Ch.14: Here come the In-laws
Time lapse 3 weeks
Claire stood in front of the full length mirror in the master bedroom observing the small baby bump that was beginning to form.
"You're finally starting to show," Owen grinned from the doorway before walking over to her.
"Yeah," Claire beamed and ran her index finger across the bump on her lower abdomen.
"You know I can't wait until you get further along," Owen whispered in her ear before kneeling in front of her, wrapping his arms around her waist, closing his eyes, and gently kissing her bump.
" I think other people are starting to notice, everyone kept staring at me today," Claire replied while she combed her fingers through his hair.
"You're glowing, you have been for weeks now. It makes you look even more beautiful than you did before," Owen mused, tilting his head up to meet her gaze before going back to nuzzling her stomach.
"No it's not that, it's like they can't believe someone would actually want to have sex with their frigid bitch of a boss, let alone have a baby with her or marry her," she replied.
"Or they're just jealous, I see the way the men look at you, even now. You turn every head when you walk into a room Claire. Every man out there wants you to be theirs', trust me I was one of them. And all the women envy you because of your beauty, strength, sass, and quick wittedness," he murmured.
"Owen," Claire gasped feeling her eyes well up with tears.
"Hey, shhhh I didn't mean to make you cry," Owen replied rising to his feet and pulling Claire into an embrace.
"You really do love me ," she sobbed into his chest.
"More than you know and I'd be more than happy to reassure you of my love at any time," he grinned.
"I don't know why I let this bother me so much, I really shouldn't care what others think about our family," Claire sighed and wiped away a few stray tears.
"You're emotions are out of your hands, it's not your fault," he replied.
"Come on let's get to bed your parents are on the first ferry tomorrow and we don't want to be late," he sighed and led Claire over to the bed.
"You know I wouldn't say no to a little reassurance," Claire winked.
"Anything for you," he whispered and began to slowly trail his lips down her neck.
Beep! Beep! Beep! The alarm sounded early the next morning.
"Mmhhhh shut it off," Claire groaned and snuggled in closer to her lover.
"Come on sleepy head, rise and shine," Owen smirked,leaned down and kissed her forehead.
"The mother of your child needs more sleep," she groaned again.
"The mother of my child shouldn't have woken me up three times last night because she needed sex," he grinned.
"You know most guys with pregnant fiancées wouldn't be complaining about that, especially since I basically skipped the don't touch me phase and went right to the don't stop touching me, make me scream 24/7 phase," Claire quipped.
"Who said I was complaining?" He asked and rolled over so that he was pinning her to the mattress.
"In fact, I'm up for a round four," Owen whispered into her neck.
"We have to go get my parents," Claire gasped breathlessly.
"Say the word and I'll stop," he taunted as he nibbled on the sensitive part of her neck.
"Maybe just a quickie," she breathed and buried her hands in his hair. The rest of the morning could go on without them.
I'll hopefully have another update up tomorrow! Hope you all enjoyed! Please please, please, review and comment and I could use some help with baby names!