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APOV

Noah comes home from summer school today, Maia has her final doctors appointment to see if she can hear without hearing aids and tomorrow Christian and I have our three month appointment with Erica Greene. Yep, we are three months pregnant because of Mr. Determination who is my husband. He has to have some sort of super sperm or somethings since we are expecting triplets which no one in the family knows about yet. I think a few expect multiples since I am showing more and sooner then I did with Noah and Maia.

Christian had sent his company jet to pick Noah up so we are waiting on the tar mac of Teterboro Airport for it to land. Maia is off with someone who works here and is taking the time to learn what they do, the guys is patient since the questions have not ended.

"Mommy, it's landing!" Maia shouts.

I wave to acknowledge I heard her since she has soundproof headphones on right now. You have to laugh at how adorable she is and how frustrated she is making her father.

We were all under house arrest for three more weeks after I killed Kevin, only leaving for events that could not be rescheduled like Maia's birthday party. She is going to be something big, our little attention seeker. We are probably going to have to reign her in at some point in the near future before she tries to de-throne Christian before her eleventh birthday.

The jet lands and we wait for the stairs to be set and the door opened, Maia can't wait for Noah to make it down so she tackles him on the stairs. Christian takes my hand and leads me over to the jet, he pulls Maia off of Noah by her belt and she flails in the air. I help Noah up and hug him, we have adjusted to each other. Noah and mine's relationship is not like Maia and mine's, we're getting there but we are granting each other space and time to really know each other. I've learned a lot but there is more to him then what you see.

"How was the program?" I ask.

"Great, it wasn't just drawing. I took some painting classes and I can't wait to show everyone what I have done, I made something for everyone in the family and even stuff for dad's office at GEH," Noah beams, then looks me up and down. "You look more pregnant then anyone else has at three months."

"She does, and we were waiting for you to come back to tell you both at the same time. I know we told you that you would have a little brother or sister, but how would the two of you like to have three?" Christian smiles.

"Three!" Maia exclaims.

"Wow, trying to play catch up dad?" Noah teases.

"Ah, well Mia still has us beat, you should see Ava," I joke.

We all load into the car, the Audi R S7 Sportback is obviously Christian's favourite since we have more of them then we need. We head into the city while staff loads his luggage and art into the Cadillac Sedan Taylor drove over. We first head to the hospital for Maia's appointment, Noah is the one in there with her because she kicked Christian and I to the waiting room. Grace comes over and sits by us, she still doesn't like me.

"Are you still coming to dinner on friday night at our house are do you think you will keep my son and grandchildren in that penthouse for a while before you let them out," Grace sneered but her voice was sweet and calm when addressing Christian. "Son, your father wants to talk to you soon about a possible new alliance in Seattle but it will be up to you."

"Mother, unless you are pleasant with my wife you will not be seeing us friday, I make the decisions not Anastasia. Please go back to work and I will call dad tonight and discuss everything he needs to discuss," Christian grimaced.

I know he hates the way his family still treats me but I also know that it hurts him that he has to be harsh and cold with them to get his point across. Unfortunately, Grace has yet to get the hint so he still has to be that way with her.

"Of course dear, it was lovely to see you both."

I looked at Christian and once she rounded the corner we both burst out laughing, you could see that those words tasted like vinegar but she managed to say them anyway. Cooper, the pediatrician, lead both Maia and Noah out of the exam room. Maia sat on Christian's lap and looked at both of us, Noah and Cooper standing back.

"No more Jurassic Park or anything with subtitles or hearing aids," Maia beamed.

Christian squished her, handed her to me so I could hug her then to all of our surprise he hugged and thanked Cooper and I did the same. Noah picked Maia up onto her back and they looked at us, I could see Grace looking at us from her office door window.

"Everything, all the reconstruction and function seems fine but for the next year I would recommend minimal flying and swimming, probably mountain climbing should be off the table for a little while as well. This is all just precautionary, every three months we should have a check up with me or Mark her ENT and all will be well. Noah's school called and asked if I could do all the vaccinations and standard physical before school begins so I scheduled him in on monday, August twenty-fourth, same time as always," Cooper explained.

We leave with some of the best news we could have imagined, heading home to our castle in the sky at Times Warner Center. Jason and Gail are waiting for us with both Maia's and Noah's favourite foods as a congratulations. According to Jason they put all the crates with Noah's artwork into the library and did not open any so we will eat then look at all of that.

Ever since we found out that we were expecting three Christian has had Gail measure out every meal, every snack and log the times and calories for his own Obsessive Protective Disorder, or OPD for short. Kate and I came up with it as a joke a little over a month ago. We all laugh about it but sometimes it is harder then they think, dealing with him day in and day out.

After dinner we follow Noah into the study where Jason hands him a crowbar and I step back, two weeks ago I watch Christian kill someone in two hits with one of those, but I had killed Kevin with my bare hands.

I thought I would be guilt ridden when I killed him, and I was for about a week but then I remember him threatening the kids, me and he brought up my past. He talked about and was friends with Jack and Jose, I couldn't take it. I have no real idea what happened but it's like I snapped, it felt as though I was watching a film on a screen and not really doing it myself. Once I realized what happened I did shut down for about a week or two but then I realized that had I not something more could have come up. Something that Christian doesn't know and I couldn't allow that, not then and not now.

The first crate he opened was filled up with poster board sized pieces of drawing paper, fifty or so sheets all with different focuses. A series of our family, other kids in his class, landscapes and some with colour. Each person in the family had a portrait done by our very gifted son, god I don't think I could ever be more proud of him.

The second crate was more of that paper but paired with each of the twenty five sheets in that set was a photograph, fifteen seemed personal and ten looked like they were just given to him with no other back story. The ones in colour looked as though they were edited on the computer to look hand drawn, I mean come on, how amazing can a fourteen year old get?

The third crate had fifteen canvas's that were acrylic paintings, bold and vibrant with colour in which his gifts still flow through. There were five that were obviously a set and sent Maia off on how amazing Noah is and that he is the best brother in the whole world. A triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, stegosaurus, apatosaurus and an ankylosaurus which Maia ran off with ease; to me there is the three horn, chomper with tiny arms, spike tail, long neck and the spiky shell with hammer tail thing. Maia gets mad when we don't call them by their real names.

"Happy I made you some dinosauroses?" Noah teased.

She hit him, hard. The tiny ten year old hit her older brother who is nearly fifteen hard enough to make him stumble back. Not going to say he deserved it because he didn't but he also knows how she can react to these 'jokes'. She told Noah to fuck off in sign language which I called her out on, she rolled her eyes and Christian spanked her. With the kids they get as many spanks depending on how old they are. It rarely happens but if enough things pile on top of each other Christian will break and I don't blame him. Maia then sat on one of the chairs and pouted while we opened the last crate.

The final crate held twenty canvas oil paintings that looked real, all of family members. I recognize each from pictures that Noah showed me on his phone back in May. They took every word of my vocabulary away, I can't describe the quality or my emotions I stood there gaping. I looked at Christian and we shared the same expression.

After the kids were in bed Christian went into his office to call his dad and I laid in bed pretty much naked except for my panties and examined my body and all the changes. With Noah I started to show at five months, same with Maia, and here I am already feeling bloated and showing as if I was five months. Shit, what if that is why Grace and everyone hates me. They think I am five months pregnant and that it is not Christian's. When Christian walks out of his office to find me poking at my breasts he laughs.

"Kitten, your body will change. You can't stop it," He chuckles.

"Do you think since I look like I did at five months with Noah and Maia your family has other thoughts about this, about me. Is that why they hate me?" I ask.

"You want to tell them?"

"I think it would be smart, I hate feeling like such an outsider and… I don't know… hated by them and I am already hated by my own… it's stupid but… only if you want to tell them Christian."

"We'll tell everyone at dinner friday, as long as Mouse doesn't let it slip first. Personally I am getting really sick of everyone's behaviour with you and I am about done. Speaking of, how you would feel about a move?" He asks.

"Move where?"

"Seattle, the Russians are building up but we have allied with them before. GEH has been looking into setting up a west coast base and there are a few shipping yards I want to buy for it. Who knows, it could be a really good experience for all of us. We would have Mouse with us and Noah will be at school in Michigan anyway."

"Can I think about it, we need to talk to Maia and Noah first before any final decisions are made. It's just really close to… it doesn't matter. Your decision."

He stripped down to his boxers then laid down beside me, pulling the sheet over us and opened his arm so I could curl in by him. Our usual bed routine. Christian either likes me to sleep in the silk nightgowns with no bra or panties or just my panties, don't know why but it makes him happy.

I wake up to the sun beaming in through the window and Christian sucking on my clit, I'm spread out moaning and writhing with my wrists and ankles tied to each of the corners of the bed. I panic and begin to struggle and fight against him.

"Now Kitten, you should relax."

Instinct is to far gone as I fight and thrash against the restraints, I love him with all my heart but this always scares me and I don't know why. At least this time he didn't put a blindfold on me. He moves up my body, taking time to suckle on each sensitive breast before latching onto my mouth and plunging his cock into my core. His pace is fast and harsh, relentless as I explode more then once all over him.

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