Chapter 39

Over the week Vic had made arrangements with their boss so he could have a weekend off and take Reba to a surprise location for a small getaway. He couldn't wait to get her alone and away from everyone. She just seemed to get worse after that day in the market. She accused him of some of the most impossible things. Reba yelled at him when she thought he was sleeping with Lori Ann. She had called and Reba was out with her daughter. He was just talking with her and getting to know her a bit because she was his wife's best friend but he made the mistake of still being on the phone when Reba came home. Reba even yelled at him one morning because she claimed he was talking about another woman in his sleep. He hadn't slept outside yet but he figured it was only a matter of time.

Vic was just happy when it finally came the time for both of them to relax. They would be leaving that Friday evening and returning Sunday evening. When Vic told Reba that afternoon they would be leaving for three nights and two days, she was excited. She immediately asked what she would need to pack, ignored what he said, and packed everything she had into two suitcases. Kyra and Jake would be staying with Barbara Jean and Brock for the weekend because it made Reba feel better and it stopped her from yelling.

"Do you have everything in the car?" Reba asked for about the millionth time that Friday night after dinner.

Vic rolled his eyes and nodded. "Yes I have everything in the car."

"Are you sure?"

Vic nodded. "Yes I am sure." He said picking up their, well Reba's, bag of snacks she wanted for the road.

Reba walked towards the door. "I better check anyway."

Vic stopped her halfway toward the door and pulled her back. "I have everything. Now just relax." He said pulling her back and making her sit in the chair. "This is why we are going away. You are too uptight and you need to relax. It would be better for the baby and for you."

Reba frowned and crossed her arms across her chest. "You're bossy."

Vic chuckled and patted her shoulder. "It will be all right. We will be ready to go in a minute."

"Why won't you tell me where we're going?" Reba asked, pouting a bit.

Vic smiled. It was driving her nuts the way he wouldn't tell her where the surprise was. "You will know when we get there." He said chuckling as she glared at him, hoping her anger would make him spill. "You might even recognize the place before we get there."

Reba's face lit up. "I've been there before?" she asked excitedly.

Vic shrugged. "You might have been." He said walking up the stairs to make sure he didn't forget anything. "Stay put." He said as he saw her trying to get up. "I will be down in a minute to take you out to the car. Now just relax."

Reba pouted but stopped trying to get up. Where could they be going? There was Rome but she was too far into her pregnancy to go onto a plane. Where else did they go together? They haven't really been anywhere. Maybe it was somewhere from her past that she had been that he found out from someone but what could it be? It was driving her crazy that he wouldn't tell her.

She was just about to defy his orders and follow him upstairs when Brock and Barbara Jean burst into her house. "Hello Reba!" Barbara Jean said, waddling over and flopping on the couch. "I would have thought you guys have left already."

Reba shook her head. "Nope, not yet, Vic is double checking everything upstairs."

Barbara Jean smiled and rubbed her stomach. "There is no need to worry about Kyra and Jake. Their already set up in the guest rooms." Reba nodded and leaned her head against her hand. "Do you have any idea where you're going?"

Reba shook her head. "No and he won't tell me." She sneered.

"You will know when we get there." Vic said walking down the stairs. Reba playfully glared and tried to stand up. "I really wish you would wait for me or ask me to help you." He said coming to her aid quickly.

Reba let him help her up only because she didn't have a choice but she immediately smacked his hands away. "I really wish you wouldn't touch me all the time."

Vic smirked and shrugged. "Sorry, hard to resist."

Reba rolled her eyes. "Are we ready to go?" she asked impatiently.

Vic nodded. "All set. Everything upstairs is fine and I just have to lock the back door and then we can get out of here and have a really good time alone." He said wiggling his eyebrows.

Reba just shook her head and watched in amusement as Brock cringed and Barbara Jean giggled. Vic walked away with a wink and into the kitchen to lock the backdoor. Reba waddled to the coat rack and lifted her coat from it. Vic walked back in to check the door to the back yard and saw Reba trying to put her coat on.

Vic sighed. "I really wish you would let me help you." He said, taking the coat and helping her into it. Reba buttoned up her coat and Vic turned to Brock and Barbara Jean. "Unless you guys are willing to lock up…"

"Leave." Reba said opening the door.

Barbara Jean pouted and Brock helped her up from the couch. "You don't have to be mean about it."

Reba rolled her eyes. "Excuse me if I am feeling a little bit anxious to have some alone time with my husband."

"Why did you have to get married?" Barbara Jean said as they all walked out of the house. "I liked it better when you were single and lonely."

Reba shook her head as Barbara Jean waddled off. "Have a great time." Brock said smiling. "And don't worry about Kyra and Jake. They will be fine with us."

Reba nodded. "I know. Now leave." She said giving him a sweet smile. Brock rolled his eyes and walked away after his wife who was waddling across the street. Reba turned to Vic and smiled. "Let's get going." She said excitedly.

Vic chuckled and doubled checked the door to make sure it was securely locked. "Come on." He said, leading her to the car.

"You're really not going to tell me where we are going?" she asked with a yawn.

Vic chuckled and shook his head as he helped her into the car. "Nope, you will like the surprise though. Trust me."

"I trust you but I am just so excited to go." She said when he got into his side of the car. "I feel like I haven't been out in a while. I haven't really." She said as she thought about it. "Not since we came back from Rome."

Vic shrugged and pulled away from the curb. "You said it yourself once you were in your third trimester and once the baby was born we wouldn't be able to go anywhere very much. This will be our last vacation for a while."

Reba rubbed her belly and smiled. "We can take vacations with our baby."

"And our other children." He said with a grin.

Reba turned to him and gave him a look that asked 'what are you smoking?' "Unless you plan on getting a mistress where do these other children come in to play?"

Vic turned the corner and looked at her curiously. "You don't want anymore children with me?"

"It's not that I don't want anymore children with you it's the fact that I don't think I should because of my high blood pressure and I am pretty sure once this baby is born, menopause is right around the corner."

Vic chuckled. "I am sure we can monitor your blood pressure like we have been and I have seen a fifty year old give birth to a baby. You're only forty…"

"Watch it." She said warningly.

Vic smiled. "You're still young enough to not have to go through menopause just yet. I think we could have one more baby."

Reba shook her head and chuckled. "How about we have this baby and then we will talk okay?"

Vic sighed and nodded. "Okay." He stopped at a red light and pulled a pillow from the backseat. "I know you will want this sooner or later." Reba grinned and positioned the pillow behind her head. She sighed as she relaxed against it and she went straight to sleep.

Reba was jolted awake when the car came to a sudden stop. She looked around with blurry eyes and saw Vic smiling at her. "Sorry."

Reba just waved it off and yawned as her vision was becoming a little clearer. "Are we there?"

Vic shook his head. "Nope, just at the gas station about five miles away, we won't even make it there, even if we just have five miles to go if I don't get gas now. Did you want something?" he asked pointing to the store.

Reba thought about it for a moment and shook her head. "No, I have my bag of snacks I didn't eat." Vic nodded and left the car. Reba reached behind the back of his seat and pulled a plastic bag out filled with apples, bananas, and a jar of chocolate sauce. Reba's eyes lit up when she pulled the sauce and an apple out of the bag. She drizzled a little chocolate over the apple and moaned as she bit into it. She was so into the apple and chocolate she didn't hear the door open.

"It would be nice if you looked at me like that." Vic said jokingly.

Reba turned her head and rolled her eyes as she continued to munch. "I just like my apples."

"I like them too." He said glancing, not at the apple in her hand. Reba shook her head and smacked her husband playfully on the arm. "Of course…" he said pulling out of the gas station. "Now their more like melons than apples." Reba smacked him again and he just laughed. They drove down the street a little and Vic glanced at Reba with a small smile before turning his head back to the road. "Have you figured out where we are going?"

Reba looked at his confused. "I have been asleep. How am I to know?"

Vic smiled and shrugged. "Familiar surroundings."

Reba looked around and looked hard at everything they passed by but nothing seemed familiar to her. There were nothing but trees and they were on a dirt road. "I don't see anything familiar." She said turning to Vic.

Vic shrugged. "We are in a different area but I will tell you soon." He chuckled as he saw the frown on her face. "Don't worry; we will be there very soon. Just relax, try sleeping again."

"Well I can't now that you said I have been here. I am just so excited to know and you won't tell me." She said pouting.

Vic smiled and just patted her knee. "We will be there soon. Just relax, all right." Reba sighed and sat back against the pillow, watching the beautiful trees go by. Reba rested her eyes for just a moment and the next thing she knew… "Were here." Vic said smiling.

Reba popped her eyes open and smiled when a beautiful cabin came into view. It was a beautiful log cabin. Reba turned to him confused. "I have never been here before."

Vic shrugged and got out of the car. He helped her up and pulled her toward the back of the cabin. A beautiful beach came into her view. "I lied a bit to you. You haven't been here, to this cabin, but you have been to the beach across the lake over there." He said pointing.

Reba squinted across the way and her smile grew. It was the beach he took her to the day she was feeling so much better, when he was trying to get into her good graces. "Now I remember." She said with fondness. "It's too bad it's too cold to go swimming. I would have considered skinny dipping." She said with a grin.

Vic turned to her in surprise. "You weren't kidding when you said you have a wild side."

Reba chuckled and turned to walk towards the cabin. "Now if you show me the rest of this cabin I might just show you the rest of my wild side." She said with a suggestive eyebrow.

Vic grinned and practically dragged her up to the cabin. Reba chuckled as he threw open the door. She stepped inside and it was so beautiful. The living room was decorated with checkered blue couches, a big screen television, and a beautiful fire place with a lovely soft looking rug in front of it. Reba grinned when she saw the rug. "You must be thinking the same thing I am." Vic said grinning from ear to ear.

Reba blushed and Vic pulled her quickly away from the living room. "This is the kitchen. It looks like a kitchen…" He pulled her again away quickly. "This is the bathroom." He pulled her away again. "And this is the bedroom, tours over, let the wild side begin." He said with a grin.

Reba laughed and pushed him away as he tried to pull her into a kiss. "Just relax. I want to look around." Reba smiled at the king size bed and the beautiful fire place. The whole cabin was beautiful and it was decorated cabin traditional with a hint of modern age décor. Reba loved it. She stepped up to the sliding glass door that led to the balcony. "It's too bad I am pregnant. We could have taken advantage of the hot tub." She said pointing to the beautiful hot tub on the balcony.

Vic smiled and nodded. "Maybe another time." He said with a grin.

"Now…" she said stepping towards him with a smile. "Show me how comfortable the sheets of this bed are." She said with a giggle.

They spent the rest of the night indulging in their love and they tested the lovely shower pressure of the bathroom the next morning. Reba couldn't believe how lucky she had gotten with Vic. After their shower he had made her go back to bed so he could bring her breakfast in bed. He made sure she and the baby were always comfortable. She was an idiot for waiting so long to marry him. "I love it here!" she said grinning as she walked into the kitchen in the afternoon after her nap.

Vic grinned. "I thought you would." He said, flipping a grilled cheese in the pan. "We can come back anytime we want. I own this place."

Reba's eyes lit up. "You do?" she asked as she sat down at the table.

Vic nodded. "The family owns this whole lake. My family shares this cabin but I am the only one who lives in Houston so really I am the only one who is able to enjoy it."

Reba looked at him curiously. "I thought your dad lived here in Houston?"

"My father lives everywhere." Vic said, sliding the grilled cheese onto a plate. He handed it over to Reba, knowing she would be hungry. "He has a place in Houston, in LA, New York, Miami…of course Miami is really a getaway for him and his girlfriend of the week, not really for business. He stays in New York a lot. I guess because he gets a lot of business there." Vic paused for a moment as he placed cheese slices on the bread in the pan. "I don't think my father has even been here since him and my mother divorced." Vic shrugged and walked to the refrigerator.

Reba just grinned. "More time for us to spend here then." She said as she bit into her sandwich. Reba glanced at it in surprise. "This is really good." She said through a mouthful of cheese. "What's in it?"

"Onions, pepper, and oregano." He said, as he bent down to look through the crisper for another onion.

Reba nodded. "It's excellent. It's only missing…" Reba smiled when Vic turned back from the refrigerator and set a jar of chocolate sauce in front of her. "Thank you." She said pouring a glop of it onto her plate.

For the rest of the day they spent it in the living room, just enjoying each other's company and enjoying the time they had alone before the baby came. Vic made Reba a candlelight dinner and it consisted of nothing but Greek food, which Reba enjoyed immensely. After dinner Vic had convinced Reba of watching a scary movie, which he was happy he did because every time something jumped onto the screen Reba would practically jump onto his lap. He didn't mind that at all.

"I didn't like it." Reba pouted when Vic put the DVD away.

Vic grinned. "I sure liked it when you jumped into my lap."

Reba glared at him and Vic turned off the TV. Reba frowned. "I thought we were going to watch Fried Green Tomatoes. You promised."

Vic smiled. "I have something better than that movie." He said disappearing into the kitchen.

Reba grinned when he returned with a champagne bucket that had sparkling grape juice in it and two glasses. "Come here." He said helping her up. He brought her over to the beautiful rug and when she felt it under her bare feet it was as soft as she had imagined. He helped her sit down comfortably on the rug and then Vic took a remote that turned on the fireplace.

"Wow." Reba said when the flames appeared in front of her.

Vic disappeared once more into the kitchen and brought out a dish. Reba's eyes lit up when she saw the chocolate covered strawberries. "I know they are your favorite thing to add with chocolate."

"Yes they are." She said taking one from the bowl. Vic poured her some juice and handed it over. Reba smiled and took a sip. "This is the perfect day." Reba said smiling. "I can't thank you enough for bringing me here. This is just what I needed to relax." She said with a sigh.

"I have another way you can relax." He said suggestively.

Reba giggled and set her glass aside. "You really have a problem." She said as he set his glass aside as well and pulled her close.

Vic grinned and ran his hand over her beautiful body. "I don't hear you complaining."

Vic kissed her with so much passion and Reba sighed with content as he moved his lips to her jaw line and then to her neck. Reba bit her lip and gripped his shoulders as he slowly laid her back against the soft rug. They were so into each other and the world around them seemed to fade.

"Ouch." Reba suddenly said after a few minutes of passionate kissing and the movement from first base to second.

Vic pulled away and sat up in alarm, afraid he had hurt her. "Are you okay? I'm sorry. We'll stop."

Reba grinned and chuckled but there was a hint of concern in her voice. "It's not you." She said gripping her stomach. "Vic…honey…" she said sitting up with the help of her husband. "I think I just had a contraction."

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