Chapter seven in the series. Please make sure you let me know if this series is worth more of your time and I'll keep writing! Thanks for all the encouragement to everyone who's written to me so far!
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Christmas came and went with a renewed air of civility in our house. Beth had been a bit shaken by Matt's attentions that one night and the result had been some militant attitudes towards Matt by Karen and Rebekah, but when they found that Matt shared their concerns for Beth their militancy softened somewhat.
The dinner on Christmas Eve had been a great time with everyone pitching in to help make the night memorable. Karen and Rebekah worked on the dessert, Beth set a grand table with a set of China she'd found in the attic, Claire plucked and cleaned the goose Matt had shot when he was out hunting the day before, and Ashley and I put ourselves to the task of a feast fit for a king. The question of having wine with dinner raised a few chuckles when Ashley and I demurred for what were becoming obvious reasons. Claire elected not to imbibe as well and there were a few glances around the table as we all wondered if this meant anything.
The conversation was genial and light and the several weeks of friction just seemed to disappear with the steam from the goose on the table. The dessert was finally served and while Rebekah and Karen complained of being 'stuffed' the rest of us had no problem putting it away after a long day of kitchen work. And then we all managed to get to our feet and clear off the table, migrating the mess into the kitchen. The chatter, fueled with a bit of wine, made Matt feel a little lost, as if he was a rooster in a hen house and I got a little laugh at his expense wondering if he really wanted to have six women in his life after all.
Cleaning up the dishes and all of the pots and pans took about half-an-hour with fourteen hands all working together and we soon headed out to the living room once the last dish was in its place. The living room was the very picture of a grand lodge with the fire roaring, the Christmas tree decked out with ornaments and tinsel, and the overstuffed chairs and couches cleverly arrayed about the room to encourage several conversations at once. Ashley took Melissa and sat by the tree with Beth for a nice time while Rebekah, Claire, and Karen cuddled together on a couch like the friends that they are to chat the way close girlfriends do. I was pleased to have Matt slide in next to me on another couch where he wrapped his arms around me and we held court on the success of the evening.
Matt was going on about the gravy when I recall that I looked around the room at all the happy faces and realized how truly happy I was. The warm glow of the fire and the delicate colors of the Christmas lights were reflected ever so gently on the smiling face of each person. I found myself crying a few tears of joy as it occurred to me that I'd never been happier in all of my life. I had everything I never knew I wanted until that very moment, my sister with my baby girl and herself with child, a loving man with his arms wrapped securely around myself and our second baby in my warm belly, and four women who were fast becoming the best friends I'd ever had. No worries about jobs, careers, schools, parents, or bills. Just an easy life of sharing love with one another.
"Here now, what's this?" Matt whispered, deftly lifting a tear from my cheek with his fingertip.
"Matt," I snuffled, "I've never been happier in all of my life. Never."
He pulled me close to let me rest my head on his shoulder and then he draped his arm around me to caress my belly while I drifted off to sleep.
Much later, with the fire reduced to glowing embers, he woke me and took me upstairs to his room. As he was helping me up the stairs I noticed that everyone else had already gone off to bed themselves, politely leaving me undisturbed with Matt.
I'd figured we'd just cuddle up and go to sleep but I could see that Matt was wanting me. His look wasn't one of lust, but of love and we shared a gentle kiss as he undressed me and tucked me into the covers. Then he flicked off the light and I heard his clothes slip to the floor. Slipping into bed he cuddled up to me, guiding me to roll over to my side, facing away from him. He pulled close to me and I felt his need in the strength of his arms. There was something different with Matt this evening, his usual lust always telegraphed an urgency to me and he'd get right into the main act right off, tonight he was unusually patient and gentle, almost as if he could handle not having me. It was like he read my mnd when he whispered in my ear.
"We don't have to if you don't want to, I'm happy just being with you and our baby." He cuddled me even tighter against him.
Honestly, being six months along I wasn't really in the mood to have sex, but his gentleness and his patience made me want him. I slowly arched my back and felt his warm cock slip up between my thighs and he gave a little bit of a moan in response. I was a little dry at first, but he just gently massaged his eager cock between my pussy lips until my body began to respond to him and I gradually felt his cock slide into me. He was magnificently gentle as he genuinely made love to me, his short thrusts allowed him a little deeper into me with each gentle effort. It seemed an eternity before I finally felt the head of his cock kiss the bud of my cervix, and then he simply held still inside of me. I went to move and he held me tightly.
"Shhh, I just want to be in you, be with you...shhhhh." He whispered it in my ear like a wish or a need, not like the commands he'd usually give to me in bed. My heart glowed with a newfound love for this man; I'd loved him as the father of my babies and now I just loved him for who was to me right this moment. He stroked my hair and caressed my body all over and only once in while did I feel him move inside of me. I realized that he wasn't making love to me for his needs, he was just making love to me to make me feel loved. I'd always felt like a hopeless romantic, but now I'd found the kind of love that most women can only dream of and the calm assurance of that feeling allowed me to slip into a peaceful sleep. Before I nodded off I wondered at the miracle of how intimate the moment was with my man filling my body and my body filled with his child.
Matt later told me that he'd made love to me all night long as he found the act of trust I'd made by falling asleep in his arms to be the most erotic thing that had ever happened to him. I don't know if I came during the night, but I do know I awoke the next morning with his loving cock still deep inside of me and his sleeping breath warm on my neck and I felt more bliss than any orgasm had ever given me.
The morning sun rose through the window and Matt finally awoke and slipped from me as I lay quietly in the covers. I heard him rise and gather his clothes and he let himself out, trying not to disturb me. It was a wonderful reverie I had, looking off at the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies, the crisp blue sky, and the lingering warmth of Matt's body next to me. I really wondered if the morning could be any more beautiful when Ashley quietly opened the door to bring me my Melissa. Ashley had bathed and fed her and then decided to see if I'd take her for a while and I gladly agreed. When Ashley left the room I sat up in the bed and took Melissa into my arms and cuddle her into a cute bout of cooing and giggles. I slipped Melissa's little jumper off and held her soft body close to my breasts and was rewarded when she went to suckle at me, even though it had been some time. To my pleasant surprise my milk had come up and my morning was completed by the motherly joy of feeding my baby girl.