Chapter 24

Shepherd

I know we don't have all the specifics worked out. Will she move in with me? Or will we get a place together?

Or will I live here with her?

There are so many unanswered questions, and I know we'll figure everything out.

But not right now.

I know the look she's giving me. My girl needs me.

And I always need her. It's insane how badly I do. Every time I'm around her my body grows hungry for her.

We make it to the bedroom and get ready for bed, and I spoon her against me. I really want this to work, and after her scare in the ER, I don't want to push her for anything she doesn't want to do.

But I want to kiss her again. I want to break all these rules she placed over our friends-with-benefits arrangement.

Because she's mine now.

I reposition her body so she's facing me, and she smiles warmly up at me. My heart pounds wildly in my chest. "There's something I've wanted to do for a really long time."

She blinks up at me. "What's that?"

I lean in, capturing her soft lips with mine. I tug her closer, and her leg lifts over my hip. The kiss deepens, starting out soft and mild, but quickly growing more needy. I break the kiss. "I don't want to hurt the baby," I tell her.

"I feel good, Shep. I want you."

I search her brown eyes. "Are you sure?"

She smiles wide and the sight of it nearly takes my breath away. "I'm sure, Shepherd."

I roam my hands over her sweet body, breathing her in. Memorizing every single moment with her. Our lives are about to change, and every cell in my body welcomes it all. "I need to be inside you," I tell her, returning my mouth to her lips.

"Yes," she moans out, and then in a hurry, I remove her night clothes.

I run my hands all over her body. She's sexy. Especially with my baby inside her. I think that's what turns me on the most, knowing she's carrying our child.

I can't wait to be a family with her.

I kiss her soft lips, slanting my mouth over hers. "I've never wanted anyone like this before," I tell her.

She moans out as I take her mouth deep and hard with my tongue, letting her know how turned on I am. I like kissing her.

I position her beneath me as my mouth explores her heated skin. "I want to taste you everywhere," I tell her as my lips roam down her neck, over the column of her throat, and along her collarbone. My hands trace over her legs, up her knee, and to the apex between her thighs.

"Are you going to get undressed?" she asks me, and I smile down at her.

"Eventually." I open my mouth, bringing it down over one of the tits. "I kind of like exploring you instead."

"But I want to explore you too," she whines, and I remove my shirt in one swift move.

"Better?"

She smiles wide, her eyes lighting up. "Yes, I love your muscles. And you have a six-pack. Come on, I've never seen a man with a six-pack up close and personal before."

"You do know this isn't the first time we've had sex, right?"

"Yeah, but it's the first time I'm actually seeing you, and getting to explore you."

I grab her hand in mine, roaming it down my chest, letting her fingers feel the many nooks and valleys of my body. "You've got me rock hard," I tell her, and her eyes meet mine.

She licks her lips. "Quite literally." She keeps tracing her fingers up and down my washboard abs.

I like it. I love that she appreciates my body and that makes me happy I've kept going to the gym, even on days when I haven't felt like it. Because I'm quickly realizing I want to make her happy. No matter how.

That smile on her face is something I want there permanently.

I take my time to explore her body, running my hand over her belly. "I don't want to hurt him," I whisper.

Felicity laughs lightly. "You can't. It's physically impossible. Even with how big you are."

I laugh, and then roll over onto my back, bringing her along with me so she's straddling my chest. "You like this big dick?" I ask her.

"I want to look at it better."

I lift her quickly so I can remove my shorts and boxers, and settle her back down on my lap. I fist a hand around the base of my cock. "How about now?"

She licks those fucking lips again as her eyes gaze at my dick like they're meeting for the first time. She lowers herself, swiping her tongue along the tip of my engorged head.

"Whoa," I say. "You sure?" I love blow jobs, don't get me wrong, but I want to make sure she enjoys herself tonight. I want this to be all about her.

She grips onto my dick, moving slightly lower. "I want to do this." She opens her mouth wide, to fit her lips around the thickness of me, and she moves over it, bobbing her head and taking all of it.

I groan, squeezing my eyes shut as I hit the back of her throat. "Damn, that feels so fucking good."

She keeps going, hollowing out her cheeks, sucking me into her mouth. Deep. She plays with my balls, and I fist my fingers into her hair.

"Fuck, Felicity," I moan out, keeping my eyes fixed right on her. I love seeing how well she takes my fat cock. "Do it," I whisper. "Take it deep, baby."

She hums, the vibration sending heat coursing through me. She has a steady rhythm going, and tears stain the corners of her eyes. However, she keeps sucking as my orgasm builds and builds.

I need to be inside her. I don't want this to end this way. I reposition myself, removing my dick from her hot mouth. "I need to feel your sweet pussy, Felicity. I need to come deep inside you."

She pouts for a moment, but then climbs back up on my lap, sinking down over my cock.

"That's it," I tell her. "You feel so damn good."

She rocks against me, my cock sinking deeper inside her. She rides me, and the sounds of our passion fills the room. I watch as her tits bounce in front of me, and I sit up, taking one in my mouth, biting down lightly on her pert nipple. I roam my hands over her ass, keeping her tempo nice and fast.

My cock's so hard I'm ready to burst, and I squeeze onto her body, nearly blacking out from how intense this all is.

"Don't stop," Felicity calls out as her inner walls grip me, spasming along the shaft of my dick.

"Fuck yeah," I groan out, my orgasm nearly here.

Felicity keeps coming, her fingers wound tightly into my hair, tugging and moaning through her own release. "Shepherd," she whines.

My orgasm spills out of me, my body jerking through the intensity. "Fuck," I call out, my arms gripped tightly around her.

"Oh no," she says, leaning back. "Oh, I didn't like that."

I look into Felicity's eyes. "Didn't like what? The sex?" I ask, my body calming down after one of the most intense orgasms I've ever had.

Felicity laughs as she places her hand over her belly.

"Is everything okay?"

She laughs harder. "The baby kicked right as you came."

I sit up. "Well, I don't like that," I agree with her.

She only laughs more. "It's okay."

I scrub a hand over my bearded jaw. "Do you think he knew what we were doing?" I feel horrible.

"Shep," she says, gripping both my cheeks in her hands and staring me in the eyes. "It's fine. He doesn't know. I think it was all the movement."

I glance down at her belly, and then back into her soft brown eyes. "You sure?"

She laughs more. "Yes. It just sort of freaked me out is all. I haven't really felt the baby kick yet. Just tiny flutters here and there, but that was the first kick I felt." She leans back, rubbing a hand over her belly once more. "He's going to be a soccer player."

I lean forward, letting my hands rest on her baby bump. "Hey there," I say, my face inches from her skin. "I'm your daddy, and I didn't mean to wake you up, little guy. Mommy and I were just busy doing grown-up things."

Felicity gazes down at me. "Don't tell him what we were doing."

I crack a grin. "You can go back to sleep now," I tell the baby growing inside her, and then I feel something on the other side of her skin. A kick. I lean back. "He kicked me."

Felicity's eyes shine. "I felt it too."

I can't believe it. Knowing there's a baby inside her, and feeling it kick are two entirely different things. I'm amazed. There's a living, growing baby inside her, and it's mine.

All mine.

And now Felicity is mine too.

I'm never giving this up. For the first time in my life, I feel like everything's falling perfectly into place.