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Chapter 12

He looked at Kate, and spoke aloud to all of them

" I got the all clear!"

" what?" Alexis squealed! He looked at his two daughters and said

" he said I've healed perfectly. I'm fit and fine and allowed to lead a normal life again! I can get back to all physical activity"

" all physical activity?" Kate asked with a sparkle in her eyes.

And he replied with a naughty smirk "that's exactly what he said"

They held eachother's gaze for a moment, forgetting the presence of their teenage daughters in the room. His eyes began to wander down his wife's body and she bit down on her lip already dreaming up fantasies of them getting it on tonight.

"Ewww! Both of you stop it!" Avril squealed and brought her hands up to cover her eyes. Kate laughed and Rick admired it. He then plopped himself in the little space between his daughters and put both his arms around them. "I want to do something tomorrow"

"Like what?" Alexis asked excitedly.

"Let's go bungee jumping"

"Oh no you don't!" Kate interjected, she sat before them on the edge of the coffee table and said
"Don't you go over doing your freedom"

"Bungee jumping is not 'overdoing'. What I'm going to do with you tonight... now that will be…"

"Lalalalalalalala..." Avril started singing out loud and holding her ears closed.

"Oh my god! Did no one teach you to how to behave among kids?" Alexis spoke out loud.

Kate couldn't help her laughter at the girls' reactions.

"Hey, don't blame me... I've been denied..."

"Don't even think about finishing that sentence!" Kate warned him with a glare.

"Everything's so extreme between you two" Avril exclaimed.

"It's always been that way." He had eyes only for the woman before him, even though he was talking to his daughters.

"And I wouldn't want it any different" she replied.

Kate wanted to grab his face and kiss him senseless. But she knew that would make the kids uncomfortable. So she held back, knowing too well, he was reading her. He knew what she wanted.

And they both knew, it would'nt be long until they would finally be all to themselves.

"Come on, dinner is served. I'll go get Kaylee, she's slept long enough. For now." She got off the coffee table and walked to the kitchen, and the girls followed behind her.

Extreme was an understatement to describe everything they've been through recently. But they're alive and doing great, and they had three beautiful daughters. Everything they've been through, had all been worth it. Life was beautiful and their love was only growing stronger.

After dinner, they all sat around in the living room, to watch a movie. Kate took Kaylee in her arms and snuggled with her on the couch, and rick sat by her side, holding her close to him. Avril and Alexis sat below the couch, making themselves comfortable with a few pillows around them.

It was a chick flick, and really, Rick had no interest in watching. However, there was something else that seemed to have his attention. And she always did. He was staring at Kate, staring at the way she kept placing soft kisses in their baby's hair, the way she was whispering sweet nothings in her tiny ears, how she would close her eyes and just take a deep inhale of that beautiful scent of her baby. And then coo at her and kiss her soft fingers.

Kate could never get enough of her, and rick could never get enough of watching them. Watching Kate with Kaylee was the most adorable thing ever. It was a mother-daughter bond you'd find nowhere else. Clearly, Kate was not paying attention to the movie either. She suddenly turned to look at him and found his staring at her.

She raised an eyebrow "What?" she mouthed to him.

He shook his head to say "Nothing"

She smiled at him, and leaned up a little to kiss him softly and then whispered "just a little while more, and you can do more than staring"

"I can't wait" he admitted and kissed her again. The credits started to roll in, and the girls got up, said their goodnights and went to bed. Kate wanted to spend a little more time with Kaylee, but the tiny little girl was sleepy again because she had just fed her.
So she decided she'd better clear up the kitchen a bit before getting to bed.

"Castle, could you put her to sleep? I'll just finish up with the dishes and then come upstairs"

"I got it, don't worry" he assured her and slowly took Kaylee from her arms. He kissed his sleepy little girl and then said

"I'll put her to sleep, and then wait for you in bed." He winked "Don't keep me waiting too long"

She stepped into his space and said up close at his lips. "Trust me; I want this just as bad as you do"

"I won't believe it till I see it" he turned around with a smirk on his face and walked to the nursery they had made especially for her, in a room that was close to their own.

When Kate was done she went to the nursery, wondering if castle was still there. She found the lights turned down, and Kaylee fast asleep in her crib. She lightly brushed her cheek with the back of her finger and whispered "Good night Kaylee, Mommy loves you so much"

Kate walked through the study and opened the door to their room, to find Castle sitting on his side of the bed, shirtless, wearing only his boxer shorts, looking through something in the drawer of his bedside table. He hadn't noticed her presence in the room.

She tiptoed to her side of the bed and slowly, very silently took off her top and her pants. She let her hair lose, and carefully climbed into bed. She was careful to not let the dip in the bed be noticed by him and in a flash, she put her arms around his neck and let her hands wander down his chest, feeling up his upper body to both their delights. Her wandering hands made him smile. And she began softly kissing down the side of his neck.

He hummed his appreciation. "You made me wait quite a while"

"I hope you didn't think of starting without me"

"I'd never" he said with a confident smile. She let his back press into her body, and he could feel the roughness of the lace on her. He recognized that lace like the back of his hand. He knew all of her lingerie by heart. Most of it, he had bought for her.

She nibbled on his ear and kissed skin passionately; making him feel things he'd been waiting to feel for so long. And then as if he'd read her mind, she got rid of her bra. He smiled. Her warm skin on his back, her delicious lips on his skin, her soft palms grazing his body, he lost all control in a second.

Kate didn't know how and when, but she suddenly found herself, pinned down to the bed, and her husband on top of her, staring into her eyes, his eyes had darkened and hell, it did things to her. She wiggled under his weight. She could feel him through two last layers of clothing that were keeping them apart.

"Rick..."

he balanced the weight of his upper body on one palm and with the other, he began to touch her, starting with her cheek, caressing her face and admiring the feel of her skin against his hand.

His hand wandered down the side of her neck, her collar bone, feeling her skin fire up against his palm. She had her eyes closed. He wondered what his touch was doing to her. They were doing this after so long, he just wanted to imprint all of this into his memory forever.

His hand found her breast, and he watched as she opened her eyes to look at him, to watch the huger grow in him, he cupped her, and fondled her, and she writhed under his touch. He squeezed, and tweaked, and had her panting and softly whispering his name.

Her hand had reached out to cup the back of his head; she needed to kiss him, to feel that hunger on his lips, to show him how hungry she was for him. No, it wasn't a hunger, it was stronger, it was a thirst. Yes, thirsts felt stronger than hungers. She wanted to taste his lips again, and feast on them and devour them, devour all of him.

But he had plans of his own; his lips brushed against her collar bone, sending goose bumps down her body, adrenaline through her veins, and pure delight down to her core. His breath was warm against her skin. Everything was just really hot! And she was burning with desire. So much so, that she couldn't form coherent words for the life of her. There were words and strong emotions being created at the back of her throat but they were resounding through her lips as mere moans and whimpers.

His hand left her breast and wandered lower. She almost screamed at him because of the loss of his touch on her. Almost. But then she felt his touch again. He was caressing her hip; his fingers teasing near her inner thigh, then back up over her abdomen.

"Take it off" she whispered to him.

He looked up at her, and the look on her face, the way she was biting down on her lip, he could see her anticipation. It was just as naked as her.

He crawled back up to her and kissed her, invading her mouth with his tongue, making her mad. Her hands wandered down his back, holding him close to her. She had been craving this. This feeling of his strong body, over hers, covering her with all of his finely toned, rugged body.

It was that feeling of sinking into their bed under him that made her feel over powered by him. She rarely let anyone over power her strength, but there was something about the way he made love to her when he was on top, and it was happening again.
Only this time, it was a mix of love, lust, longing, passion, and a flaming hot desire to just feel and be one again.

She didn't realize when and how it happened, but he had rid her of all clothing now. She was bare naked under him. She wondered how she was missing the parts where he made those moves. But then again, his lips were distracting her. She cradled his lower body between her legs, and grinded against him. A deep groan resonated in him and vibrated through his chest, and against her.

"Woman, the things you're doing to me!"

"Show me! Show me what I'm doing to you"

She sounded so needy that he swore he could have just gotten off on her voice." Her hand had inched down to slip into his boxers and find him. And god, if her palm could make him feel so good right now, he couldn't wait to be inside her.

"Take it off Rick! Now" she tried pushing the elastic of his shorts down, finally he took them off and aligned himself above her.

Both of them gloriously naked for each other, he kissed her again, and he could feel the warmth of her against his manhood, the pool of desire that he created there. he kissed her like there was no tomorrow, because really, he couldn't care less about a tomorrow, he was living out all he could tonight, cause he'd waited too long to be able to feel this connected with her again.

She sucked on his lower lip and he kissed and kissed until her entire body hummed for him. She was trying to grind herself against him, so he finally held himself at her entrance, and watched her as he entered her. Her face spoke volumes of what she was feeling.
Hell if there was one thing he really admired about this woman, it was how responsive she was in bed. He hadn't moved, just placed himself inside her, and she already looked like she was ready to finish.

"Move castle!" She ordered.

He pinned her arms above her head, held them with one hand and began kissing her again, moving only slightly. She moaned in his kiss, he wanted to hear her, hear more of her, so his lips travelled to her jaw, kissing her jaw line and then down her neck, and then lower until he could tweak her pink buds with his teeth, just enough to make her body go crazy..

His free hand helped in giving her body sensations she'd been craving for months now, his hands wandered on her torso, his palms making love to her skin as he kissed and thrust into her slowly, yet sturdily.

There was a sound. It was so soft they could have missed it, had it gotten hidden among their own sounds. He stopped his ministrations on her.

"What was that?"

Kate looked around, and her eyes were drawn to the baby monitor at the same time they heard the soft cries of little Kaylee.

"She's got amazing timing" he panted. He was half joking.

She hit him playfully. "Rick!"

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