Alfie rushed up the stairs to find Lidia's dress laying on the floor just inside the door. He smiled and looked up to see Enda.
"Edna, thank you for coming in today. You may go." He said cheerfully to his maid.
"Sir?" Edna said, not understanding.
Lidia moaned loudly from the other room and the two of them looked in the direction of the bedroom before looking at each other again.
"Trust me." Alfie said as he side stepped toward the bedroom with a smile. "You don't want to be here today."
Edna smiled her understanding and nodded.
Alfie opened the door to the bedroom and found Lidia laying in her slip on the bed.
"Started without me, have you?" He said as he took off his shirt and Lidia laughed.
"Should have been quicker." She said playfully.
"Oh, yeah?" He said as he kicked off his shoes and began crawling on the bed. "Let's get this off." He said as he reached for the bottom of her slip and her smile faltered.
"Um.." She hesitated.
"What?" he asked.
"I thought I would leave it on." She said.
"Why? I want to see your body." He said as he settled himself on his stomach and kissing the inside of her thigh.
"My body is… different now." She explained and he could hear the self-consciousness in her voice.
He leaned up and hovered over her stomach. "I know, you're carrying my heir."
"Your heir?" She said laughing.
"Yes, and I want to see this beautiful body, filled with my seed." He said animatedly as he stared at her stomach as if he would devour it.
Lidia shook her said with a smile and lifted her hips as he pulled up the bottom of her slip before he pulled it over her head.
He hadn't seen her body since she left. No one had seen her body naked since she had become pregnant. As she lay naked before him awaiting his reaction, she felt incredibly vulnerable. Slowly, he lifted his hand and placed it on her stomach. He caressed her stomach before he leaned down and kissed it.
"You're beautiful." He said, leaning forward and kissing her.
Lidia immediately relaxed onto the bed and Alfie smiled.
"Seven months, hm?" He said as his smiled turned mischievous.
Lidia nodded as her eyes dared him to please her.
"Well, I have a lot of work to do then." He said as he leaned up on his knees and grabbed her foot. "I seem to remember you falling apart when I.." he said before he bit the sole of her foot and she moaned and titled her head back as she felt it tingle between her legs.
He ran his teeth from her ankle to her knee, biting and kissing as he went. He bit the inside of her thigh and she could feel his breath on her. He knew she couldn't see him over her stomach, and he smiled as he made her wait in anticipation.
"Alfie.." She said frustrated so he put his mouth on her and his tongue inside her. She moaned and arched her back slightly as he pleased her, hitting her favorite spot with his tongue. Her anticipation and hunger for him for the past seven months came back at once and she could feel her toes begin to tighten as she fought her climax.
He continued, knowing she was drawing closer and he moved his hands up to rub her stomach before she put her hands on his and her legs shook beside his ears as she came. Alfie moved his lips up her body, kissing her stomach and then turning to her breast.
He put her breast in his mouth and instantly leaned back.
"What's wrong?" She asked, still attempting to catch her breath from her orgasm.
Alfie looked from her breast to her face. "I forgot there was milk in your tits."
Lidia laughed. "Yes, that happens when you're pregnant."
Alfie looked at with an annoyed expression. "I'm not fucking thick. I know, I was just in the moment and I forgot so I wasn't ready when.. Never mind." He said turning back to his task.
He kissed her neck as his hand ran up her thigh. He began to use his thumb to rub circles as his other hand undid his trousers. He laid on his side and kissed her as he reached for her hip, encouraging her to turn on her side, facing him. She did so and put her leg over his hip and he entered her.
When they had finished, Alfie caressed her stomach.
"I put that there." He said as if she didn't know.
"Did you? I must have been sleeping, I don't remember." She replied cheekily.
"Oh, you remember." He said with a laugh before he looked at her abdomen.
"I thought you wouldn't want it." She confessed.
"I never thought I would. But I knew the moment you told me that I wanted to be a father…. Little Alfie."
"Are you going to be disappointed if it's a girl?"
"No. But it's not. This is a boy, I can tell."
"Do you have much experience with predicting the sex of a child?" she laughed.
"No, but this one is different. It's my child. And I know it's a boy."
As Lidia watched Alfie caress his unborn child with adoration, her stomach released a loud rumble.
"Your child is hungry." She said.
"Oh, bless her!" Lidia said as they walked into the kitchen. "Edna made soup and left it on to warm. You really should give that woman a raise."
"She likes you." Alfie said.
"I think she's excited about the baby. She talks to it sometimes. Says she wants it to feel comfortable around her when it's born and talking to it helps."
"She's a good woman." Alfie confessed, proud of his maid.
"She thinks of you like family." Lidia said with a smile, "It's sweet"
"She is family." Alfie said, "But I think she's just happy to see me finally starting a family of my own."
The two of them spend the day in bed, just as Lidia had wanted. She got her pleasure and he got his, and the remainder of the time they simply enjoyed being naked in bed together.
The next month went by quickly and Alfie grew used to the idea that he was going to be responsible for a child soon. Rosalie had come by his office once a week since Lidia had returned and tried to seduce him, but Alfie sent her away and finally told his men she wasn't to step foot in the bakery under any circumstances. He didn't tell Lidia due to the fact he didn't want her to think she needed to worry.
Lidia, however, ran into Rosalie everywhere she went. When she went to the market, she would see Rosalie watching her. And when she couldn't see her, she could feel her. Every time she saw her, Rosalie looked angrier and more mad than the time before. Thinking she was being paranoid; she kept this information from Alfie and hid her concern from Ishmael and Adam when they were with her.
"I can't see my feet anymore." Lidia pouted as she walked into the dining room for breakfast.
"They're still there." Alfie said with reassurance.
"You are so funny. You should be in films." Lidia said sarcastically and Alfie smiled at her.
"It just means my son is growing." He said with a proud look on his face as he stood and touched her stomach before grabbing his hat and coat. "What are you doing today?"
"I'd like to go purchase some things for the baby."
"I'll send Adam to meet you. If you can't see your feet, I'd rather you not walk down the stairs alone."
"For someone so tough, you sure worry a lot."
"I don't need you tumbling down the stairs." He said before he kissed her and left.
Adam met her as Alfie had promised and he took extra care to help her down the stairs, no doubt at Alfie's request. She stepped inside a shop and began looking at different baby carriages.
"I'm dying here. I've got to find the pisser" Adam said.
"Alright. Go on." She laughed.
"Come stand by the door."
"Adam, I'll be fine for three minutes while you take a wee."
Adam scanned the room and nodded, "Stay right here. Don't move."
Lidia strolled the store, gazing at the baby carriages and looked over to spot a small stuffed bear. Wandering farther from where Adam had left her, she walked toward it and picked it up. She smiled as she looked at the bear and turned to walk back to meet Adam, who would be looking for her now. She felt a hand grab her arm from behind and whipped around, expecting it to be Adam, cross that she had moved. Instead she faced a man with dark brown eyes and long light brown hair.
"Who are-" She started but stopped as he held a knife to her stomach.
"Walk." He said, his grip on her arm tight. "If you do anything stupid, I will fucking cut this child out of you!" He growled angrily in her ear and she walked where he led, his knife at her side.