Rated "M" for sexual content and references!
Really?
When he really thought about it, Mac couldn't believe that Hope accepted his marriage proposal. His wife was stunned to hear this when he revealed it to her out of the blue the evening after their son's first birthday party. Hope had her head on Mac's lap on the couch.
"Seriously?" She said, rising her head up and staring at him. "You actually thought I'd tell you 'no'? You must have gone temporarily insane!" She reached up and kissed her husband deeply, her hand around the back of his head, taking his breath away for a moment.
Mac grinned.
"I can't say I wasn't holding my breath," he admitted.
The first time Mac kissed her, once she caught her breath, all Hope could think was how she would feel like she won the powerball jackpot if she got to be woken up by that kiss for the rest of her life.
Damn, Mac Taylor could kiss!
She'd run out of adverbs if she had to describe him in bed. He was the only one who could make her literally scream out in pleasure. God, Hope was surprised she hadn't disturbed the neighbors and there wasn't a knock on the door.
All the fun—and cake, had Jesse tired out. With any luck he would sleep all night and leave mommy and daddy to trying to conceive again. Hope had been off the pill for a week. With Mac's working and then planning Jesse's birthday party, Hope and Mac hadn't had time for intimacy. The mood was right tonight and just maybe they would get lucky and in a month Hope would have a positive pregnancy test.
The relationship between her best friend Pam and her "boy-toy" Christopher had fizzled out, just the way Hope thought it would. But being a friend, Hope fought the urge to say "I told you so." Pam was devastated by split and Hope wasn't going to kick her when she was down—as much as she longed to; it might knock some sense into her when it came to men and relationships. Hope kept telling herself that her friend only wanted the same life that Hope herself had.
If she didn't rush into relationships so quickly and was pickier with her choice in the opposite sex, she might have it by now, Hope thought, before mentally thinking herself again. She's your best friend! She needs you to be there for her now.
Pam was coming to the city for a four-day trip. She was meeting Hope for lunch before going on a tour of the city to take her mind off things. Hope wasn't rub it in, though she wasn't going to deny her joy that she was pregnant again. That night after Jesse's birthday party did the trick. She was ten weeks pregnant. She was thrilled, Mac was, too. Jesse was excited because they were, not being old enough to understand what was going on. Mac had Jesse with him at his office at the lab.
Her friend was quiet during their lunch and Hope didn't badger her. She asked about Jesse and Mac, congratulated Hope on her pregnancy. This was probably the obly time Hope would see her during her time in NYC. She was staying at a hotel and had nearly every minute of her trip filled with something to do or see. This didn't surprise Hope. Pam wanted anything to keep her mind off her break-up. Packing her stay with tourist activities would help with that. Plus, going back to the Taylor home and seeing their lives was going to make her relationship status sting that much more.
"Tell Mac I said hello and give Jesse a kiss for me," she told Hope as she left the café.
"Detective Taylor is certainly close to that little boy," a uniformed officer commented to Danny, gesturing at the sight of Mac and Jesse in his office. Mac was tickling Jesse and Jesse's shrieks of laughter could be heard through the glass walls and closed door.
"Good reason for that," Danny replied. "That little boy is his son. His name is Jesse."
The officer hadn't got a good look at Jesse until Mac exited the office with him.
"Now I see it!" the officer chuckled. "He's a mini-Mac!"
Mac had left his office to go downstairs and escort his wife up. He wasn't surprised to hear from his wife that her friend was depressed when his wife sat down in his office. Jesse had zero interest in going to mom when dad was still around.
"That's too bad," he said, hearing Pam wouldn't be visiting their apartment.
Only a few at the lab were aware of Hope's pregnancy right now.
And that was purely because Mac couldn't contain himself.
"Is she pregnant again?" The same uniformed officer, whom was getting paperwork from Danny asked him.
Before she left Mac's office with Jesse, the officer saw Mac touch his wife's abdomen after he kissed her goodbye.
"Yep. They just found out. Tryin' to keep it low-key. Not doin' a great job of it," Danny replied.
