Chapter 51
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Since he'd gotten to work this morning, and all the way here, he couldn't stop thinking about Manny and what he was doing to Olivia. She was pregnant. A pregnancy that they'd spent so long to make happen. And as much stress as Manny was putting on his wife, he was afraid that something could happen. It was bound to. God knows that this situation wasn't good for her or those babies, and Nick was just afraid of what a push in the wrong direction would do.
Then there was his own issue. He knew Olivia had a hard time believing him, but he honestly didn't hold any mixed feelings about what happened with her and Manny. It was a stupid mistake; granted, one that almost cost them their marriage. But he'd put it behind him. In the beginning, he can admit to himself that he did. He had a lot of misgivings about it they could do this, especially after Manny sent that video. But he realized that if they were gonna work this out, they both had to be all in. And thanks to Olivia demanding that they take marriage counseling. He was able to deal with it before it destroyed them both.
But this fucker; he wasn't giving up so easy! Manny didn't handle rejection very well, Nick knew this. And Olivia rejecting him was more than he could handle. But this had to stop! In spite of all Manny had done, after all was said and done, he was still his little brother. The same little brother that he'd die to protect. And while he didn't want to hurt Manny, he would if it meant protecting his wife and babies from him. He would in a heartbeat! Damn, he wished he didn't have to be here so he could go to that prison!
"Amaro...hello?" His Captain called from the desk. He and five other officers had been called into her office to discuss a case, and so far, Nick was elsewhere. And as everyone in the room was now looking at him...
"I'm sorry captain...I was just thinking…" He lied. "Um, what if we expanded the search to Jersey? I'm sure their PD there wouldn't mind givin us a hand." Nice save Nick!
His Captain looked at him, and was silent for a moment. "Good idea. I like a man who pays attention!"
It was half past ten when she got the prison. Dressed very modestly in a black turtleneck with matching jeans and flat booties. The last thing she wanted to do was give this creep any notion to get ideas about why she was there.
After checking in her gun, and getting to the private visitors room, she sat down for a moment until the babies began to stir, and she got up to walk around the room while rubbing her belly.
"I know…" She said in a soft voice. "I don't want to be here either." She continued walking until the babies were somewhat calmer but still she felt like it was all a mistake with her being here and she was just about to leave when the officer brought Manny in.
"Look at you!" He said as the officer handcuffed one of his hands to the table. Of course Olivia wasn't having it. She'd take her chances another time, but him, he was slick, and she wanted to be sure that he couldn't try anything.
"Both hands, please." She said as she stared at Manny. The officer quickly took Manny's other hand and began cuffing it down.
"Olivia, you're not afraid of me are you?" Manny smiled. But Olivia just stood there, staring at him before she turned to the guard.
"Could you leave us alone?"
"I'll be right outside." He said before he exited through the door and Olivia sat down.
"Taking good care of my babies I see."
"They're not your babies."
But he wasn't listening. "You look amazing! New haircut, which looks so fucking sexy, by the way." But she just continued to stare at him. "You never did tell me how you hurt your arm… Lemme guess, Nicolas?"
"He's not you."
"I never hurt you."
"That's right, you only brutally raped me, beat me and knocked me unconscious then took advantage while I was in a coma, but hey, who's counting right? Then you have the audacity to say part of that was consensual?!"
"It got you here, didn't it?"
"Is this a game to you?! You and I both know-"
"I know that you needed to be corrected, and I did what I had to do."
"What you had to- I don't know why I came here." She said angrily as she stood up and grabbed her coat. "Nothing anyone says will make you understand what you've done!"
"You know, it's a good thing I'm chained to this table, because if I weren't I'd bend you over and fuck you sore!"
"That a threat?"
"That. Baby girl, is just the truth!"
She turned to leave, but then stopped just as she was about to call for the guard, and turned back to face him with tears in her eyes.
"No one will ever believe that what you did to me was consensual."
"They will when I show them the tape of our lovemaking. How hot you were for me, how you begged me to "Fuck me, fuck me! Go deep...oh god, Manny, don't stop!" You remember that don't you, Olivia?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because, I love you! I love you and I want you, and I know that we could be happy if-"
"You're insane!"
"Drop the charges."
"I'll drop those charges when hell freezes over, you hear me? You raped me! You held me down, and you forced yourself inside me-"
"I gave you what you wanted!" He yelled. He was getting angry at her denying her feelings; denying him. And he just wished that he wasn't hanged to that table so he could shake some sense into her!
"I didn't want that!" She cried from frustration.
"But you will Linda."
"Go to hell!" She seethed and again turned for the door. She had her hand on the doorknob when Manny spoke up.
"Zara's mine. In fact, it's what Maria showed up to tell you and my brother and I'm so thankful that she didn't do that because it works out so much better this way."
"You've completely lost it."
"I'll sue for custody unless you drop these charges, and leave that lame ass brother of mine! And then you and I-"
"Stop! Just stop! You wanna hurt Nick and me? Fine, but now you wanna bring Zara into this with a lie? Don't you have any shame?"
"You took my shame when you chose my brother over me!"
"There was no choice, don't you get it? I would never have chosen you over him because I love him! And you don't get to destroy us over hurt feelings and you don't get to drag my daughter into this!"
Nick is the only father that child knows, and for you to come and upend that for selfish reasons, is beyond cruel to a little girl who has done nothing but love everyone she's ever met, especially you!
He heard Caesarea's voice so loud and so clearly. Why the hell was she in his head? And why now?
"You truly will do anything, and I'm not surprised!"
"Meaning?*
"Meaning, you have a serious problem and you need to deal with it! I love your brother, and I love our daughter and these babies that he gave me. And nothing you say will change that; nothing! I came here to beg you to have some decency and not put me or my children through this, but I see that you're just bitter, still, and nothing will reach you! I regret the day that I thought sleeping with you was a good idea, because it's been nothing but heartache! And even now; you're sitting in jail and all you can do is think up ways to hurt us even more. Well, I'm done... You wanna come at us, you take your best shot, because I'm done!" She chided, then took one last look at him before she marched out of the room and didn't look back. Though she was crying as she left.
Inside, Manny just sat there. His mind going a mile a minute, thinking, before he finally called the guard to go back to his cell.
Sitting around at home was about all that she could do today. She didn't know how to face Fin and Munch. And aside from that, she was just too heartbroken and embarrassed. So she called out, giving some excuse about not feeling well, which wasn't exactly a lie. She had been crampy and nauseous, and her breasts felt like even the gentlest material was sandpaper against her nipples. They were basically on fire for two days now.
She'd cried practically the whole night. And now, she was just numb. She cried for what she lost with Manny, cried for how she let herself fall for him so suddenly. But most of all, she cried for what she did and said to her friend. Olivia had never been anything but loyal to her and when things went awry, Amanda jumped ship, and for what? To be there for a man who wasn't concerned about her in the least? He was just stringing her along because she was easy access and he thought he could use her to his advantage, but where did that get her?
She'd hoped that when she went that prison that she would be wrong. That Manny would prove it to her, that he'd tell her it was all just a lie and she was the only woman for him. The only woman who understood him and that it was her faith in him that would get him through this. But instead, what did she get?
"You know why I kept you around, you stupid slut? ...you were just a dick rest, you pathetic whore!"
"After everything I've been through with him?"
She was brought out of her thoughts when someone began knocking at her door. She got up, and she shouted at the door when the knocking persisted.
"I'm coming!" She yelled, continuing to walk at a snail's pace until finally, she reached the door. She opened it to find Casey standing there, looking as sorry as she felt. "Don't." She said, trying to hold back her tears, and walked off leaving the door wide open. Casey took it as an invite and walked inside, locking it behind her.
"I just came to see how you were doing? You were pretty out of it after our talk last night and then when you weren't at work this morning…"
"I uh, I went to see Manny…"
"Amanda." Casey uttered. She knew. She knew when Amanda started this that it would end in nothing regret. Amanda always fell too quickly. She'd give her heart to every guy too soon, and in the end it only spelled heartbreak. But when Amanda sat there and began sobbing, Casey put her arm around her and drew her head to her shoulder to comfort her. "...it'll be alright, I promise you."
Damn you Manny!
"Forget the plea bargain." Olivia said as she burst into Barba's office
"Hello to you too." Barba said as he looked up from the briefs he had on his desk. "What do you mean?"
"I mean forget it. I've tried, okay? I went to see him in spite of the fact that I didn't want to. And all I got was the same bullshit!"
"Liv…"
"Barba, I'm done! Alright, there isn't gonna be a deal. And you need to know; he has a video that he's gonna use."
"A video. You never told me there was a video."
"Well, I'm telling you now, you'll find out soon anyway… Look, I'm sorry." She said, sitting down in one of the chairs at his desk and looking like she had the whole world on her shoulders.
"Sorry for what?"
"For everything; I just… I tried." She said, fighting her tears that spilled over anyway. "You have to win this, Rafael."
And there she was. Olivia sitting in his office in tears. He'd never seen her cry before, and it was hella uncomfortable! He didn't know what to make of it, but it was just what he needed to give him that extra push. He wouldn't let Emmanuel Amaro get away with this. If he had to fight it to the death, he would not let him get away. With any of it.
"Dont worry. I'm going to!"
Nick's precinct…
"Yeah… I will look in the file just to be sure and get back to you, but I'm pretty certain." He said into his cell phone as he came from the records room. "...okay. I'll get back to you." He hung up as he got to his desk and out the files down, when Olivia came up behind him and hugged him, causing him to smile.
"Hi."
"Hey mami." He said and turned around to kiss her lips. "What are you doing here?"
"Could we go somewhere and talk?"
"Everything okay?"
"Everything's fine."
A moment later, they entered the crib. Nick held the door for her while she walked inside.
"It's been awhile since I've been here." She giggled, sweeping her hand over the metal headboard of one of the beds.
"It has." He said as he closed the door and locked it. "I think the last time-"
"You weren't sleeping!"
"No. I wasn't was I?" He said as he took her in his arms. "And you were very hard to keep quiet!"
"Uh, that was you!" She laughed.
"It was, wasn't it?" He said and put his hands to her belly. "What's wrong?"
She looked down, then broke from him and sat down on the bed nearest the center of the room. She looked around, then looked up at him. Again she had tears in her eyes.
"I went to see Emmanuel."
Nick immediately tensed up but he tried to relax it as he sat down beside her. "You went there alone?"
"I had to see if I could make him think about this; about what he was doing."
"And did he?"
"Not that I really expected him to." She said and sniffed back her tears.
"What did he do?"
...
"Where'd Amaro go?" His partner, Keith asked detective Leonard as he came in from interrogation
"To "talk" to the wife."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Just that I'd be up there fucking her stupid if it was me! That woman is hot, pregnant belly and all!"
"You are so disgusting."
"Yeah, like you don't think about it! ...he's in the crib."
...
"...I'm gonna fucking kill him!" He said and headed for the door but she quickly got up and ran to the door, putting herself in front of it.
"Nick don't…"
"Liv, get out of my way! That bastard's gone too far!"
"And you taking his head off will make it better?"
"Liv move!"
"No" He didn't waste one second, and quickly picked her up and put her to the side then walked out of the door, taking long, angry strides down the hall.
Wait, was she supposed to be turned on by this? Because right now, she could strip him naked and… "Nick!" She called after him as she walked behind him, but it was a futile attempt.
"Go home!" He barked, never turning to look at her. He just kept walking till he grabbed his coat.
"Nick, you have to-"
"Olivia. Go. Home." He said calmly as he looked her in the eye.
The two of them having a battle of wills in the middle of the precinct. He was going to that jail, and he was going to see Manny. And when he did, he was going to beat the hell out of him. And unfortunately, there wasn't a thing Olivia cold do to stop him and in this moment, she knew that. Without another word, as they stood there face-to-face, she relented and quietly left the precinct.
"Tell the captain I'll be back!" Nick said to Keith as he put on his coat and stormed out of there.
Leonard and Keith were quiet for a moment, and then…
"Told you. Cuttin out to fuck that beauty! Lucky bastard!"
Manny sat in the cafeteria, staring at his lunch and utterly disgusted! He couldn't believe that they were legally allowed to call this mess food, he thought as he looked at the lump of meat and felt sick. Though that could've been because of what he'd done to Zara. His mother warned him that no good could come of it and she was right. Zara was innocent in all of this, and he had no right to put her in the middle of it all. The truth was, he didn't want her. He knew that back when Maria was pregnant with her and he prayed that he wasn't the father. Then when Nick took the paternity test and it came back saying that he was the father in spite of the fact that he hadn't even slept with Maria, Manny was so thankful, that he went to church for the first time in years and said thanks.
That was when he got the tattoo of the angel on his back. Because if ever he were convinced (though wrongly) that an angel was watching over him, it was then. He didn't want her. Look at the situation. Her mother was a whore; is a whore. Sure, she has Olivia now, but where she came from? He couldn't handle that. So while he enjoyed his role as uncle and godfather, he wanted no parts of the dad thing. And he was glad that Olivia didn't take him seriously.
He wouldn't bring it up again and had silently prayed since Olivia left that she wouldn't mention it to his mother. Or Nick for that matter! He didn't even wanna think what his brother's reaction would be. He'd know one thing over the past five years and that was that that little girl was Nick's life! He'd die to protect her, meaning he'd kill, just the same!
He got up and grabbed his tray to dump it, but was quickly stopped by one of the inmates.
"You gonna eat that?" The inmate asked.
"Help yourself." Manny said, and gave the tray over. Making his way out of the cafeteria and running into a guard.
"Just the man I'm looking for. You're very popular today. You got another visitor."
"Who?"
"Why don't you shut up and go see!" The guard said as he slammed Manny against the wall to cuff him.
...
They had just gotten in the private visiting room when he was met with a hard blow to his stomach, that sent him doubling over in absolute pain! But the guard pulled him back up and he was met with the angry eyes of his brother.
"YOU THREATENED MY DAUGHTER?!" He yelled as he punched Manny again in the stomach. This one hurt exponentially more than the first and Manny nearly blacked out! "Do me a favor, take those cuffs off, will you Mike?"
"You sure."
"I'm positive!"
"I'll be outside." The guard said after he did as Nick asked and slipped out, smirking while Manny was still on the floor recovering from the blows to his stomach.
"Get up!" Nick yelled. "You pushed it too far Manny!"
"Let me explain!" Manny gulped as he tried to put air in his lungs. Shit… Is he wearing gloves?
"Get. Up." Nick yelled before he grabbed him by the hair and pulled him to his feet, and Manny stood, humped over and coughing. "My wife. Has begged me to ignore you; to let it go because we would get justice the right way. But when you not only threaten my wife and our relationship, but use my fucking princess to do it?" He punched Manny in the face so hard, it sounded like a bone cracked as he fell over the table and onto the floor. "My little girl? You fucked up now Manny! You. Really. Fucked up!"
"I have to go into the office, but think about what I said.
"She doesn't wanna hear from me Casey. I think I burned that bridge." Amanda said wistfully.
"Amanda, Liv isn't like that, she'll hear you out but you have to make that first step. Look, if it's any help, I'll talk to her."
"Would you?"
"Yeah. But I have to go. And no more tears over him. He doesn't deserve them. I'll call you later." She said and left.
Amanda got up and locked the door and immediately thought about Manny but just shook the thought away just as quickly. She had to rid herself of him. It was bad enough that he broke her heart, he wouldn't control her mind as well. She thought as she went to her bathroom to fill the tub, hoping to soothe her cramps and not think about him.
Three cracked ribs and a mess of wounds to his face, and bruises and cuts to his body that would hurt for a few days, but he was alive. Nick had done him over. But he lived to talk about it. And as he lay there in the infirmary with his midsection bandaged, and his face unrecognizable right now. Mike, the guard was waiting to escort him back to his cell.
"We'll keep him a couple of hours to make sure he's alright. And then you can take him back." The nurse said to Mike before she went inside to Manny. "How're we feeling?"
"Just let me go back to my cell." He said, through a swollen mouth.
"Not so fast." She said as she looked again at his eye that was shut and the size of a plum already. "You're sure you don't wanna tell me who did this to you?"
"I told you; I fell." He remembered just what Nick had told him when he was lying in a bloody heap on the floor.
"Don't think for one minute that I can't get to you,Cabron. We're all in blue here!"
He wouldn't do or say anything to disclaim that.
She was scared to death and she couldn't call anyone. What would she say? My husband is at Riker's, beating a detainee? She should never have let him go!
She got home and took a bath to try and take her mind off of it, but that didn't work. And now, she sat here in the kitchen, in her robe, fussing over a mug of tea from forty-five minutes ago and she prayed that he didn't kill him. Why did I let him go?!
She could have stopped him; grabbed onto him. She could have faked labor pains, hell, she could have had the other officers hold him until he calmed down. But now… Now she didn't know if he was in trouble. What if he did kill Manny? What if right now he was being held and… She needed to get dressed! Yes. She thought as she got up from the stool and was headed for their bedroom when she heard the door slam.
"Nick!" It came as a desperate sigh as she hurried to get to the the door and she got as far as the end of the kitchen when she saw him standing there and she stopped. "You're here!" She said. Confused, thankful, and full of tears that suddenly came from nowhere.
He took two steps toward her to close the gap between them and pulled her into his arms, kissing her like it was his last day on earth. He kissed her like there would be no sunrise tomorrow as he picked her up and she wrapped her legs around him while their hands went crazy. Each was pulling and tearing at the other's clothing. Biting and kissing each other, tearing at each others necks just to end up kissing and gnashing tongues.
He backed her against the counter and lay her down as he took her nipple in his mouth and sucked hard while he tore her panties away and filled her with his fingers and then licked his way down to her wetness and buried his face there as she cried out.
Their lovemaking was beautiful. It was delicate, but it was desperate, and so filled with their affection for one another even as he greedily claimed what she offered; causing her to cry because it felt so good!
Hours later, they were in bed, still going at it when the doorbell rang, and Liv wanted no parts of it.
"Please, don't answer it!" She begged breathily as she rode him, taking him deep. He felt so glorious that she thought she'd explode from the pleasure she was taking from him! She was cumming again, and… The doorbell. Again.
"Oh god Liv! He cried, quite loudly as pushed up into her and she clenched his dick… The doorbell and this time, knocking with it. "Oh come on!" He said as he turned them so he was on top.
"Baby…"
"I have to. It'll only take a second." He said and gently pulled out of her, loving the sound her pussy made when it released him. Her wetness and juices dripped from his erection and he prayed that whoever it was would leave quickly so he could get it back in her.
She dipped a hand between her open legs to touch her freshly fucked pussy as he watched in awe. She rubbed it, then took her ring and middle fingers and plugged them in her hole, wiggling them around for a few seconds while she moaned then took them out and while they were dripping wet, she put them all the way into her mouth and sucked off every drop while he looked on, longingly, then angrily headed for the door as she laughed.
"Hurry back!" She hollered as he left the room, heading to the door in his sweatpants that he pulled from the chair.
"Hold on!" He yelled to the door, opening it to see their neighbor. "Mrs. Michaels…"
"Nicolas, I'm sorry to be a bother but..,well the noise." Nick hung his head for a moment as he tried not to laugh, slowly picking it up when he felt the urge pass.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Michaels." He said, fiendishly as he turned and looked towards the back of the apartment. "We didn't realize we were…" He had a very amorous wife, with a very wet pussy that he was about 2 seconds from letting off a huge load into, and Mrs. Michaels was cutting into his time, not to mention killing his erection… "Is that all?" He asked. He hoped. He prayed.
"No, not quite. I was wondering if maybe you could come over and take a look at my television. It's been acting crazy since this morning and I don't know-"
"I'll be happy to take a look at it later. But right now, I... Jesus Christ! He thought as he looked when he heard Olivia. She came out of their room, wearing her robe. And not the bathrobe, but one of the short, silk ones that he loved so much. And it wasn't tied very well, her breasts practically spilling from it, giving him a more than adequate peek at her nipples; the nipples that he was in heaven sucking deep into his mouth just a minute ago. Was he just really horny, or did she look like the sexiest fucking woman on earth removing that ice cream from the freezer?
"Oh, I'm sure it'll just take a minute!" Mrs. Michaels said, his attention suddenly drawn back to her. Her grey wig was sitting atop her head as she batted her eyes through her very thick bifocal glasses. Nick looked back at Olivia getting the ice cream scooper and a bowl; god, he knew what was waiting for him just under that robe! But what could he do? Damn this old lady!
"Let me throw on a shirt and I'll be right there, Mrs. Michaels."
"Oh, thank you dear. The door will be open." She said and walked off as he shut the door.
"I'm sorry." He apologized to Olivia as he walked towards her.
"It's okay. I actually love that you're so considerate." She said as they kissed. "Go, we'll finish this when you get back."
"But I don't wanna!" He whined as he nuzzled his head against her breasts and touched her nipple through the opening, with his mouth.
"I promise, they'll be here!" She laughed as she picked his head up and kissed his lips. "Go."
"You know, we should sell this place and buy a house… Oh wait!" He said as they both smiled then he caressed her lips with his own, kissing her softly. "I'll be back."
...
He came back 15 minutes later, thoroughly ticked off. Olivia was sitting in the kitchen at the counter eating ice cream and trying not to laugh. The look on his face right now...
"Did you fix it?" She asked as Nick came to stand behind her and wrapped her in his arms while she continued eating and he kissed her cheek.
"I fixed it the minute I got there..." He said as she put a spoonful of ice cream into his mouth. "She had pushed one of the buttons for a video game hookup. Then I started to leave and she whips out pictures of her daughter in Minnesota who's had gastric bypass surgery. She's lost almost 200 lbs so far...off of 527!"
"Oh no!" Olivia laughed. "I'm sorry baby."
"No, I'm sorry. All I could think about was getting back here-"
"How about I take time to give you something that'll make you forget about about Mrs. Michaels and her daughter?" She said as she pushed the empty bowl away and slid her hand down the front his pants. She felt him between her fingers, he was already nearly bursting. "Let me help you with that!" She whispered. Shit, any excuse to handle such a big and beautiful thing was enough for her.
"Ohhh-"
"Shhhh!" She said and kissed him before she went down. "Let me take care of you!"
TBC...
