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Lady Midford chose to take advantage of Lord Midford's lackadaisical generosity.
As appealing as the dream was of fleeing her world and starting anew with Sebastian, Ciel had no interest in adding traveling, unpacking, and setting up a smaller, less luxurious home to the discomforts of her advancing pregnancy.
Ciel's energy and her patience waned at an alarming pace.
By the time her womb had swelled to such a girth that her body demanded altered clothes, Lady Midford lost all interest in hiding her condition.
She refused visitors by having Sebastian inform everyone of the truth, that she was heavy with child and not in the mood to entertain.
Sebastian received Phantomhive Manor's guests in the parlor and watched with a professional, cordial smile while those who came to the estate expressed their congratulations to Lord Midford and left their best wishes that a son would finally be born to his noble household.
At every occasion, as Sebastian showed Ciel's visitors to the door once their time at the manor concluded, it was all he could do not to shove them out into the rough, stone driveway with his gloved hands.
Keeping the secret of his love for Ciel had become much more painful than Sebastian had anticipated.
He had to use every fiber of his being to hide from the world his pride and pleasure that, like its mother, the child within Ciel belonged to him, not Edward.
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As the birth of the baby neared, Sebastian was in awe of just how much influence his darling mate exerted over him.
Although Ciel had become confined to her nest for long hours of the day and night by her fatigue and the heaviness of her belly, Sebastian found her completely irresistible.
Whenever Ciel felt as though she had the energy to enjoy his affections, or whenever she would allow him to indulge himself in her warm curves, Sebastian joined her in her nest to kiss, touch, taste…..anything he could possibly do to devour his petite mate.
As exhausted as Ciel felt, she always slept with a pleasant blush on her cheeks after a heated round with her alpha.
Spoiled and irritable, Ciel basked in the gentle massages that Sebastian gave her, usually before he handfed her whatever food she requested.
One evening, two weeks before the birth was expected, Ciel sat propped up against her mound of pillows, with one hand on the side of her full womb while Sebastian pushed chocolate-covered strawberries between her plush, pink lips.
He said nothing as his dark eyes narrowed in a smirk of smouldering intensity while he watched his mate greedily eat her treat.
The way Ciel kept teasingly licking his fingertips with each bite was slowly driving him mad.
"Don't tempt me, my lady." Sebastian warned Ciel as he watched her cheeks round adorably as she munched her strawberry.
A single drop of red juice from the ripe fruit dropped onto one of the snowy globes that her breasts had become.
Sebastian felt the hair stand on the back of his neck as he fantasized about moving forward, pulling off his white gloves, and pushing his face into………
"I'm not tempting you, Sebastian." Ciel said in a bored tone after she swallowed her last bit of strawberry and took a deep breath to purposely let her heavy breasts rise and fall under Sebastian's stare, "...I'm inviting you."
Ciel squirmed under Sebastian's dark stare while he gazed at her.
He wordlessly sat the empty plate on her nightstand before he leaned forward and kissed her soft, berry-stained lips.
She tasted of new life and fresh fruit, which served as a tantalizing mixture to stoke the flames of Sebastian's fiery yearning.
He opened his eyes as he ended their kiss.
The tension built in the air between them as Sebastian held Ciel's gaze while he moved back.
Ciel wriggled around in her nest as she watched her alpha slip his white gloves off with his teeth.
His omega's sapphire stare only spurred Sebastian on as he hurriedly removed his jacket, vest, tie, shirt, belt…..
Ciel obediently widened her knees as Sebastian unfastened his trousers and let them slide down his legs to the floor.
Lady Phantomhive's eyes widened as Sebastian crawled towards her with his nude body on full display.
It was difficult to say which excited the needy omega more, Sebastian's soothing scent, his smooth, chiseled physique, or the enticing arousal that proudly reached towards her from his hips.
"I…..I need you….." Ciel whimpered as she laid back and widened her knees until her pelvis ached.
Sebastian resisted the urge to growl as he looked at his mate who lay underneath him in complete submission.
Her breasts were full, her womb was round, her heart was longing, and her body beckoned him closer as Sebastian detected the pleasing scent that leaked from her center.
He had no time to waste on long kisses.
He briefly pecked Ciel's lips before he pushed her nightshirt out of the way and latched onto one of her fattened nipples, which drew a long groan from deep inside her throat.
"N-Need you….." Ciel gasped again as Sebastian tasted the thin sweetness that filled his mouth as he goaded his mate's overworked body into letting him have a taste of the nourishment his son or daughter would soon enjoy.
Ciel's pleased moans increased as Sebastian paid extra attention to her sensitive breasts.
When he felt that he had brought her to the threshold of what she could stand, he buried his face into her creamy curves before he kissed his way out of her breasts, over her belly, and down to the area that lay hidden by the nest of dark curls between her legs.
Ciel kept one hand on her belly while her eyes widened as she felt Sebastian taste her center.
Tears started to pour down her cheeks as she cried out against the enjoyable torment and wailed, "N-No! W-Want you…….Sebastian, I want you!"
Sebastian nipped at Ciel's outer lips, which sent her hips jerking violently as she wrapped her legs over his shoulders and threatened to break his neck with the force of her supple thighs.
"N-Need you…..!" She begged.
Sebastian closed his eyes as he focused on his work.
His own arousal had become so heightened by Ciel's cries it nearly pained him, but he held his resolve.
No matter what Sebastian had been told by the midwife, he had decided to take no chances with Ciel or his child.
The Phantomhive butler remained unconvinced that it was safe for him and Ciel to continue all aspects of their….liaisons.
As Ciel pulled his silky, raven-black hair while she rode over her blissful peak a few moments later, she panted through the aftermath of her happy crash.
Sebastian mistook one of her cries for the aftermath of her pleasure as Ciel pressed a hand to her belly and blew out a breath at the sharp cramp that ominously settled into her side.
She knew as the pain intensified that she would be under the midwife's care by morning but as the first, stinging beginnings of labour crackled through her center and squeezed the base of her belly, she looked at Sebastian with determination in her blue gaze.
When Sebastian watched Ciel's face contort with pain, the roots of panic started to grow in the pit of his stomach.
He noticed an unbelievable sweetness fill the air as her body struggled to release the hormones that would dictate her time of need to him through the midst of her lingering bliss.
"My lady….." Sebastian whispered worriedly while he laid a hand on the side of her tightening belly, "Shall…...Shall I call the midwife?"
Ciel swallowed thickly as she nodded and rolled onto her side with a deep sigh.
She heard Sebastian hurriedly dress himself and race out of the room to send for help.
When he returned moments later, he found that Ciel had sat up in bed after her pain had eased.
Sebastian looked at her with wide eyes as he rushed towards her beside and spoke, "The midwife should be here shortly, my lady….Tell me, what can I do to ease your agony? Would you like a massage…….a cool cloth…...my hand to hold?"
"I would like……" Ciel said with a huff as she nodded haughtily at Sebastian, with her nightgown hanging off her shoulders, "...To have you tend me properly."
Sebastian looked at Ciel agape.
"...Now…..my lady?" He asked in complete disbelief.
"Yes, now!" Ciel snapped with a hateful scowl, "Be quick about it before my waters go and I lose the chance!"
"My lady, I….." Sebastian began with a frown of concerned confusion.
"The first pains are more irritations than they are true torments, Sebastian." Ciel huffed as she turned in her nest to a comfortable position, "I remember the process well with Elizabeth…….I can't escape the tingling, invasive pressure my body forces on me at this moment, but you may be able to help elevate those sensations into something more…….e, I'm not certain how long I have."
Sebastian's dark eyes remained wide as he walked towards Ciel in a trance.
As she looked up at him from where she lay on her side, she lifted one of her thighs and waited while he quickly slid out of his trousers once more and slipped into her.
While Sebastian spent the next hour treating Ciel with the most tender gentleness that his delicate, tapered fingertips were capable of as he rolled his hips over hers, she vocalized her pleasure with her pain in low groans.
Sebastian watched his mate in fascination while she used physical ecstasy to handle the pains his child brought her, but Ciel was too focused on her own experience to notice much about Sebastian beyond his feel and smell.
She had been frightened and unsure when Elizabeth had entered the world.
As her pleasure mingled with her pain, Lady Midford felt a small burst of excitement grow in her heart at knowing that her second trip to the birthing bed promised to be much different.
Sebastian Michaelis would do everything he could to keep his mate comfortable, Lady Phantomhive took great comfort in that undeniable truth.