a few weeks after that Jimmy and Chelsea got married. So we just kept it to ourselves.
I’ve paced this hallway a couple of times over the past months since we took in Payton and Cage. Adopting Cage was easier than we thought. Emily never filled out the paperwork for the birth certificate and Theo did what Theo did best and kept himself out of it, so filing the paperwork for Cage was easy since DNA said Tyler was the father. Payton was a little harder to adopt, not so much harder but lengthier. But the day has finally come and now all that’s standing between Payton being ours is for our name to be called so we can go before the judge and get his signature. Get his approval to finally make our family just one person bigger.
But this isn’t what really has us nervous. No, what really has us going is what happens when we finally leave here. When we leave we get to go home and tell our friends, that Gage has officially has been our son for months, that today Payton officially became ours today and that seven months ago we got married.
We knew they would be supportive of everything in the end, but it’s still nerve racking to have to go to the people that we love and spend every day with and tell them that we’ve been lying to them for months.
I watch Tyler sit with Payton on a bench outside the door we’re waiting to go into. She’s giggling and smiling at the silly faces that he’s making at her. She may not be ours by blood, but she couldn’t be more ours than if I gave birth to her myself. I couldn’t love a child less. This is my family. Blood or not, I’m now going to be a mother of four.
Our name was finally called and we went in before the same family judge that we’ve been seeing since the day I found the kids on our doorstep. I watched as Payton toddled into the courtroom and up to the judge to give him a hug. She’s a very loving girl. I couldn’t have asked for a better little girl to adopt.
We went through a bunch of questions, laughing the whole time as Payton sat there smacking Tyler’s face while chanting ‘Dada’ trying to get his attention. I can still remember the day she first called him that. Tyler had walked into Payton’s room just as I was putting her down to sleep. He had been gone on a road trip for a few days, she always squealed when she would see his face on the TV, so when she squealed that way just as I was about to cover her with a blanket I knew he was in the doorway. She climbed up and held her arms out to him jumping in the crib. The second he picked her up she placed her little hands on his cheeks and said Dada. The look of pride that crossed his face just said it all, it said that yes he was her Dada and nothing would change that.
With the bang of the gavel and the judge’s signature on the paper it became official. Payton was now officially ours. She was now Payton Claire Ellis, She was now the older sister to Cage Tyler Ellis and younger sister to Kris and Felicity. She was officially apart of this family and nothing and no one can take that away from us.
By the time we actually got back to the apartment everyone was gathered at Decker and Sarah’s apartment. Dinner was being prepared and everyone was getting ready to take their place at the table. Tyler leaned over and whispered that we would tell them during desert. I really didn’t care when we told them as long as we told them today. I couldn’t hold the secrets back any longer. I was tired of the girls asking when Jeremy was going to give me a divorce. When Tyler and I were finally going to set a date and get married for real.
As dinner went on and on, I clutched tighter to Tyler’s hand. I had no idea why I was so nervous. I knew our friends would be happy, but here I was clutching his hand and dying inside with nervousness. Finally Sarah brought out a chocolate mousse cake and started serving everyone up. I took a bite of the cake and savored the rich chocolate. I was in heaven. That was until Tyler started talking.
“Guys, we have some news to share with you all,” he rumbled in his deep voice.
I looked over at him and he smiled down and me, planting a kiss on my forehead.
“I guess we should start at the beginning,” I took a deep breath and turned to our friends. “As you all know Cage has the same DNA as Tyler and we went to Vegas to confront Theo about it. He admitted to sleeping with Emily, admitted that the kid was probably his. He also stated that he wanted nothing to do with the baby. What you don’t know is that night…” I looked over at Tyler for support.
“We got married that night,” he continued for me, never taking his eyes off of mine.
“I knew it,” Sarah screamed as she slammed her hands on the table. She stood scooting her chair back and I quickly shot to my feet to match her. “Why would you lie to me?” the dramatics started.
“Baby,” Decker said pulling on her arm. “I’m sure they have a good reason on why they’ve been hiding this from all of us for seven months,�
� giving us a pointed stare.
“You had a heart attack, Sarah. You were in the hospital and then everything with the twins. We just didn’t want anything else to stress you out, so we thought the best thing was to hide it from all of you,” Tyler said.
“Even our kids don’t know,” I continued. “But that’s not all we have to tell you.” Sarah sat back down in her seat and gave me her best stink eye, letting me know that she was pissed that we didn’t say anything for months. “We adopted Cage, it was easier than we thought. With Theo not stepping up, it made it easier for Tyler to claim him as his own. Emily had never done the paperwork for a birth certificate, so we were able to have one done a few weeks after we got back. Cage has been ours since June.”
Tyler cleared his throat, “Payton became ours today. We are now the legal parents of both our kids.”
Everyone sat there staring at us. Sarah stood up again, never taking her eyes off of mine as she pushed away from the table, walked around and then stopped before walking up to me. Instead of coming to me she turned and walked into the kitchen. Yeah she is mad, just like I thought she was going to be.
I walked into the kitchen after her and could hear everyone else congratulating Tyler.
“We didn’t plan this. We were there and Tyler surprised me. We planned on telling everyone when we got back. But you were in the hospital and then we were all worried about the twins. Then it just came down to wanting to wait until Payton became ours. We never meant to hurt anyone.”
She turned to face me, tears spilled over her eyes and she smiled at me. “I’m not hurt that you got married. Hell, if I think I could have gotten away with it I would have eloped with Decker. Yes I would have loved to have been there, but I get it. What I’m hurt about, is the fact you guys felt you had to hide it because of me.”
