Two months had passed. Juliette was amazed in those two months how much Lexie had already grown and how much she'd learned. Every minute he had free John was at Juliette and Rick's house spending time with Lexie. That's why it couldn't have made Rick happier when John went back out of the road two weeks ago. Juliette was sitting in the kitchen feeding Lexie. Rick came into the kitchen.

"How are my girls this morning?" He asked.

"We're good."

"I was thinking Juliette." Rick said as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "Tonight maybe we can finally do that thing we haven't done in awhile."

"If you mean what I think you mean ok."

"Good." He said grinning. "I've missed that part of our relationship." "I know it makes me sound like a pig for saying so."

"No because I've missed it to."

"I've gotta go."

"Ok." They kissed. "I love you."

"I love you too." "Stepdaddy loves you Lexie." He said kissing the top of her head.

Later that afternoon Lexie was on the floor playing with her toys. She started to fuss.

"What's wrong with mommy's little muffin?" Juliette said picking her up. She stopped fussing. "Oh you wanted mommy to pick you up huh?" "Well mommy's happy to pick you up." Juliette's cell phone started to ring. "Hello?" She said.

"Hi." John said.

"Hi."

"How are you and Lexie doing?"

"Good."

"I miss her."

"I know."

"I have a favor to ask."

"What?"

"I have a few shows to do in Massachusetts next month." "I wanna take Lexie with me."

"How long?"

"Three days."

"Ok."

"Good. "My parents are dying to meet her." "They would like to meet you at some point to."

"Why?"

"Well you are the mother of my child."

"I don't know how Rick would feel about that."

"You can bring him along." "Can I talk to Lexie?"

"Yeah I'll put it on speaker." She hit the speaker phone button. "Go ahead."

"Hi Lexie." Lexie got a smile on her face and started kicking her legs. "It's daddy."

"John you should see her she's so excited."

"Do you miss daddy?" "Daddy misses you." "Next month we're gonna go to where daddy grew up to visit grandma and grandpa." "It's gonna be fun." "Listen be good for your mommy and I will see in a couple weeks." "I love you."

"Say buh bye daddy." She took it off speaker phone. "I have to go John." "It's time for Lexie's nap."

"Ok." "Give her a kiss for me."

"I will." "Bye."

"Bye."

Later that night Juliette had put Lexie to bed about an hour ago. She was upstairs taking a shower. Rick was downstairs. Juliette's cell phone started to ring. Rick answered it.

"Hello?" Rick said

"Why are you answering Juliette's phone?" John asked.

"She's in the shower." "Why are you calling her?"

"I wanted to check on Lexie."

"Don't give me that bullshit." "You know when Lexie's bedtime is." "You called to talk to Juliette."

"Yeah." "Maybe I did." "What are you gonna do about it Rick?"

"Oh there's plenty I can do."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"I'm not afraid of you."

"You know what I'm gonna do tonight John?" "I'm gonna have sex with Juliette, my wife." "Why don't you take a minute and think about no matter how bad you want to, you'll never touch her again."

"Alright you wanna go there?" "Let's go there asshole." "I may not be able to touch Juliette again but on the night we made our daughter I touched her." "I touched her all over her body and she loved it." "Which told me she's not getting it very well on your end."

"You don't know anything about our sex life."

"Tell me this." "Has she ever told you you're the best lover she's ever had?" "She's said it to me." Rick didn't say anything. "Yeah that's what I thought."

"Fuck off." Rick hung up.

Juliette was getting ready for bed. Rick was in the bathroom in his boxers sitting on the toilet. He was holding a condom that was still in the wrapper. He took a needle and poked five little holes in it. If he had his way Juliette would be pregnant again in no time. He went into the bedroom.

"Wow you look amazing." He said seeing Juliette in her nighty.

"Thank you."

"Don't worry I stocked up on these." He said holding up the condom that was still in the wrapper. "We won't run out for months."

"Good." "Come here." He went over to her. They kissed. He laid her down on the bed and looked down at her.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Afterwards they were cuddling.

"Juliette." Rick said.

"What?"

"Who's the best lover you've ever had?"

"You are of course."

"Really?" He said smiling.

"Yeah." "Why do you think I married you?" She said jokingly.

"So it was purely for my skills in bed?"

"Yeah." "I'm kidding." She said smiling.

"I know." They kissed.

Fifteen minutes later they were both almost asleep. They heard crying on the baby monitor. Juliette went to get up.

"Lay back down baby." Rick said. "I'll go."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"Thank you."

"No problem." He kissed her. He put on a t-shirt and sweatpants and went downstairs to make Lexie's bottle.

He went into Lexie's room and put a little pillow over the baby monitor she Juliette couldn't hear what he was saying. He picked Lexie up and sat in the rocking chair with her. He put the bottle in her mouth.

"There that's better huh?" He said quietly. "You know Lexie your real daddy is a loser." "That's ok though because you have me and I love you." "If anything ever happens to your real daddy like he happens to get shot until the clip is empty, I will step in and be your daddy." "We can change your last name to." "From your daddy's yucky last name to my last name." "Soon your mommy will be pregnant again." "When you're around one or so you'll have someone to play with." "It'll be fun." "I hate that I have to trick her like this but I know she wouldn't want to have a baby this early." "I know your mommy will be sad if I ever have to take care of your daddy." "I have a feeling he's not going to leave me with a choice." "No one will ever take you or your mommy away from me." "I promise Lexie." He burped her and put her back in her crib. "Goodnight." He kissed her forehead. "I love you."