AN: Thanks for the support, here is the next chapter. Warning: Implied/Suggestive adult behavior

Chapter 4: Love is in the air Part 1

Three days later

Morning

In the kitchen cooking breakfast on the stove, Calleigh's task was interrupted when her husband's arms wrapped around her waist and she felt a kiss on the cheek.

"Good Morning, Handsome."

"Good morning to you too, sweetheart."

She used the spatula and flipped a pancake before turning her head slightly so she could receive a proper kiss, and after a few kisses, their moment gets interrupted when they not only heard Nicole's voice clearing, but their youngest son saying with enthusiasm. "Mommy, daddy!"

They smiled against each other's lips before pulling back, then Horatio turned around to see Nicole holding their youngest daughter while their son was standing next to his older sister.

Horatio smiled at them as he walked up to the kids. "Hi, you guys."

After taking Jenny out of Nicole's arms, Nicole picks up Anthony and places him in his high chair before she went to the fridge to get some milk for everybody, and as she was pouring the liquid in various cups/glasses, Calleigh spoke with a smile. "Thank you for offering to watch the kids tonight."

While Horatio and Calleigh were having one of their date nights, which was suppose to be at home, Nicole was going to take the kids over to the Brown/Willow residence later, so her, Lindsey and Kyle could have a sleepover there. Nick was invited, but he already had plans with another friend.

Nicole waved it off with a smile. "No problem, I figured it has been awhile for you two to spend any quality time together."

Calleigh and Horatio looked at each other lovingly. It wasn't like they disliked spending time with their family, that was far from the truth, but it had been awhile, so when Nicole suggested it, they didn't have a reason to say no, they trusted the older 'kids' to protect the younger ones, so there was no reason not to.

The gave each other a smile before she goes back to cooking while Nicole walked to the table with the milk glasses she could carry then getting the others and sitting down before she had a little small talk with her father as the family waited until breakfast was done cooking.

Sitting at a booth in a nice family restaurant, Kyle was picking at his food while Lindsey was looking at him with curiosity before she asked in concern. "You ok?"

He looked at her with a nod. "Yeah, why you ask?"

She gives him a little smile as she replied. "Because I don't think you have taken a proper bite of your food in five minutes."

He sets his fork down with a sigh. "I guess I'm not that hungry after all, I've got a lot on my mind."

Cautiously, she asked. "Can I ask what?"

He nodded before looking into her eyes. "Yeah, I mean mostly it is about you."

Now her heart was racing, and not in a good way, as she asked softly. "Did I do something wrong?"

"No, but I was wondering that myself."

Curiosity took over again as she asked. "What do you mean?"

He leaned forward so he could speak quietly. "When I came and picked you up this morning at your house, you wouldn't let me in, which I took that as you not wanting to be alone with me, and not to mention since I've been back our kisses have felt like we've gone back in time to Middle school, so I can't help but wonder if I did something wrong."

She shook her head with a sigh. "Kyle you have done nothing wrong. Honestly, it's not you, it's..."

Kyle cuts her off with his eyes wide. "Hold on, are you about to break up with me?"

Shocked, she looked at him with wide eyes herself. "What!? Why would you think that?"

"Because how you are starting your sentence sure sounds like a break up to me."

She paused for a second to think back to how she used her words, then she shook her head and chuckled a little. "I'm making a mess of my words here."

Concerned, Kyle reaches for her hand and replied softy. "Lindsey, what's going on, you can tell me."

She took a breath and looked at him with a nod before asking softly. "Can I come and sit next to you?"

He smiled. "You don't even have to ask."

She smiled in return as she got up from her side of the booth before moving to his side and sitting next to him while she slipped her fingers through his and looked into his bright blue eyes before she started to speak from the heart. "Since you've been back, all I want to do is have us be alone and kiss you like I need my next breath, but I'm afraid that if we do, it will lead to other things."

Getting what she's saying, he looked at her with loving eyes as he whispered. "Linds, you know I would never force..."

She cuts him off with a small shake of her head. "It's not you that I'm afraid of, it's me and what I might do."

"Wait, are you telling me you might force yourself onto me?"

She chuckled a little as she hits him lightly on the arm. "You don't have to put it like that, but." Then she shyly said with a whisper. "Yes."

Now he gets a smug look on his face as he says. "Cool."

She hits him lightly again and shook her head before she replied with a sigh. "Kyle, this is serious."

His look changed to a more serious one as he nodded his head, then he squeezed her hand lightly. "I know this is, and if you're really that unsure, nothing has to happen, I promise."

"I know I'm safe with you, which is why a part of me feels that I am ready. I know how much we love one another and are committed, so this is the next logical step, right?"

He nodded. "Yes."

She nodded in return before sighing as she finished. "But the other part of me is scared because while we can become closer, there is a chance it could break us and I don't want that to happen." There was a pause, but before he could speak, she spoke again. "Do you think that's what happened between Nicole and Bryan?"

Nicole never told either of them that she had taken that step with Bryan, but they knew her well enough to know that their relationship went deeper than it had gone before.

Kyle sighed and shook his head as he brought her hand closer to his lips and kissed it softly before replying. "Nicole can be an open book about everything, including talking about her biological parents, but when it comes to her relationship with Bryan, she's a locked chest, so I honestly don't know."

She then sniffled. "Either way I don't want to lose you."

He slipped his hand out of hers and cupped her cheek before whispering. "And you won't, because whether we wait or don't, I'm with you every step of the way, and whatever problems we have, I'll try everything I can on my end to make it better."

Seeing the confidence and love in his eyes, only made her feel like the luckiest woman in the world, and she smiled in return as she whispered. "Me too."

He ran his thumb up and down her cheek as he asked with a smile. "You feel ok now?"

She nodded with a smile. "Yeah I do, I seemed to always feel better after we talk."

"I'm glad to hear that."

They peck each other on the lips, then he turned his attention to the food and said. "We should eat up before it gets colder."

"Or we can get it to go and take it back to the house."

He looked over at her with a raised eyebrow. "Yeah?"

"Yeah, I believe I owe you a few non-middle school level kisses."

He smiled in return before he tired to get the waitress's attention so they could leave and he gets to spend some proper alone time with his girlfriend, something he's been waiting for since he's been back. Not that spending time with his family was bad or that he didn't enjoy it, he just missed being with Lindsey alone.

After arriving back at the house, they wasted no time on catching up on a lot of kissing, and even though Catherine and Warrick were still in Vegas, so they had the house to themselves, they went up to her bedroom and on her bed.

Once they got as far as his shirt being taken off and her shirt unbuttoned, he slowed their kissing down and whispered against her skin as he was trying to catch his breath. "Linds, we better stop."

As he started to pull back, she wrapped her arms around his neck while cupping his cheek as she asked sincerely. "What if I don't want to?"

He gives her a warming smile as he replied. "We don't have to do this now."

She nodded as she replied, trusting him with her whole heart. "I can see it in your eyes that you mean that, and that's why I love you so much. But really I do feel that I am ready."

They move so they are sitting up in front of tone another and he cupped her cheek as he asked. "You sure?"

She nodded with a smile. "Yeah." She took a breath and continued. "For the longest time I've always imagined my first time with you, and how it would be like."

He smiled warmly again with his heart soaring with nothing but love as he asked. "And how would that be?"

She shyly smiled as she looked down at her hands. "Oh you know, I envisioned dinner and candles, the usual romantic stuff."

"We can still do that, I want to make it perfect for you."

She shook her head as she looked at him, then smiled as she took his hand. "But then I realized I don't need that, just you will be perfect enough for me. I know this is a big step, not to be taken lightly, especially our first time, but I trust you with everything in me and I'm willing to take that risk with you, do want to take that risk with me?"

He removed his hand from her cheek and slipped his fingers through hers and replied softly. "More than you can possibly know." He moved her hand up and kissed her knuckles before saying one more thing. "I love you, Lindsey Willows."

She tugged on his hand so he could move closer to her, and once he was, she whispered. "And I love you Kyle Caine." Before their lips touched and losing themselves in their world.

Lunch time

When lunch time came around, Horatio had asked Calleigh if she would like to go out for lunch, and since it was one of those rare occasions, when they weren't working the same case, that she had time for lunch at the same time as her husband, she agreed to go.

Which was why they were in a restaurant at this time, in one of the private areas, sitting close to one another, kissing as his hand started on her knee before it started to slide up her pant covered leg, she smiled against his lips as she placed her hand on top of his before she spoke as she pulled back. "What has gotten into you right now?"

Normally they would only being kissing like this if they were in the privacy of their own home, but when her husband had started kissing her, she couldn't help herself. However, she also knew that she had to stop them before everybody in the restaurant got to witness more than what they planned for lunch.

He smiled with his blue eyes bright, brighter than they have ever been, probably outside of their wedding and the birth of their children, before speaking. "Can't I just blame my actions on having a beautiful wife?"

Her heart melted as her body warmed up to his words, but she knew it was something more, so she replied as she slipped her fingers through his and smiled. "I'll admit that maybe that's part of it, but there is something more to it, isn't it?"

He sighed in content before replying. "I guess I'm just so happy right now, my oldest son is safely back in town for the time being, I have amazing kids, and like I mentioned a second ago, a beautiful wife. I just feel like I have it all."

She uses her free hand and cups his cheek as she nodded. "I know how you feel, I feel it too." She then smirked. "But I don't think expressing that in the middle of the restaurant is a good idea, no matter how secluded we are."

"You're right, I'm sorry." Before she could speak, he kissed her softly on the cheek before whispering in her ear. "I just sometimes can't help myself."

She did an uncharacteristic giggle as she looked at him shyly before she whispered in return. "And knowing that I can still make my husband feel that way, only makes it hotter."

He pulls back and asked with his eyes seemingly getting a little dark, making her heart race. "Later then?"

She cleared her throat with a head nod. "You better believe it."

Their moment of looking into each other's eyes as the heat, the good one, between them were coming off of them in waves was interrupted when Horatio's phone rings.

He took a moment before answering his cell, then after hanging up, she asks. "Back to work?"

He nodded as he scooted his body so he could get out of the booth, and while she was standing up, he was placing money on the table before taking his wife's hand and walking them out of the restaurant, counting down the hours on when they'll be alone again and won't have to think about stopping themselves with taking things further.

AN: More Ducaine Romance next chapter. :) Thanks for reading and please review.