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"I couldn’t concentrate on those stupid records because I was i what your reaction would be if I kissed the bare skin on your shoulder"
"I was so distracted by your warm breath next to my ear I wanted to turn my head so my face could brush yours" She e and then Curry showed up and freaked out"
I wanted to take advantage of this alone time I usually allowed our connection to speak forheard but I wouldn’t be silent while ere here I had a lot of things I wanted to say to lide my hand down and cup one of her breasts as I take the other into entle because I suspect they’re tender froue over her nipple and it instantly hardens "I’ve never told you how perfectly beautiful these are or how ers into my hair and arches her back froood it feels when you do that I love it"
I hear her breath increasing "I love to hear the change in your breathing"
"I do too It ht"
I move lower, back to her stoht before ain "You have no idea howinside you"
"Don’t forget there’s two little parts of you in there" Like Chansey, Avery doesn’t acknowledge the fylgia possibility To do so would be ad ould lose a child and that isn’t a consideration in Avery’s book
Her agápe scent is overpowering my control and I climb her body "I need to be inside you Now"
"That’s exactly where I want you" She lifts her hips and matchesgo for the first ti in to what co restraint
"Aah," I hiss throughme thrust for thrust "Don’t hold back"
It isn’t easy to let go of my self-restraint "I don’t want to hurt you or the babies"
She grabs my face "I won’t break and the babies are tucked safely in their little cocoons"
She wants more so I don’t hold back I’m persistent until her internal body contracts aroundme almost painfully as I tense and eoes limp beneath me and I roll to lie beside her I reach for her hand and lace our fingers before bringing it to ápe And mother of my children"
She in turn kisses my hand "And I love you, husband My vampire And father of my children"
Chapter Twenty
It’s only a few days until Avery’s pregnancy hits the three er than Chansey She’s disappointed we don’t have babies yet but no one knows the expected gestation for agápe-vaured out the standard for h
It isn’t easy for her–it’s actually terrible–but she doesn’t co I can think of to make her more comfortable but there’s little I can do
The ultrasound she had three days ago predicts each baby is around seven pounds so she has two full terans in multiple directions There’s only one cure for what ails her and I have no control over it I feel helpless
"Want me to rub your feet, baby doll?"
"No, baby They’re too swollen It feels like pins and needles poking when you touch thee is out of the question "But I’d love for you to read tome read She always chooses a classic because she says I become so lost in the words that my speech takes on a different voice–one from a different era I hear soree I sound the way I did when I was a hu in the seventeen hundreds "Of course I will I’d stand ontiápe but it’s so we continued to do because we enjoy the peaceful tiether We once snuck behind closed doors to do it and the vastnext to me as I read from her favorite classic books
I already knohich one she wantsThe Scarlet Letter "Which chapter would you like to hear?"
She knows it well and loves it dearly because ere once so similar to Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne in hoe hid our love from the others out of shame, fear, and ridicule "Chapter six I want to hear about Pearl and what a beauty she is" Pearl–the beautiful child that ca she had And in turn, she became her es a pillow beneath her swollen pregnant abdomen for support so we can assu time I scoot close to her back until our bodies are inal unrestored first edition I purchased for her as a wedding gift
I begin reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s words about Pearl–a lovely and iuess how many times I had repeated these lines about how the child is perfect and worthy of being brought forth in Eden