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Chapter 9

Three weeks before Christmas, Billy, once again dragging Joe along with Jamie, Dog and Baggy this time, walked around the mall on the other side of town wondering what to get his girl for Christmas. After Chris had found out that the boys usually just stole what they wanted to get their women for Christmas every year, she had almost had a heart attack and then read them all the riot act, telling them that it was dangerous as the girls could get picked up and charged with having stolen property and about evidence and shit. She had then made them swear they would do Christmas legit this year. They had to admit that she had a point, they had just never thought that it could wind up getting Alisha and Wendy and the rest thrown in jail, and no one wanted that, so they were sticking to their word.

Jamie was loaded down with bags of toys and shit for Amber while Dog dithered over which earrings to get Wendy, and Baggy was looking at teddies to get for Silvia. Finally with a snort at all of them, Joe said, "Fuck this!" as he whipped out his cell and dialed a number.

On the other side of the mall, Chris was gnawing her lip till it bled as she wondered what to get Billy for Christmas. Silvia had already picked out what to get Baggy while Wendy laughingly told the others that she already knew what Dog was getting her, the only question was what the earrings would look like. "He gets me earrings every Christmas." She said. Chris's cell rang and Joe's number flashed on the caller ID.

"What's up Joe?" Chris asked as she tried to hide the sound of the cheerful Christmas carols that blared from the mall's speakers. Crap! She had told Billy that they were going to get pampered at a nail salon.

"I'm guessing you girls aren't at the nail salon." Joe said skeptically.

"Of course we are!" Chris tried to sound insulted, "Why would you think we weren't?"

The sound of a small tussle took place to which Joe was heard to say "Ow! What the fuck Billy?" a few times before Billy's deep voice came on the line.

"Where the fuck are you Christina?" he asked, sounding pissed.

"Umm—the nail salon?" Chris tried to bluff. Damn her inability to lie to Billy!

"Really?" Billy scoffed.

"We said we were going and we went, why would you think we didn't?" Chris bluffed some more as she went from chewing her lip to chewing her thumbnail.

Billy was silent for a second and said in a 'you are so busted' sarcastic tone, "Oh I don't know babe, the sale on curtains and bedding a few feet away from you?"

"Shit!" Chris muttered just as, Wendy, Alisha and Silvia's phones started to ring off the hook.

The women all exchanged guilty glances as they too answered their phones.

Chris rolled her eyes and puffed with annoyance just as Billy and the boys rounded the corner and spotted them as they hung up their phones. Billy stalked over to her and snatched her phone out of her hand as he grumbled, "Nail salon my ass!" He tilted his head back in his habitual badass attitude and growled, "I thought I told you not to leave the house without protection?"

Chris scowled back at him and gestured to the three men following, "I asked Bones to send me some of his guys so I could shop for Christmas presents." She explained with a pout.

Billy nodded at the men as they approached and shook hands, "How ya doing Billy?"

"Good Harry." Billy answered as they shook hands and then asked with narrowed eyes at Chris, who was looking suitably sorry, "Problems?"

"Nope, not a one." Harry answered jovially, "You okay here?"

"Yeah," Billy grunted as he lit a cigarette with his eyes still locked with his girls, "we can take our women from here."

"Sure thing." The men wandered away, leaving them to deal with their women's duplicity.

Billy and Chris had a bit of a stare down before Billy sighed and rolled his eyes as he turned and slung an arm around her shoulders, "Did you at least go where ya said ya were going?"

"Yes." Chris said as she put her arm around his waist and her hand in his back pocket, "Well—sort of—okay, we drove past it."

Billy chuckled as they started walking around. He had told her after first becoming a couple and about the current rumors and he had explained what his enemies could do to her to get to him, highly edited of course. He did not intend to let any motherfucker close enough to put their hands on her whatsoever. She had taken it well enough, but she had managed to slip the leash a couple of times. He knew that she didn't mean it, but she was just so used to being independent that it hadn't occurred to her that going to the corner store to get a pack of smokes without back up would be putting herself in danger.

Finally, Joe suggested that they all split up and shop for each other. Wendy would go with Bodie to shop for Alisha and Dog, Chris would go with Joe and Jamie to shop for Billy and everybody else, and Baggy would go with Alisha and Billy to shop for Joe, Mandy, Bodie and Chris while Dog and Mandy went to shop for Silvia and Wendy.

"Let's hurry and split up," Baggy claimed in a serious manner, "I think the rent-a-cops think we're casing the joint."

They all looked around to find some mall security watching them suspiciously. Billy smacked Chris on the ass hard enough to make her squeal as he took off with Baggy and Alisha. Chris, grinning stupidly while rubbing her burning butt, headed for the store on her left with Joe and Jamie.

Four hours later, Chris dropped into the bench next to Billy, threw her legs over his lap and snagged his cigarette right out of his mouth as she gave a few giggling girls that stood off to the side who were watching Billy avidly and looking like they wanted to eat him as a side dish a deadly glare.

"Take me home baby!" Chris said loudly.

Billy, already aware of the unwanted attention, chuckled as he ran his hands up her legs, "I was just thinking I wanted to take you home and fuck you all night baby."

"Mmm," Chris hummed and grinned sexily at him as she moved to straddle his lap and ran her hands possessively over his scalp, "sounds like a plan to me." Chris gave him a sizzling kiss.

The groupies glared and pouted as Billy picked Chris up with her legs around his waist as he grinned and said to Joe, "Grab the bags, will ya Joe? I gotta go home and fuck my woman!"

"I told you they fuck too much!" Joe told a grinning Jamie, both knowing what Chris was doing and finding it as amusing as Billy did.

"That's what we do Joe!" Chris giggled.

"Ya, eat, sleep and fuck!" Billy laughed at his little brother and carried his woman as the girls glared jealously and whispered among themselves.

They quickly found everybody and headed out to the cars.

Christmas day found everybody at the Darley place, including Dog and Wendy and Tommy and his mom Anna. The place was packed to the brim and some ended up eating their Christmas dinner on the floor as they crowded around the coffee table. With the seventeen adults talking and laughing, and the three kids running around playing and making as much noise as possible, Billy savored the quiet that came when the last stragglers left at eleven o'clock.

He turned off the twinkling lights on the Christmas tree that Chris insisted on having and scooped her sleeping body off the couch. He put her in the bed and stripped off her knitted top and tights and covered her up with the blanket. He kissed her forehead and went to get Joe to help him take out all the bags of trash to the dumpster downstairs.

He smiled as he put on the new brown leather trench coat that Chris had given him for a present while Joe donned his new red leather jacket. They took out the trash and shared a smoke as they wandered back in. As he climbed into bed beside Chris, he fingered the silver cross necklace at his throat, another gift from his girl and thought about the day.

They had woken up mid-morning and exchanged presents. Billy had bought Chris a gold necklace and earring set while Joe had gotten her a matching anklet. Billy kept the ring that the clerk at the jewelry store told him was the matching engagement ring to the set in his pocket for the time being. They had both also opted to buy her clothes. She had bought Billy the necklace and the jacket, as well as some sexy lingerie that she showed him in private that were more for Billy's pleasure than hers.

She bought Joe the red leather jacket and an iPod as well as also getting the both of them some new clothes she thought they would like and a satellite dish for the TV. Bones had shown up in time for dinner and tossed her the keys to her car that she had taken to his shop to get fixed after it started making a rattling sound, only to find out that Bones had had the paint redone. It now matched Billy's Mustang perfectly with blue tribal symbols and black paint. She had squealed with delight and hugged Bones hard. Even more shocking, he had hugged her back and pressed his forehead to hers like he did only with Joe and Billy. She had gotten Bones a pair of new magnifying glasses that he had said he needed for close up work he had to do with his guns and some new clothes as well as a TV set and satellite dish.

It was nothing to the major spoiling that she threw on Amber and Dog and Wendy's two kids. They had squealed with delight at all the new toys and shit she had gotten them. It had taken Dog, Jamie, Joe and Billy an hour to figure out how to put together the dollhouses and toy furniture for the girls baby dolls until Chris had sweetly asked Bones to show them how it was done, which he did. Billy and Joe had snickered quietly as Jamie and the others muttered to Bones that now Chris had all the Darley men wrapped around her fingers, to which Bones had shrugged, said there were worse places to be and then threatened to kill them all if they breathed a word of it ever again. The men had then had a much easier time putting together the slew of remote control cars and trucks Chris got for Dog's son JJ.

They had all then settled down in various spots in the living room to watch Christmas specials with the kids. Dog and Wendy had left with the kids and Bones had left after kissing Billy, Joe and Chris on their foreheads and pressing them to his as he told them a gruff, "Merry fuckin' Christmas." Jamie had carried out his sleeping daughter, while Baggy, Silvia and Mandy had carried out Amber's loot to Jamie's car. Tommy and his mom Anna left soon after, taking Spink and Autumn with them. Heco had been the very last to leave after Billy told him to get his ass out on the corner.

All in all it had been as great a day as Thanksgiving had been, thought Billy. Once again, he had been struck by the realization that they were a family and said as much to Chris while Bones had listened unashamedly. Chris told him, "That's because we are a family Billy. Sometimes families that you choose are more close to your heart than those by blood."

Billy smiled and held Chris tighter to him as he went to sleep.

The first week of January, Chris came home with tears in her eyes that she tried to hide from Billy. Well Billy wasn't that easy to hide things from. He sent Dog, who had been the one to guard her as she went to work that day, a puzzled look, Dog shook his head and mouthed the word, 'Chrystal.' Billy scowled as he watched Chris go to their room.

As soon as the door closed quietly behind her, Billy turned to Dog and asked, "What the hell happened?"

Dog sighed and rolled his eyes, "Alright, but she's gonna kick my ass when she finds out I ratted."

Billy's scowl deepened as he stepped forward threateningly and growled low in his throat, "I'm gonna kick your ass if you don't."

Dog, losing his good humor, quickly explained, "It seems that Chrystal has been sayin' shit about Chris behind her back. Shit like she's a fucking thief, after she took all her stuff from their apartment when she moved in with you. She's also been trying to tell everyone that they work with that Chris is stealing from the owner, and that's why she always has money. She's also been doing shit like wondering out loud in front of everyone if Chris is fuckin' the whole gang and not just you." Dog paled a bit when Billy snarled and hastened to explain, "No one believes that bullshit, but still, it hurt her feelings. Today, Mike, the owner, had enough and he fired Chrystal on the spot telling her in front of the customers and everyone that Chrystal is a fucking liar and he don't want someone like her working for him anymore." Dog started chortling when he added, "He also told Chrystal that he would have fired her skanky ass for fuckin' the customers a long time ago if it wasn't for Chris. He told her that he runs a club, not a whorehouse."

Billy snorted in amusement and then turned back to look at the closed bedroom door as he ran a hand over his head and sighed. He stood there for a few minutes after Dog left, with his hands on his hips as he thought of what to do.

He walked over to the door and opened it quietly as he slid into the room. He crossed over to the bed and climbed in behind Chris, who was curled up on her side. He pulled her into a hug and just held her for a while in silence as she cried softly.

He turned her over and held her tight as her cries died down to sniffles as he said, "It' okay baby. Don't cry over this shit."

"I can't help it Billy," she sniffled again, "She was just so mean and vicious. Why is she doing this?"

Billy sighed deeply as his hands started soothing over her back, "Because she's unhappy with herself and how she is. She resents you because you are a good person." He nudged her head up from where it was buried in his neck so he could look into her eyes and kissed her lips softly, "You are beautiful baby. Inside and out. That's why everyone here loves you." He kissed her between every name, "Me, Joe, Wendy, Dog, Baggy, Silvia, Mandy, Heco, Spink, Tommy, Jamie, Amber—hell, even fucking Bones loves your beautiful little ass and let me tell you, the only thing that man loves is money." He finished with a smirk as he saw her face lighten. He hugged her tight again as he said, "Everyone that knows you knows she is jealous as hell and she just wants to hurt you. She knows that people don't give a shit about her because they know she's a two-faced-lying-little-cunt-ass-bitch so she's jealous that you got people here that would fucking die for you if they had to."

She sighed deeply and cuddled closer to him as she whispered sadly, "We've been friends since we were babies. I just don't understand how it could have come to this."

"I know you love her baby," Billy told her, "but until she can be happy with herself, she ain't ever gonna change." He kissed the top of her head, "The only thing you can do is put some distance there. Don't give her the power to make you unhappy because that's what she wants. She wants everyone to be miserable because she is."

Chris sniffed again and looked at him, "You sound like you know what you're talking about babe."

Billy shrugged and said, "Bones. Before my mom died, he was a good dad, but after she was gone, he turned into an abusive, miserable bastard that wanted everyone else to suffer as much as he was."

Chris nodded and laid her head on his chest, "I think he still misses her."

Billy was quiet for a moment before he said huskily, "We all do." He shifted, not knowing if what he was about to say could be true, "I think he sees a lot of my mom in you—that's why he likes you."

Chris raised her head and looked at him teasingly, "Do you see your mom in me?"

Billy snorted as he rolled over on top of her, "Hell fuckin' no. If did, I wouldn't be able to do half the shit we do here in our bed."

Chris giggled and said, "Show me."

Billy grinned wolfishly and did just that.

Over the next couple of weeks, Chris seemed to forget about any unpleasantness that Chrystal had tried to cause her as she and Billy became closer than ever. Chris still wasn't talking to Chrystal very much, which made Billy happy, but she didn't stay away from her altogether either. Chris explained to Wendy, Mandy and Alisha when they asked, that her and Chrystal's parents were in the same MC back in Cali and she couldn't just cut Chrystal out of her life when she knew that Chrystal had no other family here.

All three of them just rolled their eyes. They couldn't understand how Chris had managed to refrain from beating that bitch's ass repeatedly a long time ago. Any other woman did this, they knew Chris would be all over her like a damn rash, but Chrystal just skated free and easy.

The whole gang gathered at the Four Roses the second Tuesday of the month to celebrate not only Chris's twenty-third birthday, but Dog and Wendy's anniversary. Although Billy and Chris spent a lot of time at their place, they still occasionally went to the Four Roses. Nothing like before they had moved in together. Before Chris, you could almost guarantee finding Billy and part of the gang there every night, but now with him and Chris together, they had kept it to once or twice a week, usually on the weekends.

The first time Gina had showed her face after Chris had beat her ass, Billy had thought he was going to die laughing as Gina had taken one look at the blonde parked in Billy's lap and left the bar at a flat out run. The bar bitches, or Skank Patrol, knew not to approach Billy now that he was taken, whether Chris was there or not. One unfortunate woman had found that out when she had spotted Billy there without Chris as he sat at the gang's usual table with Bodie and Heco.

Someone had spilled the beans to Chris that the woman had tried to rub up against her man and Chris had made a special trip to the bar and once again, kicked some serious ass. The bitches learned their lesson after that. Billy had also made it clear that no one was to touch his girl. He had broken a chair over one assholes head after he had had the guts to pat Chris on the ass as she stood at the ancient jukebox picking out songs. People also learned that a good way for Billy Darley to get all up in your face and pull a gun on your ass was to be looking at her too long.

Now though, violence was the last thing on Billy's mind as he grinned widely while Chris sat in his lap, pawing him through his jeans as she scrounged around in his pocket for some change for the jukebox.

He closed his eyes and shivered slightly then murmured into her neck with a quiet chuckle, "That ain't a quarter baby."

"Umm-hmmm," Chris agreed with a shiver of her own, "Nope. That's much, much bigger than a quarter." She cooed.

"Jesus Christ." Joe said as he rolled his eyes as he joked, "One of these days, you two are gonna fuck yourselves into matching coma's!" making the whole gang laugh.

"What a way to go though!" Heco cheered.

A few hours later, Billy was steering a very tipsy Chris out the door. When they reached the stairs to the apartment, Chris plopped down and slurred, "My feet hurt!" She leaned into Billy's legs and asked in a drunken purr, "You gonna rub my feet baby? I'll rub something of yours"

Billy grinned down at her as he hauled her to her feet by her underarms, "What you gonna rub baby?" he asked innocently.

She giggled and rubbed his dick through his pants which had very predictable results, then promptly passed out.

Billy, far from being upset, chuckled as he slung her unconscious body over a shoulder and carried her to their place. Chris wasn't much of a drinker, but still, he thought it was kind of cute seeing her like this the few times she did have too much to drink. It made a nice change from all the times she had helped him to bed after he had gotten shit-faced after a night out with the boys.

God he was glad he had a girl that didn't bitch about him going out drinking with his boys. That was, as long as they relatively behaved themselves and stayed out of jail. He winced as he remembered the dressing down him and Joe got after Chris, Alisha, Silvia and Mandy had to come down to the police station at four in the morning to bail their drunken asses out. They had seriously thought the women were going to leave them there for a minute.

He carried her into their apartment and to the bedroom. After slinging her onto the bed, he stripped her clothes off and covered her with a blanket. He chuckled again when he thought of how miserable she would be in the morning.

Chris woke up with the desperate desire to scream in pain as a whole herd of elephants line danced through her skull and something, she had no idea what, shit in her mouth. She groaned, not even daring to open her eyes, getting the feeling that it would make it worse.

"Sonofabitch!" she muttered.

She heard a masculine laugh behind her as Billy propped himself on an elbow over her and said cheerfully, "Good morning baby!"

She winced again before opening one eye and covering her mouth with a hand as she mumbled, "I'm gonna die."

"No baby. You're just wishin' you were dead." He smirked.

She rolled back over and jackknifed out of the bed as she ran to the bathroom to throw up. Billy followed her at a more leisurely pace and held her hair back for her as he rubbed her back in soothing circles. When she was done, she muttered, "I think that was everything I ate for the last month."

Billy couldn't help but to smirk again as he asked teasingly, "Does that mean ya don't wanna get it on and finish what you started last night?" She gave him the look of death and he chuckled again, "Go on back to bed baby. I'll bring ya some aspirin and when you're feelin' a little better, I'll take ya out to breakfast."

Chris felt her stomach churn again as she squeaked, "God no. Not food."

Billy helped her to the sink where she brushed her teeth before carrying her back to the bed and saying, "Come on babe. Food will make you feel better."

"Nothing short of death is gonna make me feel better honey." Chris groaned into his neck as he set her down. He laughed again as he went to get her some aspirin and a glass of water.

Once she had downed some pills, he smacked her on the butt to make her move over and crawled in beside her as they went back to sleep for a while.

"Dance with me baby." Chris asked pleadingly from the middle of the living room floor.

Billy, sitting on the couch, snorted in amusement, "I don't dance babe."

Chris tilted her head and regarded him through narrowed eyes. He knew that look. He knew that it meant she was going to tease him with her hot little body and her perfect little pussy until she got exactly what she wanted out of him. He relaxed against the back of the couch, bringing his hips slightly forward and draping his arms across the back, watching her with narrowed eyes and the smoke from the cigarette hanging from his mouth.

"I bet you could if you really wanted to." She purred as she turned on the stereo and switched it to an R&B station that was playing some song with a sexy bass and starting to sway to the beat.

He watched the show that he knew was for his eyes only and his eyes widened slightly as she started slowly unbuttoning her blouse. This was new, he thought to himself, not that he was complaining. She had never given him his own little strip show before. His hips tilted slightly forward again as his erection grew in proportion of the amount of clothes she was taking off.

"Baby," he purred huskily, "You sure the door is locked? 'Cause if Joe or any of the boys walk in and see your titties, I'm gonna have ta kill 'em."

Chris giggled as she approached him, dancing closer. Goddamn, he had been in strip clubs and watched strippers that didn't make him as hard as his girl did. He shifted his body a little to relieve the strain his cock was putting on his pants. She was wearing one of the sexy barely-there lace bra and matching crotchless panties that she had gotten for his Christmas present. He was so hard, he was surprised his zipper didn't pop, but he made no move to hide it from her. Being as it was Valentine's Day, he was positive that Chris had already planned on them ending the night fucking.

She crawled into his lap and started slowly circling her hips against his and he laid a hand on her hip as he leaned past her and stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray on the coffee table as Chris trailed her lips over his neck, licking and sucking. His other hand grasped her other hip as he ground her down on him hard. Chris shook her head a little before sliding off of his lap and kneeling between his legs as she unbuckled his belt and slowly slid it out of the loops of his jeans.

He helped her take his jeans off and she pushed him to sit back down on the couch in his boxers and guiding his arms over the back again. Kneeling between his legs again, she slid her hands over his thighs before taking his cock out. Billy let out a breath of air as she pumped her fist over him a few times and he threw his head back as he closed his eyes. He thrust his hips into her hand helplessly. In the nine months they had been together, she had only gotten better at sucking him off and he loved it.

His head jerked forward and his eyes snapped open as he felt her start to go down on him, using her own spit for lubricant. He gasped and one hand went to the back of her hair as he felt his tip hit the back of her throat and then into it. Shit, he loved that she could deep throat him all the way now. He groaned and thrust into her mouth gently, not wanting to startle her. His hands tangled into her hair as she bobbed up and down on his cock, occasionally humming as she went down on him. Just before he was about to cum, she sat up and his cock popped out of her mouth.

Using her hand, knowing it wasn't fast enough to bring him off, she asked teasingly, "So you don't dance, huh baby?"

To his utter shock, she moved away and resumed swaying in the middle of the room as he looked at her, cock sticking straight out of his boxers, glistening with her saliva and a stupefied expression on his face. She bit back a giggle, but couldn't help the smirk as she trailed a finger teasingly over her breast, down her body and all the way to her clit.

Billy's eyes narrowed and he growled as he got up, cock bobbing with every step and shed his boxers before stalking over to her and bringing her nude body flush up against him as their foreheads touched and his hands grasped her hips hard enough to cause bruises.

"Think you're fucking cute huh?" he growled, "Think you can get me to do what you want by not finishing suckin' my dick?"

"Um-hum." She smirked again as he started swaying with her and she lifted her arms around his neck.

Billy huffed out a breath and regarded her thoughtfully. His hand slipped down her front and he slipped two fingers into her, making her moan. Wrapping his arm around her back more securely, he thrust his fingers into her relentlessly as his thumb brushed her clit until she was breathing heavily and kissing him passionately.

Removing his hands from her, he stepped back after making sure she was capable of standing on her own. "Want more?"

"Yesss…" she hissed as she leaned toward him with eyes sparkling with lust.

He backed away far enough to avoid her and put a heavy hand on her shoulder, pressing down as he stated, "Then you're gonna have ta finish what you started." She looked at him through heavily lidded eyes and he said succinctly, "Get on your knees baby and suck my dick until I cum in your mouth."

Chris smirked again and said, "No."

Billy's eyebrows shot up and he growled low in his throat, "No?"

"No." she shook her head. They stared at one another for a split second before Chris bolted for the bedroom, dodging to avoid Billy's arm as it shot out to grab her. He cut off her path and she ran to the other side of the room. He easily caught her, not that she was really trying to keep away from him and pushed her to sit on the couch.

He quickly straddled her legs and sat up on his knees as he shuffled his hips closer to her mouth. Holding his cock with one hand, he wound the other in her hair to pull her toward him as he ordered huskily, "Suck it baby."

Chris giggled, knowing that she had teased him enough and did what he wanted. She opened her mouth for him as he pushed forward and groaned. He held the back of the couch as she stroked his ass and the back of his thighs while he slowly thrust in and out. Billy threw his head back and groaned again as his movements sped up, "Yeah baby, just like that—take it—take it deep baby" he hissed before looking back at her to watch her mouth stretched over his length, "Fuuck Chris! I'm gonna cum baby! Ahh!"

He thrust forward once more and emptied himself in her waiting mouth with a loud cry. He sat back on his heels as he tried to regain his breath and her hands smoothed over his tattooed back and ass. Once her breathing was calm again, he slid to his knees on the floor, grasping her thighs and pulling her ass to the very edge of the couch as he opened her legs and draped them over his shoulders, diving mouth first into her pussy without so much as a warning.

He ate her out until she screamed out in the throes of a second climax, her nails, not finding any purchase on his bare head, piercing the skin on his neck slightly. Hard once again, he pulled her off the couch and bent her over the seat, slamming into her from behind. Setting a punishing pace, her body bouncing back into his with every shove, he sucked his finger into his mouth and gathered some spit before sliding it into her ass, making her cry out in pleasure.

"Ah God!" she moaned, "Fuck me baby! Fuck me!"

He pressed into her as far as he could and came with his own groan, but as turned on as he was by her little performance that night, he remained still semi hard and continued pounding into her as he and played with her clit. He fucked her until they both came again, Chris with a scream and him with a roar.

He pulled out of her and sat back on his heels, panting as he watched his pearly white cum ooze out of her while he kept rubbing her sensitized clit gently. Memorized by the sight, he slowly fisted himself as he watched until she grunted deeply as she came for the final time before collapsing on the couch. Leaning up on his knees as he felt himself reach the edge once more, he hissed as he ejaculated on her lower back and ass.

Collapsing onto her back, he felt her chuckle as she muttered, "You are an animal Mr. Darley."

He grinned as he leaned his forehead on her upper back and kissed it before whispering, "You bitchin'?"

She barked a laugh as she sighed, "Definitly not." She twitched and he sat next to her as she said ruefully, "We forgot about the condom again."

He sighed and dropped his head back as he said, "I know." He stood up and helped her to her feet. They headed to the shower by mutual agreement. Billy took a piss as Chris turned the water to the correct temperature and stepped into the tub. He finished and flushed the toilet before joining her. Seeing the small knit between her brows, he asked as he took the soapy washcloth from her hands and started washing her back, "Stop worryin' babe."

She snorted and asked, "We can't keep forgetting it Billy."

He was silent for a moment as he handed the washcloth back to her and turned so she could wash his back. Finally he asked, "Would it bother you to have my kid?"

Chris was stunned by this question. She would have thought that it would be him that would freak out if she did get pregnant. Her hand stilled on his back and his head went up. She could feel his tension as he waited to hear her answer. Stunned that he would think she would never consider having a family with him, she laid a string of soft kisses on his back as she wrapped her arms around him from behind, "Of course it wouldn't bother me Billy. Are you saying that you want a baby? Do you really think that we are ready to do that?" She asked with her chin on his back.

He relaxed, still not looking at her and shrugged, "I never thought about being a Dad to tell you the truth. Bones didn't exactly give either me or Joe confidence that we would be good ones, but—" He shrugged again, Chris stayed silent and let him finish, "but if I did knock you up, I would try to be the best dad I can. I wouldn't consider it the end of the fuckin' world."

Chris smiled as she turned him around and washed his front. "You would be a great dad Billy. If anything, Bones taught you how NOT to be with your own kids." She kissed his lips and let him think about that as she let him take the washcloth and wash her. Once they were finished and dried off. They both climbed into bed and Chris propped herself on her elbow above his chest as she said, "I would love to have your babies honey. I just don't think that right now is a good time, with this problem with the Hall going on."

The rumors were running rampant, but Billy knew that as protected as Chris was, shadowed everywhere she went by not only Billy's best men, but a couple of Bones' as well, the Hall didn't have a shot at her. They were also well aware by now that to make a move against this woman would not break Billy as much as it would cause him to unleash unholy hell on their heads, something that everyone knew the Hall boys were not prepared for. They didn't have the numbers to take on Billy and his gang and run the risk of having Bones join in.

Billy nodded as he ran his hands over her arms and up her shoulders to cup her head and give her a kiss, "I'm not sayin' we should try right now baby." He shrugged as he added, "But if it happens, it happens." He pulled her closer and gave her a deeper kiss, "We'll deal with it." He pulled back with a frown, "You wouldn't do anything stupid if it happened would you?"

Chris gave him a blank look and asked, "Huh? Like what?"

He glared at her as he said, "Like a fucking abortion." He saw her face take on a stricken expression and sighed as he rolled them over so he was leaning above her, "I know ya wouldn't baby, but I gotta say—any other chick and I wouldn't care, but the thought of you killin' our baby—" his hands clenched into fists. He felt like an idiot for even saying it, but he didn't want any doubt in her head, "I couldn't handle that baby."

Her eyes softened with understanding as she read the meaning behind his words. She knew he meant that he only wanted her to have his babies and the idea made her want to slap kisses all over his face. She caressed the side of his face with a hand as she whispered, "I would never do that Billy. I couldn't."

"I know." He grunted softly and kissed her. Rolling back over to his back and looping an arm around her, drawing her into his body, he said as he closed his eyes, "I know."