Chapter 34
Ellie yawned and stretched out, smiling as she felt the warmth of Chibs' body next to hers. She reached down and grabbed one of his hands in hers, bringing it up to her lips. She felt him stir and he wrapped his arms tighter around her, planting a kiss on her neck.
"What time did you make your way home last night?"
"Late" he said, his voice gruff with sleep.
"Why didn't you wake me?"
"I wanted ya to get your sleep. I know how late ya been up with Katherine." The eight-month-old baby had caught a nasty cold last week and both her and Ellie were suffering through it. Thankfully, to Ellie's delight she was finally at the end of it.
"Hmm but that means I missed a whole night with you?"
"Ya have me right now."
"What time do you go pick up the guys?"
"In a couple of hours."
"You mean we have at least an hour alone without a baby?" She had dropped Katherine off at Gemma's house at the woman's request, her nerves were shot from worrying about Clay and Jax getting out and needed the distraction. After a week with a sick baby, Ellie certainly wasn't going to turn down a night off from mommy duty.
"Aye" he whispered, his hand already traveling down her body. Rolling over and allowing him to take control, she laughed at his devilish grin. "Get busy then old man."
"Old man?" he kidded back with her as she ran her hands over his bare shoulders, feeling the warmth of his skin.
As much as she wanted to spend this morning with him talking and having a meal like a normal couple, her need for him to be inside her was greater. She needed to know she was still his, that she still held his heart despite the amount of time he'd spent on the road away from her. He dipped his head and kissed her, the scruff of his beard tickling her. As he deepened the kiss, Ellie parted her lips and felt the familiar warmth spreading through her body. The feeling of him stirring between her legs caused her to hold her breath and she involuntarily moved her legs further apart to accommodate him. "Does that feel like an old man Ellie love?" he asked huskily, gently nipping the skin on her neck.
She gasped as he moved his hips against hers so she could really feel his length pressing against her. "I want you Chibs, I need you" she gasped, digging her fingers into him and lifting her hips to meet his. With agonizing slowness, he removed the articles of clothing that were separating them. Looking into her eyes, he slid into her slowly. It was soft and slow, exactly what she was craving from him. Their eyes locked on each other. Running her hands down his back, she gripped his hips. Feeling the skin move under her fingers she loved the way the roll of his hips hit her core with each movement. Even though it was soft and slow, he had her on the brink.
"Oh Christ Chibs, I love you."
"I love ya too my sweet girl."
"Keep doing that" she panted, arching her back and closing her eyes.
"Stay with me, love look at me." Looking down at Ellie's flushed face and slightly parted mouth, he wanted to watch her eyes glaze over when she came. Wanted to see the effect he could have on her.
"God that's good" she said, snapping her eyes back open and staring back into his lust filled brown ones. "Say it, tell me I'm a good girl."
"Sweet Jesus, good girl." At his words, her hands tightened around him and her nails dug in as her insides clamped down around him making come with her with a groan of "Jesus Christ."
They stayed connected with their arms wrapped around each other and sweet kisses between them. It was just them, nothing else mattered in that moment. When Chibs went to pull away, she pulled him back to her, wrapping her legs tighter around him and refusing to let him go. She wanted to enjoy this moment as long as she could. Finally pulling himself up and resting on his forearms, he nestled his face in her neck and whispered "Love I have ta go."
Ellie sighed against him, releasing her hold on him. "I'm so glad all this bullshit ends today, I can't wait to have you home again with me."
"Aye me too love. Go back to bed, I'll see ya at the clubhouse yeah?"
"Of course." She had spent these last 14 months suffering along with Gemma and Tara and wasn't about to miss the joy of all the men coming home, the family she had grown to love being whole again.
When she got to the clubhouse, she grabbed her smiling, squirming baby from Gemma. "Oh my baby Mommy missed you" she said, kissing the blonde girl's cheeks and blowing on them until she got a squeal of delight. She went and stood next to Tara who was bouncing Thomas up and down while she paced. "I'm nervous."
"You shouldn't be, he loves you. Everything is going to be great" Ellie responded encouragingly. "Are you working tomorrow? Thought we could do lunch, wanted to talk with you about something."
"I'm not, Clay is giving the guys the next three days off so I took some time off too. Can it wait?"
"Yeah. The guys will be happy. Chibs, Opie and Kozik have been working their asses off. They all deserve a little break."
"You too, I'm sure it'll be nice to have Chibs home for longer than a night."
"I can't wait, I've been waiting for this day forever. I hope to fill the next three days with sex, lots of sex."
"Me too" Tara said laughing. The rumble of bikes stopped their conversation. As it got closer, the women stood up and began smoothing their clothes and hair in preparation for their men coming home.
Ellie waited on the sidelines as the families reunited. It was Tig that came to her first. "Well at least she didn't take after her dad" he quipped, looking Katherine over. "Come here baby girl meet uncle Tig" he said reaching out his hands for the baby.
Katherine had been in Tig's arms for less than a minute when she began to scrunch her chubby face up and let out a wail. "It's alright little love, he has that effect on women" Chibs said as he walked up and took the wailing baby from Tig.
"Good to see you doll" Tig said, engulfing Ellie in a hug. "I'm glad you decided to stick around."
"Didn't really have a choice after the Scottish bastard knocked me up" Ellie joked, enjoying a laugh with Tig at Chibs' expense.
"It was my plan all along love."
"Let's get church going so I can find myself waist deep in pussy" Tig declared, following the rest of the men headed for the clubhouse.
"Here love" Chibs said, turning to Ellie and handing off Katherine. "I better get in there" he said, kissing her cheek.
"Are you going to stay long for the welcome home party?"
"No, just going ta have a couple of drinks with the guys."
"Good," she smiled holding onto his leather with her free hand and Katherine on her hip. "I was thinking of making a nice dinner and then after this one goes to bed we can start making up for lost time" she said, giving him a sexy smirk.
"That sounds fantastic love but I have ta go with Kozik tonight and set some stuff up so I'll be home late."
Her smile fell. "But I thought Clay was giving the guys the next three days with their families?"
"The guys who were inside, that have been away from their families. There's still stuff ta do around here and with Opie getting ready for the wedding, it leaves me and Kozik."
"You've been away from your fucking family too" Ellie said through gritted teeth, trying to not shout and draw the attention of the remaining men and women still outside.
"Ellie, don't be mad love."
"I'm not mad, I'm hurt. I want my family together. I want you fucking home with me. We have a daughter who misses you just as much as I do."
"I'm sorry love. I promise after the wedding, things will get back ta normal."
She let her hand drop from his kutte. "Stop making promises you can't keep, you told me once the guys got home things would change. But it's not, you're still not coming home tonight."
"Ellie I'm not making promises I can't keep, I want ta be home with you and Katherine I do. Ya just need ta be patient a little while longer love."
"I'm done being patient! I've done that for the past 14 fucking months. I've done my time being understanding about being left alone and raising Katherine by myself." She turned to walk away.
"Ellie please, what do ya want me ta do?"
"You figure it the fuck out for yourself, but you probably shouldn't come home until you do." Chibs gave an exasperated sigh as he watched her walk away.
"Alright last order of business before I let you guys go" Clay said, sitting at the head of the table. "So Chibs that girl of yours going to take your crow and make it official now that Hap's out?" Clay usually tried to not involve himself with the guy's personal lives. God knows they tended to cause more anger, drama and inevitably, money than any of the club's illegal businesses, but a woman becoming an old lady was still club business. The sacredness of the coveted crow was an honor not to be bestowed lightly and Gemma had told him on several occasions how Ellie had been a trooper through this.
"Probably not after the rash of shit she just gave him, Cherry's got some balls on her" Happy responded. He'd seen the fight on his way in.
"Aye, not the best time to be asking her ta permanently put up with all the bullshit."
"Now's the perfect time brother. She deserves it for all that she has put up with. You want me to have Gem give her an old lady speech?"
"No, but I think I'll have Hap tattoo I'm sorry on my fucking forehead because I'm tired of saying it." A sympathetic laugh went around the table as church was adjourned.
The day of Opie's wedding had arrived. Chibs had made his way home the day before but the time he was home consisted of he and Ellie shuffling around each other in silence until it was time again for him to leave. Ellie had lunched with Tara which had consisted of her breaking down in tears several times about the fight she'd had with Chibs and his absence. Tara had taken Katherine to her house where Neeta would be that night to watch Abel and Thomas as well.
She pulled up to the clubhouse, taking Tara's advice to just go and demand that he talk with her and work this out. Going inside the clubhouse she saw the new prospect Phil by himself behind the bar. "Chibs around?" she asked, hopeful because his bike was parked outside.
"He's in church, been in there for a while. Should be out soon."
Ellie sat at a table near the church doors, standing when she heard the door open and the men start to filter out. Eyeing her, Chibs gave her a curious look and walked towards her. "Ellie?"
She gave him an awkward smile. "Hi, can we talk? In private" she said, nodding her head at the rest of the men standing around listening in on the conversation. For all their leather, guns, bikes and manliness, the boys of Samcro sure did love to gossip.
"Oh Ellie, you have bad timing love. I have ta go. We have a meet with the Russians."
"Just five minutes, please."
He moved closer to her whispering "I swear ta ya love I'm going to spend a lifetime making up for the last year."
Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, she pursed her lips and said "I don't need a lifetime, I just need the next five minutes."
"Tonight after the wedding I'm all yours but I have ta go now. I'll cut my ear off for ya if it helps" he said giving her a grin and trying to lighten the tense mood that had been surrounding them for the past days. He hated that she'd come to him with the olive branch and here he was refusing it.
Not taking the joke lightly, she raised her voice. "You can't give me five fucking minutes?"
He shook his head. "I know I say this too much lately but I'm sorry love." He turned away before he could see the hurt in her eyes.
It was her voice though that stopped him mid-stride and made him turn back around. "Fillip Telford!" The silence in the clubhouse was deafening as the men heard her shout his given name. "Do you think I don't know where I fucking stand with you? Where I land in priorities in your fucking life? I know damn well I'm not number one, that spot's for the club. I'm not two or three because you already have a wife and a kid. Hell I'm not even number fucking four because you sure as shit spend more time with your bike. Do you think I would come here and take up a moment of your precious time, be humiliated in front of everyone as you push me aside, if it wasn't fucking important?" From the edges of the clubhouse she could hear sharp intakes of breath and some of the men utter "whoa".
She stood there in silence, her face full of rage. Chibs didn't move. He'd never heard Ellie really yell like that and he had no idea how to diffuse the situation. Throwing up her hands in desperation as the tears came she looked at Chibs. "I'm fucking pregnant. Jesus Christ Chibs I'm fucking pregnant!" Shouting the last part at him, she reached in her purse and threw the white stick with the two pink lines on it at him. Striking him in the chest, it then fell and clattered across the floor. "I took it last week and confirmed it with Tara today. I've been trying to tell you since I took the damn thing but you haven't been home for more than ten minutes at a time." Her heart was pounding as she stormed past him. "You're a real bastard."
Hope you all enjoyed and yes anither baby for the couple but it seems Ellie has reached the end of her rope. Have a great week thanks for all the reviews and follows.