Broken Free (The Broken Series) (13 page)

He grunted and flicked his hips a little and her moans grew.

“God, baby, yes, fuck my ass,” she cried.

The end. Daniel grabbed her waist and dug his fingers hard to keep from ramming her onto his cock and Sofia chose that moment to orgasm all over him. Daniel bowed on the bed as she clawed his abs and literally hopped up and down on him. The orgasm that rocked him stole his breath. He could only writhe through the endless flames that gripped hi
m clear down to his soul.

He slowly recognized his own voice in the loud groans of the aftermath. Right alongside Sofia’s amazed ones. Had it been good for her? To think he might be able to get that again even only once a year made him giddy. “Did I hurt you,” he finally managed between gasps.

She shook her head. “God no, you didn’t. Wow, it actually felt amazing.”

“Oh shit,” he whimpered.

“What!”

He tossed his head from side to side, hand over his eyes. “I’ll want it now.”

She giggled. “That’s fine by me. But, you’ll have to settle on maybe having it once a month. It can be our special night or day thing.”

He gasped in joy. “Serious? Once a month? I was thinking once a year because it’s not the best sexual practice, but I’ll be careful.”

“I know you will.” She paused and looked down at her belly. “Um. I need to get up and I seriously don’t know what that’s going to feel like.”

He took hold of her hips. “Just go slow. How’s my son?”

“I think he’s not happy.”

Daniel grinned. “Why?”

“Too much racket for him.” She slowly rose off of him and Daniel found he was nearly hard again. “Ew, you better shower,” she said.

He snickered at her cute face. “Come with me.”

“Yeah, you need to wash my butt.”

“Mmm, yes
, I need to touch your butt.”

“Wash.”

“Finger.”

She laughed. “Not yet, I think I’m going to be sore.”

He rolled his eyes, hating himself.

“It’s fiiiiine, it’s hardly nothing. And after, we can go shopping, it’s Black Friday, remember?”

He smiled and sat up, kissing her all over her face and helping her out of bed. “You ready to shop till you drop?”

“Oh yeah baby.” She did her sexy belly rub dance on her way to the bathroom and Daniel laughed, so wishing he could catch that one on video. But he dared not risk anybody seeing her. Only his. All his. All the time from the beginning of time and forever, if he had anything to say about it.

Chapter Eighteen

Sofia waited till Daniel was breathing deeply and carefully got out of the bed, making her way to the kitchen. She’d been a good girl during shopping and it caught up to her. Now, that chocolate bar called her name from the far back of that cabinet where she’d hid it. Ugh, she hated sneaking like this, but it was better than putting up with Daniel’s whining. She knew he was being overboard and protective, and she also knew there was absolutely nothing,
nothing
wrong with a little goddamn chocolate. It was healthy. She’d Googled it.

She stood in the kitchen
at the pantry door listening to the sound of silence, making sure it remained undisturbed. She opened the door, remembering to jerk quickly past the creaky spot then slowly moved a chair inside the doorway and set it in place. She was very careful with this part, she didn’t want to risk falling and killing herself or the baby for a piece of chocolate. Jesus.

She got the forbidden candy then sat in the chair. “Ohhhh yes,” she whispered, slowly unwrapping the loud ass paper. When it was open enough, she took a huge bite then sagged in
ecstasy, letting her mouth have that orgasm it’d been craving, mmmming all over the place.

She suddenly froze
at hearing a noise. Shit. Before she could think of what to do, the pantry door opened. She threw the candy behind her and stood quickly as a bright light hit her face. She covered her mouth with one hand and blocked the light with the other.

“Sofia, what are you doing?”

Daniel? What was
he
doing? Shit, shit. “Um. I was…I heard scratching. In the pantry.”

“Why are you covering your mouth?”

Sofia realized he had his phone aimed at her. “I was feeling kinda sick. What are you doing with your phone?”

“I heard noises too and I thought I’d catch Dara in here.”

“Are you…videoing?”

“Yes.” He aimed the phone down at the floor. “What’s that?” he asked, all casual.

Sofia turned and looked. “What?”

“That on the floor, is that…chocolate?”

“
I
don’t know,” she said a little defensively, moving the chair. “Oh, wow, yes. Maybe Dara came earlier. She does like chocolate.” Sofia picked it up and examined it. “Or maybe we have rats.”

Daniel aimed the camera back at her. “Are you still sick?”

“No, I’m…yeah just a little.”

“Why is the
re a chair in here?”

She looked at the chair. “Huh. I don’t know, it was just here.”

“Can I smell your breath?”

“What? Ew, no, it’s the middle of the night, no you can’t smell my breath.” She waved her hand toward him. “Turn that camera off, you’re frickn blinding me.”

He didn’t turn it off or lower it. “Sofia, who brought that chocolate into this house?”

“What?” She pushed through him and went to the kitchen and turned on the light. He followed her with his camera and she regarded him. “I don’t know, why are you asking me all this and following me around with your camera, interrogating me like some private investigator
? It’s two in the morning.” Geeze.

“I know what time it is. Who buys the food here?”

She stared at him with raised brows. “What kind of a question is that? You. There, are we done?”

“That’s right. Me. So who brought that chocolate into this house?”

She shook her head at him. “You’re seriously making me answer these questions? You brought it into this house, you, Dr. Daniel Fletcher, Dr. D., Doc. Are you happy now that you made the pregnant woman answer your silly questions?”

He chuckled, a deep sexy sound. “Almost. So, who do you think I brought that chocolate into the house for? Dara?”

Dara. Very funny. “I don’t know, maybe for your girlfriend Sarah? Or Gammie?”

“
Ohhh, baby,” he nearly moaned, sounding turned on. “Or maybe Sofia.”

Sofia’s tummy tickled at that and she couldn’t stop her smile. “What? What are you saying? That you bought me this chocolate just to tell me I couldn’t’ have it?”

“Mmmm. More like to make you want it.”

She gasped, and a tingle zapped through her
clit. “Why would you do that?”

He shut off the camera then looked at her with that sexy ass look and panty melting half-cocked grin. “Do you know how hard my dick gets when you crave food? When you finally get it and make all of those noises while eating?” he whispered, a near ache in his words.

Gooooood heaven almighty. She nodded, suddenly breathless.

“Baby…” He slowly approached until he stood right next to her with no shirt and those thin black boxer pants. “Makes me want to fuck you in this kitchen. You
…leaned over on this snack bar.” He pressed his hard-on into her hip. “You remember that? The first time I sank my cock into you? Deep and hard?”

“Oh God, yes,” she gasped, closing her eyes as his mouth covered hers.

“Mmmm,” he licked along her lips. “You taste like naughty chocolate.” He slipped his hand into her pajama bottoms while lifting one of her legs. “So wet.” His finger slid inside her then out and slowly all over her throbbing parts.

She clung to his shoulders until she was nearly hyperventilating with need. He pulled his finger out of her and straightened. He took the chocolate from her, sucked her essence off his finger then bit a piece of the candy and chewed slowly,
hooded eyes on her. “Mmmm.” He swept his tongue sensually over his lips. “Now that’s dessert.”

****

Daniel tossed and turned until he laid awake and stared at the ceiling. He took a deep breath but it was like sucking air from a balloon. He finally sat up and put his head in his hands. Fuck.

He
stood and made his way to the kitchen. He looked around, seeing everything in place. Everything perfect. They’d all decorated for Christmas after the baby showers, three in a row, one weekend after another. Figured they needed to get them out of the way before Christmas. Sofia was worried about the money, but as soon as the baby was born, or not long after, they’d open the bakery again and get it moving to catch things up.

Daniel made his way to the living room and raked his hand through his hair. The uneasy feeling in his stomach grew as he gazed at the beautiful multi-colored tree with all the multi-colored presents—because kids liked color, Sofia insisted. He went to the nursery next and walked through it in the dark. He sat in the rocking chair and picked up the glow pray worm and pressed its tummy. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen”

Daniel pressed it again and listened to it. The invisible claw inside him seemed to only tighten with each press.
If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take
. Those words played over and over in his head in the silence. He didn’t know God. Never needed to. But did he need to now? Daniel looked around the room and couldn’t deny the sacred and holy feeling there. Yeah. Maybe he did need to know God now. He was attempting to live a normal life. God was normal. Normal people believed in God. Normal people had a religion. Their child would be normal and would need that. A faith. That’s what Sofia said. He’d not cared one way or another, really. He didn’t really blame God for any of the shit in his life. Figured it was a reality of choice. There were good people and bad people. The end.

But why this feeling of dread lately? Maybe it was always there and he’d not noticed it until there was good in his life. Whatever it was, it was the most terrifying shit. It said that things were too good. Something bad had to come next. But then that was pretty normal for him to think given his fucked up ruined life. Everything was shit under it all.

But not anymore.

He made his way back to bed and cuddled close to Sofia. She moaned. “Where were you?”

“Checking everything.”

She pushed her butt into his groin and reached behind her, pulling his leg over hers. “Everything okay?”

He buried his nose in her hair, loving the smell of her. “Yes. Everything is perfect.”

She suddenly turned. “What’s wrong?”

He chuckled a little and slowly laid on his back. “How do you always know?”

“I can hear it in your voice, especially when I can’t see you.” He sighed and she got up on her elbow and kissed his forehead. “Tell me.”

It took Daniel nearly twenty seconds to dislodge the words from his mouth. “I’m scared.” The weight of that word hit him. He was about to say how stupid it was, but he couldn’t make light of it. He was nearly in awe of the fear. Respected it.

“Oh honey,” she whispered.

“For the first time, I have things I care about, more than my own life, and…I’m really scared.” He didn’t want to voice what he was afraid of.

“Hey, how about we start going to church? Gammie has been bugging me about it.”

“She has?”

“Mmhm. Says we need to get our house in order.” Sofia laid next to him and put her head on his chest.

“Really?” He put his arm around her and pulled her close. “What does that mean?”

Sofia shrugged against him. “I think it means get your life organized.”

Daniel thought about that. “She’s wise, I respect her. Why would she say that now?”

“It’s what grandmothers do
sweetie. They say things that are important when it’s time.”

“So you think we should go to church?”

“Yeah, I mean I think it’s a good idea, a good practice for our son. I believe in God. Do you?”

Daniel thought about it. He’d never not believed in God. “I think so.”

“I guess God wouldn’t hold it against you if you didn’t,” Sofia murmured.

“No?” He smiled and kissed her head. “You think he’s awesome like you?”

She giggled. “I don’t know, that’s a
lot
of awesome. But I guess He might be.”

“We’ll go to church this Sunday. Right after Christmas.”

“Oh, Gammie keeps talking about midnight mass.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s church like at midnight, the night before Christmas morning.”

“Oh, let’s do it. We can video
, it’ll be our first church date.”

She gave a sleepy laugh. “Can you rub my back?”

“Yeah, turn over.” He turned on his side and lifted her pajama top. “The bottom?”

“Mmmmmm yes, thank you.”

“Still hurts?” He rolled his knuckles into the muscles at the base of back.

“Always. Feels like he’s wrapped around my spine.”

“Ouch. We only have a few more weeks. And don’t’ forget you could go any time now. We’re right at the two week early mark.”

“Wow,” she mumbled, nearly out.

“I love you. Sofia.”

“Mmmm, I love you Daniel.”

Daniel inhaled deeply and this time found enough air to finally breathe.

And relax.

And sleep.