The next month Jake slept very little. He kept thinking of Chris
would he really try something? It didn't make sense. Ann should be nothing
to him since she pushed him away. Maybe it was just the fact that she was
the one to slip away. That had to be it.
Ann didn't sleep either. She had barely laid her head on the pillow when Antonio started to fuss. While she sat feeding Antonio she thought of her husband. Did he find it odd that no threat has yet to appear? She would die before letting Chris harm her children or Jake. No questions about it. She knew something was to happen but when. She spied Jake entering the nursery and leaning on the wall behind her and waited for Antonio to finish his feeding and sleep again.
You have to tell her plain as day. Just come out and tell her you love her but you have to leave her. Jake had stayed up the whole time trying to think of what to do. In the end he could only think to leave Ann and finish it with Chris. God help him if he survived he'd go back to her and beg for her to love him again. If things turned out how he expect though at least she would be to mad at him to care if he died. That's how it had to be.
"He's beautiful isn't he darling?"
"I guess."
"What?"
"Oh nothing. Ann this isn't going to work out. I can't have you involved with anything that is going to happen so please don't argue with me but we have to end this. NOW!"
Ann got up and went and laid Antonio in the crib and walked back over to Jake and stood before him.
"You think I will let you go cause things get a little tuff do you? Well I won't and you're stuck with me so deal with it!"
Jake grabbed Ann's elbow and pushed her into to their adjoining bedroom and shut the door.
"Ann! Are you stupid you could have woken Antonio?"
"I guess I am considering I thought you would never leave me. That no matter how much you said you loved me you would pass me up for anything. Even when you made love to me it was laced with conquering wasn't it!"
"Ann stop this you know I loved you. I can't now not with you spending your whole time here with your mother or Tyler now I will have to fight Antonio for you and I don't ever want to feel at odds with my own children! Damnit I'm sick of all this."
"Then let's leave. We'll take Ty and Antonio and leave. We'll move so far away no one will have even heard of the Innocence or the Lords. Please just don't leave me."
Jake felt himself come alive as she begged. She'd never begged for him before. She was everything he wanted but he wouldn't put her or the children in the way of everything. He felt his pulse rise when she took a step toward him then fell to her knees. She sat where she fell and cried openly. When she glanced up to him he felt his heart melt.
"Ann please stop this. I'm begging you. Please."
Jake couldn't hold it in any longer he took Ann in his arms and kissed her passionately. Nothing filled him with more joy then her body now slimed back to where it was before Antonio was born was pressed against his own. He felt a rushing need to know her again as a husband knows his wife.
Jake picked Ann up from he floor and carried her the rest of the way to the bed and laid her there and then leaned over her and kissed her with more demands. He needed her one last time. He had to have her again; she was his life and his hope. He saw only his future in her eyes. He felt Ann arch against him in her own need. She had to have him too. Oh she felt like an angel under him. His own passionate loving angel. She wasn't his anymore though. With that thought now burning in his mind he pushed off of her and got out of the bed and walked to the window. He heard her coming up behind him.
"Jake I know you love me I felt it in your touch. You may say anything you like but I know you. I know you are just trying to protect me. It's not going to work Jake. I'm going to win this one if I have to seduce you every five minutes, I will win."
"That's where you're wrong Ann. I've won. I pushed you away, I left our bed without any regrets on my mind."
Ann smiled and simply murmured a "liar" then resumed kissing his shoulders then moved in front of him and kissed his jaw line, all the while Jake couldn't or wouldn't push away from her. She was winning she could feel it. Jake opened his arms to push her away but in return she walked into them and wrapped her arms around his waist. She pressed against him and heard his low moan before backing him to the bed and laying on top of him. She wouldn't let him go and she was sure one time was all it would take to make him see.
Ann didn't sleep either. She had barely laid her head on the pillow when Antonio started to fuss. While she sat feeding Antonio she thought of her husband. Did he find it odd that no threat has yet to appear? She would die before letting Chris harm her children or Jake. No questions about it. She knew something was to happen but when. She spied Jake entering the nursery and leaning on the wall behind her and waited for Antonio to finish his feeding and sleep again.
You have to tell her plain as day. Just come out and tell her you love her but you have to leave her. Jake had stayed up the whole time trying to think of what to do. In the end he could only think to leave Ann and finish it with Chris. God help him if he survived he'd go back to her and beg for her to love him again. If things turned out how he expect though at least she would be to mad at him to care if he died. That's how it had to be.
"He's beautiful isn't he darling?"
"I guess."
"What?"
"Oh nothing. Ann this isn't going to work out. I can't have you involved with anything that is going to happen so please don't argue with me but we have to end this. NOW!"
Ann got up and went and laid Antonio in the crib and walked back over to Jake and stood before him.
"You think I will let you go cause things get a little tuff do you? Well I won't and you're stuck with me so deal with it!"
Jake grabbed Ann's elbow and pushed her into to their adjoining bedroom and shut the door.
"Ann! Are you stupid you could have woken Antonio?"
"I guess I am considering I thought you would never leave me. That no matter how much you said you loved me you would pass me up for anything. Even when you made love to me it was laced with conquering wasn't it!"
"Ann stop this you know I loved you. I can't now not with you spending your whole time here with your mother or Tyler now I will have to fight Antonio for you and I don't ever want to feel at odds with my own children! Damnit I'm sick of all this."
"Then let's leave. We'll take Ty and Antonio and leave. We'll move so far away no one will have even heard of the Innocence or the Lords. Please just don't leave me."
Jake felt himself come alive as she begged. She'd never begged for him before. She was everything he wanted but he wouldn't put her or the children in the way of everything. He felt his pulse rise when she took a step toward him then fell to her knees. She sat where she fell and cried openly. When she glanced up to him he felt his heart melt.
"Ann please stop this. I'm begging you. Please."
Jake couldn't hold it in any longer he took Ann in his arms and kissed her passionately. Nothing filled him with more joy then her body now slimed back to where it was before Antonio was born was pressed against his own. He felt a rushing need to know her again as a husband knows his wife.
Jake picked Ann up from he floor and carried her the rest of the way to the bed and laid her there and then leaned over her and kissed her with more demands. He needed her one last time. He had to have her again; she was his life and his hope. He saw only his future in her eyes. He felt Ann arch against him in her own need. She had to have him too. Oh she felt like an angel under him. His own passionate loving angel. She wasn't his anymore though. With that thought now burning in his mind he pushed off of her and got out of the bed and walked to the window. He heard her coming up behind him.
"Jake I know you love me I felt it in your touch. You may say anything you like but I know you. I know you are just trying to protect me. It's not going to work Jake. I'm going to win this one if I have to seduce you every five minutes, I will win."
"That's where you're wrong Ann. I've won. I pushed you away, I left our bed without any regrets on my mind."
Ann smiled and simply murmured a "liar" then resumed kissing his shoulders then moved in front of him and kissed his jaw line, all the while Jake couldn't or wouldn't push away from her. She was winning she could feel it. Jake opened his arms to push her away but in return she walked into them and wrapped her arms around his waist. She pressed against him and heard his low moan before backing him to the bed and laying on top of him. She wouldn't let him go and she was sure one time was all it would take to make him see.