The couple had spent the afternoon wandering through the streets of Toronto. Julia wanted to enter almost all children's shop and William was surprised at how she seemed perfectly know their locations. He wondered if she had already spent afternoons in watching the windows, to imagine to enter to shop. William wondered if she had already imagined mother, he wondered if she had had the desire sometimes, but she does not talk to him. When he saw Julia buy a small stuffed bunny and saw the huge smile she sent him, he could not help but smile back, making note he would ask her one day. Well then, as they walked on the sidewalk back to the hotel only carrying two small packets of nappies and the small rabbit danced already in the hands of Roland, they stopped on a bench. Julia pulled the baby's pram and she lay him on her lap.
-Oh, but I think you need to be changed little angel, she says, smiling.
-Here? William threw watching around them.
-William it's a baby, Julia replied smiling, he needs to be clean and dry he doesn't care about anything else. Here, give me a diaper, please.
Detective Murdoch sat next to his wife immediately obeyed, leaving the diaper cloth bag he was holding. Then he looked at Julia put a cloth on her knees beneath and undo the buttons of his dress when she took her eyes off the boy. She continued to smile widely at him without stops talking softly. She opened his diaper and she took it to lay it on the bench beside her. She cleaned and she took the proffered her husband to tie it around the waist of the boy, then for the dress. Julia then took him against her and placed tender kisses on his face before she turned to William who had not taken his eyes off for a second. She smiled at him and he did the same before stroking the cheek of Roland dearly. Then after a few minutes spent on the bench to savor the moment, they turned and they entered the hotel.
-Madam and Mr. Murdoch, gave the young receptionist seeing them arrive, everything was delivered in your suite. And let me congratulate you.
-Thank you John, William replied, putting his hand in the back of Julia, we're ecstatic.
-Oh and he is so adorable, he said, bending over the pram to see Roland playing with his rabbit and smiling broadly, I will ensure that my wife does not meet him right away, she might want to take him.
-We will ensure him well do not worry, Julia replied smiling.
They even exchanged glances and Julia gently pushed Roland down the stairs.
-Good evening Mr. and Mrs. Murdoch, I will try to note that now you'll have to climb children's dishes.
-Thank you, you are very kind, said Julia, good evening to you too. And say hello to Mary.
-I will.
They separated and Julia leaned into the pram to take the baby in her arms while William grabbed the empty pram to follow his wife down the stairs and joining them on. They were surprised to see all the boxes that were delivered and they exchanged a glance, enough for Julia to speak.
-At least he will lack nothing, she says before dropping a kiss on the lips of William to be forgiven of her buying when he had raised an eyebrow at the ceiling, I will prepare him a bath waiting may be could you assemble the crib?
He shook his head from side to side with a smile before see her heading to the bathroom, holding Roland against her.
He spent a few minutes when William heard Julia sing and laughing in the next room with the door left open. He finished up the small crib and he was rather proud of the result, when Julia came into his back to come kiss him under his ear.
-I knew that my husband was gifted with his hands, she murmured in a low voice before walking away and give him a look of mischief and desire.
They went to the table a few minutes later, eating quietly, Julia tempting to give the mashed vegetables at Roland who nevertheless refused to eat and spread in the face. The young woman was desperate and William was trying to keep from laughing when he saw her crestfallen. After all, they did not know this little boy, they did not know what he liked or not, and Julia had a great Doctor, she had held a cabinet where she had cared for women and young children, she never was busy giving them food and she had never spent more than an hour with them. At that moment, she finally saw that the task would be prove to be harder than expected.
Thus, after long minutes of weeping and mashed stolen, they left the table. Julia undertook Roland to clean and change him for clean clothes, and then she had joined William in the living room to sit beside him, still clutching Roland in her arms. She would not let him go, not for a second and it was only when he slept against her for long minutes she agreed to put him to bed. She joined the room and circled the marital bed to deposit Roland in the one William had ridden a few minutes earlier. She covered him and planted a long kiss on his forehead.
-Sleep well little angel, she murmured, smiling, sitting up.
Yet she did not leave the bed, her hands on the amount, her eyes always set on the child sleeping peacefully. It spent a few minutes before William arrives at her back and take her in his arms. She closed her eyes, feeling the hands of William landed on her belly and his warm breath travel in her neck.
-I could watch him for hours, murmured the young woman paying attention to the child again while laying her hands on those of her husband.
-I understand, said William, he is adorable.
-So you too have fallen under his spell?
-Completely, admitted William chuckled, although he has a tendency to want to redecorate the suite with mashed vegetables.
They both laughed softly and Julia sighed contentedly, leaning back a little against William's chest.
-We are a family now, she said softly, I did not think it could happen that way. But I regret nothing.
-Me neither, except for a small thing perhaps.
Julia turned around, feeling her heart sink in her chest when he heard the words of her husband. She caught his eye and he tenderly stroked her chin before speaking again plunging his eyes into hers.
-I'm going to have much less my lovely wife for myself.
-Do you scared that we are less willing to make love? And that this happens less often?
-No ... Um ... I, tammered William blushing always uncomfortable talking about this stuff, I do not speak only of this.
-Do not worry Murdoch, Julia replied smiling before moving her arms around his neck, I am still willing to make love with you when Roland sleeps. And I think he went there to dreamland. Then she continued, tenderly stroking his tie knot, what if we celebrate the news of the reach of our son? Only you and me?
-Mmmmh, I like the idea, William whispered on her lips drawing Julia against him.
They exchanged a glance and a second after they sealed their lips for a long, deep and languorous kiss who cut their breath.
-The living room? William proposed , stroking his wife's hips before kissing the thin skin of her neck.
-We should not wake him, sighed Julia legs already shaking at the attentions of her husband.
He then push him away from her after another kiss and he took her in his arms to carry her into the living room. With delicacy, William laid her on the floor and he joined her a second later to cover her with kisses, caress and make love to her for several minutes.
to be continued...