Chapter 10 #2
She moved more frantically in his arms and he moved deeper inside her with each stroke.
Breathing out through his mouth, he tried to hold back the inevitable.
He slid one hand down her abdomen, through the slick folds of her sex, finding her center.
He stroked the aroused flesh with an up and down movement, circled with his forefinger then scraped it very carefully.
Then he penetrated her as deeply as he could. She cried out his name.
“Look at me, Ava. Open your eyes.”
She did, and in that instant, as everything in his body tightened and he started to climax, he wanted to love her. Wished there was a way he could forgive the past, because he knew he held the future in his arms.
Christos rolled over in the middle of the night and felt the warmth of Ava’s body. They’d made love once more before falling asleep, and he’d carefully stripped the silk slip from her body and taken the time with her he’d wanted to the first time.
He’d opened the drapes to let the light of the moon into the room, and the balcony doors so that a cool night breeze stirred the air around them. Goosebumps were visible on Ava’s naked skin. He traced his finger down the line of her body.
He came to the small bump of a belly left from her pregnancy, the small trace that Theo had left on her body. The trace of a child who was at the root of their marriage—and at the root of his distrust of her. He knew he had to do something about that.
He’d tried hard over the past few weeks to allow himself to see the woman that was Ava. And to be honest, he didn’t believe the woman she was today would cheat on him. But that girl in the past…he wasn’t as sure about her.
She stirred in his arms, rolling onto her back.
He propped himself up on one elbow and continued to caress her, finding the tiny stretch marks left by her pregnancy, and everything within him solidified.
He wanted to mark every part of Ava as his own.
He wanted to plant his seed in her womb.
He wanted to watch her grow heavy with his child and then be there from the first breath that child took.
It didn’t change the way he felt about Theo…that boy was his now, and nothing on earth could change that.
“Christos?”
“Hmmm?”
She touched his face with soft fingers and he realized that she always did that. “What’s the matter?”
“Nothing.”
“I wish…I wish I were the slender girl I was the first time.”
“I don’t.”
She tilted her head. He continued tracing over the stretch marks left by her pregnancy. “Did you like carrying the Theakis heir?”
“You mean your son?” she asked.
He shrugged. “Did pregnancy agree with you?”
She looked as if she were going to pursue the topic but then stopped. “Yes. I had morning sickness at the beginning but then…yes, it was very pleasant.”
He didn’t ask her any more questions, lowering his head to trace the lines with his tongue. Her hands fell to his head, caressing his scalp with her fingers.
“You know what I liked best about it?” she asked in a soft tone.
“What?” He lifted his head looking up the length of her naked body to meet her sea-blue eyes.
“That I wasn’t alone anymore,” she said, then glanced away as if she’d said too much.
He slid up over her. Her legs parted for him so that he rested in the cradle of her body. “Would you like another child, moro mou?”
With his erection at the portal of her body, he knew this wasn’t the time for a discussion about their family and their future. But before he drove into her and made her his again, he needed to know.
She put her hands on his chest, holding him back from entering her body.
“Would you?”
“Yes,” he said, bending down to capture the tip of her breast in his mouth. He sucked her deep inside, his teeth lightly scraping against her sensitive flesh. His other hand caressed at her other breast, arousing her, making her arch against him in need.
“Should I get birth control this time?” he asked her.
“Or do you want to try for another child?”
Her gaze met his. “Yes, I think I would.”
She reached between them and took his erection in her hand, bringing him closer to her. “I need you now.”
He lifted his head and watched her as he slid deep into her body.
She started to close her eyes as he made love to her. “Keep your eyes on mine, Ava.”
He thrust slowly in and out of her body, building them both toward climax with deliberation. He stared into her eyes, wanting to see—needing to know—how susceptible she was to him. There was no room for lies in their bed and when they were close like this he believed everything about Ava.
She slid her hands down his back, cupping his buttocks as he thrust deeper into her.
Staring deep into her eyes made him feel as though their souls were meeting.
She started to tighten around him, climaxing before him.
He gripped her hips, holding her down and thrusting into her again before he came with a roar of her name. He held her afterwards.
Ava ran her hands slowly up and down his back. He heard her breath catch and then felt the warmth of her tears on the side of his face. Propping himself up on his elbows he stared down at her and wiped the tears away with one thumb.
“What’s the matter?”
She swallowed and then glanced down at his chest, at the gold medallion that swung free from his body. She caught it, tracing her finger over the pattern of the Theakis family crest.
“Ava? Tell me, moro mou,” he said.
“I’m just so happy. I never thought you’d forgive me and we’d have this.”
He bent his head and kissed her so she wouldn’t be able to see the doubt that still lingered in his heart about Theo. He wanted the peace he felt to be real and knew there was only way to make that happen.
He was going to have to have the boy tested.