The feel of him around her, within her, the sound of his deep baritone whispering against the shell of her ear was her undoing. Connected to her man, mind body and soul, Aviva was stormed by sensation after sensation. As her body contracted around his hard cock, she dug her fingers into the muscles of Jason’s arm and allowed her feelings to take complete control.
Feeling Jason stiffen together with the rush of heat that gushed inside her body was all Aviva needed to know; this gentle loving was one of the best experiences of her life.
With their bodies still entwined, Aviva pulled Jason’s head towards her own and placed kisses across every inch of his face that she could reach. To her delight, Jason all but purred. She knew her baby loved it when she petted him, and whatever he wanted, as far as she was concerned, it was his.
Chapter 5
When Jake walked into MacKenzie’s room, she looked as though she was in pain, and it worried him. He could tell MacKenzie was aware of his presence, but she didn’t look at him. That she didn’t want him there was obvious. When he saw tears trailing down her cheeks, he knew he had to step in.
“What can I do to help?”
Finally, she looked up and met his gaze. “I don’t think she likes me. This is the second time I’ve tried to feed her, and she keeps turning away.” On a broken sob, MacKenzie continued, “Jake, what if my baby doesn’t like me?”
“Of course she likes you.”
“But what if she doesn’t?” She asked as she continued to cry.
“Okay, the first thing you need to do is calm down. I think she can sense when you’re upset. Give her to me for a few minutes while you get yourself together.”
Taking the baby, Jake rocked her in his arms while MacKenzie took deep breaths in an attempt to get her emotions under control. After a short period had elapsed, she tried to feed the baby again with the same result.
“No more tears,” Jake warned as tears again began to pool in her eyes. “We’ll work this out.”
Jake hoped he had infused his voice with enough certainty to ease MacKenzie’s concern. Taking the baby, he took a couple of steps backward and came to a stop. Jake grew still as his mind frantically searched for a solution to the problem. As he rocked the baby to soothe her, he was unaware of the look that came over his face. His eyes rapidly flashed from side to side as though he were reading a book that was imprinted in his mind.
When he thought he had a possible solution for their problem, Jake looked directly at MacKenzie, who watched him, a shocked expression on her face. Realizing what he had been doing, Jake felt heat rush into his face. Although he was embarrassed that she had witnessed something he had long ago mastered, he didn’t offer an explanation.
“I want to try something. Hold her for a while.” Passing the baby off, he opened a closet and removed a bed sheet. Ripping it apart with his bare hands, he folded it to his liking and returned to MacKenzie.
“Lay her down on the bed.”
“But she’s crying.”
“Then the sooner you do as I ask, the quicker we can stop her from crying.”
With the baby resting on the bed, Jake wrapped the material crossways around MacKenzie’s upper body and tied the ends together on top of her shoulder. Lifting the child, he placed her inside the sling he had constructed.
“Okay, try again.”
After a moment of hesitation, MacKenzie tried again to feed her daughter. It worked; soon Jake could hear the sounds of the nursing baby.
“You did it!” MacKenzie exclaimed, her face alight with relief.
“I told you she liked you.” Jake smiled, glad he was able to help.
“How did you know? No, don’t tell me, you checked the database you have stored in your brain, right?”
“Um...?”
“That eye flashing thing is really weird, Jake.” MacKenzie laughed.
Jake squirmed in reaction to her laughter.
“I heard tales that you and your brothers are classified as geniuses. “Gotta tell you though, until you pulled this off, nothing on this earth would have convinced me of it.”
“You don’t think it’s... odd the way we are, my brothers and I?”
“Not really,” MacKenzie answered without embellishment.
Expecting her to say more than her matter of fact response, Jake waited. When she only shrugged, he finally exhaled, unaware that he had been holding his breath in readiness for an adverse response.
“Thank you for saying that.”
“No thanks necessary. I should be thanking you, and I do, thank you that is.”
“You’re welcome, MacKenzie. I’m just glad I could help.”
An awkward pause followed where they both looked at each other as though unsure of what to say next.
“Honestly Jake, you don’t have to stay. I need to figure this parenting stuff out on my own.”
Jake thought her choice of words odd and decided to probe deeper. “Why do you have to figure parenting out on your own?”
“Are you trying to get up in my business, Jacob?”
The way she said his name told Jake that he had hit a nerve. Although he hadn’t spent a lot of time in her company, he had a pretty good handle on MacKenzie.
“What do you think?”