“Please, don’t leave. I’m sorry. Emma please come here.” Gage puts his arms out for her to climb into. She doesn’t budge and her arms around my neck tighten.
“I’m going with Lex, daddy.”
“Emma, you go inside and help your uncle set the table. I promise when Lex leaves you can go with her. You don’t have school tomorrow remember? And Lex is taking the day off work to stay home with you. So I promise, you will have plenty of time to spend together. Just give daddy a little time too. K, baby?”
Emma nods and I set her on the ground. Glancing over her shoulder, she looks to me just before she enters in through the front door and I promise her, “I’m not leaving without my princess.”
Closing the door behind her, Emma replies with a sweet smile, “K, Mommy.”
My heart in that first moment of my life feels something I’ve never felt before. It overwhelms me so much; I have to cover my heart with my hand to keep it from bursting from my chest.
Gage is motionless two feet in front of me, standing in the gravel of his father’s driveway, both of us frozen in shock.
She called me Mommy!
Gage
Emma called Lex, Mommy. My daughter, called the love of my life, Mommy. No matter what happened today between me and Max. Or me and Lex. Emma, my baby, called my Angel, mommy. Emma barely calls Melissa mommy, she calls her mother or mom. Emma has a mommy now. By the emotional wave that overtook Lex, when Emma said that. I’m guessing she feels the same about her. I kind of already knew that. But the woman standing in front of me confirms my observation, multiplied times a hundred. The expression of happiness on Lex’s face is what women are supposed to feel when they hear those words. That’s how I’d always hoped Melissa would react to Emma. Never did though.
Taking the short stride to my Angel, I wrap her into my arms, pressing her head to my heart. “I love you, I’m sorry.”
“For what?” she mutters, wrapping her arms around my back, holding onto me. Like she’s afraid if she doesn’t she might fly away.
“The Max thing. I shouldn’t have done it.”
“Yeah well, he won’t think that way again after I just told them I have a penis.”
“Max knows.”
“What?!” she screeches into my chest, as I begin to run my fingers through her hair to calm her. I can feel her tense body in my arms. I need to relax her before she loses her shit again.
Today was supposed to be a quick and easy, early family supper. When we were at breakfast this morning and Tasha dropped by to pick Emma up to go grocery shopping, Lex began to unravel. Bit-by-bit as the time to come to my families grew closer, Lex’s anxiety sprouted to new heights. I tried giving her an orgasm this morning in our bedroom to calm her. I fed her my cock, to try to calm her. I even massaged her shoulders while she soaked in the tub and listened to Patsy. Nothing worked. Nine dress changes, three hairstyle changes, eight shoe changes and jewelry; I couldn’t count how many times she swapped out earrings. By the time we got here to my dad’s, I was feeling nearly as much anxiety she was until my sister came to the rescue. Gotta love Tasha, I have no damn clue what I’d do without that woman half the time.
“Max apparently already knew. The only person who doesn’t is my dad…and well Chelsea, but she knows now.”
If one-word leaks into town about Lex’s extra fuckin’ sexy appendage, I will sue Chelsea. I know she has a big mouth and Lex doesn’t need the stress. I told Tasha just as much, before I left to come out and convince my Angel to stay and have dinner with us. One thing I did find out tonight is that my brother also knows about lady. Tasha must have spilled the beans to him over the past year. Might have been the time Max was talking shit to me about loving a woman I didn’t have the balls to pursue. A woman he’s crushed on for a few years. Faith, Lex’s mom is friends with Max. They chat when Faith stops by the gas station for coffee, tea, or whatever else. I had a feeling part of my brother’s fixation stems from her mother’s charms. Lex is amazing, and then add Faith into the picture and it’s nearly impossible not to fall in love with Lex. Faith is a sweet woman and loves her daughter implicitly. Adding her to the package of Lex, and it’s a match made in heaven. Although, for me the match is because Faith is sweet and all men want a nice mother in law. For Max, I have no damn clue what his angle is. Nor do I give a fuck.
As long as Max doesn’t pull that bullshit stunt again, nearly showing my fuckin’ woman his dick, we’ll be good. That little show would be bold, even for me. For him, it’s in a whole other galaxy. Max is usually the shy, reserved brother, who mouths off only to me, never a man to flaunt a damn thing. Let alone whip out his cock in a house full of people, must have been desperate to go to the lengths that he did.