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Chapter II: A Moment to Die For

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I´m sorry, I´ll have to skip a year for the sake of the story! :P

Thanks for the great reviews! :D Mwahs! You requested it and you got me writing ;)

To Liv (Mwahs and tight hugs hun, hope your arm will feel better soon and also kisses for the lil boy!) and Gwen (Thanks for the reviews, they really put a BIG smile on my face, and of course you´ve heard it before: because you just may get it!) , love ya girls! ^^

And at last but not least, M alert you people! And I think it is twisted, so you have been warned of what are you going to get into. I mean it. (As if that will stop you, lol). To Shanice, because I know the drama won´t keep you from enjoying xxxx.

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Donna woke feeling strangely sick and heavy, extending her hand to the side of the bed where her husband should be sleeping and surprised to find it empty. Her heart skipped a bit, when she imagined she could find herself alone again. She didn´t want that. She wouldn´t have the strength to cope with that. But before she could open her eyes, she heard the door closing and smiled.

Just like the first night, she had been dreaming with her gorgeous husband the whole year they had been married. And every day, the same wave of joy hit her when she woke to find him by her side. Every time and every night, he had gone beyond every wish and expectation to satisfy her and had given her the most beloved things in her life. All she hoped, was that her presence in his life was as wonderful as he managed to make her feel every minute. She wanted to be the most special dearest thing he had, and not just… his second wife.

"Good morning sweetheart. Happy anniversary" Donna smiled, opening her eyes to adjust to the light and look at him, while he walked to sit by her side.

Trying to sit, Donna groaned and placed a hand on her huge bump to try and make the movements easier. All night long, she had been to the bathroom and throwing out, to a point she couldn´t stand it anymore. She couldn´t understand why the sickness was suddenly back at this stage of her pregnancy, such a thing have not happened to her the first time.

"Happy anniversary to you too, babe" he answered, kissing her softly.

"Good lord, how did this happen?" she sighed, placing her hands on her huge belly while looking at it.

"Do you need me to explain it?" he grinned, placing the tray next to her.

"I guess I don´t, but I´m sure I can enjoy it if you show me"

"You´re a tricky minx" he laughed, stroking her hair sweetly and pulling it away from her face.

"And that´s why you love me" she smiled, wrapping her arms around his neck and placing a delicate kiss on his lips.

"I do. I love you so much darling"

"I love you too" she barely whispered, breathing heavily and fanning her face with her hand, clearly lacking of air, placing her other hand on her chest. It had been hurting for a while and she couldn´t figure out why.

"Are you alright?" Sam asked, placing his hand on her forehead to see if she was feverish.

"Yes, I think so. It must be just the baby. Strange, I never felt like this with Sophie"

"Sweetheart, too many things were different with Sophie" he answered, caressing her cheek and staring into her eyes, until she smiled and rested her hand over his to take it tenderly.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Whatever you want, my lovely"

"Are you happy with me? Am I a good wife? Am I better that she was? Am I anything but just your second wife?"

"That´s not something, it´s a lot of things" he laughed, gently pressing his lips against her forehead "And it doesn´t make sense, at all. Just at the very moment you said I do, you made me happier than Lorraine ever did. I never truly loved her Donna, because it was you the only one I always thought about. You measured up to all my very high expectations- in all departments you shady lady - and you´re not just my second wife, you're the only wife I ever wanted"

"My goodness" she giggled "You mean it? You make me sound like a goddess"

"You are"

Donna shook her head in silence, blushing hot crimson, and he placed her finger under her chin for her to meet his gaze.

"I love it when you blush; you look beautiful, as this"

Sam smiled, handing her the bunch of bright roses he had been hiding behind himself until then.

"O.M.G.! Is this for me?" she shrieked, covering her mouth with her hands and blinking to hold her tears.

"No, they are for the baby, so I hope it´s a girl" he said smiling, as she took the flowers and wiped a lonely tear from her face, cuddling them as if they were really the child she was expecting.

"I am so anxious I can´t wait anymore" she giggled.

"I know, it will be soon enough darling"

Distractedly, he placed a hand on her bump, over her silky nightgown, and suddenly jumped startled, causing her to laugh.

"That was a quick!"

"Tell me about it. YOUR child managed to keep me awake all night long. No surprise I am still tired" she ended yawning.

"MY child? Is that how it´s going to be? Do I have to remind you that the baby is still inside of YOU?"

"NO, you don´t. I should remind you that you´re the bastard who put the little one in there!"

"I was indeed, but I don´t remind hearing your complains at the moment, it was more something like: Oh, my God, you´re amazing, or I´m so close, go… deeper, or Please, that´s not hard enough"

Staring at Sam open-mouthed, Donna took her pillow and hit him as hard as she could, resulting in her husband bursting out laughing.

"Stop saying those things" she shrieked, laughing too when he jumped on her, tickling her sides "The baby will hear"

"I´m only quoting you darling, but it´s definitely turning me on"

"Oh, it is? You´re a very bad man Mr. Carmichael"

"That´s your naughty influence only, baby" he replied, kissing her deeply.

"I´ll gladly give you the privilege of carrying the baby for the next two months if you want to… I manage to keep going only because I love you both so much"

"I would accept, if it wasn´t for the fact being pregnant makes you look sexier and I like it" he whispered, placing her finger on the neckline of her nightgown, to peer down at her impressive cleavage that had lately grown double the size.

"You sweet talker" she said, slapping his hand away and pushing him backwards, to sit over her husband in a straddling position and leaning to place a slow sensual kiss on his lips. Breaking apart, she pulled the comfy black silk out of her body and looked down to meet his eyes, now glassy and showing that glint that told her they were thinking the same "I will make you pay for that"

"What are you doing woman?" he asked in a husky voice, when her hands slowly and seductively trailed the way down his chest to untie his robe.

As an answer, Donna leaned forward and placed a hot passionate kiss on his lips, winning access in an instant and giving him everything she had. Breaking for air, she started trailing teasing kisses across his jaw and neck, all the way down his chest to his waistband, giggling every time she heard him moan. He flinched under every touch, and knowing herself so wanted made Donna feel even more aroused.

"You relax and enjoy, cowboy"

"As long as you promise not to tell my wife"

"Oh, you have a wife? I pity the poor woman" she whispered sexily, grinning at the thought of what she was about to do.

"Woman, you drive me crazy" he muttered in a gasp, when she started to place soft kisses all the way up his inner tight in the right sensitive places. He ran his hand trough her hair and grabbed the steel bar of the bed to steady himself, already tensing in anticipation at what he knew she was going to do. He was hard and she definitely enjoyed proving she could turn him on so fast.

Until they heard the phone started ringing, loud and clear.

She sighed and lifted her head to meet his gaze. His eyes glazed, he lifted himself on his elbow and moved his hand from her golden curls to place it under her chin.

"Please let it ring, babe"

"Sam, don´t do this AGAIN, please. I´ve told you a million times I can´t ignore the Hotel calls. Plus, it can be our daughter" she said, in a tone a bit harder than she intended and moved to pick up the call, but he took the phone in his hands and moved it away, so she couldn´t reach it.

"Donna, is our damned first anniversary and you can´t spend five minutes with me?"

Rolling her eyes, she picked the receiver abruptly, saying "hi"

Open mouthed, he gestured telling her that he would disconnect the line, but before she can give him the icy look she pretended, she couldn´t hold a loud scream.

"Sophie! Where are you baby girl? I want you here!"

Sam knew that one was a call he couldn´t cut. Seeing the excitement in her face, he couldn´t help to smile and crawl to sit behind her, wrapping his arms around her swollen body and resting his hands on her bump, to place a soft teasing kiss on her neck, making her giggle. He was mad because she didn´t give up to his wish, and having the phone ringing every time the heating was on between them was really upsetting. But there was something on her flawless beauty and her bright smile that he couldn´t be mad for long. Anyway, they wouldn´t keep up things where they left it otherwise.

"Mom, are you with dad?" Sophie asked, rolling her eyes when she heard the giggling.

"Of course I am honey" Donna said smiling and turning to place a soft kiss on his lips "What do you expected?"

"No comments"

"What do you mean, young lady?" Donna replied, feigning to be mad and making Sophie burst out laughing.

"You never have enough, right? Anyway, I called to say you got your wish. I´m on the mainland now and I´ll take the ferry in a while. I should be there by noon"

"You´re not saying! You coming? Oh… my God! I can´t wait to see you! I´ve missed you so much!"

"I missed you too mom, but I DON´T think you have had the time to do so"

"STOP there young lady. That´s not something I want to discuss right now. But hurry, there are big news awaiting for you here" she added with a wide smile and placing her hand lovingly on her bump.

"News? I guess there´s no way you´ll tell me now. I´ll see you soon, I can´t wait to be back. I love you mom. I do"

"I can´t wait neither honey. I love you more, to the moon and back"

"Aw, mom, you don´t say that to me since I was a child"

"You´ll always be my baby girl"

"I hope so. Bye!"

And the line went dead.

"Bye!" Donna smiled, sighing and taking in the deep feeling of nostalgia her daughter´s voice always brought to her when they spoke. She had a new life and Sophie wasn´t a little girl anymore, now someone else was about to step into the world and she had to come to terms with both facts. But a thought lightened on her mind and she immediately froze.

"Gosh, I am such a terrible mother!" she said, swallowing hard and blinking to fight her tears.

"Why would you be a terrible mother?" he asked in utter surprise, and placing a gentle kiss on her cheek "You´re wonderful sweetheart, and you´ve only given Soph the best as I know you will do with our new baby too"

"Thank you" she said, placing a loving kiss on his lips "Thank you. But what I mean is… Sky. Sophie said SHE would take the ferry to be here by noon, and… I didn´t ask about him"

"And obviously… she didn´t want to tell yet babe. She probably wants to talk to you personally and is now relieved you didn´t ask. I would even say, don´t try to pull her to say it as soon as she get here. Let her settle it down and come to you. She will. You´re not a bad mother, you are just excited to see her again"

"Aw, that´s why I love you so so much"

"I love you too" Sam smiled, brushing her lips gently.

Donna sighed and wiped the single tear running down her face, looking at her belly and intertwining their fingers. She had missed her daughter even more than she thought she would. It was all true that Sophie left, leaving Sam with her, but there were different loves and different spaces and none of them could compensate the lack of the other. Now she had heard, the girl would be back for her anniversary, Donna felt in utter bliss, with a happiness and relieve running through her bloodstream she had never felt before. The day Sophie left, she thought she had lost her daughter forever. Knowing she was on her way back, was only close to a miracle for the loving mother.

Far was Donna from knowing, she would never get to see her daughter again.

"I am, so happy right now. I can´t believe Sophie is back, you love me and we have this little one on the way"

"So am I. So after a whole year, you don´t have any regret about marrying me at all?" he grinned, playfully kissing her neck and shoulder and gently pushing her to lie on the bed, as she was quickly loosing concentration.

After a whole year, she was still flinching to the deepest corners of her body and soul whenever he came close to her. Donna never got that flustered when any other man approached her, because no one else was what she really wanted. She found the way his hands made her lose control intensely erotic, but knowing she had not will power to resist it was highly out of character for her. For once, she was delighted someone else took control to please her and she let herself go to enjoy every second of it.

"Not… for a single minute. Specially, right now"

Her breathing started to quicken as his lips traveled down her skin, skillfully teasing her breasts with the tip of his tongue and heading down, kissing her belly softly, as she ran her hand through his hair and moaned quietly. He knew what he was doing, and was using it to get her extremely turned on, filling her with that lustful need of him no one else could awake under her skin.

"Don´t stop, darling, please…"

She opened her legs further, when he removed her underwear painfully slowly, teasing her inch by inch while he burned her skin with his lips, until his butterfly kisses started the way up her inner tight. But then, he stopped with a delicate kiss where he knew would drive her wild and pulled away, looking amusingly at her with a cheeky smirk. Sam left her there, turning around and grabbed his dark blue robe, with the intention of wearing it again.

Donna´s mouth fell open and even if she didn´t know how, she sat straight up.

"WHAT the hell are you doing, Sam?" she questioned, her frustration growing as his smirk grew wider and she needed him so bad it hurt.

"You left me first, I´m leaving you now honey"

Her strength intensified by her frustrated lust, Donna threw him back into the bed and sat straddling him again.

"You´re not going anywhere, you´re well and truly kidnapped right now, and for my benefit only"

Before he had any chance to reply, she placed her hands next to his head over the mattress and took his lips in a forceful kiss that would blow any thought away from their minds, except each other.

"Now that´s better" she smiled with a light moan, when they broke apart for air and she straightened herself again, while he teasingly slid his hands up her thighs and squeezed her rear "I need you now…"

With a naughty grin, she approached to place yet another alluring kiss on his sensitive neck, breathing in deep his manly scent, while biting her lower lip to hold the sheer anticipation that was already tickling her exactly where she needed him most. Trailing her finger down his chest, in a soft tortuous pace, she got to take hold of him, squeezing teasingly, until the intensity of his groans told her he couldn´t take it anymore.

"Are you ready?" she whispered seductively, nibbling his ear.

"Donna, I don´t think I can hold much longer… Oh, my God…"

With a quick move of her hips, he was plunged into her warmth and she couldn't help a loud moan at the sensation of him feeling her in. He give a loud moan of relief, finally feeling her around him and took her hand to kiss her palm before starting to move along with her, with the accurate pace he knew they both needed. Nothing else felt so good and right than the sweet gentle way her husband made love to her.

Her fingers pressed against his skin on his thighs, she tried to control the rocking of her body against him, but it was useless, and he groaned when she dragged the nails buried on his skin. The excitement was too high and the desire too deep, throwing them into an unwind spiral of pure ecstasy and bliss.

He placed his hands on her hips, thrusting along with his wife´s moves and moaning every time he got deeper into her. They were both eager and never before had they build they way up so fast.

The pain inside her chest, that have never been vanished, was growing by the minute, but the pleasure she was getting, more and more with every move, prevented her to give it a second thought, she nearly didn´t feel it while the powerful moves of her husband were taking her exactly where she wanted.

"I love you, my beautiful" he said, as he thrust hard and hit her delicate spot.

"I love you too. Come with me…I´m so close" she managed to groan, as her orgasm was clearly erupting inside of her and she tilted her head back with a loud extended moan, in a frantic attempt to let it flow.

"My God, Sam, you are…"

But with her words unfinished, and when the so awaited sensation finally hit her fully, before he can reach the top, she let out a loud heart-breaking scream and collapsed over him, unconscious.

Desperate, he took, her face in his hands and stroke her hair back to look at her. Her eyes were closed and her sweat-soaked skin was slightly shaking. Something wasn´t right and he couldn´t lose a minute to act. Withdrawing from her, Sam placed Donna on the bed and dialed 911 for an ambulance.

Hurry up, hurry up, he thought, hurrying to get his wife back into her underwear and nightgown again as fast as he could and opening the door for the paramedics to run into the room when they get there.

Jumping again into his robe, he started applying pressure on Donna´s chest and pressed his mouth against hers to move the air in and out of her lungs. Those were the first aids he knew and couldn´t think of anything else to do.

Sam had been very detailed about their location, for the help to come as soon as it was possible and as the emergency team moved his wife onto the stretcher, he took two seconds to jump in some shorts, shirt and shoes to join her inside the ambulance. Crying in silence, he took her hand and kissed it lovingly, while the professionals leaned over her with the defibrillator and placed an oxygen mask on her face.

Please stay, Donna. Stay for me, stay for our kids.

"Stay with me" he whispered, as close to her ear as he could, while the ambulance run noisily the way through the busy streets to the nearest hospital.

And the nightmare, was just about to begin…

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There you got. Like it? Next chapter nearly done, but if you want it you´ll have to be nice and press the twinkling button! Much love... Mel.