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“Dream” was too strong a word for my passing thought. I shook my head and said, “I love you too, and I think I just want to focus on the empire we’re setting up for our children.”
He raised his eyebrow. “Children?”
I quickly said, “Yes. I want more than one. I want us and a family, and I’m sure it’s enough to not bury myself with work.”
“I want you and the family we create too,” he said.
I reached back and unclasped my bra. We were more than enough. He scooted backward, and I climbed on top of him as he stared at me without moving.
“The doctor told me to watch my salt, which is why I skipped the Chinese food I ordered at home.” I rolled off my panties. “The doctor also said the more sex we have, the easier the birth will be.”
He took off his boxer briefs, and I climbed on him, keeping him between my thighs. Then I kissed his lips as my hands found his hard cock and guided him inside my folds.
When he filled me entirely, I was whole and forgot the rest of the world as we became one.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Michael
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As I was setting the table, the bedroom door opened. I put the plates down and hugged Britney. She was cute, wearing my T-shirt. She held me tightly, and my heart thumped.
As she let me go, I said, “So your friends are all joining us for breakfast.”
“Seriously?” she asked, backing up.
I nodded, and she headed back into the bedroom. She’d grabbed a long-sleeved scoop-neck maxi dress that seemed to be pinned to one side around her knee.
As she changed, I told her, “I’m not sure your friends believed me that you were here, at least from my reading of the various texts back and forth in the group chat they added me to this morning.”
She laughed and put some makeup on, transforming herself into the earthly goddess she was. “Charlie and Kir are the only men in that group chat. It means you’re accepted.”
Since I knew she loved me, her friends were more than welcome to add me.
“So Jeff and the others aren’t?” I asked.
She finished with her foundation. “Can I ask you if Xerses is interested in Kelly at all?”
I grabbed a pair of dark-brown pants as she was wearing a black top with a caramel-colored bottom skirt of the dress. “I thought so, but she’s not his usual type.”
She stopped dressing to ask, “What’s his usual?”
I froze and grabbed a black long-sleeved cotton/cashmere T-shirt and held my tongue. When I saw she was staring at me, I said, “It’s not my place.”
She crossed her arms and said, “Don’t lead with that and not deliver, Michael.”
I walked over and took her hands, needing to trust her. “Only if you promise to keep it to yourself and not share.”
She raised her eyebrows. “I will unless it puts my friends in danger.”
“Fair enough,” I said since trust had to go both ways. “Xerses usually goes for women who will trade sex for whatever he can buy them.”
She nodded and shrugged. “And he can buy a lot.”
I took a deep breath as she was calm about the whole thing as I said, “Your friend Kelly doesn’t strike me as the kind who…” I pressed my lips closed as talking was getting me in trouble.
She finished with her eye makeup and asked, “Who what?”
