Limitless (Journey Series) (9 page)

“I don’t know, she still manages to
even make that look pretty sexy.” I smiled when I turned to see Chase standing
in the doorway, his hands latched at the top of the doorway, just giving me the
briefest glimpse of his hard stomach. My pregnancy so far had been pretty uneventful;
the one thing that I really noticed is that I constantly wanted Chase…like
constantly.

“Uh-oh Chase, she’s giving you
those eyes, you need to get out of here now.” Ally pointed towards the door
with a stern look on her face and Chase backed up reluctantly. “Don’t even
think about following him, me and you need some alone time before I leave
tomorrow.”

Ugh, she just had to bring that up.
I thought maybe me being pregnant would change her mind about going on tour
with the band, but it didn’t. She promised to catch a flight back the minute I
started having contractions, but it wouldn’t be the same and Remy was leaving
too. Now I would just be stuck with a bunch of boys.

“So, are you excited? I talked to
Remy earlier and she was practically bouncing off the walls. You’re pretty calm
about the whole thing. What gives?”

“I don’t know,” I shrugged my
shoulders and picked at the hem of the hideous gown I had on. “I am excited, I
just feel like it’s not such a big deal because I’m not going to go out and
find a job right away like I planned to.”

“I know honey, but you have Chase
now and you know he loves to take care of you and Caleb. I know you don’t like
being taken care of, but just let him. By the way, how’s the whole situation at
school going for him, have you guys heard anything new?”

I let out a groan and flopped back
on the pillow, wishing I could take a nap but I knew we needed to leave within
a few minutes to make it to the ceremony on time.

“I don’t know. Truthfully, things
don’t sound good. Maybe that’s why I’m not as excited. What if Chase loses his
job? Then what are we going to do? They don’t have any evidence of what that
bitch is saying to find it true, but I guess her parents are pretty influential
in the town. I don’t know, it’s just a little stressful.”

“Don’t worry honey, everything will
work out. I just know it.” She patted my stomach and then grabbed onto my hand
to haul me off the bed. “Now, let’s go graduate.”

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The graduation ceremony did end up
being pretty exciting in the end. It felt good to know that all of my hard work
had finally paid off. Now I just needed to figure out when I would actually be
putting my degree to good use.

The goodbyes with Ally and Remy had
been rather emotional. Ally had been there for me so long, it felt strange that
she was leaving and I didn’t know when she would come back. Remy had become a
good friend as well, and I would miss all of the time we had spent together. I
had been a wet, crying mess when I watched them drive away. I was blaming it
all on the pregnancy hormones. Totally their fault.

My phone ringing brought me back to
reality and I smiled when I saw that it was Chase.“Hey, baby. You think you can
bring my briefcase over to school? I don’t know how I just realized that I
forgot it this morning, but I’m definitely going to need it for my last class.
Are you busy?”

I snorted and sat down the book
that I had been trying to read. It was my official first day off from school
and I had absolutely nothing to do. Mary had come by that morning and picked up
Caleb for a play date with Belle, so I had nothing but a quiet house. It was
totally weird and while I liked it at first, I was now bored out of my mind.
What in the hell was I going to do with myself until this baby came?

“Well, I don’t know. I’m like super
busy right now but I
guess
I can bring it over,” I stated in an
exasperated tone. Secretly, I was jumping up and down inside. I guess I wasn’t
meant to be one of those people who sat around and turned into couch potatoes.
Go figure.

I hung up with Chase and quickly
changed out of my sweat pants and hoodie that I had donned for the day. No need
to make those drooling girls think that Mr. O’Neil was unhappy because he had a
bag of a wife at home, just giving them further reason to try to sink their
claws into him.

 Did they not see how highly
inappropriate that was? I mean, I can’t say I ever had the hots for any of my
teachers in high school. But I guess if thought about it none of them had even
come close in comparing to Chase.

I walked into the high school about
thirty minutes after Chase had called, and cringed. How Chase came here every
day was beyond me. I couldn’t stand high school and all I had ever wanted to do
was get out of there. I guess it was different for Chase though, since he was
the one in charge.

“Knock, knock. Someone looking for
this?” I cracked the door open to his classroom and smiled when I saw him
sitting behind his desk, looking all professional with his glasses laying on
the desk and studying the papers lain out. His green eyes quickly flicked to me
and his concentration broke from whatever he was looking out.

“Well, I’d rather have you over the
briefcase.” He stood up quickly and assaulted my mouth with his as soon as I
closed the door behind me. “Mmm, I could get used to this during the day.
Definitely a good way to de-stress,” he murmured against my neck where his
mouth had slid down to work his magic on. “Maybe you should make these trips
daily.”

 He backed my body up until I felt
my knees hit his wooden desk, and he easily slid me up to sit on top of a mess
of papers. “I don’t know, I think I would probably be pretty distracting.” I
wrapped my legs around his waist to pull his body closer to mine, and he
readily let me.

His hands slid up and down my sides
as I pulled his head down to mine once again and I squirmed against him, wanting
more. How much of a slut did that make me, wanting to do my husband right then
and there on top of his desk? Oh well, I guess I was a slut then.

Chase broke away abruptly, pushing
himself out of the haze that we had been tangled up in, when he heard the twist
of the doorknob. He held out a helping hand and I slid off the desk, just as
students started to pour in.

“Well, that was a close one,” I
whispered out as he sat down behind his desk once again. His green eyes were
shining and still filled with want, but he was just going to have to put that
on hold for a little bit. He was already in trouble as it was, I’m sure having
sex with your wife in the middle of the school day probably wouldn’t help him
out at all.

I scooped up my purse from where I
had dropped it next to the door and handed Chase’s briefcase to him. “I think
you needed this, right?” He smirked and kissed me on the cheek as he grabbed it
out of my hands just as a tall blonde walked in and roughly brushed past me
with her shoulder. Yeah, that wasn’t on purpose.

“Another underage girl to add to
your list, Mr. O’Neil?” she giggled out quietly as she walked by. “I’m sure
that won’t help your case very much, hmm?”

I watched with narrowed eyes as the
blonde bimbo pranced by us on five- inch heels and made her way to a desk that
was situated right in front of Chase’s. This must be Brittany. I could only
guess as I watched her stare down my husband like she was trying to eat him
alive.

Anyone with two eyes could see that
she was the one infatuated with him. She wiggled her fingers at me with an icy
smile and then proceeded to blow a kiss at Chase. He looked down at his desk
uncomfortably the second she did it. I suddenly realized how serious this
situation was.

He had told me that when he
explained what was going on, but I just didn’t listen. This girl had it out for
Chase because he wouldn’t return her inappropriate feelings. I couldn’t imagine
how hard that was for Chase to put up with every day. I felt this overwhelming
need to protect him, like he had done for me so often.

“That’s the little bitch, isn’t
it?” I hissed out between clenched teeth as I stared back at her, we were in
some kind of intense stare down right now and I was most definitely not going
to be the one to look away. I made a move towards her, wanting to just give her
a piece of my hand, but Chase yanked on my arm as my feet went in the other
direction.

“Don’t you think it’s time you get
going? Let’s not make this situation any worse,” he murmured out in a husky
voice while giving me a stern look. What the hell? I was getting a look that
was reserved for his students and Caleb when he was being uncontrollable. I
guess if I thought about it, I was being a little immature. I was the adult
here, and I needed to act like it.

“Fine, I guess you’re right,” I
huffed. He gave me a sideways hug and then cleared his throat, his students
quickly quieting down and bringing their attention to the front of the room.

“Everyone this is my wife, Leah.
Luckily, she brought in my briefcase for me this afternoon, so the quiz I
promised will be going on as planned.” The class gave a unified groan but it
was more of a cheerful one, I could tell that his students truly liked him. It
would be pretty hard not to.

Unfortunately, some liked him too
much. Chase gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before I left and I watched out
of the corner of my eye as he did so, blonde bimbo narrowed her eyes at me with
a heated glare and she raised an eyebrow, like she was trying to challenge me
or something. Sorry, sweetie. No challenge here what-so-ever. I quietly left
the room as Chase began to pass out quizzes and walked back out to the parking
lot, hoping that this mess for Chase would be over as soon as possible.

                                                                   
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“Wake up, graduate, don’t you need
to get to the doctor early?” Chase’s nose moved across my jaw and trailed down
to my neck, before he placed one kiss in the crook and slowly pulled away,
pissing me off in more ways than one.

“Please remind me why I made an
appointment so early, especially when I’m finally done with school,” I groaned
when I sat up and rubbed at my eyes, trying to clear some of the sleep away.

“I don’t know babe, but you do need
to get up. I let you sleep as late as possible. I already got Caleb up for the
day so I can drop him off at my mom’s house on my way to work. So get that
sweet ass moving, pronto.”

I shoved him in the chest, which
caused him to laugh before kissing me once more and walked back out into the
hallway. If I was a little bit more awake, I would be dragging his ass back in
here and demanding that he make up for waking me up so early. Maybe I could
pull that card later.

Caleb ran into the bathroom right
after I got out of the shower and wrapped his arms around me in a quick hug.
“Bye Mommy, I’m going to Grandma Mary’s house to play with Belle. Chase said
you’re gonna come over for lunch.”

“Yup buddy, I will see you later
this afternoon. Love you.”

“Love you too, Mommy.” I watched as
he bounced out of the bathroom and then proceeded to get dressed. I bent down
to shimmy on my jeans, wincing as I did it.

“Need some help with that?” I
turned around to see Chase smirking at me with a to- go cup of coffee in his hands.

He liked to tease me about my
growing belly and he knew it got on my nerves. We hadn’t told Caleb about the
baby yet, because truthfully four year olds see time in a whole different way than
we do. So when I started to show, Caleb began to comment on how Mommy was
getting fat. That kid was lucky I loved him so much the first time it came out
of his mouth.

“No, I don’t, thank you. I think
you need to be going, Mr. O’Neil. Have a good day at work.” After yesterday, I
would see as how it would be hard for him to go to work every day when he knew
he would have to deal with the blonde bimbo, but he always had a smile on his
face and never acted like it bothered him.

“Alright.” He leaned down to kiss
the side of my neck and then bent all the way down to slide my shoes on for me
without a word. Sometimes he could be so sweet when he wanted to be. “Call me
after your appointment; I’ll get back to you in between classes. Love you,
Leah.”

“Love you.”

I pulled into the doctor’s office
with about a minute to spare before my appointment. Luckily, I wasn’t stuck in
the waiting room for long and I was in the room quickly getting all my vitals
checked. The nurse leaned the table back right before the doctor came in and
spread the cold jelly across my belly.

 Today should be the day we were
finding out what we were having as long as the baby cooperated. I was crossing
my fingers for a girl, but either way we would be happy. Chase had considered
taking the day off from work, but we didn’t think it was such a good idea since
the school board was already on his ass.

“Hi Leah dear, how are we doing
today? Have you had any problems that you needed to discuss?” Dr. Strahan
walked in, washing his hands immediately and placing the Doppler on my stomach.

“Nope, none whatsoever.” I leaned
back onto the squishy pillow they provided and looked at the screen while he
ran the instrument across my stomach and pressed lightly with his fingers.

“Hmm…,” he tapped his free hand on
his chin while staring at the monitor intently and then turned back to look at
me. “Are you sure you haven’t been having any problems? Any cramping?
Spotting?”

“No, not that I can think of.” The
expression on his face was starting to worry me. What if something was wrong?
Judging by the way he was looking at me, I was guessing there was some sort of
problem.

“Okay dear, well we need to do a
few different types of ultrasounds and run some tests. There seems to be a
problem with the baby and we need to get everything checked out. Lay here for a
bit and I’ll be right back with a nurse.” He patted me on the arm, I guess to
reassure me, and quietly closed the door.