He lifted my shirt and tossed it behind him. Then he unclasped my bra and pushed me back. He knelt in front of me, placed a single kiss on my stomach, then looked up at me and placed a few more kisses. He worked his way up to one of my nipples and sucked it into his mouth. I moaned.
I pulled his shirt off and reached for the zipper of his jeans.
He frowned. “Can you do this?”
“I’m pregnant, not broken.” I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him towards me.
Hunter and I spent the next hour memorizing each other’s bodies, whispering how much we loved each other and through our lovemaking, apologizing for all the hurt that we had caused each other. After we were completely spent, I placed my hand over his heart. He mirrored the gesture.
“You are my heart,” he said. “Always and forever.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
I woke the next morning, wrapped contentedly around Hunter, my hand still pressed to his heart and his hand still on mine. I didn’t want to move but I knew I would be getting sick any minute now. I tried not to think about it. I tried to focus on Hunter lying here with me, our lovemaking from last night.
“Mm…” Hunter lightly ran his fingers up my arm. “I love waking up with you wrapped in my arms.”
I lifted my head up to look at him but regretted it as soon as I did. My stomach rolled. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, begging for my stomach to calm down. It didn’t work, and I was sprinting to the bathroom.
Hunter sat on the edge of the tub with a glass of water in his hand.
“Does this happen every day?”
I nodded. “Looks like it.”
I realized I was naked. I stood to get dressed, but Hunter stopped me from moving.
“Take a shower with me?” he asked.
“Where are the towels?”
Hunter reached around me and opened a cabinet in the wall. He pulled out two fluffy white towels and reached to turn the water on. After adjusting it a few times, he reached for my hand and helped me in the shower with him.
Hunter pressed his lips to my neck and pushed back on me until the shower tiles pressed up against me. He hands slowly lowered down my back, past my ass and stopped on the backs of my thighs and he picked me up. I wrapped my legs around him and he pressed himself into me.
Groaning into my neck and thrusting slow and hard, he said, “I’ll never forgive myself for pushing you away, CC. I was so fucking stupid.”
I adjusted my hips so he could hit deeper. “Everything is fine now; we worked it out.”
“I know but you’ll never know what that did to me. I didn’t think I would ever get this with you.” He said panting in my ear.
Moaning his name aloud as my body started tightening, my head hit the tiles with a thud and everything started going out of focus with my release. Hunter thrust a few more times and came.
After we both caught our breath, he lowered me down but still held me against the wall. I was thankful for that considering my legs felt like Jell-O. He helped me wash my hair and body, spending extra time on my belly. I loved watching him in complete awe of my tiny baby bump, of how my body was changing daily.
After we got out of the shower, he wrapped me in one of his over-sized towels and he handed me a pair of my yoga pants and one of his t-shirts to wear.
“You left them at my place and I was going to return them to you but hadn’t had the chance yet.” he said.
“Well, I’m glad you didn’t. But I really need a toothbrush more than I do my pants now.”
“Yeah, sorry, there is an extra in the drawer in the bathroom.”
I grabbed the toothbrush and brushed my teeth. Hunter came in behind me, wrapped his arms around my waist and rested his hands on my stomach. “I can’t believe there’s a little piece of me in here.” He kissed the side of my neck.
I spit the toothpaste out and rinsed my mouth. “I know, I was really scared at first but it’s kind of growing on me now.” I twisted in his arms and reached up on my tiptoes to kiss him. He lifted me and sat me on the bathroom sink and I