I slowly pull myself from him and head to her room. When I get there she’s walking out with a bag over her shoulder. She has on yoga pants and a baggy sweatshirt, trying to hide the baby bump. But now that I’ve seen it, there’s no missing it.
“Alice,” I say quietly, and she stops in her tracks. Her eyes widen a little. I know she’s trying to sneak out on me in an effort to avoid this conversation.
“I can’t do this anymore. It’s too much, and the doctor says it’s stressing me and the baby out.”
“Oh God.” I grab her and pull her in for a hug. So many questions flood my mind, but I don’t want to push. I’m worried I’ll stress her out or something. “But Dad is coming home,” I try to reassure her. He’ll murder whoever left her alone and pregnant.
“I know. It’s what I’ve been waiting for. I wanted to make sure he was okay before I left. I needed that.”
I pull back and plead with her. “Don’t go, Alice. Please.”
“I need to be alone for a little while and get myself together. I have this little one to think about now.”
I glance down at her belly. I don’t want her to leave, but I know I can’t stop her. She’s an adult, and it’s not like I can lock her up here.
I open my mouth, but she stops me. “Please don’t ask.” She says it softly in a voice laced with sadness.
I want her to open up, but I think about how maybe I’ve been a crappy friend for not seeing this long ago. I want to give her some kind of support, so I’ll give her this. I step out of her way. She takes a step and pauses to lean in and kiss me on my cheek.
“Love you.”
“Love you, too,” I tell her. “You better call me every day, and I want to be at the next checkup,” I challenge, unable to help myself.
“Deal,” she says, then turns to leave.
Chapter 24
Eli
“He’ll be home by morning,” I tell Maggie when she comes back into the living room. She comes straight to me and into my arms. I hold her close and kiss the top of her head. “Everything okay with Alice?”
She nods, but I have a sense something isn’t right. I don’t want to push, because she has a special relationship with Alice. She was able to lean on her when she thought I wasn’t coming back, and I know they developed a bond in that grief. As well as how upset Alice has been since Major went missing.
“Can we stay here tonight?” Maggie asks, looking up at me.
I’d never deny her anything, and definitely not this. I knew logistics of buying us a house would be problematic with Maggie still in school. But now that Major is on his way back, maybe we can talk man to man and work things out.
“We can do anything you want, sunshine.” I tuck a lock of hair behind her ear, and she slips her hand into mine.
“I want you to take me upstairs. I’ve dreamed about you in my bed so long, I want to make it real.”
I lean down and kiss her lips softly. “Did you dream of me sneaking in your room while you slept?”
“Yes,” she whispers against my lips. I rest my hand against her neck and feel her heartbeat pick up.
“I’ll tell you a secret,” I whisper back as the hand at her neck slides down her chest. “I did.”
Her breath catches as my hand eases down the front of her sweats and into her panties. Her pussy is wet and still a little sticky from all our lovemaking.
“I would walk in your room and close the door behind me. You know I couldn’t help myself.” I push two fingers inside her soaked cunt and feel her clench around me as she moans with desire. “Sometimes I would just stand there. But sometimes I would do more.”
“Wh…” She swallows. “What would you do?”
I move my lips to her ear and lick the shell. “You know what I did, Maggie. It’s why you’re so wet right now. You know, and you liked it.”
She tenses up when I press against her G-spot. I take her mouth, demanding entry with my tongue as her pussy clenches again and her arms cling to me. We stand there in the middle of the living room with my hands down her pants, and I rub her to an orgasm. She cums all over my fingers, hard and loud, and I wrap my arm around her waist when she starts to sag against me.
When I’ve wrung the last of her pleasure from her, I pull my fingers free, lick them clean, and then carry her up the stairs to her room.
“I think it’s time we christened this bed, sunshine,” I say, laying her down and pulling her clothes off of her.
“I’m so sleepy now,” she says with a satisfied smile.
She stretches, pushing her beautiful tits up in the air, and my mouth waters. I strip off my clothes and then pull her legs to the side of her bed as I kneel in between them.