Phoenix was there, steadying her. “Don't get up too fast.” She was enthralled by his midnight blue eyes.
She shook her head. “Where is my purse?” He smiled, and moved away from her but kept his hands on her shoulders.
“By the door, sit down and I will get it for you.” He softly pushed her back on the bed. She looked down at herself and remembers she was completely naked. She felt like she needed to cover up, but she didn't know where her clothes were. She looked around and saw her bra and shirt across the room. Her skirt was by the door, and she didn’t see her panties.
Phoenix handed Jennifer her purse. “Thanks.” She smiled up at him. She grabbed her phone and saw her mother's missed call.
She pressed the call button and it only rang once. “Jenny, when were you going to tell me?”
Her heart nearly stopped. “What?” There was only thing she thought of.
“You're pregnant!” Her best friend and traitor must have told her.
“Mom, I was going to tell you. But--”
“I should have known right after you took the test.” Jennifer glanced up and Phoenix was gathering her clothes.
“I'm sorry, but I can tell you something no one else knows. Well, besides Phoenix.”
“Phoenix? His name sounds like a porn star's.” Jennifer’s mouth dropped open.
“Mom!”
“Sorry, but it's true. So tell me this news.” Jennifer sighed, and Phoenix bent down. He placed one hand on her bare knee for support.
“I'm having twins, a boy and a girl.” There was a loud crashing sound. “Mom?”
“Sorry, I dropped the phone. I need to see you and this porn star…Phoenix.” Jennifer looked up at him and he was staring at her.
“I don't think--”
“Jennifer Elizabeth Cruz, I do not care what you think. I want you and Phoenix to meet me at your apartment. Do you understand me?”
“Yes…I understand.” Jennifer looked down at her naked body and blushed.
“Now get dressed, and I will see you soon.”
“What?” Jennifer felt her heart race.
“Sweetie, you have sex in your voice. Good bye, Jenny,” she said sweetly.
“Bye, mom.” She stared at her phone. “My mom wants to meet us at my place.” She grabbed her bra.
Phoenix gave her his heart-stopping smile and stood up. “I am great with women, but not so much with mothers.” She remembered what he told her about his own mother.
She grabbed her shirt and skirt and put them on. “You don't have to meet my mom if you don't want too.” He ran his fingers through his hair.
“You’re close with her, so I need to meet her.” Jennifer stood up, and walked over to him.
“She is going to ask if we are together.” He ran his thumb over her bottom lip, but didn't smile.
“Darling I will try for you and our babies.” His other hand touched her stomach and she put her hand on top of his.
“Then let’s go.” She smiled as he kissed her nose.
Chapter Five
Jennifer and Phoenix pulled into her apartment complex twenty minutes later, she was so nervous. The only mother she had really ever known was about to go off on her and Phoenix. Jennifer had already decided not to tell her mom about him, she knew she would freak out more.
Phoenix parked and turned off the car. “Darling I can taste your fear. It can't be that bad, your mother loves you.” She knew that, she wasn't nervous about that. She was worried about what her mother was going to say to Phoenix.
“Just don’t take anything personally. She is going to be mad and blame you mostly.” Phoenix reached and took her hand. She lifted her eyes to look at him. His stunning midnight blue eyes were smiling at her.
“Darling, I can take whatever she wants to blame on me. I am the incubus.” He lifted her hand to his lips and laid a warm kiss on her knuckles that made her stomach flutter.
Jennifer felt her heart opening for him and wanted to kick herself. She took her hand back and he studied her. “Let's go inside before she comes out here.” She opened her own door before he could even get out. She started walking and he draped his arm around her shoulders.
“You know, I can kind of feel what you're feeling. And I don't quite understand it. Being an incubus I can tell emotions, and yours are confusing me. You're mad, and not. But there is something else, and I have never felt it before.” He stopped her and she felt her heart racing. She found it hard to believe no one has ever loved him before. “Please tell me.” He stopped her and looked into her eyes.
She shook her head. “Not now, we'll talk later.” He framed her face in his large hands.
“Fine, right now we will talk to your mother.” She smiled, and he returned it.
They started walking and he put his arm around her shoulders again. Jennifer looked up and saw two women walking towards them. Their eyes were on Phoenix and she looked at him. He smiled and nodded at them. They giggled, and Jennifer smiled. That was affect he has on women. The two women stopped and watched Phoenix and Jennifer walk by. She knew with his amazing good looks and the power rolling off him; he could get any woman he wanted, and he was going to try to be with her.
“Lucky bitch,” one of the girls said as they past, and Jennifer had to bite her bottom lip to keep her smile away.
Phoenix and Jennifer walked up to her door, and she put her key in. When she opened the door she saw her mother and Megan sitting on the couch. Jennifer glared at her best friend and mouthed “traitor”. Megan looked at Jennifer's mother and made a face.
Jennifer turned her head to the side to see Phoenix and he was looking at her. He smiled, and she wanted to leap into his arms. “Phoenix this is my mom, Cameo. Mom this is Phoenix.” Before Phoenix moved away from her, he kissed the top of her head. She looked at Megan and her eyes were wide.
He walked over to her mother and took her hand. “It's nice to meet you, Cameo.” He gently kissed her hand, and she arched her dark eyebrows at Phoenix. Jennifer held her breath.
“It's really nice to meet you.” She smiled at Jennifer. “You know how to pick them, sweetie.” Jennifer felt her cheeks heat up.
“Okay, I need to go throw up now.” Megan stood up. “I will be in my room with my headphones on.” She walked to her bedroom, and shut the door. Phoenix walked back to Jennifer and winked.
“Okay, we need to talk. Come and sit.” She walked over to the large sectional and sat down. Phoenix put his around her and pulled her close. “So, what are you two going to do?”
Jennifer opened her mouth to tell her, but Phoenix's hand squeezed her shoulder. “I will do everything in my power for Jennifer and our babies.” She turned her head and looked up at him. He smiled down at her.
“Well, I thought you were going to be a jerk about this. Megan showed me who you were before you got her. I believe you are the third richest man in America and known to be a womanizer.” Jennifer looked down, she knew he had other girls, but he hadn’t dated anyone.
“I know who I was, but that was before Jennifer. I would never do anything to hurt her, or our babies.”
“That is what I want to hear, but Jenny you know I am here for you. No matter what.” Jennifer looked at her mom and smiled.
“I know, Mom.”
“Are you going to marry her?” Jennifer's mouth dropped open and Phoenix squeezed her shoulder again.
“Cameo, we haven't known each other that long. I’m not saying it won't happen in time, but not now.” Jennifer knew not to get her hopes up. The last guy that said he wanted to marry her cheated on her.
“Good, I don't believe you two should get married because she is pregnant. Now, her father will demand it.” She stood up and smiled at them. “I do love seeing you this happy. I love you Jennifer, even if I am way too young to be a grandma!” Jennifer stood up to hug the woman she called her mother.
“I love you too Mom, and you are too young to be called Grandma.” She laughed and wrapped her arms around Jennifer.
She moved away from Jennifer. “It was nice to meet you, Phoenix, and make sure she is taken care of. Or I will be coming after you.” Her mother looked at Phoenix and smiled.
Jennifer turned to look at him, and he was grinning back at her mother. He walked over to her, and wrapped his arms around her. “I will take care of her, as much as she will allow me to.”
“Good, then I leave her in your hands. Good bye Phoenix.” She kissed his cheek and walked out of the apartment.
Jennifer sat back down on the couch and Phoenix sat next to her. “I actually liked her. She was funny. And she loves you so much.” He took her hand, and she smiles; he gently kissed her knuckles.
“She seems to like you, but I don't know any woman that doesn't.” She squeezed his hand.
“I can think of someone, Megan doesn't.” Phoenix smiled.
“Megan is picky, but she'll come around.” She leaned her head on his shoulder and he kissed the top of her head. Jennifer stared at the door when she heard knocking.
“That will be the pizza,” Phoenix said, and she lifted her head to look at him. He smiled down at her as he stood up. “You said you wanted a pizza with extra cheese and pepperoni.” He walked down and she saw a man wearing a black suit. She had seen him before; she thought he was the driver on that first night. “Thanks Mark, you can have the rest of the night off.”
“Thank you sir.” He handed the pizza box to Phoenix, and nodded at her. Phoenix shut the door; he walked over to her and sat the pizza on the coffee table in front of her.
He opened the pizza box and scrunched his face at it. “You really want to eat that?” He said and looked at her. She grinned and reached for a slice.
She took the first bite and moaned. It was what she wanted and needed. “Oh, it is so good.”
He made a weird face and sat next to her again. “I've never liked pizza. It reminds me of cardboard with sauce and toppings.”
She eyed him over her pizza. “I have a question. Do you age like me or like vampires?”
Jennifer watched his smile fill his beautiful face, and then he started laughing. “Vampires aren't real, but there are some demons that feed on human blood. Incubi and succubae age slower than humans. We age to twenty-five, and stay that way for one hundred fifty years. Then we age one month for every year after that.”
Jennifer finished her last bite of her first slice of pizza and looked at him. “So our babies will basically live forever.”
He nodded, “Basically.” She wouldn’t live forever, but her children and Phoenix would.
She stared at him and wondered how old he was. “How old are you?”
He grinned. “I am still new, I am technically thirty.” He winked at her, and she felt a little better knowing he wasn't two hundred years old.
She grabbed another piece of pizza, and he shook his head. “I want to go on dates, still.”
Phoenix narrowed his dark blue eyes. “I don't share well.” She swallowed the pizza in her mouth and choked. She started coughing and her eyes watered.
“That’s good because I don’t share well either. And I meant with you.”
“Okay, I will do it for you and we will talk about what will happen with me later.” He looked at his platinum Rolex. “Darling I have video conference with some of my other companies around the world in about an hour. I'll see you in the morning.” He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a business card. He wrote on the back of it and handed it to her. “That is my personal cell phone number. I already have yours programmed in my phone.” She sat it on the table, and he stood up.
“When I found out I was pregnant I didn't think you would take it so well.”
Phoenix took her face into his large hands. “Darling, I am happy to be going through this with you. I wouldn't want to be with anyone else.” He gave her a sweet passionate kiss that made her lightheaded. He slowly moved his lips away from hers. “Now eat, then get some rest.”
“Good bye, Phoenix.” He gave her one last heart-stopping smile and walked away from her. When he walked out, Megan walked out of her room.
“I thought he would never leave.” She smiled and grabbed a piece of pizza. “Since he was all lovey-dovey does that mean you two are together?”
Jennifer nodded. “Why did you tell my mom?” Megan bit her lip and looked down.
“She forced me to tell. She thought you were home from work and then I told her that you now work for the sex god that stole your virginity. Then I let it slip that you were pregnant.” Jennifer knew how her mother could be, and didn’t doubt she pressured Megan for information.
“Megan, he didn't steal anything. I wanted it just as bad. I have something I need to tell you, and you can't freak out.”
“You can tell me anything, I won't freak out.” Megan sat her pizza down and took Jennifer's hand.
Jennifer took a deep breath. “I'm pregnant with twins, and Phoenix is an incubus.”
***
Phoenix found Max waiting for him when he got home. He parked his SUV next to Max’s car and got out. Max was already leaning against his car.
“Hey, what are you doing here?” Phoenix asked as he shut his door.
His longest and only friend winked at him. “I want to know how you are really taking the news. It's not every day you find out the girl you got pregnant is having twins. And to add sugar on top, I know she isn't one hundred percent human.”
Max knew about his father leaving when he was young, and his mother's deep hatred for him. “I am still shocked. You know I never wanted to be a father, now I am having two babies.” He looked down at his watch and had some time before the meeting. “Want to come in?” He glanced at Max, and he nodded.
When they walk into Phoenix’s large living room that he never really used, he gave Max a glass of scotch. “What else is on your mind?”
Phoenix took a drink, and looked out his front window he saw only blackness from the night. “If I will drain her.” He looked back to Max, which was their biggest fear. If they did, they would belong to the devil and their soul would vanish. “She wants to be in a relationship, and not see other people. I’m sure she wouldn’t like me fucking other women.”
Max sat his empty glass down, and nodded. “I understand, and so will she. She isn’t some dumb bimbo you picked up at a bar. She is smart, and very sexy.”
Phoenix sat his glass down before he broke it by squeezing it too tight. “She is mine.” He said through his clenched teeth.
Max threw his hands in. “Wow, Phoenix she is yours. I am just stating facts.” He nodded at Phoenix and a sluggish smile appeared on his face. “You really care about her. She isn't some girl you fucked and knocked up.”
Phoenix felt his anger leaving him when he thought about her. Her bright green eyes that change to a dark green when she was coming apart in his arms. “I don't know what I feel, but I don't want you to talk about her. It does something to me, and I want to rip your head off.” He closed his eyes; her smell was all over him.
Phoenix kept his eyes shut when he felt a hand grab his shoulder. “You have it bad for her, and there is something with her. I felt a little pull, but I think you are feeling more because you have had sex with her. Phoenix I will find out what she is. I’m running tests on her blood now.”
Phoenix slowly opened his eyes. “What if she is something I can't be with? Like a fucking angel or something.”
Max let go of his shoulder and laughs. “I highly doubt she is an angel. They are very rare, and so are Nephilims. I think she may be a lower demon.” Max smiled at Phoenix.
He nodded, “Yeah, I’m sure you’re right.” He picked up his glass, and took a drink. “What am I going to do with two babies?”
Max laughed. “I have no freaking clue! That I can't help you with.”
Phoenix smirked at Max. “One day you will meet someone that you can't get out of your head. And when you close your eyes it's only her face you see.”
“You have it worse than I thought. I h
ope I am never under some woman’s spell like that. If I am, I want you to kill me.” He grinned, and walked over to the bar to pour another drink.
“You will go crazy, like I am.” Phoenix said and glanced down at his watch. Five minutes until he needed to be in his office.
“I have to do some work now. You can stay if you want.”
Max smiled at him. “No I have plans tonight with a super model.” Max winked at him. “You can come if you want, she is bringing friends.”
Yesterday he would have said yes, but he couldn't do that to Jennifer. “No I have a meeting and I am going to give this relationship a try.”
Max walked to the door laughing. “You’ve got it bad! See you later.”
Phoenix smiled and nodded he had it bad for Jennifer and didn’t know what to do to make it better. He did know that he was horrible with relationships
Chapter Six
“What?” Megan yelled, and took her hand back. “Did you say he is an incubus? Like the demons that seduce you in your dreams. Is that how he got you pregnant?”
Jennifer shook her head and was surprised she knew what an incubus was. “No, I’m ten weeks. I got pregnant the first time I had sex.”
Megan burst out laughing. “Of course you get pregnant with twins the first time you had sex.” She looked at Jennifer. “What does that mean for your babies?”
“I will have an incubus and succubus.”
“You know you sound crazy, don’t you?”
“I feel crazy! Meg, I have known Phoenix for like five minutes, and I am pregnant with his twins. ” Jennifer never thought she would be someone that would have babies out of wedlock. She always saw herself married for a few years, and then pregnant.
“Well Jen, I think you are a little crazy. But I still love you, and my niece and nephew.” Megan looked down at Jennifer's abdomen. “You know I know people who can take care of Phoenix, if he messes with you.”
Jennifer smiled; she has a good feeling he would be there for her no matter what. “He isn’t that bad, and I think he will stick around.” Megan gave her a funny look. “What?”
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