Excerpt of a really trashy romantic novel (author unknown)
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Chapter 60
I turned my head and saw Brian, sleeping soundly next to me. He was buried deep under the blankets and I couldn’t help but smile at how much he looked like a child, but oh how far he was from being one.
I still couldn’t believe he’d arranged this whole thing behind my back. I’d made him fess up last night after the second time we made love. He said he’d been negotiating with the owner of the place for weeks to just let him have one night. Finally after offering to pay them $500,000 they agreed, and now here we are, alone together for the first time in a couple of weeks.
I pushed the covers off of me, careful not to wake him. He seemed to be out like a light and after last night he should be more than tired.
I’d seen the swimming pool out back when I’d come last night and I wanted to take a quick swim before any of the help got here.
Walking over to my suitcase I pulled out my maternity suit and headed to the bathroom where I put it on. I grabbed a towel and then quietly snuck out of the room.
I tiptoed down the hallway and headed out the doors where the heated pool was.
“Ah Mrs. Littrell going for a nice swim I see?” the owner said from behind me, making me jump.
I turned around and smiled, trying to keep the shocked expression off of my face. “Yes, I saw the pool last night as I was coming into the spa and I thought it might be nice,” I told him.
“I take it you and Mr. Littrell slept well last night?” he asked as he walked beside me to open the pool doors.
I blushed and turned my head away, not wanting to give him any ideas as to what actually had gone on in that sauna last night. “Yes, we had a wonderful sleep. You’re beds are really comfortable,” I said, trying not to stammer or make an idiot out of myself.
I watched as he unlocked the door and then turned to look at me, smiling. “Well I am glad you have enjoyed your stay at our establishment. Have fun swimming and call us if you need anything,” he said, turning and walking away from me.
“You’ve done enough all ready,” I said, under my breath.
I pushed open the doors and was immediately hit with the chlorine smell that most enclosed pools have.
I walked in, careful not to slip on the water that was puddling around the pool and placed my towel down on a bench.
Walking over to the shallow side I stepped in slowly and sighed at the warmth of the water. I slowly edged my way down into the water and soon I was floating on my back with my eyes closed, relishing in the relaxing feeling of the water.
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Brian stretched out under the blankets, a smile on his face as he slowly opened his eyes. He turned his head expecting to see Gretch lying there beside him and when he reached over and felt only coldness he sat up on his elbow.
He couldn’t imagine where she’d gone without telling him. “Gretch? Honey are you in the bathroom?” he called out, but got no answer.
He looked around the room and saw that her suitcase had been opened so he got up and rummaged through it to see some kind of clue as to where she might have gone.
Then he noticed it; the bathing suit she’d packed the night before was gone. She was down at the pool taking a swim and didn’t invite him.
“Well we will just have to fix that,” he said, walking across the room to his bag, pulling out his swimming trunks and putting them on his already naked body.
“Ready or not here I come,” he said, grabbing a towel and practically running out the room and down the hall, nearly colliding with the owner.
“She’s in the pool room,” he said, smiling down at the eager young man.
“Thanks,” Brian said, smiling as he rounded the corner and walked through the glass doors.
He almost called out to her, but as he glanced down at the water he stopped dead in his tracks. He could see her gliding gracefully over the water on her back, eyes closed as she hummed a song.
He could see her stomach just above the water and he didn’t think he’d seen a more beautiful site than he saw before him.
Walking up to the edge of the pool he sat his towel down beside hers and called out, “Enjoying yourself?”
She failed her arms in the air and coughed as water went into her mouth and nose. For a minute he thought she was in trouble, but she came up and looked over at him, surprised look on her face.
I nearly died when I’d heard the voice call out to me. I knew whose it had been the minute he talked, but god does he always have to scare me half to death?
“Brian! You’re going to be the death of me if you don’t stop scaring me like that,” I yelled.
He just smiled and walked around to the deep end and dove in, surfacing a few feet away from me.
“Show off,” I said, smiling. “You just did that cause you know I can’t do it,” I told him.
He swam over to me and wrapped his arms around my waist; well at least he tried, and placed a kiss on my lips. “I just wanted to get to you quicker,” he said.
“Again, you cease to amaze me as to why you can’t stay away from me for five minutes. How long did it take you to figure out I was gone?” I asked, pushing myself out of his arms and floating on my back again.
“Less than a minute. You and me have some kind of connection and my body knows when your body isn’t near,” he said fascinated with her gracefulness in the water.
“Your body is always worried it isn’t going to get some,” I said, turning my head and smiling at him.
“What can you expect? I’m a guy and that’s all we mostly think about,” he said.
I just laughed and turned my face upward again, closing my eyes and continuing to hum as I was going earlier.
“You know pregnancy suits you,” he said, looking at her closed eyes.
“Oh really? And how is that?” I asked.
“Your face glows and your body fills out so beautifully,” he said, looking her up and down.
“Are you saying I’m fat?” I asked, opening my eyes and looking at him.
“No I’m not saying your fat dummy. I’m saying you look beautiful when you’re pregnant,” he said.
“So now I’m fat and a dummy,” I said, smiling a big smile.
“Oh you’re impossible,” he said, swimming over to me and tickling my sides.
I burst out laughing the minute his fingers started moving down my side. “Not in the water. You’re going to drown me,” I screamed out at the sensations of him tickling me.
Little did either of them know that one of the maids was watching them though the glass doors, smiling at the beautiful couple and how wonderful it would be to be as happy as they were.
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“The owner is going to kill us when he sees the trail of water we left down the hallway,” I said as we walked into our rooms. A towel was on my head, but water was still running down my legs, soaking the carpet.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m sure he’s not going to put up much of a fuss,” he said, closing the door behind us.
I turned around and smiled at him, but my eyes roamed down and saw that his shorts were stuck to him from the water.
I tried to jerk my eyes away from him before he noticed, but he had and he had the evilest smile on his face.
“Why Mrs. Littrell you do have a naughty mind?” he said, walking closer to me.
“Why Mr. Littrell I don’t know what you’re talking about? Me I’m just an innocent virgin,” I said, batting my eyelashes.
“Or really then how’d this happen?” he said, poking her stomach.
“Aliens. Aliens abducted me and I’m carrying their alien child,” I said, trying to keep a straight face.
“Are you calling me an alien?” he said.
“Let me think…yep I’d say you classify as an alien,” I said, grinning now.
“Well how bout you and this alien taking a shower together?” he said, reaching up to my shoulder and pulling down one of the straps to my suit and placed a kiss on the skin.
“Mmm…take me to your leader,” I breathed as I closed my eyes at his touch.
We didn’t even make it to the shower; he reached up and untied the towel on my head, making my hair spill out around my face and down my back.
I reached down and tugged on his shorts, pulling them down to his ankles where he kicked them off with his foot.
He smiled as he reached up and pulled down on the other strap as I took my arms out of both of them, pulling it down my legs to my ankles where I stepped out of it.
“I swear you get more beautiful with every passing day,” he said, pushing me back on the bed, where he climbed on top of me.
It must’ve been a sight, him on top of that stomach of mine, but I guess I over exaggerate about my stomach, because in reality I wasn’t really all that big this time around.
We climbed under the silk sheets, not stopping our fevered and hungered touching of each other, caressing every spot that our hands could find.
“Why are you so good to me?” I asked him in the middle of a kiss to my earlobe.
He brought his head up and looked into my eyes, nothing but love filling them as he stared at me.
“Because I’ve loved you since the first moment I laid eyes on you and there’s nothing that could ever change that. I want to spend the rest of my life with you until we are old and gray and sitting in rocking chairs out on a porch somewhere in the backwoods of Kentucky. You are my princess and deserve everything I can offer you, especially my love,” he said, lifting my hand to his lips where he kissed each finger.
“Oh Brian I love you so much,” I said, choking back tears.
He leaned in a placed a kiss on my lips, showing that he loved me as much as I loved him.
We made love again that morning, and we finally made it to the shower, where we bathed each other and laughed about what we were going to tell our friends we had been up to these past two days.
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~*At The Hospital*~
AJ turned his head and looked at the woman he loved and the mother of his child sitting in the chair beside his bed. Michelle hadn’t left his side since he’d been admitted to the hospital and he couldn’t believe he’d found such a wonderful woman as her.
He turned his head away from her and looked up at the ceiling, trying to process and sort out all the thoughts that were flying through his head.
The main question that he kept asking himself what why he’d done this in the first place. Had he been that heartbroken about Noel that he’d kill himself to end the pain? No, he didn’t think that was it, although it was part of it.
No, the main reason he’d tried to kill himself is because he’d believed everyone hated him. That he’d caused enough pain so that if he just died maybe everything would go back to the way it had been before. He’d also believed that maybe if he got out of Michelle’s life now he wouldn’t ruin it.
Oh god how stupid he’d been. He’d almost lost everything because he’d believed nobody wanted him anymore, even though that had been the farthest from the truth.
Out of all the people he’d have hurt the most, the hardest would’ve been leaving Michelle here all alone, carrying his child and then having to raise it without a father.
How he loved that child so much. His heart swelled to huge proportions when he thought about everything he, Michelle, and the baby would do when he or she got here.
“What are you thinking about?” Michelle’s voice said, breaking him of his thoughts.
“What makes you think I’m thinking?” he asked, turning his head towards her.
“You’ve got that look on your face. I always know you’re thinking hard when your brows get all scrunched together like that,” she said, reaching up and brushing her hand across his forehead.
He reached up and took her hand in his and gave it a squeeze. “Can you ever forgive me for doing this to you?” he asked, looking her in the eyes.
She smiled a soft smiled and rubbed her thumb over the top of his hand. “AJ, I forgave you the minute you were wheeled in here. I knew you didn’t mean for it to happen, but sometimes a person just breaks and they think this is the way to handle it, but I want you to know that I’m here and will always be here to talk to. Remember I love you you big jerk,” she said, smiling.
“You probably love me too much, but that’s fine by me because I love you just as much,” he said.
She wasn’t sure if he was strong enough yet, but she climbed up on the bed. He must’ve understood what she wanted cause he scooted over a little bit and she climb in beside him.
He wrapped his arm around her waist and stroked her hair with the other hand, closing his eyes and drifting off into the first good sleep in days.
~*That’s what I call love
Two hearts bound together
What all the
world dreams of
The kind of love that lasts forever
That’s what I call
love*~
+A/N: Lyrics by Mila Mason from the song ‘That’s What I Call Love’ from the album “That’s Enough of That”