Chapter 34
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
RYDER
S ix months later…
I lean against the doorway and just watch her for a moment. She’s up to her chin in bubbles, and her eyes are closed as she rests the back of her head against the tub. She’s the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen. Her round belly peeks above the water as she rests her hands on our unborn baby.
The past few months have been the best I can remember. We’ve been living in our home since September, and with her due date next month, I’ve been trying to soak up every moment with my girls before it all changes.
True to her word, we haven’t heard a peep from her mom since we walked out of the motel room. I still have my guy keep an eye on her whereabouts, and it’s always a relief when I hear she’s still halfway around the world. I still don’t know if I made the right decision not pressing charges for the little stunt she pulled, but Eve seems to think it would have made the whole situation worse for us in the end.
I think there will always be a small part of her that still craves that love from her mom, but she’s accepted the fact that she will never change. She chose money over love in the end. It’s all she’s ever known, and the fear of being broken again keeps those chains tight around her heart.
She opens her eyes, and blue eyes find mine. I will never tire of the way she looks at me. It’s as if my whole existence was put on this Earth for the sole purpose of loving her.
“How long have you been standing there?” Her pink lips turn up into a smile.
“A while.” I push myself off the doorframe and walk towards her. “Here, let me.” I take the shampoo from her hands and sit on the wooden stool beside the tub. Squeezing some in my palm, the scent of strawberries fills my senses, and I smile, remembering that first day I met her and how it quickly became my favorite smell.
I lather it in her hair and massage her scalp. Groaning, she leans back into my touch.
“Feel good?” I smile when she softly moans again.
“You have magic hands, Ryder Montgomery.”
“Only for you,” I murmur. Taking the nozzle, I gently rinse her hair before applying the conditioner and doing the same. I reach for the sponge and squirt some body wash on it. Moving her hair to the side, I start to wash her back. Her soft skin is flushed from the warm water. When she leans back against the tub again, I get a delicious view of her breasts. Pregnancy looks so damn sexy on her, and I’ve made sure we enjoy every minute of it.
I rub the sponge over her full breasts and watch her pink nipples tighten at the touch. She sighs and arches more into my touch. Moving down her arms, I bring the sponge back up before dropping it in the tub and replacing it with my hands. I rub her shoulders, and she closes her eyes with a moan. That single sound is enough to undo me. My dick immediately responds, wanting to come out and play as it strains against my grey sweats.
I run my hand up her neck before clasping it in the front. Her head leans back on the tub, and her lips part as I hold her there, feeling her pulse beat rapidly under my fingers. Her chest rises faster, and I watch her full breasts move with the water.
“Ryder…” My name sounds more like a plea as I meet her hooded blues.
“Hmmm?” I still have my hand around her slender throat. I feel her swallow beneath my palm as her long lashes slowly close before opening and searing me with a look that has easily become my favorite.
“Take me to bed,” she breathes before arching her head back further and pressing more into my hand. I give her neck a gentle squeeze before sliding down her chest and filling my palm with one of her breasts. Her nipple rubs against my palm, and I know I’m slowly torturing her at this point. I want to hear something first. Something I always crave to hear coming from those lips.
“Please,” she begs, and that one word has me throbbing in places that only she can ignite.
“God, yes,” I growl, standing up and lifting her out of the tub.
“Ryder! I’m too heavy now!” Her wet body clings to me, soaking my bare chest.
“You are not too heavy,” I laugh. “You’ve been in the gym with me almost every morning ogling me as I lift weights way heavier than you.”
“I don’t ogle you,” she giggles when I arch my brow at her and smirk. “Okay, I do. You are very nice to look at, Mr. Montgomery.”
I set her down and towel-dry her hair before running it over her body. Kneeling down, I dry her legs. “So are you, Mrs. Montgomery.” I swipe my tongue through her folds and moan when I realize how ready she is for me. “You taste fucking amazing, too,” I breathe against her skin.
I sweep her up in my arms again and carry her to the bedroom. As I walk by, I pass Travis’s artwork on our walls. We went through the storage together, and it’s been comforting to see pieces of our first apartment mixed with new items from our lives now.
I lay her down on the bed and admire the view for a minute as I stand up and gaze at her. I never knew how much of a turn-on it is to know she’s carrying my child. I didn’t think it was possible to love her more than I already did, but each month that goes by, I see her body changing and creating a life inside her. A piece of me is always with her, and knowing that brings a deep satisfaction that it was me who poured into her creating this life.
Her eyes follow my movements as I lower my grey sweats to the floor. I’m hard as a rock as I stroke myself. The hunger in her eyes as she watches me makes my dick swell even more in my hand.
She presses her thighs together, and I see her chest rise and fall faster as she bites her lip on a moan. I climb on the bed and hover over her, freeing that bottom lip with my teeth, sucking hard before diving in, leaving us both breathless.
I take her hands and guide them to the ivory-upholstered headboard so she’s gripping the wooden frame above her head.
“Hang on, my evening sun. If you let go, I stop,” I whisper into her ear. Kissing my way down her neck to her chest, I graze her breast with my teeth and pull her sensitive nipple in my mouth. She arches back but keeps a tight hold on the headboard as I give my attention to the other one.
I kiss her beautiful round belly before settling between her legs and bringing her knees up. Her pink pussy is glistening, and my mouth waters at the sight. I open her legs wider so every part of her is on display for me.
“So fucking beautiful,” I murmur against her skin before taking a slow long lick.
“Ooooh…God,” she moans, tilting her head back and gripping the headboard tighter.
“God may be in charge of heaven,” I say, sliding my hands under her ass, “but it’s me who’s going to bring you there.” I dive in with my tongue, making her body bow back from the intrusion.
Her hips raise as she rubs against my face, causing friction from my stubble. I feel her hands in my hair and pull back. She whimpers at the loss of contact as her body writhes against the sheets.
“Hands on the bed frame if you want to cum. I want to see your body fight the pull to touch me.” I run my tongue along the inside of her thigh but stop close to where she wants me. “I love seeing your body fight to follow the rules.”
When I see her grab the wood frame, I suck hard on her clit. She cries out as she uses her arm strength to lift higher as I fill her with my tongue. I push two fingers inside, and a moan escapes her lips as her hips buck to ride my hand.
I feel her body tighten around me, and I suck her swollen bud hard to push her over the edge. She cries out my name, and I feel her squeeze my fingers as an orgasm washes over her. When the last of the tremors have left her body, her hands drop to the bed and lie limp against the sheets.
I crawl over her and kiss her deeply, sharing her taste between us. Her hands are all over me now as they rake down my back and chest.
“Turn over for me, baby.” She eagerly gets on all fours as I run my hands over her round ass. Squeezing her cheeks hard, I rub my tip against her opening.
She pushes back into me, and I groan as she takes more of me. Hanging on to her hips, I thrust all the way in. I close my eyes and savor the feel of her wrapped tightly around me. She’s so fucking wet that I’m straining not to lose control.
Wrapping her hair around my hand, I pull her head back and watch her lips part as she hums her approval when I pull harder and go deeper.
“Come here.” My voice is low and strained as I pull her up until her back is against me. “You like that?” I breathe into her ear. Wrapping my hand around her, I grab her throat and hold her tight to my chest. I push her down on me faster and harder. “Do you like riding my cock and having it so deep inside you?”
“Yessss,” she groans. I know my words are turning her on even more by the way she’s panting and whimpering against me.
“Do you feel how swollen I am for you? You own me just like I fucking own this sweet pussy wrapped around me.”
Her head rolls back against me, and I turn her head to devour those lips as my tongue invades her mouth.
“Touch your breasts for me. I’m going to make you cum so fucking hard on my cock,” I ground out when I feel my body on the verge of letting go.
Her hands go to her breast, and she moans when she squeezes them. I keep her in place against me and lower my other hand to rub where we are joined. I feel her move faster against my palm.
“That’s it, baby. Take me deeper and use my cock to get you there.”
I press harder on her clit and pull her over the edge with me as we fall together.
“Fuck!” I roar as the intensity of my orgasm slams into me. She cries out and clenches me so tight that I see stars. I empty into her as our bodies find that euphoric high together. I kiss her neck and hold her tight as she sags against me.
“Jesus, Ryder. You are going to kill me one day,” she softly pants.
“I could say the same,” I chuckle. “I hope I didn’t just spray our baby with that one.”
“Oh my God, you are impossible.” She laughs at my joke as I grin back at her. I love hearing her sweet laugh and try to make it happen any chance I can get.
I slowly pull out of her and help her get comfortable on her side. “I’ll be right back.” I kiss her softly and go to the bathroom to get a warm washcloth.
I gently clean her and smile when she sighs against the covers.
“You spoil me,” she says sleepily. “I’m not going to complain, though, because that feels so good.”
“I love spoiling you. Besides, it’s the least I can do after you had my enormous dick inside of you.” I smile as she giggles into the pillow.
“So sure of yourself, are you?”
“I’m a hundred percent sure when it comes to pleasing you. Nobody can give you what I can. I know your body better than you do.”
“I’m not going to argue with you there. I’m deeply satisfied right now.”
“That’s what I thought,” I smirk. I lean down and kiss her before lying down behind her and splaying my hand over her swollen belly. It’s become my favorite position to sleep while she’s pregnant. Our little one is quite active late at night, and each kick to my hand still mesmerizes me.
“I love you forever,” she whispers.
“I love you forever,” I kiss her shoulder and lie there until her breathing evens out, telling me she’s sleeping. A kick to my hand has me smiling in the dark before I close my eyes, and sleep takes hold of me.