Chapter 24
TWENTY-FOUR
Saniya.
Last night we talked. Grand explained how he was able to come home to me and the deal that DA Ryan offered him. Once he paid his fees, Grand would have his life back. The offer sounded too good to be true, so I was hesitant, but I had to trust that our connection wasn’t meant to be temporary.
After laying out every detail, including the fact that Aleah’s father had plans to press charges against me for punching him, Grand and I climbed in his bed, he wrapped his body around mine, and we slept.
This morning I woke to soft whispers and commands. “Turn over”, “lift up”, then I was blessed with the feel of his mouth on me.
My hands fisted the sheets while he sucked on my clit and gently worked his fingers in and out of me at a slow, teasing pace. When his free hand moved up my stomach and pinched my nipple, I moaned my approval, arching my back from the mattress.
“The sound of your voice…” The murmur of his vibrated over my skin. “The way you taste…”
Oh fuck…
“Stop talking and make me cum,” I rushed out, jerking as the vibration of his laugh brushed over my skin right before he sucked on my clit with the same amount of pressure he used to pinch my nipple.
“I got you.” His thick fingers worked at a faster pace that had me breathlessly panting and jutting my hips forward. My body was warm and sensitive while he worked to do exactly what I needed.
Within minutes I was squirming and thrusting against his mouth while I rode through my orgasm. Soft intentional swipes of his tongue continued while dark intense eyes lifted and locked on my face. When I smiled lazily, he pressed a soft kiss to my clit and eased up my body, spreading my thighs with his.
“I missed you,” I whispered right before his mouth was on mine. Grand pushed into me nice and slow and I moaned through the feel of his thickness stretching me when he bottomed out, pulled back, and slid into me a second time with a hard thrust.
“Me too.” His lips and tongue met mine while he rocked into me nice and steady. Grand was fucking me slow and deep. His eyes remained focused through each thrust with the desperate need to know I was here. I felt him, all over and so deep that everything about our connection felt overwhelming. He was making up for something while I was holding onto the moment.
His words seconds later confirmed what was in my head. “I know and I won’t fuck that up again, okay…”
I nodded and whispered my trust. “Okay.”
He rocked into me, landing as deep as my body would allow while I arched my back, pushing into him until I unraveled. Heat spread through every inch of me. I trembled, my stomach tightened with need, and pleasure jolted right to my pussy while I clenched around his dick, sucking him in deeper.
“Damn, baby…” he breathed against my lips before his tongue pushed between them. He kissed me hard at the same time as he began driving into me with a consistent pace, extending my orgasm. Moans left my mouth and entered his until he pulled away, groaning while I felt him jerking and throbbing inside me.
After a moment he settled onto me with the erratic rhythm of his heartbeat matching mine until he eased to the side, bringing me with him. When he pushed an arm under the pillow to cradle his head, I edged closer so we were nose to nose.
“I think morning sex is my favorite.”
“Morning sex with me or…” His voice was teasing but I cut off the end of his sentence with a kiss followed by, “With you.”
“Good answer.” Grand gripped my hip and dragged me closer. I pushed a thigh between his, smiling when I felt the weight of his dick resting against me, still thick and partially hard, but also…
“You didn’t use a condom…” The statement felt open ended as I stared at Grand. His expression didn’t give away anything so I added, “I’m on birth control.”
“I got caught up…”
“Me too.” I smiled slowly. “Your mouth on me clouds my judgment.”
He chuckled before his expression turned serious. “I want more kids.”
“With me?” I arched a brow and his hand moved over my thigh, gripped my ass, and pulled me in closer.
“ Only with you but until we’re ready to talk about what that means, I’ll try not to get caught up. But my mouth on you clouds my judgment too. It’s easy to get distracted.”
A slow smile eased onto my face. “We might be in trouble then because I’m hoping to have your mouth on me a lot in the foreseeable future.”
“Yeah, we’re pretty fucked up in the game then.” He kissed me and slowly initiated purposeful swipes of his tongue which had me grinding against him.
“You’re gonna have to chill with that. We have somewhere to be.”
“Right…” I inched closer and moved my thigh up to his waist so his dick made contact with my pussy.
“Saniya…” he breathed out, sounding tortured.
“Problem?” I smiled and Grand gently pushed me away and moved to the side of the bed. He leaned over me, pressed a kiss to my shoulder ,and slowly dragged his fingers between my thighs, causing my body to shiver.
“Definitely a problem that I’ll take care of later. Let’s go. Shower, then we’re heading out. I promised my mother I would pull up and I need to hug my son.”
I groaned but climbed out of bed, following him out of the room into the bathroom across the hall. I circled his waist and planted a kiss on his back while he leaned into the shower to start the water.
“This feels good.”
“Yeah, it does.” He turned against me, cuffing my face enough to tilt my head back and steal a kiss.
“And easy…”
“Is that good or bad?”
“Neither, it just is, which I guess in a sense classifies as good.”
“And when things aren’t easy, are you still gonna fuck with me?” His smile was teasing but his eyes were serious.
“I love a good challenge.”
He chuckled and pressed his forehead to mine. “I don’t know if I want to be considered a challenge, but if it means you’re gonna ride this out with me, then I’ll take it. I also need you to know I’m going to do everything in my power to make your life better, not complicate shit for you.”
“That kinda sucks for you because I plan on overly complicating yours.”
I gripped his dick and stroked him back to life before moving around him and stepping into the shower. One more quick round before we left to go see Raiden seemed like the perfect idea to start this day off right.
“Daddy…”
“Yeah, man, what’s up?” Raiden stepped on the end of the shopping cart and dropped in a bag of oranges before he looked up at Grand with his tiny face pinched.
“Do you remember when I was in my mommy’s stomach?”
We both froze. He spoke so nonchalantly that Grand and I shared a look before he repeated the question for clarity. “In your mother’s stomach?”
“Yes, like that.” He pointed to a woman with her hand propped on her massive belly while she examined the rows of bananas.
“I remember.” Grand’s tone was heavy, like he had a hard time getting the words out but Raiden smiled.
“Was I a good baby? My art teacher is having a baby. She said that it’s a girl and she’s a good baby.”
A wave of emotion washed over Grand. I saw it in his expression but I felt it lingering around us. However, he managed a smile and brushed a hand over Raiden’s head. “Yeah, you were a good baby, except for at night when you wanted to play in your mommy’s stomach and kept her up all night.”
Raiden’s smile expanded. “Did I play with toys?”
Grand laughed, shaking his head. “No, man, not toys, just jumping around in there.”
After I settled on the potatoes I was looking over so I could bake some for dinner, Grand carefully navigated the shopping cart so we could finish the rest of our shopping but Raiden kept the conversation going.
“Are we going to have another baby so I can have a brother or sister?”
“Is that what you want?”
He nodded wildly. “But only one because my teacher said you have to share everything with your brother or sister and I don’t want to share all my stuff with a lot of people.” He frowned like he was considering the thought then he had eyes on his father again.
“But if we have another baby then I get to be a big brother and my teacher will bring me a cupcake when the baby gets here.”
I smiled and cut my eyes at Grand. This kid. He wanted a sibling because it guaranteed a cupcake.
“You don’t have to be a big brother to have cupcakes, Raidy. We can get some today.”
A smile split his face. “I know but I still want to be a big brother. And since my mommy is an angel and can’t have a baby in her stomach, then Saniya can do it since she’s your girlfriend.”
I almost tripped over my own feet when he casually offered me up as a baby incubator so he could have a sibling but Grand didn’t miss a beat. He handed Raiden a smile just as charming as the one that split his son’s face.
“What makes you think she’s my girlfriend?”
“You kiss her, a lot, and that’s what you do when you have a girlfriend.” Raiden shrugged as if it just made sense while Grand threw his head back and laughed.
“Do you kiss girls, Raidy?”
“Nope.” He frowned, shaking his head. “I can’t have a girlfriend until I’m big like you. My nana said so.”
“Your nana is right. No kissing girls until you’re big like your father.” I grinned and playfully jabbed a finger into his side, causing Raiden to squirm away from me giggling. He stepped off the end of the shopping cart when Grand paused to pick up a case of water but this time when we were moving, Raiden slipped his hand into mine.
“And when you give us a baby, it should be a boy because he will want to play with trucks and ride motorcycles like me so we can play together all the time.”
“But what if it’s a girl?”
He wrinkled his nose and frowned. “Then you can play with her.”
Grand laughed lightly beside us, causing me to lock eyes with him. He winked then his eyes slowly crawled down my body, landing at my stomach.
“Daddy, can I have one of those?” He pointed to the individual sports drinks not far from where we were. When Grand granted his approval, Raiden ran off and began surveying the different flavors.
I turned to his father and frowned. “I thought you got caught up this morning.”
“What do you mean?”
“You said the no condom thing was you getting caught in the moment of your mouth being on me but I’m starting to think I’m being hustled by you and Raiden.
He grinned and his hand found its way to my hip which he used to move me closer. “It wasn’t a set up. I’m not mad at the idea of you giving us a baby but I’m also not in a rush.”
“I got these.” Grand released me and Raiden stepped between us but turned his back to his father, leaning against his legs, holding up two identical pale blue sports drinks into view. I got you one too because we both like blue.”
“We sure do, thank you. Put them in the cart.”
“How does he know your favorite color and I don’t?”
“Ask him, he might be able to school you on a few things.” Grand smiled, sinfully slow, but before he had a chance to deliver a comeback, Raiden had my hand again. “Can you make me pancakes for breakfast like the ones we had with all the whipped cream on them?”
“You have school tomorrow. So how about cereal and your dad can take us to get pancakes with whipped cream since he missed it last time.”
My answer seemed to be enough to appease him because he shifted into a Q&A about everyone’s favorite cereal. We ended up at self-checkout because Raiden wanted to scan and bag the items himself, which cost us an extra twenty minutes but his elation was well worth the time spent.
We made it back to the house after a stop by the store to grab another set of Legos for Raiden which apparently had taken over as his new favorite thing. Grand cursed me when I argued in Raiden’s defense for a six hundred forty-three piece Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle set which he had to assemble while I prepared steaks on the indoor grill that was also picked up while there.
Watching the two of them made my heart full. Grand was an amazing father and his mother had done such a beautiful job raising Raiden in his absence. One day we would collectively raise a child that we shared, giving Raiden a brother or sister. The more time I spent with Grand and his son, the harder it became to see my future without them. And the good thing was, I didn’t have to.