"The Neighbors"

Sorry I took so long! Forgive me? ;)

Rated M for Mature Content.

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Josh hangs up the phone. He folds his arms with the smirk of someone who has just beaten the odds and is about to cash in…

"Oh Maya, you cheated on the wrong husband. And now, not only are you going to lose Emily, you're going to lose your baby too! Cheating bitches never win!"

He falls back into bed and closes his eyes dreaming of his life with his daughter, a daughter who will never know her mother because she will never know of her existence…

Chapter 36: Just One More Night

Emily POV

We snuggle in bed unable to sleep as our thoughts about what brought us together and what our future holds keeps our minds awake. Maya is resting the back of her head on my arm with her body slightly turned with part of her back against me. It's a position we've kind of gotten used to as her body has begun to change.

"Well, that's it then, just one more day in New York."

"I know. I can't believe it's only been four months since I met you. And I can't believe in such a short time I knew it was you I'm supposed to be with."

"I didn't know," she nudges me playfully.

"Maya!"

"I mean, I wanted you so badly. I wasn't expecting to be so overwhelmed with feelings for you."

"Well, neither was I," I nudge her back.

"I thought they would pass like it was a getting to know a new person kind of thing but then when I started thinking about you naked…"

"Maya!" I can't hide my embarrassment.

She turns her body so she can look at me, "I couldn't help myself. That's when I knew something was happening to me. I never thought about women I've met like that before but you were different. I couldn't stop thinking about you."

"My thoughts and feelings scared me. I didn't understand why this was happening to me. But I guess only the universe has the answer to that question," I hug her gently.

"I wish it didn't have to be like this."

"So do I but nothings more important right now then you and that little one you're carrying."

Kisses.

"I'm glad Ryan's coming tomorrow."

"Yeah me too."

"Well, at least you'll get to say goodbye," she says turning away.

"Maya, you know you can't see Josh. It has to be this way," I darken my tone with her.

"I know. I just wish it didn't have to be this way," she surrenders.

"Enough about Josh and Ryan," I secure my arms around her.

"Enough about wishing and wanting," she turns back to look at me.

"I think I have all of my wishes and I'm getting all that I want."

"Are you now?" Maya eyebrow arches me.

"MmmHmmm, a good night's sleep!" I tease!

"Huh! You're terrible!" She turns her back to me while I laugh at my own attempt at humor.

"I'm kidding! Come over here."

"No."

I toss her hair over her shoulder lifting her top exposing her bare back to me. I blow gently against her skin making her shoulder blades squeeze. My fingertips caress her toffee skin lightly up and down until my lips place soft wet kisses from her neck to the small of her back, making a return trip to the top of her spine being sure to leave a kiss behind with each touch of my lips...

"Emily…"

"Maya. Turn around, please."

"I don't think I want to," she uses her pouty voice just making me want to more.

I gently encourage her to face me and she does with little fanfare. I lift off her shirt without resistance and mine as well. I slip out of my bottoms and she as well…

"You drive me wild. You know that. No one has ever affected me the way you do," I say directly into her eyes.

"How wild?" she looks directly back.

"More wild than I should be because I don't want to be too aggressive with you at this stage."

"I keep telling you its okay. Our bodies were made to have sex even when we're pregnant."

"I know that. I'm just more physical than you are."

"I can handle you and I think you know that."

I can no longer keep from loving her. I sneak my body over hers letting my weight land next to her with part of me draping her. My hand moves over her breast to her neck where I keep it, stroking the side of her throat with my thumb, watching her breathing become more and more rapid. My hand slips under her jawline coaxing her mouth towards mine.

And it is mine…

Narrator POV

Joshua and Joseph have a phone conversation with each other as Josh wonders if he's living up to the Grayson family name.

"Father?"

"Yes, son, is everything all right?"

"It's the waiting. I can't stand the waiting," he says almost nervously.

"Everything will be as it should in just one day."

"I know, it's just that…"

"It's just that what? You're having second thoughts?"

"No. I don't know. I guess I'm wondering if I really am a horrible person. Am I a horrible person father?" he questions rather humbly.

"What makes you say something like that?"

"I handled Maya, father, I grabbed her and I shook her when she was pregnant!"

"Joshua…"

"I could've harmed our baby then and again with my road rage when I figured out that Maya was with Emily. I was almost killed and so were they!" he tries rubbing his headache away.

"Where is this coming from Joshua? I thought you had decided that Maya was not suited for you or our family name."

"I'm just so confused. I'm not sure we should do this after seeing a mother with her baby here at the rehabilitation center. The baby looked lost without her. I sensed there was this connection that only a mother and a child can know," he says with forgiveness in his voice.

"Joshua, you and I both saw them together. It's over. Maya made her choice. She chose to raise her baby with her lover in another state without her baby's father."

"I know it's over between Maya and I but doesn't a baby need its mother?"

"You didn't Joshua and you turned out just fine."

"Did I?"

"Yes, your mother loves you but we all know who raised you," Mr. Grayson slips in rather awkwardly.

"I get it."

"You're a respected businessman who reacted with human emotion when you found out your wife is a cheater."

"Yes father."

"Joshua, you're taking Maya away from here. She's going to have her baby and then you're going to return to New York with the baby and without Maya."

"I know. I know. I'm just worried."

"About what?"

"If Maya is under stress then wouldn't the baby be too?"

"If Maya wants a healthy baby, she'll adapt to her new surroundings."

"I'm still really angry with her, that hasn't changed. So angry, in fact, I'm afraid of what I might do to her."

"You just remember that the child she's carrying is yours too."

"My child…"

"Yes, your child. Maya gave up any right to that child when she decided to share her bed with someone else."

"You're right. It has to be this way. She lied and cheated and now she'll be left with nothing!"

"Maya is not the same woman you fell in love with. She had an affair but not just any affair. She left you for another woman, Joshua. She emasculated you and with that disgraced the Grayson family name."

The word 'emasculated' hits Josh hard. How could he face anyone when they learn that his wife has left him for another woman? His fury with Maya besieges him reassuring him that taking her away from Emily and taking their baby away from her will be the ultimate revenge…

"Was that Joshua?"

"Yes, Miriam."

"He isn't getting cold feet now is he?"

"I don't think so. I told him exactly what you wanted me to. I did not stray from your dialogue."

"Good. Maya St. Germain deserves every bit of what's coming her way," she looks at him unconvinced of his dedication of their plan. "You do understand this is for the best," she narrows her eyes at him.

"Yes dear. I think we're all in agreement with that."

Mr. Grayson wants what his family wants. He's going along with what is primarily his wife's plan for now but there's something making him wonder if they really are doing what's best. It's the image of Emily and Maya in each other's arms. It's an image of true love. It's an image of what Maya and Josh once had. But because he spent so much time away from her, she grew out of love with him and she hadn't even realized it until the day she met Emily…

Emily POV

I'm lost in our love, a feeling I can't ever recall being duplicated. It's as if she and I exist for one reason and one reason only, to love each other and her, I mean, our baby. It's the most precious feeling you could ever imagine. But it's even more than that. It's a feeling of only wanting to be intimate with one person. I thought I felt those feelings with Ryan but every time I'm with her it feels new and different and I feel tingly all over. So much so I don't ever want to let go of this feeling…

My lips cherish her while my fingers fondle her lovingly. The palm of my hand rests just above her slit while my fingers very slowly stroke her silky moistened lips. This feeling pushes me over the edge so I can only imagine what feelings she's feeling. This excites me as I watch her breathing increase and her back arch slightly and I hear those soft erotic sounds slipping past her full delicious lips. My fingers respond in kind moving with a quickening pace…

I can feel her wetness inviting me to explore her more intimately and I willingly accept the invitation. I slip the tip of one finger inside her, circling her walls which have become quite sensitive as of late, easing her expansion with my touch, inviting another finger along. I kiss her hardened tips encircling my mouth around her flesh closing my eyes as my fingers work in rhythm to my oral finesse. She thrusts towards my hand demanding the most from my efforts while my thumb finds her taut clit to play with...

We've become quite familiar with one another's bodies knowing how to use our fingers, our palms, our tongues and all of our womanliness in the most sensuous of ways. And at this moment, her legs begin to tense up signaling her readiness to show her appreciation for my attentiveness. I bite her shoulder as her gushiness surrounds my fingers holding them there while she releases herself to me. One, two, three right in a row, she's saving the fourth and final one to shout my name, 'Emily!' and breathe out sounds of passion while soaking my fingers! They patrol her walls moving slowly while arresting what they can for us both to indulge…

I rest my saturated hand between her legs until our mouths and our tongues have satisfied themselves. Then slowly I bring my hand to her lips then mine, me watching her, she watching me, savoring her with one of the most intimate of expressions of our love…

Our lips cannot resist tasting the others, pressing firmly, opening widely, and then closing partly with heads tilted and tongues questing. I roll her onto me with a most satisfied smile, a smile only she can make me smile, causing her to giggle knowing full well she's the only one who can make me smile like that! She kisses my curved lips just before rising to straddle me. I know what she's about to do and my pussy thanks her! She moves one leg between mine so I quickly accommodate her position by bending my leg away from her, giving her the space she needs to fit her lips over me. She rocks forward and back moving into a circular motion as I assist her by keeping my lips in sync with hers. Our wetness builds as does our momentum, bouncing and swirling producing that sound that makes me crazed with desire! Slapping our smooth soft tanned lips against each other with juices flowing and sticking and squishing!

This is our last night alone together for a very long time and we both need this! We need to love each other's bodies and souls until fatigue sets in. One hand entwined with mine while the other reaches for her supple breasts as she rocks against me with the rhythm of a rhumba, slow and sexy…

She collapses over me breathing as heavily as I am, catching my chin between her teeth biting lightly and kissing softly. She's looking at me, studying me…

"I love you. I need you to know that. I love you."

My arms surround her while my hands caress her being sure to slip them over her bottom and back up to her shoulders, "I love you more than anything. I will protect you until my last breath. You are my heart. You are my life."

Tears seep from the corners of her eyes, "And you Emily, are mine."

We kiss sweetly as she settles her body over me. I continue to caress her while she continues to kiss me until our fatigue finally sets in and we fall asleep as one, two and baby makes three…

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To Be Continued…

What will happen to Maya?

We'll all find out in the next chapter!