Temptation(25)

“I can’t help myself Alexis, you, you are like no one I have ever met and I want you.”

“You can’t have me Bryce, I’m taken.”

“I don’t believe anything is absolute. Things change, people change, circumstances change.” I can’t believe him, Lucy was right when she said ‘he sees something he wants, goes for it and gets it’. Well this was something he was not going to ‘get’. I put my hand up to indicate he shut up.

“You’ve had an emotional day and you are probably still high on adrenalin.” You don’t really believe that.

“I’ll see you Monday.” I let myself out and headed home.

“Mum, wake up…….Mum, its Saturday Mum. You need to make pancakes!” What? Pancakes? Coming back to reality I opened my eyes to see Charlotte virtually nose to nose waiting very patiently, but not patiently enough to let me wake up myself.

“Charli it’s too early, let Mummy sleep longer.” Rick moaned as he turned over.

“But Mum, I’m hungry and you always make pancakes on Saturday.” She was right, I did, every Saturday I would cook up a batch of pancakes before Nate and Rick left for football and Charli and I left for dancing, I grumbled and basically rolled out of bed and into a vertical position.

“Slippers, where are my slippers?” Charli was already on bended knee placing my slippers down so I could step into them. I slowly came back to earth as I sipped on my cup of tea and poured batter into the pan, Charlotte was sitting at our breakfast bar waiting eagerly. Nate had not yet surfaced and Rick, well he did make that animal sound when Charli came in, but not a peep since.

“So Charli Bear, how was school yesterday?” I’d gotten home after she had gone to bed last night which was a bit shattering.

“Good, we are going on an Excursion to the Zoo in a few weeks.” Charli loved animals, she had already decided she wanted to be a Vet, but that was after she had decided she wanted to be a Princess, Teacher and the next Rachel in Glee.

“That will be nice, you’ll get to see the baby elephant Ongard.” She did a little happy dance in her seat, I laughed, she was such a delightful child.

“Here you go, maple or lemon?” I don’t know why I asked, she always chose maple.

“So would you like to see where Mummy works and visit Lucy and her baby?”

“Can we? That would be Awesome, what’s his name? Can I hold him? Can I feed him a bottle?”

“Whoa, settle petal, yes we can and no you can’t hold him or feed him, he’s only one day old.” I was going to give Lucy a call after Breakfast to check if it was ok to visit her and to find out if baby Clark had a name yet? I finished cooking the batter and got Charlotte ready for dancing.

“Rick, Nate, get up or you’ll be late for football.” I heard stirring in Nate’s room but knew Rick needed further persuading. He was dead to the world, I could set a firecracker off in the lounge and he would sleep through it. I crept up to him and spoke softly.

“Rick, Rick, get your arse out of bed.” He opened his eyes.

“You get your arse into bed.” He grabbed me and pulled me on top of him.

“Stop it you horny shit, we are going to be late.” I tried to break free.

“We’ve got time, come on Babe, you were barely awake when you finally got home last night.” I leant down and kissed his forehead.

“I know I had a big day.” That was an understatement!

“Come on, we don’t have time.” He surrendered and got out of bed.

“So I was thinking, after footy and dancing I’m going to head into the city to see how Lucy and the baby are, then I might show Charli City Towers.”

“Sounds good, wouldn’t mind checking out your half a million dollar office myself!” Oh shit, I hadn’t bargained on Rick actually wanting to come along too, I hope Bryce was out doing whatever billionaires do.

“Knock, Knock.” I peeped into Lucy’s room and to my delight she was cradling the most beautiful little blue bundle of joy, I had told Rick and the kids to wait outside for a minute, so that I could check if she was feeding or not.

“Aaaaw look at him, he’s adorable.” I gave her a kiss on the forehead.

“This is little Alexander.” She popped her finger on his tiny chin and gave it a very gentle wiggle.

“Hi Alexander.” He was peacefully wrapped up like a cocoon.

“It suits him!”

“It was going to be Jack up until yesterday, I wasn’t a fan of Jack, but Nic loved it. Not only did you help bring him into this world…..”

“Pfft, I didn’t help bring him into this world; you did that all by yourself.” She continued her sentence.