"Good morning", Caine's voice filled the cold morning air and made me warmer from the inside."Good morning", I greeted him back, grumpy from the sleep and the fact that this was the first time I had not slept close to him even though we were in the same house, married.“I made you breakfast” he said, and my eyes went to where plates of waffles and syrup and some eggs were laid. I wondered who had helped him with creating this morning's artwork, and then I scanned the kitchen.The real havoc was in the sink, piles of kitchen stuff.He slept outside the door and woke up early to cook. I felt bad about it.Caine could not cook to save himself and if he did manage, it would be a disaster.His shirt had egg batter on it and his wedding ring was coated in syrup. He looked like he had gone through hell this morning. I was dying to laugh at him, but we were still not on good terms.“I can’t keep the food down if I eat”, I muttered, and took a bottle of water. He quickly started rinsing his
He stood up and added some bath salts and bath bombs to the water.He set some essential oils within reach and reached for the rose petals.As he busied himself, my eyes followed him around. Eager about what was going to happen.I wanted to see him in my state too, bare and open to my eyes, alone.It made no sense that he was clothed, and I was naked.He could see me and I could not. My hunger for him increased."Undress" I said, in a commanding tone."What?" He turned to me quickly, ears perked."Take off your clothes" I said and saw his eyes widen a bit before they started to darken. His shirt came up first, and he let it slip carelessly from his fingers.And then he stood waiting for me."All of it" I said.A small smile played at his lips and he hooked his fingers on the waist of the remaining piece of clothing he had on.He pushed the waist band of his sweatpants down his waist.Slowly as they came off, his bulge, which had been doing a good job of straining in his pants, sprang
I bit his ear softly as I sat on his back running my hand all over his back.“Was last night not enough?" he purred.“You could’ve done better” I wanted to mess with his ego."You're joking" he chuckled "Am I?" I teased "I'm ready to try again" he said and attempted pushing me off him to grab me and prove to me there was always something better."Caine, are you planning on making me unable to walk?" I laughed as I pushed him back down."I'm glad we're on the same page" he laughed.“I can feel knots of muscles in your shoulder, look what that jealousy is doing to you”“Don’t start” he warned playfully.“You need to let go of it and free your mind” I spread my hands, yoga like and tried to hold in my laugh.“Baby” he whined“Jealousy gets you nowhere, except a bunch of tense muscles" I continued."Release them. That's why you're on top of me. I can put it to use, but we'll switch sides. You'll be under me" he said and I could almost hear the seriousness in his voice."You're insatiab
Four months laterThe green field filled with green grass and beautiful flowers and a whole body of clear water that spanned the area.My view of nature from this angle was beautiful.The sun shone directly on the water, casting very perfect and pretty rays of light around us.My smile was full as I breathed the cool evening air and relaxed my body and my bare feet into the soft grass."Baby", Caine called, and I turned back to see he had already arranged our picnic setting, and he was standing on top of the mat with his hands outstretched, waiting for me to go into them.I caressed my small protruding belly as I walked back to him.“Come on” he said as I got closer and when he got in touch with me, he held my waist.“My pretty girl” he said and kissed my cheek before nuzzling my neck."You put your boys scout training into action today", I complimented the arrangement."Baby, any normal person can do this" he said, and he rubbed my belly gently."Well, not me. I can't do that" I sai
Two months laterI woke up with a headache and walked really slowly downstairs and into the kitchen.There I met my husband.“Baby" I announced my presence.He was just back from the gym and he was sweaty and drinking water."Hey honey. How was your night?" "Terrific" I said, and lowered myself into a chair."Why. What happened?" He looked concerned as he came around my side."I felt feverish""Is it mild or something I should worry about?""Not really." I eyed his water. "can you get me water please?"He bent down and kissed me before going back to the fridge to get me the bottle of water.Caine came back with the water and passed it to me. As I drank, he touched my neck."You're running a little temperature" he said and I nodded."The water has been tasting different these days". I looked at the bottle label. "This is different.""I could get you another brand", he collected it and went to get me another different bottled water brand."It's not that" I sighed, and he turned back to
"You have a stubble coming on. How did I not notice that?" I touched his face lightly."I decided to let it grow out", he said, holding my hand."Ah. The daddy stubble" I said, and we both chuckled. It's been two days since I have been in the hospital with different tubes and wires in my body and all this while Caine never left my side for more than two minutes.Two days since, I had seen him genuinely laugh. He was either holding my hand and making me laugh or sitting and brooding when he thought I was not watching. I wanted us to go back to our normal and perfect life. The one where he would pick me up and run around the house with me in his arms.I looked down at the couch he had been lying on for the past two nights and my big stomach obstructed my view."I don't look sexy anymore" I said and wiggled my feet."Don't even say that. You are my perfect round ball", he said, and touched my stomach."You are calling me fat". I was cautiously laying a trap for him."Nope, I'm saying
I could not sleep at night and I kept turning in my bed.Megan stayed with me all night and tried to cheer me up with gossip and food.I could see her worry even through the fake smiles she gave me.Morning came and we both tried to be happy even though we were both missing a husband, a son and a father.After I had showered and Lucas had checked me, we all sat in anticipation of good news.I was sighing every few minutes and looking at the door occasionally.By noon, we heard some commotion outside, and I hurried outside with my heart beating loudly.He was fine, and he was back. I wanted to greet him with a smile and a kiss and tell him I was okay, and tell him I felt the babies kick.At least give him some good news.But when I got outside I did not see him, my heart dropped and my disappointment washed in.There were some wounded pack soldiers, including Seth, but Caine was not among them.It surprised me because Caine left with Seth."Get the doctors" Megan ordered."Where's Cain
The dead pack soldiers had been buried with tears and pain.Their families were compensated and taken care of, but we were not the same that week.Caine has not been himself since we left the hospital and was either working on his laptop or in the gym trying to get his leg to heal faster.The attacker had gotten him in the stomach and dug deeply into his right thigh, even though he was healing fast the leg was taking time to heal.I would wake up at night, and he would be grunting and huffing away with workouts.Or he was either in the garage or sneakily on a call or in a meeting with people I did not know when they arrived at the house.Everybody was trying to get to the root of the problem and being extra careful.He was trying to be sneaky about it, he did not want me to know anything about it.I had not seen Megan for a while now and David was not forthcoming with any information I asked about.Caine was still my sweet, loving husband, but he seemed a shadow of himself now and alw