Chapter 51
The small mansion was just the way it was when Regina was working at the home office with Emmett, she assumed by now everything would have been back to the way before she came around. She had stopped and was looking around when she entered through the door as Emmett noticed her.
He slowly came up behind her and put his hand on the back of her lightly as he as leaned onto to her and whispered. "I hope you don't mind if I carry you to your room" he then saw her turn her face to him and noticed the closeness of their face as their breaths tickled together. Regina quickly feels herself blush at both the request and closeness and turns away as she nods her head. Emmett then dips down a little and wraps his other arm around her knees and the securely around her back and picks her up again. At the sudden movement Regina wraps both of her arms around him for support and steadiness.
Without saying another word Emmett started walking across the room and toward the stairs. As he climbed the stairs he looked down to his side to notice Regina nodding off and trying to keep her eyes open as she laid her head on his chest. Finally what seemed like forever to Regina, the reached her room and Regina quickly tried to get out of the hold but found it difficult as Emmett kept his hold and tightened it a little.
"You don't have to get down, just push the door open," Emmett explained as Regina huffed out a sigh and just did what she was told. Once the door was opened, both were surprised to notice the room being decorated with roses all over the place. The bed was covered with rose petals and there were rose bouquets placed around the dresser and the windows. 'That idiot…Ruben. I am going to kill him' Emmett thought as he cursed his friend in his mind and made a angry face at the decorations which didn't go unnoticed by Regina who was looking at him then back at the roses.
"I assume you didn't set this up" Regina asked.
"Ahh…finally you said something…. And as for your answer no I didn't but if I had know about it I wouldn't have let it happen" Emmett quickly tried to defend himself as he finally set her down and took a step back. Regina stood where he dropped her off and looked at the room then turned around with smile to Emmett.
"It's beautiful," Regina whispered out as she observed the flowers beauty with a beautiful smile on her face that Emmett couldn't take his eyes off of.
Regina then sat on the dresser and started to take off the little bit jewelry she had on. She then looked at Emmett through the mirror who was still standing by the door not knowing what to do as he watched Regina and they both looked into each other's eyes.
Emmett then cleared his throat and looked away. "I guess-I will leave you to it then, good night Regina" he said as he turned around to leave the room.
"No!" Regina shouted out as she got up from the dresser chair and turned around to face Emmett. Emmett instantly stopped where he was and turned.
He noticed the afraid look on her face and squinted his brows in worry.
Regina quickly averted her eyes away and looked down in embarrassment as she felt Emmett's eyes on her.
"Regina? Are you alright?" Emmett asked not moving from his position worried he might scare her off even more.
"I-" she was having hard time conveying what she wanted to say as she avoided to look at him and started pacing the room. Not long before she almost bumped into Emmett as he stood in her path and suddenly stopped her in her tracks.
"Regina….tell me what's going on?" Emmett asked again as he was becoming worried when Regina turned away again.
"Can you sleep here tonight?—with—with me?" Regina asked as she finally looked at him and then walked past him to sit on the bed.
Emmett didn't know what he heard was right, surprised at the sudden request, he tried to calm his beating heart.
Emmett then faced her and tried to ask what he wanted to ask and hoped he was not hallucinating, "Wait…did I hear you correctly, d-did you just ask me to sleep with you?"
He then noticed Regina's eyes widen at his question with her mouth open in shock as she abruptly stood up and stalked towards him as anger and frustrations started to show on her face.
"Are you insane?!" Regina almost yelled at him as she tried not to strangle the man in front of her. Emmett just put his hands up in defense and gave her a nervous laugh. Regina then tried to close her eyes and calm herself.
She then opened her eyes and looked at him straight in the eyes.
"What I meant was…." Again feeling the embarrassment come on she tried to continue to explain herself. "I thought maybe we could share the same bed since we are married now" Regina finished as she went back to her spot on the bed with her back to him and sat down again.
Emmett relaxed, as he understood what she was saying looked at her and spoke again. "Are you sure? Because we don't necessarily have to do this Regina" Emmett remained her as he waited for her to turn around.
But she didn't and noticed her move around a little and finally plopped down on the bed and facing the ceiling with closed eyes.
Emmett again confused walked the few steps toward the bed and stood by the front empty spot on the bed.
Regina then opened her eyes and looked up at him. "Yes I am sure, now please lay down and let's go to sleep" she then again closed her eyes. Emmett then went around the room to turn off the lights and closed the door. He then turned toward to the bed and noticed Regina's still form on the bed, even though the lights were off, the moonlight of the evening from the windows was enough light for Emmett to see Regina's beautiful face and her chest slowly falling up and down as she took steady breath. But what he had failed to notice all day was the slight bump around Regina's stomach that now was more visible as she was lying down on her back. It put a smile on his face as he walked up to the bed again and gathered the rose petals around from his side of the bed in his hand. He then sat down and leaned on the bedpost with his back as he noticed Regina still didn't move at all as himself half laid down on the bed and leaned over to her form with the rose petals still in his hands.
Regina could feel Emmett's breathe tickle down her face; she tried to stay calm but found it difficult. Seconds passed by Regina debated between opening her eyes or just keeping them shut as she waited and waited. Then something tickled her face, suddenly her body went stiff and she quickly opened her eyes, she was about to sit up when she saw Emmett's hand move above her body laying rose petals on her, then the hand stopped right above her stomach as Emmett poured the last bit of the petals on her stomach and softly put his hand on there. He then turned around to Regina and smiled again, Regina couldn't help but feel her own smile come back to her face at the gesture.
"You have started to show, Regina" Emmett spoke as he kept his hand on her stomach. Regina sucked in a breath at the mention of her baby bump and put her own hand on top of his.
"Yes I have…..um if you don't mind I am quiet tired and would like to go to sleep" Regina said as she moved his hand off of her stomach, Emmett quickly pulled his hand to himself and moved away a little to give her more space.
He then looked at her face noticed again her eyes were closed, he then decided to lay back down as well and try to go to sleep.
As minutes ticked by sleep wasn't coming to him he then looked to his side to see that Regina was peacefully asleep. 'She must have been really tired' Emmett thought as he was about to force himself to sleep as he closed his eyes as well and put his arms behind his head on top on the pillow.
Then all of a sudden he felt an arm fall on to his torso, he quickly opened his eyes to see Regina had moved around towards him, as her head was now laying on his chest and one of her legs draped over his own as she hugged him tight like as if he was her pillow.
His heart started to beat so fast that he was afraid Regina would get up any moment from the sound of his beating heart. After a while he calmed himself down but still not moving even a muscle on his body as to not disturb Regina. Slowly his body started to relax again as sleep began to take over him and soon he was soundly asleep as well.
