Semua Bab Fighting Back (Fighting For Love 5): Bab 11 - Bab 20

Maggie glanced up from working on the apsara sculpture to see Joe entering her studio. As always, he was weighed down with bags; as always, she smelled something amazing coming from those bags.She gave him a wide smile in greeting, thinking that his blue eyes were exactly the same color as the summer sky outside her massive windows. “Hey.”“Hey, sweetness.” Carefully, he set the bags of food on the counter in her tiny kitchen, crossed the room to her. “How’s it going?”Maggie stared up at the goddess of air and cloud with fondness. This was the third of four sculptures to be completed for Joe’s new restaurant, and she thought that it was maybe her favorite. This one was as graceful and curvy as the first two, but she also had a strong, sassy kind of tilt to her head and hips. She looked like a bit of a kickass apsara, actually, not even a tiny bit demure or shy. In fact, she had the bearing and dignity of a fighter and a survivor.Not for the first time, Maggie wondered if her art wa

She did as he ordered, then held her breath as the most gorgeous man that she’d ever seen knelt down in front of her – just knelt there totally naked and all mouthwatering temptation – and peeled her shorts and panties off. When his mouth descended between her thighs, she cried out. And when he opened her wide and slid deep inside her, she screamed.Joe took her deep and gentle at first; took her deep and hard in just seconds. Neither one of them wanted to wait, and their orgasms rose fast as they moved together, over and over again. Their releases were almost simultaneous, with Maggie murmuring that she was there, and Joe growling for her to go on, that he was right behind her. His climax exploded out of him less than five seconds after her internal muscles started clamping down on his cock, and he was shaking and panting as hard as she was when it was all over.Tangled together, Maggie’s face still buried in Joe’s broad shoulder, his hands still clenching her hair, they slowly relax

Nick gritted his teeth and stretched his entire body down and over the length of both thighs. He held it for ten seconds, sat up, lowered his massive frame again. And again. With his right hand, he gripped the toes on his right foot each time. Since his left hand had nothing to grab, it lay flat on the mat in front of him.“Good!” Maisie chirped. “Thirty more. You feel the stretch in your hips?”“A bit,” he grunted. “Not much, though.”“Straighten your legs more,” Maisie said cheerfully. “Get that stretch, Nick.”Dutifully, he did as she said and sure enough, now he felt it. He nodded at her, and she nodded back.He did the last thirty, then leaned back on his hands, actually sweating a bit. Jesus Christ, how the hell could sitting on his ass and doing fifty stretches be even remotely strenuous? Nick was a veteran of some of the toughest, most demanding physical karate training, and he knew that this wasn’t worth breaking a sweat over. Not even close.“How do you feel?” Maisie asked.

Quickly, Nick looked at Mia, wondering if she was offended by Maisie’s words. After all, Maisie was basically saying that talking to Mia wasn’t going to be enough for him, that he’d need more. But to his huge relief, Mia was looking thoughtful, not hurt.“It sounds great,” Mia said. “Can Nick just show up?”“No.” Maisie shook her head. “He needs to call Luke and talk to him first, tell him everything he needs to know. No holding back and no secrets. But if you know him from the gym, then I guess he already knows about your surgery?”“No,” Nick said quietly. “No, I didn’t tell anyone at work except Adam, Mitch and Gavin, The Rock’s manager. No clients.”“I see.” Maisie’s bright green eyes were gentle. “OK, then, you need to call Luke and talk to him. You got his number?”“It’s at the gym. Can you give it to me today?”“Sure. I’ll sms it to you once we wrap up here, OK?”“Thanks.” Nick stretched his shoulders, glanced at the clock. “We got much more to do?”“Nope. Some cool-down stretch

“What kind of challenges?” Adam asked, trying to keep his tone level despite his shock. “Challenges caused by what?”“Katie, you have some very thick scarring on the walls of your uterus. A bit of scarring isn’t terribly unusual, but this amount… well. It can make pregnancy difficult.” Alicia tilted her head at Katie, trying to gauge her thoughts, but Katie was as emotionless as a gray brick wall. “It means that even if you got pregnant, carrying the baby to term might be dangerous. For you and the baby.”“I see.” Katie’s voice was so flat, Adam’s stomach clenched up. “Where did the scarring come from?”“Katie.” Alicia paused. She’d been in this situation too many times before in her two-decades-long career, and this part never got any easier. “On your paperwork, you answered a question that I now need more information about.”“Alright,” Katie managed to choke out. “Which question?”“You wrote that you experienced some abuse in childhood.” Alicia hesitated. “Sexual abuse.”Katie froze