Yearning Absolution (Yearning Series) (12 page)

Gwen opened her eyes. The sun was beaming
through the windows. They must have forgotten to close the curtains last night,
although Gwen swore they’d already been closed.

She rolled away from Cole’s
sleeping back to come face to face with McKayla, whom was sleeping. Gwen looked
at her peaceful sleeping face. She missed seeing McKayla. Although she didn’t
know how McKayla came to be in their bed, Gwen was elated to see her there.

“Hi there.” McKayla’s sleepy voice
washed over Gwen’s ragged nerves. Just hearing her voice brought tears to
Gwen’s eyes.

“Hi. What…” Gwen stopped when
McKayla placed one of her well-manicured fingers over Gwen’s lips.

“Just kiss me. I missed you so
much.” McKayla spoke softly as she brushed her fingers over Gwen’s cheek. Gwen
didn’t hesitate to lean down and press her lips to McKayla’s. Her lips parted
allowing Gwen’s tongue to slip between them. McKayla’s hands tightly gripped
her neck as she pressed herself hard against Gwen’s body. Gwen groaned and
pushed at McKayla’s shoulder. McKayla rolled over and Gwen moved to kneel next
to her.

“Sorry, my belly doesn’t like being
squished so much.” Gwen softly smiled down at the woman she loved so much. The
sheet had slipped down exposing McKayla’s small pert breasts.

“I’m sorry. I just couldn’t help
myself. No words can describe how much I’ve missed you.” McKayla reached up and
pulled the shirt Gwen had worn to bed over Gwen’s head. Kneeling before
McKayla, Gwen was naked except for her lace panties. “Now that is a sight I
could get used to.”

Gwen laughed softly and leaned down
to kiss up the side of McKayla’s neck. She bit the bottom of McKayla’s earlobe.
McKayla’s hands were sliding up from Gwen’s hips to cup her breasts. “I need to
make love to you. I need to feel your body with mine.”

“Take what you need, baby.” McKayla
groaned as her fingers pressed under the sides of Gwen’s panties around her
hips. She pushed them down as far as she could. Gwen was kissing a path down McKayla’s
neck to her breast, pushing the sheet further out of the way as she went. She
took one beaded nipple in her mouth while her hand pinched and teased the other.
Gwen flicked her tongue over the soft, sensitive nipple as she wiggled out of
her panties. McKayla was bare from head to toe so there was nothing in Gwen’s
path as she slid further down McKayla’s body to slip between her legs. She nuzzled
her nose in the hot moist folds between McKayla’s soft thighs.  

“Mmm. Yea, I missed this pussy.”
Gwen groaned sliding her tongue over McKayla. Using her fingers to part
McKayla, she flicked her tongue over her swollen clit before lapping up the
sweet hot juices that were waiting for her. She slipped two fingers deep in
McKayla while sucking her clit into her mouth. McKayla moaned loudly sinking
both her hands into Gwen’s hair as her hips moved with Gwen’s wonderful
torturous swirl on her clit.

“Damn, that’s fucking hot.” Cole’s
voice caught both their attention. Their heads snapped in his direction. Cole
sat up on one elbow while taking in the scene in front of him. He quickly shed
his sleep pants and boxers. His hand gripped his hard cock, sliding up and down
while his eyes dragged over the two women’s naked bodies. “Oh, I didn’t mean
for you to stop. I meant for you to continue while I watched.”

“Gwen, go suck that cock. I want to
watch.” McKayla bit her bottom lip giving Gwen a sultry wink. Gwen looked at
Cole sitting back against the headboard and smiled. She pulled away his hand
and replaced it with her own on his large cock. Gwen licked her lips when a
bead of precum escaped the tip of him.

Gwen bent to take Cole into her
mouth. McKayla moved behind her as Gwen took Cole in her mouth, McKayla licked
right up the center of Gwen’s pussy. Gwen moaned around Cole’s cock as he
moaned.

Gwen’s hand held firm onto the base
of Cole’s cock as her mouth slid up and down the thick, hard shaft. McKayla’s
tongue was gently flicking Gwen’s clit, her hands each digging her nails into
Gwen’s ass. Cole reached around and grabbed McKayla’s thigh.

“Move this way.” Cole’s deep voice
growled while Gwen continued to work him. McKayla moved to lay with her head on
Cole’s thigh, her mouth back on Gwen’s pussy. Cole plunged two fingers deep
into McKayla, his thumb rubbing against her clit. His fingers pressed deep as
Gwen took him deep in her mouth. The sensual triangle they’d made had them all
moaning and groaning together, only pushing one another that much closer to the
edge.

 “Oh, that’s gonna make me come.”
Gwen groaned as she pressed against McKayla’s mouth. Gwen could feel Cole’s
balls draw up as he too was close. Gwen felt the tingles start in her feet,
then start up her legs. Just as she felt her orgasm start rushing over her
body, she sat up in bed.

It was all just a dream. She was
sitting alone in the middle of Cole’s bed, breathing hard. She could hear him
on the phone in his office. Whipping her head around, she looked for McKayla.
It couldn’t have completely been a dream. It had been so real. She could still
feel McKayla’s hand on her body, smell her unique scent in the air.

Cole walked in the room and took
one look at the lost expression on Gwen’s face. He knew she’d had a bad dream.
“What is it? What’s wrong, Gwen?”

“I had a dream that McKayla had
come back. But she didn’t did she?” Gwen looked up at him as he moved to sit
next to her on the bed.

“No, baby. She didn’t.” Cole pulled
her into his lap and surrounded her with his arms as she started to weep.

“Why can’t she see that I love her
so much? Why can’t I have both of you? I have to talk to her. I have to make
her see.” Gwen tried to hold back the sobs, but she couldn’t stop them. The
only other time she’d cried like this in her whole life had been when she’d
thought Cole had lied to her about being married. Back then she had moved on,
she had picked up the pieces and made the best life that she and McKayla could.
But this time she refused. She would fight hard, she would give anything she
could to have McKayla in her life. They had too much history. They had been
through too much together for it to just end. Gwen pushed away from Cole and
climbed off the bed. She went to the kitchen to retrieve her purse and her
phone. Pulling out her phone, she dialed McKayla’s number. No answer, straight
to voicemail. She tried again. Same thing happened.

Letting out a frustrated yell, Gwen
turned and threw her phone as hard as she could across the kitchen. She fell to
her knees, her head in her hands and cried. Cole was there, but it didn’t
matter. She just wanted the chance to explain to McKayla what she was feeling.

Another week passed still with no
word from McKayla. Gwen had returned to work and was now trying to work long
hours to make up for the weeks that she had been out. Her life would almost be
good, if it weren’t for the constant hanging stress of Richard being out there
looking for her and the huge chunk of her heart that was refusing to talk to
her.

Gwen had started calling at least
once a day to leave a message asking McKayla to meet with her or at least
return her calls. But still nothing. Every day dragged by and every day her
little belly was growing just a bit bigger.  She’d broke the news to Coral Lyn
as soon as she’d returned that she was expecting, but not who the father was.
It’d come out over time but she wasn’t ready to deal with people talking about
her sleeping with the boss. She was still a new employee and the rumor mill
could be brutal. Sure, a few people had seen them together at the party they’d
gone to but apparently word hadn’t spread down from the higher ups that had
been at the party yet.

Gwen was just packing up her stuff
for the day when Cole walked into her design room at the office. It was nearly
9 at night. “I’m just about done.”

“Ok. I was actually coming to share
some news with you.” Cole said sitting down on one of the numerous rolly stools
in the room. Today he had dressed in a pair of tan dress pants, a black jacket
with a blue button up dress shirt. This morning he’d had on a red and white
tie, but it was nowhere to be seen now.

“What news?” Gwen stopped and
looked at him.

“Well, I know that you’ve been
hoping to talk to McKayla but she is avoiding your calls.” Cole unbuttoned his
sleeves and started rolling them up one at a time.

“Right.” Gwen took the few short
steps it took to stand right in front of him.

“I just might have asked a designer
friend to make an appointment with her. To meet her for coffee and discuss her
working for them at an upcoming show.” Cole cleared his throat and reached up
to place both hands on her hips. He looked up at her. “But instead of them
meeting her, it’ll be you. Unless you don’t want to. They will meet her because
the offer is a serious one but they agreed to do me this favor.”

“Really?” Gwen looked at him as a
smile tugged at the corner of her lips. “I don’t know what I’ll say but I’ll
take any opportunity to try to make her understand.”

“It’s all yours baby.” Cole leaned
forward and rested his cheek against her belly. “I’d do anything for you.”

It had been two weeks since Gwen
had found out that she would be able to see McKayla in person again. The
appointment ended up having to be pushed back when McKayla got picked up to do
work overseas. Gwen was mentally preparing for what she would say when she saw
her next week.

She sat staring at the half made
dresses on their mannequins. Her hand was idling rubbing her now noticeable
belly. Earlier in the week, she and Cole had gone to pick up a few maternity
outfits for her to wear because she could no longer fit into any of her old
clothes. Her belly was growing quicker now it seemed. Cole was loving the
belly, always touching and kissing it.

Coral Lyn had just left to pick up
their lunch so Gwen was all alone in the room. She was thinking of what they
needed to do next. In her mind, she was constantly making small alterations and
changes to the pattern to make it more perfect than the initial sketch had been.

The phone sitting on her desk in
the back corner of the room rang and Gwen quickly made her way to it. It rarely
rang and when it did it was normally business related.

“This is Gwen.” She held the phone
up to her ear. Callers had to go through reception or had to use her exact
extension but she still felt the need to let callers know who had answered the
phone.

“Well, there is that beautiful
voice I’ve been trying so hard to get ahold of.” Richard’s gritty voice floated
through the phone.

“Richard.” Gwen gasped. Her entire
body was instantly covered with goose bumps. Her heart sped up just from the
sound of his voice.

“Ah. So, your rich boyfriend has
found out a little bit about me. Can’t say I’m surprised as they’ve been trying
to track me down, and doing a piss poor job of it might I add.” Richard said as
Gwen pressed a protective hand to her belly. She felt physically ill but right
at that moment she felt the undeniable bump of one of the babies moving. It was
the first time she had felt it. It gave her the support she needed.

“What is it that you want, Richard?
I’m not the little girl you once tortured. I want you to leave me alone.” Gwen
knew she could no longer be afraid of him. She now had babies to protect.

“Oh, you think you are so
different? You are still the ugly little bitch that spread her legs for me and
enjoyed it. Your rich boyfriend might pretend like he cares but do you really
think he wants a piece of trash like you in his life. He is just playing with
you. He knows you really are someone no one could truly love. How sad is it
that even your own flesh and blood didn’t want you? They dumped you as soon as
they could. At least I took care of you.”

“You tortured and raped me. That is
not how you take care of someone.” Gwen was breathing fast but she refused to
show him her fear. “Go find someone else to bother. I won’t be such an easy
victim this time.”

“Just you watch and see. I already
got your lesbian lover to leave you. You think I won’t be able to show rich boy
what a waste you are? All this money he is pouring into private investigators
is pointless and he’ll figure out you aren’t worth all that soon enough. Then,
you’ll be all mine.” With that, the phone went dead in Gwen’s hand.

Gwen slowly sank to the ground, wrapping
her arms around her knees. She rocked back and forth as tears sped down her cheeks,
soaking the knees of her black slacks.

She heard the click of the door,
meaning someone was coming in her office. She quickly jumped up and raced
around her desk. She didn’t know what she was going to do had it been Richard,
but to her relief it was Coral Lyn returning with their lunch. Gwen quickly
swiped away the tears on her cheeks and blew her nose. Coral Lyn looked up at
the sound of Gwen blowing her nose.

“Everything ok?” Coral Lyn tilted
her head at Gwen.

“Oh yea. Just hormones, you know.”
Gwen waved her hand through the air. “I’m fine. Let’s go eat in the break room.
I need to walk a bit anyway.”

“Sure. Okay.” Coral Lyn picked the
bags back up. They had been going to eat in the design room and eat as they
worked but she wasn’t opposed to an actual lunch break. “You know, I meant to
ask you if you have any pictures of the baby. Have you had any crazy pregnant
dreams? I’ve heard when you are pregnant you have really vivid dreams.”

“I didn’t tell you? Its twins. And
yes, I do. Let me grab them from my purse.” Gwen proudly pulled the pictures
from their last ultrasound from her purse as they walked toward the break room.
 She wasn’t going to tell Coral Lyn about the sex dream she had.

That night as Gwen laid in bed
watching Cole undress, she pondered over whether or not to tell him about the
phone call. She’d gone back and forth about it all afternoon. She stood from
the bed in her cotton tank and shorts then followed Cole into the closet. She
found him throwing his suit in the dry cleaning basket wearing only a pair of
boxer briefs.

“Well, hello, sexy. What are you
doing out of bed? I was going to join you in just a minute.” Cole turned to
face her. Gwen tried not to notice the tent he was starting to pitch in his
briefs.

“There is something I want to talk
to you about and I didn’t want to do it in bed. I don’t want those thoughts in
our bed.” Gwen stepped closer to him. Her hands resting on his well built chest
as she looked into those heart stopping green eyes. “Well, that and I wanted to
find you half naked. Always such a treat.”

“Oh no, you can’t distract me with
sex after what you just said. What is on your mind?” Cole gently ran his
fingers over her cheek then down her neck to push her hair over her shoulder
before laying a soft kiss on the base of her neck. “Then you can distract
away.”

“I got a call today.” Gwen spoke
softly and just those words had Cole pulling back to look into her eyes. “From
Richard.”

“What?” Cole’s voice was harsh.
“Where? When? What did he say?”

“It was while Coral Lyn was out
picking up lunch so I was alone in my office…” Gwen stopped when Cole cut her
off.

“This was at MHKR?” Cole was
furious. His arms were flexed as his hands clenched. He took a calming deep
breath when Gwen stepped back from him. “Please, continue.”

“He just spouted off a bunch of
non-sense. Like that he is the reason McKayla left and that he would get you to
leave me too.” Gwen swallowed hard. Cole grabbed the back of her head and
pressed a hard kiss to her lips and pressed his forehead to hers.

“Absolutely nothing is going to
make me leave you. Especially not some tiny dick little prick.” Cole growled.
He pressed another hard kiss to her lips before turning and slamming his fist
into the wall of the closet, leaving a hole in the plaster.

Gwen quickly stepped back towards
the door to the bedroom. Violence was not something she handled well, and not
something she expected at all from Cole.

“No, baby. Don’t run from me. I’d
never lay a single finger on you in anger.” Cole pulled her tightly to his
chest. Gwen could hear his heart pounding in his chest. “I’m doing everything I
can to keep you safe and this fucker is somehow always one step ahead. He keeps
finding little holes to slip through to get to you.”

“It’s ok, Cole. I’m not afraid of
him. Well, I take that back. I am still horribly afraid of him. But I’m not
afraid to stand up to him now. I absolutely refuse to let him get to me or our
children. These babies rely upon me to keep them safe and I’ll be damned if
they are exposed to that world I lived in.” Gwen tightened her arms around
Cole’s waist just as tight as he was holding her.

“I love you so much. You are such a
little fireball. You are going to make such a wonderful mother.” Cole nuzzled
his nose into her neck. “Now what do you say I take you to bed and distract
that beautiful mind of yours?”

“What if I distract you instead?”
Gwen smiled as her fingers brushed over the day old stubble along his jaw.

“Let’s distract each other.” Cole
scooped her up and cherished the feel of her arms around his shoulders as he
carried her to bed.