Here's chapter 36 for y'all... Enjoy!
APOV:
I'm 14 weeks now and well out of my first trimester. I haven't felt this good in a while. No more morning sickness and I'm not tired all the time anymore. The only problem I have is, if you want to call a problem, I cant seem to get enough of Christian. I think the poor man probably suggested a guys day with Elliot and Travis just to get a break from me. He told me last night that I was going to "ride his fucking dick raw". These hormones are something else. If I'm not horny, I'm emotional. Case in point, I may have scared Taylor into being a groomsman for the wedding...
Christian was thinking about asking Travis, but I kind of had a small breakdown trying to explain just how important Taylor is to him. He said that the only reason he wasn't going to ask Taylor was because he didn't think Taylor would accept. I could tell that Christian really wanted to ask Taylor, so I encouraged him.
When Christian and I called Taylor into Christian's study later that night, Taylor thought something was wrong. Christian started off by telling Taylor that he thinks of him as more than his head of security. Taylor has been by his side for years. At one time Taylor knew Christian better than anyone, and in some ways he still does, so he considers him a friend. After asked to be a groomsman, Taylor said he was truly honored, but as Christian suspected, Taylor politely turned him down due to security reasons. I could tell that Taylor was torn between doing his job and being a good friend... Did I mention I was a tad bit hormonal?...
I turned into a big ball of pregnant, emotional mess. I'm sure Taylor thought that I had lost my mind. I was sniffling and blubbering on about Taylor being Christian's friend; that we needed him in the wedding; Welch and Sawyer could handle security that day; and so on... By the time I looked back up at Taylor, his eyes were as big a saucers. I'm sure at that point both of the men in the room would have agreed to do anything to get me to stop crying. In the end, Taylor agreed to stand with Christian at our wedding. I could see that happiness in both of their eyes as they shook hands before Taylor went home to Gail for the night.
"Mama, we need to takes Chocowate out for a potty bweak." Brooklyn says as she walks into the kitchen with Chocolate following close behind her.
"Okay, let me get the cake out of the oven to cool and we can go out." Since Christian is out with the guys today, I invited Mia and Kate over. I decided to treat Mia for all of the hard work that she put into planning our wedding by baking her a peanut butter cake. She told me the other day that she has had a major craving for peanut butter lately, so I know she's going to love it.
Brooklyn and I take Chocolate out to 'potty' and play around a little. I'm throwing the ball for him to fetch and then Brooklyn chases him down to get it back. We have been out her for a little while when I hear the sounds of a car coming up our long driveway. Looking up I see Kate's BMW and Mia right behind her in her little white 2 seater sports car. She's going to need a bigger car before the baby gets here.
I quickly pick Chocolate up so he doesn't run in front of the cars by accident. He is a hyper little thing. When I pick him up, he does his best to wiggle around to lick me.
"Aunt Kate... Aunt Mia!" Brooklyn squeals as she jumps up and down waiting on them to get out of their cars.
I can tell when Mia starts to get out of her car, she struggles a little because her car sits low to the ground and her little round belly is getting in the way.
"I know, I know! I need to get a bigger car soon." Mia says when she sees me, Kate and Brooklyn watching her.
"Yes, you do, little mama!" I say, wrapping my arms around her.
We all make our way to the kitchen so I can finish the cake and our lunch. Since it's November, the weather has gotten colder, so I made us a big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup.
"Is that peanut butter I smell?" Mia asks with her nose up in the air, sniffing like a dog.
Brooklyn giggles, "Yes! Mama made it for you. It's going to be so good. Mama said that you are pwobabwy gonna takes it home wif you, but can you weave me a big piece? Wike haf of the take?"
"I will be sure to leave you a big slice, sweet girl!" Mia pulls Brooklyn up in her lap and snuggles her.
"So, have either of you thought about names?" Kate asks.
"Christian and I haven't, but I plan on talking to him soon, tonight maybe." I shrug my shoulders.
"I have a few names for both a girl and boy, but I haven't decided on one yet. I'm just excited to find out if I'm have a girl or boy." She smiles. I can see the happiness shining in her eyes.
"When do you go? Do you have a feeling of what you think you're going to have?" I ask her. I know most mothers have a feeling of what they are having. With Brooklyn, I knew she was going to be a girl. Not once when I was pregnant with her did the thought of having a boy cross my mind. With this pregnancy, my gut is telling me it's a boy. We'll soon see if I'm right. Christian and I have an appointment to find out the week before Christmas.
"I have a gut feeling it's a boy, but I will be ecstatic with either. My next Dr.'s appointment is on December 4th and I should be able to find out then. Travis is actually taking that day off to go with me."
"I like Travis, Mia! He seems like a really great guy." Kate says. I couldn't agree more with Kate!
"He is a great guy... He's the one... He's it for me." Mia shrugs her shoulders and I see the tears build up in her eyes.
I pat her hand, "When you know, you know." I simply tell her. "That's the way it was with Christian. I knew that he was the one from the get go."
We continue to talk as we eat our lunch. Mia and I both eat two bowls of soup to Kate's one. Brooklyn ate two kid sized bowls as well, but I think half of it went under the table to Chocolate because I had to shoo him out of the dining room a few times. We don't want Chocolate to have 'people food', so Christian suggested that we may need to put up a little gate at the dinning room door.
When we are finishing up lunch, I see Brooklyn's little eyelids start to get heavy. I take her upstairs to her room for her nap and then I join Mia and Kate in the family room. When I walk in the room, I catch the tail end of what Mia is telling Kate.
"... I can't seem to get enough!" Mia exclaims, making Kate laugh.
"I know what you mean!" I tell Mia. " For the past week, I haven't been able to keep my hands off of Christian. That's probably the reason the poor man needed a break today." When I look up, I see Mia and Kate looking at me. Kate looks like she is about to explode with laughter and Mia looks disgusted. "What?" I ask, not sure why they are both looking at me.
"Eww! Gross, Ana! First off that's my brother, I don't want to hear about his sex life... and second, I was talking about by craving for peanut butter. I can't seem to get enough peanut butter!" By this point, I know my face is beet red and Kate is doubled over, laughing her ass off.
"Oh," I awkwardly clear my throat. "Whoops, my mind just automatically goes to sex these days."
"Yes, we see!" Kate says, wiping her tears.
After we finally get over the whole sex/peanut butter topic, Kate brings up a bachelorette party. I can already tell she won't like what I have to say. I know she wants to go to a club or something, but with two pregnant women, it's just not a good idea.
"I was thinking we could go for a spa weekend." I tell her and I can see instantly that this isn't what she wanted to do for my bachelorette party. "Me, You, Mia, Grace, and Gail. It'll be a fun, nice relaxing weekend with the girls." I look to Mia and I can see that she is in agreement with me. I sometimes feel bad for Kate because her friends are having kids and I know she feels like the odd one out these days. Even some of our old college friends are getting married and starting families.
"If that's what you want to do, but we need to decided where we are going so I can book strippers!" She claps her hands.
"No way, Kate!" I shake my head. "I don't want strippers there. Out of the question, Kate!"
She rolls her eyes, "When did you turn into the party pooper? Elliot is talking with Christian today about a bachelor party. You know the men are going to have strippers at theirs."
I'm not going to lie, the thought of some barely dress woman shaking and gyrating her ass all around my man makes my stomach flip. But I am not going to turn into a nagging wife, telling Christian what he can and cant do. I trust him not to do anything that would ever put our relationship in jeopardy.
Another thing, the thought of a stripper with her perfect body on show in front of my man plays on my own insecurities. Lots of pregnant women tend to be self-conscious about their changing body, and I'm one of them. I know I have no reason to be because Christian constantly shows me how much he loves my changing body, but I'm a woman, and I have had body issues since I started developing in my early teen years... A lot of that has to do with my Carla always trying to get me to diet because I was 'putting on too much weight'.
"Let the men have what they want. I trust Christian completely." And I do, that's no lie. "Do I want him to have strippers at his party..no! Am I going to nag and throw a fit about it...no! I will never be the that wife." Kate can tell I'm getting worked up. I don't know why she is pushing the stripper issue...
"Okay, I'm sorry I brought it up. You're right... I could use a nice long spa weekend." Kate hugs and kisses me on the cheek. "Sorry if I upset you honey. You know I love you."
"I love you too, Kate. Now shut up about this shit and lets go get a slice of Kate before Mia takes it home." I giggle and wink at Mia.
CPOV:
"Travis, you hit like a fucking girl!" Elliot teases Travis as he takes his turn in the batting cages.
I haven't seen Elliot in a while and I wanted to get to know Travis a little better without the women around, so I called them this morning to see if they wanted to hit the batting cages and then grab some lunch.
"Lets see if you can do any better once you get in here, Shit head." Travis says, laughing.
Elliot laughs with him, but then turns his attention to me. "So, little Brother, we need to talk."
"About what?" The sly grin he has on his face can only mean he is up to no good. It's the same grin he used to get when we were young and he was about to do something he knew mom wouldn't approve of. Looking back, he really was a sneaky little shit.
"Since you are about to get tied down to the old ball in chain" He jokes, I know he thinks the world of Ana. "I was thinking you need one last hoorah... in Vegas!"
"Abso-fucking-lutely not! No fucking way, Elliot." I tell him. Nothing good can come out of a trip to Vegas with Elliot Grey.
"Why not, Dude? It'll be fun. Golfing, drinks,...strippers." He waggles his eyebrows at the last word.
"Exactly, Elliot! Not gonna happen. You can just get that thought out of your fucking head now."
He looks at me for a minute, "Ahhh! I know what's going on now. You are afraid of the little lady. All together now... can we say 'pussy-whipped'." I know he's joking, but he is about to fucking piss me off.
"You need to watch it, brother! I really don't care what you call me. I will not be going to Vegas. If I do anything or go anywhere, it will be a guys weekend in Aspen. And no fucking strippers!" I hate fucking arguing with my brother, but this is something I'm not giving in on.
"Come on. Kate is talking with Ana today. What if Ana has male strippers?"
"I would be pissed! That's my point Elliot... Why would I want strippers when I would obviously be pissed if she had them? I'm not going to do something that I'm not okay with her doing. End of!" I walk off and make my way to the batting cage. Travis walks by and gives me a chin lift in understanding. I laugh to myself thinking that Mia would have his balls if he was in my situation.
I stay in the cages a lot longer than I should, but I'm pissed at just the thought of Ana having strippers. I need to burn off some of this negative energy. I'm sure I'll be able to feel it tomorrow. I workout and I'm in good shape, but because I don't get to the batting cages often, I'm always sore the next day.
When I walk back to where Elliot and Travis are standing, Elliot sticks out his hand for me to shake. "I'm sorry, lil Bro. That was a shitty call by me. I've thought about it and I get what you are saying. What do you say we take a guys fishing trip to Aspen. You, me, Trav, Dad and Ray?"
I shake his hand. "Sounds good, Man." That's usually how an argument goes between the two of us. We get pissed, say our peace, and then get the fuck over it. "Let's go eat."
We all make our way back to our cars after we all agree on where to meet for lunch. I noticed that Travis hasn't said a word the entire time that Elliot and I have been bickering like little bitches.
"Sorry about that back there." I tell Travis when I walk up next to him.
He throws his hands up and chuckles. "No problem. It was actually pretty tame compared to some of the fights me brothers and I get into."
We decided to go to a small family owned Mexican restaurant for lunch. We have all been making small talk, but I can see that something is on Travis' mind.
"Just say it man. I can see something's up." I tell him.
He sits up a little higher in his chair and clears his throat. "I need to know what you two know about this little fucker, Shawn."
Elliot and I look at each other trying to determine if we should tell Travis what happened in my office. With a small nod of our heads, Elliot and I agree that we need to tell him. Not only for him, but for Mia too. So for the next 30 minutes we sit there and fill him in on everything.
"Listen, guys... I know Mia's the one for me and the reason I needed to know about Shawn is because later on down the road, I want to adopt the baby. I needed to know if that fuck face was going to be a problem." I can see the sincerity in his face when he tells us this.
"Have you talked with Mia about this?" Elliot asks.
"Not yet. I'm going to soon. She mentioned something the other night about talking to your dad and getting him to draw up the papers to have Shawn sign his parental rights away. And from what I've heard, it wont be too hard to convince him."
"I don't think it will be a problem either, but if it is let me know and I will have it handled." I tell him.
He looks at me for a moment and then nods his head, "Okay." Simple as that... Shawn's little scrawny ass won't know what him hit if he tries to fuck with Mia. I know he doesn't want the baby, the only reason he would give her a hard time about it is because our family if wealthy.
When I get back home, I notice that Mia and Kate have already left. I walk through the house in search for Ana and Brooklyn. It takes a little while because this house is a lot bigger than the penthouse at Escala. After not finding them in any of the usual places around the house, I make my way to the theater. I walk in the find Ana, Brooklyn and Chocolate curled up under a blanket, watching a movie.
"There's my girls." I say, letting them know that I'm in the room. Chocolate pokes his head from underneath the covers and gives me a half bark until he sees who I am.
"Hey, Daddy! We watching a mobie. Come sits wif us." She scoots closer to Ana, allowing me room to sit.
"What are we watching?" I ask as I pull her onto my lap.
"Snow White and the seben dorks." She says without taking her eyes off of the screen. She has watched this movie countless times since Halloween two weeks ago.
"I think you mean 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs'." I correct her.
"Uh huh, that's what me said." She replies, still not taking her eyes off of the TV. When I look at Ana I see her trying to hide her laughter.
The rest of the afternoon is spent watching movies. When it came time for dinner, Ana was craving pizza so I got Taylor to make a run to the local pizzeria.
After putting Brooklyn to bed, I draw a nice warm bubble bath for me and Ana to enjoy.
"Ummm, this feels so good." Ana moans when she submerges herself into the warm water. That throaty moan makes my dick stand at attention.
"Did you enjoy your day with the girls?" I asks.
"I did, we really didn't do much. Just sat around, talking and eating." I wonder if she agreed to a bachelorette party...
"Did Kate mention anything to you about her pre-wedding plans for you?"
"She did, but I turned her down. We finally settled on a weekend at a spa. Me, Kate, Mia, your mom and I'm going to ask Gail to go, too." I can feel myself relax. I know Ana wouldn't do anything, but I'm a jealous fuck and I don't want any half naked men around her.
"You deserve a nice relaxing weekend like that." I feather kisses across her shoulders.
"And what about you? I can only imagine what Elliot has planned." She giggles. She loves Elliot as if he were her own brother.
"Ah, yes... That crazy fucker wanted to go to Vegas. There is no way in hell I'm going to Vegas with his crazy ass." I look down to see her worrying her bottom lip. "Ana, what's on your mind, Baby?"
"You know the whole 'what happens in Vegas' thing... Elliot would never..." She trails off, but I know what she's getting at.
""You have nothing to worry about. Elliot may get a little wild, but he'd never betray Kate." I tell her.
"Good, I love him and I hope that he would never do something like that. Not to mention, your daughter thinks her uncle Lelliot is awesome."
"We are planning on a fishing trip to Aspen. I'll call Ray tomorrow because I want him to go as well."
She turns and straddles my lap. I can feel my dick hitting her swollen belly. "Dad would love that." She kisses me, but pulls back when I try to deepen it. "Whoa there hunky fiancé, I got one more thing I want to talk to you about before we dirty up this bath."
"Who says you'll be getting my dick tonight?" I tease her.
"Ummm, My hormones..." She says making me laugh. "Now stay focused, Sexy. I want to talk about baby names. Did you have anything in mind?"
I have been thinking about it lately. I know for sure that if the baby is a boy, I want to name him after my brother.
"Let's start with girl manes," She says. "I like the name Alyssa for a girl. What do you think?"
"Alyssa..., I like it. Alyssa Rose Grey." Perfect.
I see a sweet smile take over her lips. "That's perfect, Christian." She kisses me. "Wow! That was easy. Now for boys... "
"I know I want to name him after my brother... I mean that's if you'll agree." I don't want her to feel like I'm pushing the name on her.
"What's Elliot's middle name?"
"Michael" I say. "What about Alexander Michael?" I ask and I can already see that she isn't too keen on the name by the way she scrunches her cute little nose up.
"I don't that name for our son. Cute name, just not for us." She thinks for a minute. "What about Michael Elijah?"
It's a cute name, but I just don't feel it would be the right fit for our son. "Nah, cute name, just not for us." I toss her words back at her.
"Okay, I have a name in mind. It's been in Ray's family for generations, but it doesn't go with Michael."
"What is it?" Now she has me curious. I hope it's not some old fashion name. I want my son to have a good, manly name.
"Maddox" She replies.
Now that's a name I can see giving to my son... and then it hits me. "Elliot Maddox Grey. Just use his middle name instead of his first."
She squeals so loud that it echo's off of the bathroom walls. "That's it, Christian! That's our son's name!"
"So we are either going to have an Alyssa Rose Grey or an Elliot Maddox Grey."
She nods her head. "Yep! Our new little one has a name!"
I know, I know... I'm not using the typical names from the book. Please understand that I do love the names in the book, I just wanted to change things up a bit.
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