His Hotcakes Baby (10 page)

He squeezed Mackenzie’s hand and their
eyes met.  She nodded at the question in his and Lucy’s breath hitched in her
throat.

“Mom, Mackenzie and I are going to
have a baby.”

“What!  How can you?  You don’t even
know her!”

Everyone gaped at Bella when she
jumped up and screamed at Chase.  His eyebrows rose and he stared at her, his
face emotionless.  Owen, her brother, cursed and taking her arm forced her into
the house.

“Well …let’s forget about that
unpleasant tantrum.  Chase, this is for real?  It is not just some sort of a
joke?”

“No, Mom.  We are pregnant.  Twelve
weeks to be exact.  We went to the doctor on Thursday and he confirmed it is a
little boy.  There is more.  Mom … he is due on … on the twelfth of October.”

Lucy and Lauren gasped.  They started to
cry and the next moment Chase stood hugging them, his own eyes swimming in
tears.  Mackenzie sat watching with a thumping heart.  She looked sad and she
had tears in her eyes.  Her parents died eleven years ago and she still missed
them. She noticed Billy even looked emotional.

“Chase was very close to his father. 
He had a very difficult year working through his loss.  When you met him in the
book store was the first time he left this Island in nearly thirteen months.”

Suddenly Mackenzie understood why
Chase hugged her so tight in the doctor’s consulting room when she asked him to
double check the due date the doctor in Michigan gave her. She realized only
then how much it meant to him to have it confirmed by the doctor again.

His eyes caught hers.  He released his
siblings and kneeled in front of her.

“I was very close to my Dad and I
nearly lived like a recluse after his death.  This means more to me than you
can ever realize.”

“As long as you realize a baby has its
own mind and he might not be born on the twelfth.  Please don’t put all you
hope into that and be disappointed if he is born before or after.”

“Don’t worry, hotcakes.  It will be
close enough if it is around the twelfth.”

“Hotcakes?  Really Chase?  With a
woman as beautiful as Mackenzie, that is the best pet name you could come up
with?”

“Well Mom, I guess it runs in the
family … hot honey!”

“Chase!  How did you know?” Everyone
laughed and Lucy blushed.  “You all knew?”

“Of course we knew!  You might have
gotten Dad to drop the hot by the time we were grown- ups, but we grew up with
him calling you his hot honey!”

“And then there is sugar stud!”

Now it was Lauren’s turn to blush, but
Brandon, her husband, pulled her on his lap and kissed her soundly on her
lips.  He wiggled his eyebrows at her.

“Ah, dear brother in law … that is not
a nickname!  It’s a fact!  Hey … easy sugar lips!”

Even their kids laughed at the play
acting.  “What is your nickname for him, Mack?”

“I … don’t have one yet … he tends to
annoy me too much at this point.”

“Big boy!  She calls him big boy.”

Mackenzie zapped Aiden a killer glance
and everyone chuckled when she too, blushed.

“Only when I am mad at him!”

“Okay, so if you had to choose a
nickname, what would it be?”

“I … a nickname is not something you
have to think of, it has to come naturally … like I believe all those you call
each other.  If I have to think of one … probably something like … Doodle bug,
no?  Okay what about Baby Boo … Pooh bear … Pookie … stop Chase … hahaha …
okay, I’ve got it … Bubba!”

Mackenzie squealed and cried when
Chase tickled her mercilessly and everyone laughed.  His mother and sister
overjoyed with his relaxed and loving portrayal towards Mackenzie. He stopped
when she grasped him around his neck and begged him to stop.  Only because he
was so surprised at her hugging him in front of everyone and his damn dick’s
immediate reaction to her breasts pressing into his chest.

He looked into her eyes, his own
filled with laughter.  He kissed her softly on her lips.

“It’s okay hotcakes.  I’m happy with
Babe.”

She blushed, realizing she called him
that when they made love.  Bella and Owen walked back at that point and sat
down.  Bella kept her eyes lowered and mumbled an apology.

“I am sorry for my reaction.  I guess
I was just surprised.”

Mackenzie looked at Chase and he wore
the same closed expression he did earlier.  She glanced back at Bella and was
shocked at the venom in her eyes when they met hers.  They clearly had some history. 
A history that to her, was still alive and well.

During the course of the evening she
learned that Owen and Chase are lifelong buddies and have been friends since
they were five years old.  Bella was five years younger and always tagged along
after them.  Maybe it was just a case of sibling protection, as Chase spoke
about both of them as his other brother and sister, but somehow, Mackenzie was
not so sure about that.

They
all went to bed just after eleven.   Mackenzie pulled on some sleeping shorts
with a strappy tee.  Chase frowned at her when she walked into the room.

“I think there are some ground rules
we have to discuss.  Sleepwear being one of them.   When you sleep with me,
hotcakes, it will be naked in my arms.”

“Is that your usual rule for all your
floozies?”

“Second one, we never discuss previous
lovers in our bedroom. But just to set the record straight.  It was not
something I did.”

“What?”

“Slept with them.”

“Oh please!  In all your … what …
thirty seven years, you have never slept with a woman afterwards?”

“I was engaged when I was twenty
four.  We planned to get married the next year.  She was the only one I slept
with.  Since then … no, I do not sleep with woman.  I take what they offer and
I go and sleep in my own bed.”

“Then why are you so adamant to have
me in yours?”

“I believe that is quite obvious.”

“Because I am pregnant?”

“No, Mackenzie.  You are not one of
them.  I have tried, lord knows I have.  You, hotcakes … I don’t seem to be
able to walk away from!”

“And you?  I sleep naked, but you get
to sleep in your shorts?”

“It comes off the moment I get into
bed.”

“Any other rules?”

“Yes.  We kiss each other goodnight
every night and good morning every morning.  And just so you know.  I don’t do
chase kisses.  When I ask for a kiss I want a proper, deep and drugging kiss.”

“This seems as if it is going to turn
into a long discussion.  Would you do me a favor before we continue?”

“Of course.”

“I need some chocolate ice cream with
some of those salty crackers.”

“You’re hungry?”

“No, I am not hungry.  I just have to
have it.”

“Now?”

“I’ll go and fetch it myself.”

“No … no, I’ll go.”  Chase shook his
head and went to the kitchen to fulfill her order.   It took him awhile to find
the salty crackers and he stacked a number of them on a plate. He took a large
porridge bowl out of the cupboard and set it on the counter.  He might as well
indulge in a spoon or two of ice cream.

Bella walked in wearing only a tiny
see thru black teddy.  She was not surprised to find him there and his mouth
flattened into a tight line. She must have stood in her door waiting in case he
came down.  He barely glanced at her and his voice was cold.

“That is quite inappropriate dress
code to be walking around with a house full of people, Bella.  What the hell
are you after?”

“Does it bother you, Darling?”

“Bother as it is inappropriate as I
just said, yes.  Bother as in a sexual sense which is I assume you want to
hear, then no.  Most definitely not.”

“Oh come on, Chase.  Are you telling
me you are not hard where you stand?”

“No, I can’t bu …”

“Then what is the problem?  I am
willing.”

“The reason I am hard is not because
of you, Bella.  It is because of the woman lying waiting naked in my bed.”

Her eyes flashed.  “That piece of
trash!  How could you have allowed her to catch you like that?   Pregnant? 
Hogwash!  I don’t believe it.  It is only a way to get you …”

“There are a few things I need to make
clear, Bella and you better listen well.  Mackenzie is anything but trash and
she did not catch me.  I was the one that could not stay away from her.  The
baby is real. We went to the doctor on Thursday.”

Bella hardly paid attention to what he
was saying and walked around the island to rub her breasts against his arm.  He
stiffened and glared at her.  She grabbed his head between her hands and pulled
it down.  Her lips clamped around his and she tried to push her tongue past his
lips.  They would not budge.   Chase took her hands in a painful grip and she
whimpered. He pulled them from his face and glowered at her with angry arrows
shooting at her.

“I am going to make this as clear as I
can, Bella and you better listen.  If you don’t want to destroy any chance of
friendship between us, you will heed this.  We had two weeks of fun when you
were eighteen and I made it clear it was over then already.  Owen is my best
friend and therefore I would not want to lose your friendship, but that is it. 
I. Do. Not. Want. You!  There is only one woman I want and that is Mackenzie. 
And I warn you, Bella.  Stay away from her.”

“You will regret this, Chase!  No
woman will ever love you.  I will make sure of that!  I will make sure they all
know what you really are!  You are a user!  You will never be able to give more
of yourself to anyone!  Never!”

“You are correct, Bella.  I was a
user, but only to those that wanted to be used.  I have never touched a woman
that did not want what I had to offer … until Mackenzie.”

Bella cursed and swung around with a
cry and stomped out of the room, shoving Mackenzie standing just inside the
arch into the kitchen out of the way.  She cried and felt herself falling, but
before she could hit the floor, Chase swung her against his chest with a
vicious curse.  He put her down and stormed after Bella with a murderous look
in his eyes.

“Chase … Babe!  Stop!  Come back
here.  Leave her be.”

He stopped and swung back to her.  He
pulled her against his chest and held her close.  She felt his heart racing
erratically with the anger that tightened his whole body.

“Let it go.  She is obviously upset.”

“You nearly fell, Mackenzie! What are
you doing here?”

“You were taking so long and your son
is really eager for that ice cream!”

A brief smile curved his lips up, but
he was still visibly angry.  She poked him in the chest with a stiff finger,
her eyes flared with green daggers at him.

“I have a bone to pick with you.  Get
my goodies.  I have no intention of doing it here.  Don’t make me wait again,
Babe.”

   He watched her hips swaying
seductively beneath the loose sleeping shorts as she walked away.  His dick
hardened even more, visibly tenting his shorts.  He spooned ice cream into the
bowl and strode out of the kitchen.  He took the passage to the left of the
stairs and passed Bella’s room to knock on Owen’s.  He took a few minutes to
open the door and frowned at Chase when he noticed the bowl of ice cream.

“What?  Do you want to have a pajama
party?”

He noticed the anger in his buddy’s
eyes and he frowned, knowing Bella messed up big time.

“What did she do?”

“I want you to take her off this
island first thing in the morning, Owen.  I already warned her, if she can’t
accept Mackenzie is going to be in my life permanently, she will lose my
friendship.  I don’t want to lose yours, but she shoved Mackenzie and she would
have fallen had I not managed to reach her in time.”

Owen nodded and then shook his head.

“We’ll be gone before breakfast.  I am
sorry, Chase.  Over the years she has made herself believe you would get back
together, purely because you never became serious with anyone.”

Mackenzie
just opened the door to go and search for him when he appeared at the top of
the stairs.  She stood waiting for him her fists on her hips.  His dick
twitched as her breasts bopped when she swung back into the room.  He smiled
wickedly.  He just decided how he was going to enjoy his ice cream.  And it was
not going to be eating from the bowl with a spoon.

She sat on the bed and reached for the
plate.  He shook his head and placed the bowl with ice cream down as well.

“I did not ask for the whole jar of
ice cream!”

“It’s not all for you.  I felt like
some too. So hurry up, honey.  Before all mine melts.”

“You can eat the same time I do.”

“No … I have other plans for my share
…”

She looked up and saw the heat in his
eyes and blushed.  He chuckled and kicked his sleeping shorts off.  Mackenzie
gasped. The man was in one word gorgeous.  All over and she salivated.  Not for
the crackers and ice cream, but to taste him … all over.  His arousal jutted
strong, hard and large upwards, though not painfully large, but he filled her
to the brink … every inch and she could not wait to have him inside her again. 
Her pregnant hormones demanded it of course!

Yeah Mackenzie … use it as an excuse
for now.  What are you going to blame when the baby is born?

Chase had her on her back and naked
seconds after she finished her treat.  She looked smilingly into his eyes and
then she remembered his family was all just down the passage.  She pushed
against his chest.

“You are crazy, Chase!  We can’t. 
Your family and Aiden are all just down the passage!”

“Why is that a problem?  They are all
on the other side of the house.”

“Babe, sound travels at night.  I have
found since I’ve met you I’ve become relatively loud during love making. Too
loud at times!”

He stared at her with a wide smile
around his lips.  His heart thumped at her admission of her reaction to his
lovemaking.  He absolutely loved her hoarse cries, moans, mewls and most of all
her full bodied screams when she climaxed.

“Don’t worry, hotcakes.  I will catch
all of them in my mouth.”

“No, Chase, some will slip out and I
will be mortified and unable to look any of them, least of all your mother, in
the eye in the morning.”

Chase sighed, but realized she was
really worried and he would not force her to do something she was not
comfortable with.

“Okay honey, but I am going to eat my
ice cream.  There is one problem though … my mouth will be busy, so I will not
be able to buffer your moans … so, my beautiful hotcakes … think of a way to
keep them down … I have the greatest of craving for ice cream.”

“Chase!  You … ooohh …that’s cold …
aahh!”

His tongue sneaked out to lick the ice
cream he just spread on her belly, with long hot strokes of his tongue.  Her
soft moans honey to his ears.

Another melting blob landed on the top
of her one breast and she mewled when his tongue caught the ice cream as it
slipped down the slope and then in a tighter circle licking around her nipple,
to open his lips over her nipple and closed it around her breast.  Her moan
turned loud when he sucked at the ice cream.  He smiled at her low mewl when a
blob slipped over the other nipple and he repeated his enjoyment of her flesh
with the sweet ice cream.

He lifted his head and kissed her
softly on her lips.  She licked at his to share the taste on them.

“Honey … just a warning … you are
getting a bit loud.  I have a suspicion the next blob is going to elicit an
even louder reaction.”

Her eyes widened. “No Chase!  You
can’t!”

“Oh Honey!  I can and I am going to
make sure some of it slips into your hot little channel so I get to lick it
out.”

“No!  Chase!   Aahh!”

“Use the pillow, honey.  There are
about three scoops left.  I promise you I am going to have all of them from
there.”

She watched him move down her body and
when his head lowered she grabbed his pillow and bit into it, effectively
blocking her cry when his hot tongue nearly had her shoot off the bed when he
licked it over her clit, spearing the cold ice cream into his mouth.  He
licked, sucked and ate from her clit until she thrashed against his mouth … and
he was still only eating the first scoop.

Mackenzie’s body was on fire.  She
battled to draw a proper breath, her body was that tight with need.  She
screamed when another ice cold blob of melted ice cream slipped onto her clit. 
She shivered when she felt Chase pull open her lips and the ice cream slithered
further down.  Then she felt his tongue inside her and her eyes surged open. 
Her hips lifted off the bed, but he was a wise man.  He already had her grasped
tight and his mouth burrowed deep, his tongue delving seductively.  Mackenzie
has never felt the like.  He was an absolute master with his mouth, his lips
and his tongue.  The ice cream long forgotten, now all Chase wanted … needed
was the taste of this woman that has turned his life upside down.  He wanted to
feel her liquid heat on his tongue, he needed to feel her inner muscles clamp
around it.  He wanted to watch her lose control and climax against his mouth. 
It was just a pity her needy screams would be stifled by the pillow.

Mackenzie’s breath hitched in her
throat when he lifted her legs over his shoulders and dug his mouth even deeper
into her, sucking and caressing every crevice inside her with his tongue.  She
keened when his tongue found her G-spot and he licked over it continuously.  He
slipped one hand over her hip to roll and tweak her nipples and his other to
circle and rub her clit.  She arched her back and her eyes rolled in her head.

Holy crap!  He was going to kill me!  I
am on the verge …

Her scream sounded faint, but Chase
nearly exploded himself when all her muscles tightened around his tongue as if
one pulsating mass and her heat slithered on his tongue.  He kept feeding her
climax until she clawed at his arms.  He withdrew his mouth from her
incinerating heat.

He crawled higher until he was settled
between her legs and looked at her beautiful face, still tight from her
climax.   Chase acknowledged that he had been in lust and hungry for a woman
many times, but he’d never felt a passion this intense before.  No need has
ever shook his body before, leaving him aching to be inside a woman.  It was a
shock to his system when he felt it the first time, it was a shock every time
he was near her.  It was alarming, yet exhilarating at the same time.

“Honey, I know I said I wouldn’t, but
I need you!  Lord knows!  I need you!”

He pushed inside her and they both
moaned at the intense feeling of their flesh meeting so intimately. He started
to thrust immediately, strong hard strokes, deep inside her.  His need built
with each forward plunge, hers just gathered in strength. Her climax still
quivered around him.  Her low cries with every thrust penetrated his mind and
he lowered on his elbows next to her arms.  His lips closed around her mouth
and she wrapped her legs around his waist thrashing against him wildly. 

He groaned when her quivering muscles
tightened all at once and squeezed so hard he clenched his teeth.  Her scream
heated his mouth all the way down his throat. He thrust hard and surged even
deeper than before when his climax ripped through him from the back of his
balls with so much force his whole body tightened and he pushed her deep into
the bed.

It took a while for their breathing to
return to normal.  Chase kept his weight on his elbows and leaned over her. 
The thought that he could stay like this forever flashed through his mind.

“Do you know how beautiful you are,
Mackenzie?”

Chase was amazed at the flush that
colored her cheeks. 

“Flattery is not going to get you out
of trouble, Chase Paxton.  I told you I had a bone to pick with you and that we
were not making love with everyone down the passage!  But did you listen? No! 
You did not!”

He pressed his dick deeper inside her
and thrust twice in quick succession.  Mackenzie gasped and arched her back.

“But you can’t deny it was worth it,
hotcakes … soooo worth it!”

“If you don’t keep quiet, you can
remove yourself immediately.  Is that clear?”

He stilled and smiled into her eyes.

“I can remain like this while you pick
your bone with me?”

“Only if you don’t move.”

His smile widened and he leaned on his
palm with the side of his head.

“Pick away, hotcakes!”

“I do not appreciate walking in on you
with one of your ex-lovers rubbing against you and kissing you!  Why did you
not warn me you invited her here?”

Chase sighed, but he did not flinch or
take his eyes from hers.

“Because as far as I am concerned she
is the little sister of my best friend.  I have known her from when she was a
baby and we were together once after her prom. It took me two weeks to gather
the guts to break it off with her. The sex was a disaster and I hardly entered
her when I pulled out.  It was like having sex with my sister. I could not do
it.  Over the years she would not let up and tried everything to get in my
bed.  I have made it clear I am not interested.”

“You should still have warned me!”

“You’re right.  I should have and I am
sorry.”

“Very well. Now … about that fiancé
you slept with …”

She felt his whole body stiffen
against her and her heart missed a beat.  She expected him to withdraw from
her, but he didn’t nor did he look away from her questioning look.

“You … you still love her!”

Chase frowned as if he really gave her
statement serious thought.  He shook his head.  He had a small smile around his
lips. A real smile.

“No, hotcakes.  I can now, safely say,
I have no feelings left for her … love or any other associated feelings.”

“What happened?”

“Oh no!  You refused to divulge any
information about your vagina expert fiancé, so let me return the favor!”

She glared at him and then a girly
giggle escaped her lips.  And another, then another and then she laughed
delightfully and with pure mirth.

Chase closed his eyes and clenched his
jaw.  Every shudder of her laughter tightened her core around his dick and he
felt himself go harder with   every giggle until he was fully aroused inside
her.  He groaned and she stopped laughing, her eyes hot and sensual.

“What is so funny, Mackenzie?”

She giggled again and his dick jumped
inside her.  She arched against him, but did not stop giggling.  The woman has
turned into a master torturer!

“Vagina expert?  Really, Babe?  That
is how you think of him?”

“Yes,” he literally growled at her.
“Especially knowing that he and his expertise had access to your vagina.  How
much of an expert was he?”

Mackenzie broke out in full laughter
again and Chase could not hold back.  He was as hard as a rock and her clamping
muscles drove him crazy.  He pulled out and slammed back into her and her
laughter turned into a sensual cry.  He kept plunging with a steady hard, deep
and fast tempo, watching her face.  Refusing to muffle her moans and cries as
he plundered relentlessly into her body.  Her eyes widened and he saw the panic
in her eyes.  His lips slammed over hers the same moment he slammed hard into
her.  Mackenzie screamed into his mouth as they both hurled into oblivion.

His mouth kept devouring hers while
her body continued to milk his shaft deeper inside her.  He plundered her mouth
and drank greedily from her lips.   She was breathless by the time he ended the
kiss.  Their eyes met and Mackenzie smiled warmly at him.   She drew her
fingers down his cheek.

“He might be an expert on vaginas,
Babe, but believe me, you are more of an expert on mine than he ever was.  He
never managed to give me climaxes like you do.  He never, ever made me scream or
moan constantly. And he never …not once … had his tongue inside me.”

“I can’t tell you how glad I am to
hear that.  Yours are the first I have ever drank from.  I’ve never had the
desire to.”

“Even …?”

“Even
Vivienne.”

The
pregnancy went well and Mackenzie was relieved when her nausea passed.  Now that
Mackenzie moved in with him, Chase managed to get his next book going.  He
dropped her at the Research base every day and collected her every afternoon.

Chase insisted she worked less hours
when she was five months pregnant and at the end of the sixth month, he made
her stop completely.

“We made a breakthrough today. We
managed to segregate the stomach content of the latest Salps and sea
cucumbers.  There are traces of an oil based substance.  We tracked the sea
currents and if we are right, they were all infected in the oil spill in the
Gulf a few months ago.   There are still traces of the oil on the seabed, which
is why it is still creating problems!”