by M. T. Ossler
“Mom, I’m glad you’re here, but what made you come back. You were so adamant about going home and you never just pop in?” I ask, tucking Bella in under the blanket, wondering what made her come back. Not that I’m not happy, I love my mother and love seeing her and having her around. We’ve always been close, that’s why she moved down here to Florida when I got out of the service.
“Jules called me this morning and filled me in on the guys showing up and Bella passing out last night. I figured you could all use a hand, so I had Red bring me back.”
Mom’s had a prospect with her since she left here. Gator sends one of them, except Dusty, to trade off every week since she returned home.
All of a sudden, I get the shock of my life, Lily, mom’s dog jumps on the bed and into Bella’s lap. We all laugh, and my girl hugs her to her chest.
“Well, I really am glad you’re here, we can definitely use the extra help,” I say giving mom a huge hug and welcoming smile.
“I’m glad you’re here too, Aunt Cindy, even you Lily,” Bella says, placing a kiss on the dog's head as Lilly licks her cheek.
“So many things are changing, and I just can’t handle it all right now. I could use some help figuring things out, please. We could also use someone to mediate between Gio and Val, so they don’t kill one another,” Bella says with a smile on her beautiful tear stricken face that the dog is cleaning up. I take the towel mom laid on the bed next to her and wipe her face free of her tears and doggie kisses.
Sam comes rushing into the room with Gator, Jules, and Ace behind her. Jules comes over to us and hands Bella the bottle of water. Mom takes the dog from Bella and sends the dog into the other room.
“I set up a doctor’s appointment for you, at the hospital. It’s in an hour. She’s a colleague and a close friend of mine.
“Let me check your blood pressure before you have to leave,” Sam says out of breath from running up to our apartment. She brings the portable blood pressure machine over to the bed.
While she’s taking Bella’s pressure, I look over at Ace. “I’m going to need you and Blaze to accompany us to the hospital. Have one of the prospects get my cage ready to go.” I throw Ace my keys, and he nods as he leaves the room to do as I ordered.
Then I turn to mom. “Mom, I want you to come with us.” She nods her head and continues to watch Sam. I know Bella would want her with us, so that’s the reason I asked her.
Jules is still in the room with us, and she’s giving me a look, she wants to ask me a question, but she’s not sure how I’ll react. I know what she wants to ask me, so I put her out of her misery.
“You can tag along with Ace. I already assumed you would be coming being that you two are together now.” She nods her head with a big smile on her face. I turn my attention back to Bella and Sam.
“It’s high, but nothing to be concerned with right now. Once the doctor checks her out and does a sonogram, we can figure all this out. I’ll meet you out front, I have to talk to Gator before I leave,” Sam says packing up the machine, then leaves the room with Gator. Jules follows them out to find Ace.
“You ready for this, baby?” I ask. She looks a little panicked and scared.
She gives me a dreadful smile that doesn’t reach her eyes. I can see she’s still a little fearful, but she’s ready.
“I’m ready, amore mio. Can you grab my sandals, please?” I don’t get a chance to answer her.
“I’ll get them, honey,” mom says and walks into the closet.
“Actually, mom can you give us a minute, please.”
“Sure,” mom says as she strolls out of the closet. She places Bella’s shoes on the floor by the bed before leaving the room.
I take a seat on the bed next to Bella and look into her eyes. I’m going to cut right to the chase, no need to delay this any further. I know what’s wrong and I need to ease her mind.
“I know you’re scared, baby. I am too.” I admit to her. I’m excited don’t get me wrong, and I want this more than anything in the world, but I have my reservations. I didn’t really have the best examples growing up, and I don’t want to screw my kid up.
She gives me a look of disbelief. Me, scared, not a typical thing, especially me admitting it, but she needs this as much as I do.
“Ya, I’m scared I’m going to screw this up. I know you will be there to catch me and set my ass straight, but it worries me all the same.
“You know how we grew up, ya, there was love all around us. My mom pretty much raised us, and she was the best mother she could be. The other women were always there for us, but the men... My father wasn’t exactly the best role model around and we sure as hell didn’t see eye to eye on things. We didn’t have the best relationship by far. To be honest, I hated my father most of the time, and I don’t want that for our kids.
“You, on the other hand, had better in that aspect. Your mother and father were the best parents, parenting together, teaching you together. I’m sorry they’re not here to enjoy this with us and help you through it all. You’ll have mom, though, she’s never gonna be far.
“We can do this, baby, together. Together we can conquer the world and the monsters, right?”
I give her a huge reassuring smile, and she gives me a big one back. This time, it’s a real genuine smile, reaching her eyes and lighting up her beautiful face.
“Together, amore mio, together we can do it all. Ti amo per sempre, amore mio.” (I love you forever, my love.)
“Ti amo per sempre, mia bella Principessa. Let’s go see our baby, shall we.”
I help Bella out of bed and into her shoes. We walk out the bedroom hand and hand.
She’s wearing one of my shirts tied back around her waist and a pair of her daisy dukes, which I do love on her. Her favorite attire, as of late, unless she’s in a sundress, both are my favorite.
I take Bella under my arm protectively as we walk into the kitchen. The guys all glare at me when they see me.
Again, I don’t get a chance to react to them because mom handles the situation before I can. She walks away from Jules, by our room where they were talking, and comes closer to us.
“You boys need to stay here. We’re taking Bella to see the doctor to check her and the baby out.
“I know you boys are not happy about the situation you walked in on, but for Bella’s sake, you need to accept it and be good.
“Tonight after dinner, we can all sit down and discuss things, calmly, like adults,” mom says, and the guys agree to wait.
“Love you, Princess,” her brother and Lorenzo say as we walk out the front door. Bella stops and turns to look at them with a stone-face.
“I love you, guys too. Please don’t fight with my husband over this. I’m a grown ass woman, and I can make my own damn decisions,” Bella says sassily, then turns and walks out without waiting for a response.
I hear them comment about her sassy mouth not changing.
God, I love my girls’ sassy mouth, but Ace is right, though, she needs a good spanking on her delectable ass. Soon she will get one, very soon. My hand is itching to spank her plump little bottom and then love-fuck her again, really fuckin’ hard.
Chapter 17
Bella
We’re at the doctor’s office, at the hospital in Deland, waiting for Sam and Dr. Metcalf, my new OB/GYN, to join us in the sonogram room. Sam and Dr. Metcalf are talking in the hallway to give me time to prepare myself, get undressed and cover-up.
We met the doctor, talked to her, and she did an exam on me already. We’ve discussed how to reduce my stress and get my blood pressure down. We also discussed what would happen if I don’t.
The doctor is a very nice woman. She is around the same age as Sam, mid-thirties. They went to medical school together. They both worked well together at easing some of my fears. The rest will come in time and more therapy.
I’m lying on the table half-naked, from the waist down with a paper blanket over me. W
e are going to see our little one, on the big screen TV on the wall in a few minutes.
I’m so excited and can’t wait to get back to the Clubhouse to show everyone the pictures. First, though, Gio and I agreed we would tell Gigi privately, before telling the Club. I want her to be the first to know about the new baby, her niece or nephew, since my brothers already found out. My baby sister is going to be an auntie, my brothers are going to be uncles. Can you believe it! I still cannot believe this is my life.
Aunt Cindy is waiting in the waiting room with Jules, Ace, and Blaze for us to call them back. They wanted to give us a few minutes alone to see the baby before they joined us. Plus, Gio didn’t want the guys in the room with my bottoms off and...
“Baby, are you going to be comfortable with this thing,” Gio says, pointing to the wand by the sonogram machine. “I know it sure as hell bothers the fuck out of me. My cock should be the only thing that goes into that pussy of mine.” I want to laugh at him, but I can’t, I’m panicking about that too, and trying not to think about it. I don’t know how I’ll feel about it, not just because it’s not him, per say. I’m just not sure about any of this yet; it’s still all new to me.
The vaginal exam took me by surprise and was hard for me at first. Thankfully, Sam explained my situation to the doctor, and she understood. Dr. Metcalf walked me through the whole exam step by step, before touching me, to keep me calm and comfortable. The exam took longer than it should have, but if she didn’t walk me through the process, I never would have been able to let her touch me. Then Gio would have had a shit fit on her.
Gio, on the other hand, wasn’t happy about her touching me, but he knew I had to have it done.
That was the best thing Sam could have done for us, though, find a woman doctor. Gio still had a problem with her examining me down there, hovering over her every move, but if it was a man, I don’t think we would have made it this far. He would have shut it down before it even started and made us wait. Instead, he just stood beside me, held my hand, and did his best he could to keep us both distracted.
Gio places a soft kiss on my lips, then on my nose. We gaze into each other’s eyes for a few heartbeats.
“Just stay by my side and hold my hand. After that exam, I think I’ll be okay,” I say giving him an apprehensive look. He can tell I’m indecisive about this whole thing. He nods and is about to speak when there is a knock on the door. Sam and the doctor walk in.
“Are you two ready to see your little peanut?” Dr. Metcalf asks, striding over to the machine. We both say yes, as she sits and places a condom on the stick with gel, then turns on the monitor. I swallow hard and my breathing hitches. Gio squeezes my hand, giving me a reassuring look. I gape into his eyes instead of looking at the machine. She explained all of this to me before we came in here, so I knew what to expect, but hearing it... seeing it... I just don’t know.
“Careful doc, you take it easy on my wife, or you’ll have to find another way to do this shit.”
She nods and smiles at us before getting me prepared. I don’t move my eyes from Gio’s until she has the screen ready for us. Then I move when I hear the swish, swoosh sounds coming from the machine in double time it seems like.
I stare at the black and white, fuzzy screen not knowing what I’m looking at. It looks like a large bubble with two round balls, and like an alien is inside of it with numerous limbs. As the doctor clicks away on the keyboard, I stare in amazement.
“Oh... my... word,” she says, and I don’t like her tone. “Holy shit,” Sam says from the other side of me, and I begin to feel an uneasiness wash over me. Is something wrong with our baby? I look from the monitor to Gio, Sam, the doctor, and back to the monitor.
“What’s wrong? Is our baby okay? Did I hurt our baby already?” I blurt out with tears in my eyes, scared to death that I hurt our baby. Gio takes me in his arms to placid me.
“Nothing is wrong, sweet pea,” Dr. Metcalf says, then continues. “The babies are eight weeks along and growing perfectly. They are doing just fine,” she says enunciating her words. I take a deep breath and freeze for a second. Wait, did she just say babies, not a baby. No! Shit! She can’t be right. Before I have a chance to question her, Gio beats me to the punch.
“Hold up a second there Doc, did you just say babies as in two babies? Are we having twins?” Twins, holy shit, twins. We’re having two babies, not one. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! TWINS!
I feel like I’m going to pass out again. She can’t be right.
“Yes, you’re pregnant with twins, identical twins. Do either of you have twins in your families?” she asks, and I have to think about it for a minute, so I don’t panic. I don’t remember ever hearing about twins running in my family. Gio’s either if I’m not mistaken.
“Ya, my dad, he had an identical twin brother, and I also have male identical twin cousins on his side,” Gio says, and I gawk at him. I never knew that.
“Uncle Lorenzo was a twin? What!” I ask him, and the doctor gives us a horrified look, I ignore her. Before Gio can answer me, she blurts out, shocked, “Uncle... are you two related?”
“No, we’re not related. We grew up together, and my father worked for her father. Out of respect, we called all our elders aunt and uncle,” Gio says without hesitation. Then he finally turns his attention back to me to answer my question.
“Baby, dad’s brother died when you were two. Do you remember them ever talking about Uncle Louis or Uncle Lou, which most people called him? Lou was dad’s twin.” I do remember hearing about him. He was in the organization under my grandfather. I think I remember hearing something about him being shot in the line of duty. I nod my head and then turn back to the doctor.
“Show us our babies, Doc,” I say. For the next half an hour, she points them out to us on the big screen TV. As I lay here on the table, listening to the doctor, watching her point both our babies parts out to us, little nubby arms, legs, and their heads, I can’t help but freak out a little bit. I panicked when I knew we were having one baby, now I find out we’re having two. I... I... I can’t freak out. It will all be okay. I’m happy, don’t get me wrong, but two... We will have two babies to take care of not one. I have to put all this aside for now. Aunt Cindy and I will talk later, and she will ease all my worries, I’m sure. I need to focus on the good and go with it just like my therapist told me. This is a happy moment, and I’m going to enjoy this ride.
She does all her calculations and measurements of the babies, and then she takes some pictures for us to keep.
Our babies are growing properly and will continue to do so as long as I follow the doctor’s orders. Eat right, drink lots of water, rest, exercise, and take my prenatal vitamins. I can and will do all of that and keep myself calm, I need to reduce my blood pressure and not stress out. I also need to start seeing my therapist more for a while.
When she’s done with everything, she freezes the screen for our family to see the babies. Sam and Dr. Metcalf leave the room to gather them while I get dressed before they join us.
I quickly dress, in my shorts, and spend a minute in Gio’s arms until the room fills up with our family and the Doctor. Once they all gather in, Doc gives the floor to Gio. I stay in his arms sitting on the table while he speaks.
“Bella is eight weeks pregnant, and we’re due April 5th. She’s a candidate for early labor, so she will probably be on bed rest towards the end,” he says and takes a deep breath before hitting them with the big news. “The babies are healthy, and their growth is on target. You can see them,” Gio says, removing his right arm from around me and pointing to the screen on the wall. We wait for someone to catch his words. After looking at the screen for a second, they all say at once, “Babies.” We now have four shocked faces gawking at us.
Gio and I look at each other with huge smiles on our faces, and we nod our heads. Then we start cracking up, hysterically laughing from their expressions.
“Damn, bro, that’s some super sperm y
ou got there,” Blaze says, and the room erupts in laughter and cheer. We all stay like that for a minute, taking it all in and then compose ourselves.
“Just like your dad,” Aunt Cindy mutters beside me. She has a huge smile on her face and tears in her eyes.
At that moment, Ace’s phone rings, interrupting our announcement.
“Hey, Gator, we just got the most awesome news from Beast and...” he stops mid-sentence and all you hear is Gator yelling, but I can’t make out what he’s saying. The look in Ace’s eyes worries me. He’s trying to control his emotions, as he looks straight at me. What the hell is going on now?
“We’re leaving now. Where are the guys?” he asks and waits for the answer.
“You did, okay, we’ll be back in 30 and figure it out,” he says and hangs up.
“What was that all about?” Gio asks, and I get a shiver up my spine. This is bad, really bad I can tell from the look in his eyes.
“We need to get back to the Clubhouse now, there’s trouble. Beast, I need to speak to you, alone. Blaze, you take mom and the girls out to the cage, including you, Sam, Gator’s orders. We’ll meet you out there in a few minutes. Don’t let them out of your sight for a second,” he says the last part sternly to Blaze. Then he whispers something else to Blaze.
Gio helps me down from the table and hands me his keys. He gives me a kiss and tells me everything is fine and he will see me in a couple of minutes. Aunt Cindy takes my hand, and I grab Jules’ hand after she kisses Ace, and then we head out of the room.
Something is going on that they don’t want me to know about, and that worries me. When Gio gets in the SUV with me, he’s going to have to answer my questions. I know this has nothing to do with Club business and he can’t use that excuse this time. He wants to protect me from things, I get that, I really do, but he can’t always. It’s the not knowing that worries me and if I’m worried, that’s not good for our babies or me.
