Jax
While searching in the bathroom for lord knows what, I took it upon myself to work on getting a bath ready for Amelia. She looked so fucking exhausted once she sat in that chair. I began running pure hot water, in hopes that once I got her in here it would be cool enough to sit in and sat some towels for us off to the side. While waiting, I searched under the sink and various locations for a possible envelope but was met with a sarcastic joke from Chris.
"Dude, I said look for an envelope not pamper yourself." He was now standing in the door frame leaning against it with his arms crossed. "I take it you didn't"
"Hey, I have the envelope you are looking for." Amelia's voice was not very loud thanks to the water.
"Sure, they aren't droids?" Chris joked while looking at me. I only shook my head at him.
"How about you come here to get into this bath?" I raised my voice a bit. Nothing. I raised an eyebrow at Chris. "Babe, I've got this bath almost ready. If you don't hurry Chris and I will get into it." Again nothing.
"Mia, seriously, I will take your spot in this bath." Chris was grinning but both of our faces changed because there was still no response.
I turned the water off and we headed to the main area where we left Amelia. Fear was coursing through me; my mind was going into many different directions on what could be going on that she would not answer. She was right where we left her, but she was holding an envelope and her face was of pure horror. Chris and I approached her while trying to get her attention but nothing. There were tears starting to form at the corner of her eyes and she was starting to shake.
"I can't." She tried to breath "I just can't"
"What's wrong Amelia?" I asked while I pulled her into me, and Chris took the paper and envelop. She kept repeating the same thing as the tears were flowing and she began wetting my shirt. I shot Chris a look if he could figure it out, but his face did not help either. All he did was turn the paper over to show a deed to a house. I took the paper and looked it over while trying to sooth her.
It was not making sense; the house was located on lake front property and the home was listed for millions of dollars. There was plenty of space for the five of us, our crew and probably a couple others. Shit each of the kids could have their own room, a playroom and there would still be enough. I was actually stoked for this home and I did not even know what it looked like. Then I saw the location; It made sense now, we were not just going anywhere, we were going to the one place Amelia wanted to avoid in this world. Chris realized this too when he pulled the plane tickets out that had us landing in Des Moines.
I began pulling Amelia towards the bathroom, it was time to get her to relax. She was very hesitant from moving from the spot but when I kissed her forehead she moved slowly. I shut the bathroom door and started the water back up for the tub and began undressing us both. Once the tub was full I took us both in and pulled her down with me until she was in my lap. I began massaging her shoulders and kissed her head again.
"Talk to me baby." I whispered into her ear. "You gotta let me into that beautiful brain of yours."
"I am scared Jax." She was whispering but thanks to the bathroom it echoed enough. "I am so fucking scared. I am not even sure what for or even of."
I was mentally going through all of the things she could be scared of and shit there was a list. Seeing her family again, her brothers, the dumb fuck of an ex, her old friends or even just the memories of everything. From what she told me she never said goodbye to anyone when she was admitted into the hospital because no one came to see her, she never went back after getting to California. This would be her first time and from my own experiences of facing the past, it could be hard on her. I actually was starting to get furious as to why Ghost would send us to Iowa. They knew of her past at least most of it but then it struck me. That is why, the history she has; why would she go back? Why would anyone want to go back to where all of their pain originated from?
I pulled Amelia into an embrace, resting my chin on her shoulder. "Amelia my love. There is clearly a reason they are sending us there." I kissed her shoulder "But I and Chris will be there to help you through this pain. It's just one town what are the odds of you running into someone you know?"
She turned to me "You're joking right?" she chuckled "Honey, we are going to be in a big town, not like Sacramento, but it's near one of the towns people go to when nothing is in their town." She shook her head. "It's hard to explain honestly. You will just see when we get there. Maybe I will just stay in the home at all times."
"Like hell you are." I kissed her cheek. "We will need to visit the doctor and when we last talked to the one doctor he wanted you to a more permanent one soon."
She grumbled something that was not audible but all I could do was hug her in that moment. Well until it was time to get out of the tub, as much as she was relaxed at this moment I did want her in bed resting. All of this could not be good for her or the babies. I did not bother having her dress once she was dry, I just laid us down into bed under the covers. Her head laid under my chin and she snuggled into my chest as she tried to maneuver so her whole body would be touching mine. Chris shortly came in and laid behind her, spooning her perfectly while both of our arms were wrapped around her. Over the last couple of weeks, we had created a silent bond, we communicated fairly well before by just looking at each other, but this one was different.
Our Amelia was needing us to make her feel safe. While locking eyes with Chris we both began kissing her. My lips trailed the front of her shoulder while Chris was kissing her back. Her breath hitched as she began to stir in our arms. I was not sure where my hands began or even Chris's. I felt his hand though trail down her body to find her wet folds in the process his hands slowly brushed the tip of my cock. It made me twitch for many different reasons, some of it was my Amelia was going to get off and some was that Chris touched me. I took my lips and pressed them into hers, dragging my teeth along the bottom her lips, diving my tongue back into her mouth. When she sucked on my tongue we both moaned, I could feel Chris moving circles over clit and diving his finger into.
My hand trailed down her back to find Chris's erection straining his sweatpants, my hand lingered on Amelia's back before I reached into his sweatpants gradually grabbing his throbbing cock. He twitched at my touch and he let out a throat moan in being touched. I began slowly stroking his shaft in the same pace as he was rubbing Amelia. Smaller delicate hands grasped my shaft and moved in that same pace. We were all one in pure bliss of simple oral interactions. I could feel Amelia's body tense as her lips became more demanding. My eyes locked onto Chris's again and he stopped, knowing we should do more now. He pulled his fingers and licked the wetness from them.
I grinned at our girl and gently placed my hand around her neck and guided her head towards me "On your knees, face the wall and inch towards the end of the bed." She only nodded but her eyes were full of lust and her smile was sinful. I wanted to take her right now, but I wanted to draw this out for a bit longer. When she moved I looked at Chris and barked "I want you under her, eating her sweet pussy and take whatever comes next."
I could see him swallow hard, but he followed while shimming out of his pants. Chris grasped Amelia's hips and guided her to his lips. I stepped behind Amelia and I spoke while moving her hair to the side. "You will lean over and suck on our man's cock, while I fuck this pussy and while Chris licks all of our juices." I could see Chris twitch at my commands. I pushed Amelia down and watched her sweet pink lips wrap around his girthy cock. I heard them both moan, his tongue must have hit her clit when she sunk down.
I stepped up to the edge of the bed, grabbing my shaft and guiding myself to Amelia's entrance. I could feel her heat and Chris's breath radiating, it almost sent me over the edge before I could even enter. I did not hesitate any longer and thrusted into her. It was pure heaven to impale this beauty, her walls were clenching down on me already as I felt Chris's tongue move along her clit and onto my base. I grabbed Amelia's hair and pulled her head off of Chris, I wanted to hear her screams.
"I want to hear your screams when I fuck this pretty cunt." I could hear Chris moan as I thrusted more and could feel Amelia's juices begin to coat my cock.
"Fuck Jax." I could hear Chris mumble. His mouth was back to work and it began creating quakes in Amelia. She was close, so close.
"It's too many guys." She cried
"You will take it all." I shoved her head back down on Chris's shaft and he removed a hand from her hip to guide her head. She clenched down on me more as she began bobbing. I let out a growl and I could not contain the urge to claim her. "I am going to pound the fuck out of you!" I did not care at this point I needed to.
My hips slammed into her over and over again. I wanted to be so hard and rough with her but for now this would do. Rest assured, once she had these babies I would ravish this body and show her the alpha I could be. But fuck was this was satisfying and felt great. I could feel all of our bodies tense in the growing orgasms we were feeling. My balls tightened as I began to twitch and released my seed into her, the same time I noticed Amelia was swallowing Chris. I pulled myself out slowly and helped Amelia up.
I knelt down by Chris's head "Lick her clean now Chris." I smacked Amelia's ass, knowing well that she would clench down and push the juices out. "I am going to watch you clean her��
Chris only moaned and clenched onto Amelia's thighs. I watched his tongue plunge into her folds and suck, he was almost feral in the way he was cleaning her up. It was also causing our girl to stir more. She was getting off on this, fuck we were all enjoying it. I was getting hard again and so was Chris.
"Fuck!" She screamed. "I need you guys in me!"
It did not take us long to be ready for her after that. I leaned my back onto the headboard and brought Amelia to my lap, Chris left the room and came back in with a bottle of lube. I pulled her hair to the side so I could rest my chin onto her shoulder. "How do you want us love?"
She squirmed at the sultry sound from my voice, "However you want me."
Chris had a sinister smile on his face. "Oh tiger, you should not say those words when Jax and I are in a dominate head space."
I nodded at Chris and nipped at Amelia's neck. "Because we are both going to take this sweet pussy at once."
I flipped Amelia so she was straddling me and plunged into her, fuck was she wet and ready for us. I heard the bottle of lube open and felt the weight of Chris on the bed as he came up behind Amelia. He plunged two fingers in that were wet with lube and pressed against Amelia, stretching her more to fit him in. I never measured my girth, but I am pretty sure between Chris and I; she would be getting an arm worth. Once Chris was ready I felt his head at her entrance, and it made me twitch with excitement. This was still all new for me, but I enjoyed it all, even if Chris and I did not fully discuss what it meant. We did not need to; it was part of who we were.
I could feel him slowly glide along my shaft pushing me up against Amelia's walls even more. She was trying to so hard to not clench down on us yet, but I also knew it was not going to take much to get her off again. The one plus side of the pregnancy was her hormones made everything so much quicker for. Which then meant many orgasms in a session. All three of us groaned at once while Chris pushed further into her.
"Chris" I hissed. It caused all of us to twitch. "How close are you man?"
His hips began moving slowly. "Close." Is all he grunted. "Faster?"
Amelia beat me to it "Fuck yes Chris. Fuck us."
He did not miss a beat and began thrusting harder and faster. I could feel his ridges rubbing against mine, my arousal was mirroring his. It was addictive to be this in sync with someone. To know they were getting off on feeling you and a woman you shared. Amelia's walls began quaking as an orgasm was beginning. She started screaming and clawing down my abs. It felt so good when she scratched or bit me.
"Fuck Chris!" I moaned "Fuck her harder, she can handle it."
"Can you tiger?" he grunted. "Can you handle our big cocks when I fuck you harder?"
"Please fuck me!" She screamed. We knew she could handle it, but it seemed like words were hard for her when she was close to coming.
Amelia created a vice grip around us, pulling us both in to her more. When her orgasm hit peak both Chris and I pulsed our come into her; creating more lubrication for Chris to add in a couple deep thrusts, she leaned back a bit a rode us while riding her climax out. We all collapsed onto the bed, both of us holding her like we did before. It did not take her long before she was fully relaxed and out. Chris moved Amelia's hair out of her face, placing a kiss on her neck.
He looked at me and whispered. "Do you think her going back to Iowa is a good idea?"
"Man, I don't know." I looked at her peaceful face and back up to Chris. "Ghost new about her past to an extent. The only thing I can think of is that they want her there because it literally is the last place she would go."
"If that be the case" he kissed her shoulder and clasped mine. "We'll help her through this shit. Honestly how bad could it be?"
"Dude, we're from the west coast and going to the Midwest in the middle of winter." I chuckled. "We in for a change."
The next morning, I slipped out of the bed, trying to not wake Amelia. I could hear Chris on the phone and was not surprised to see him pissed. I heard him toss a few names around, realized he was talking to Layne and Robin. I stood near the area while the coffee was brewing, some more choice words were being said from his mouth. When I glanced at the wall clock, it was only nine and shit he was laying into them. I was thankful that he was being somewhat quiet, I felt like a mother with a sleeping baby every time he raised his voice a bit. Chris would catch my glare and would quite back down.
Once he was done, I handed him a coffee. "That sounded intense." I took a sip of my coffee. "What was all that about?"
Chris sat in the big red chair, rubbing his hands over his face in annoyance. "Apparently there has been some changes they weren't anticipating. So, it's looking like Iowa is our permanent stay"
"Fucking shit!" This is not what I was expecting. "What exactly happened?"
Chris went on to explain that Ghost was needing a place in between the coasts and boarders. They guaranteed that the home would be protected especially with the use of my technology. The past couple of days they had been working on the home to make it ready. Something about a hidden area that needed to be concealed from those who came into the home as well as baby proofed. Chris had gotten mad at Robin and Layne for the location. They offered help for Amelia with therapy if needed or any form of services to make her transition better. From the sounds of it they did not grasp the shitty hand they dealt to her.
Hell, even I could not grasp the crap life she was dealt. Over ten years of child abuse from her shit of a father, almost a year of drug abuse and she could not even give me a straight answer on how long she was abused under her ex. My father may run a mafia business but even I did not have that shitty of an upbringing. With everything from her past and now I do not even know how she holds it together. She is a lot stronger than I anyone gives her credit, there were times where I should have given her benefit of the doubt, but I did not.
Chris pulled up the listing of the house to show me what we were going to be moving into. I was hoping that this would make up for moving her back to Hell, because this house was almost a castle. We had our own personal dock for a boat, giant deck/patio, and a pool. The inside had a pool as well and a built-in gym. It would be a stretch to hope this would make her happy.
The flight to Des Moines was hard on Amelia, especially when we flew out of our layover in Minnesota. She was fine with the major planes but once we got to the Midwest flight and the smaller planes she had a hard time adjusting. She was getting claustrophobic; we took this time to show her pictures of the house we would be moving into and work on decorating it to our liking. It helped for a brief moment, then it was time to land. I did not catch what the piolet was announcing I only focused on her and maybe some grumbling that was coming from Chris.
While waiting at the baggage claim I could see her fidgeting with her fingers and biting at her cuticles. "Amelia love it will be okay. Let us just get to our new home and rest."
"Jax I am so sorry I am a mess. Things are all so unresolved I guess?" She looked at me slightly biting her bottom lip. "I don't even know where to begin."
I brought Amelia into a hug and kissed her forehead. "It's okay baby. This week and maybe next we will work on just relaxing." I kissed her forehead again and brought my hand down to her stomach. "Actually, you're supposed to be resting until the twins get here so from the moment we enter our home you my dear are on bed rest."
I could hear a groan from her, but it was for her own good to rest. We met Chris at the loading area, he had managed to find our car. Amelia stopped and looked up at me. "Are you ready for Iowa winter?"
I looked at while reaching for the door. Honestly, how bad could it be for the Midwest in the middle of February. When I opened the door, I was hit with an icy blast of air. Holy shit ice water felt better on my face, but this was burning my cheeks. I could feel Amelia push me towards the car and heard her laugh. This shit was just insane.
"Move your big ass!" Amelia was smiling while she pushed me to the car. I was walking my normal pace, but it was as if she wanted me to run. "If you take too long walking you can get frostbit in minutes."
"I would say you are joking but this is insane." Clearly she was not, my face and fingers felt like they were burning.
"No honey, this is Iowa." I opened the door for her. "this isn't even polar vortex weather."
I could hear Chris laugh behind the wheel as I got into the passenger seat. "Shit I think we will need hazard pay from Ghost" Chris chuckled as we pulled away.
Amelia leaned in between our seats. "This is just the winter weather. If my memories are correct this is still first winter."
"First?!" both Chris and I exclaimed.
We got Amelia to laugh again over our outrage for the thought of a second winter. She explained in the Midwest there was winter, second winter, false spring, actual spring, summer, second spring, real summer, fall, second summer, winter. That was just the seasons, she explained that there was the corn heat in the summer that created so much humidity in the air. Just from being in California I understood the intensity of the heat, but we did not get the humidity like Iowa does. Just because it is eighty does not mean it is, sometimes it could be easily over a hundred. She explained how heavy your chest could feel from it. Then there was when Polar Vortex would hit, Chris and I would hear about it on the news but did not fully understand the severity of it. Shit it could stop the postal services and they worked through everything.
We made it through the metro area easily, for being a the state capitol it was very homey feeling. Passing some of the bars and eating areas looked like they would be fun ideas. A zombie themed restaurant was on Amelia's list of places to grab food soon because they had different kinds of shakes. Before we could head to Saylorville Amelia demanded we stop at the gas station to grab the pizza she was referring to last week. All three of us walked into the gas station and fed into Amelia's cravings. Even though from the stuff we read both Chris and I should not let her indulge too much into the cravings, especially the crap she was placing into our arms. We feared hormonal Amelia though because I am somewhat positive she learned some moves while stuck with my father. Both Chris and I silently agreed that she was not allowed into gas stations or anywhere near food until she had the babies.
Once we got into the car and began eating our food I swore Chris let out a moan. "Oh my God!" He bit down at the pizza. "This is like the perfect pizza for when you are drunk."
I shook my head at Chris and looked back to Amelia she was smiling while chowing down on her pizza. She swallowed "Iowans like to get this for any sport related things, weekends and yes for parties." She took another bite. "This is just the single toppings. When we get to the house I will show you all of the kinds. Taco pizza is amazing."
Once Chris finished we took off to the house, it almost was a scene from a horror movie on how nice this community was, we did not know the person walking by, but they waved at us. No honking or flipping us off as we strolled through this little town. The gps kept taking us further into this wooded area, passing mansions and lake homes that were near the lake. Clearly we would get our privacy as far as we were going out. When we finally arrived, the pictures did not do this justice.
It clearly was borderline of a castle, there was only two levels you could see but the home stretched back into the property. There was a garage attached to one side and it was the same story as the house. Good lord I was curious as to what was in there that required a garage to be two stories. It was a dark gray home, with a black like shingled roof. Everything about this house was square, there was countless lights that we could tell would light up the outside of the house and the driveway.
When we walked into the house the foyer was clearly open. You could see into the kitchen to the right, in front was a path to the deck, the left showed a giant living room and towards the back of the house tucked away was a staircase. There was a small square opening, while looking up you could see that it was where the rooms were. I could not put into words how this house was, it was grays, with whites and blacks. When we walked around the house there was a fireplace in the living room and a perfect view of the beach.
The kitchen was very sleek with all of the black and stainless-steel appliances. A sticky note was place on a body length cupboard. It had mentioned this was the door the our remote headquarters. When we reached the stairs, we caught a glimpse of the back, a giant concrete patio with furniture and built in fire pit in the middle. It looked the lake perfectly as well but to the right was a giant pool with hot tub. Tucked away next to the ascending stairs was stairs that lead to the basement. The three of us walked down to a massive open floor plan that revealed a gym and smaller pool. We could make out three doors, Chris grabbed the note hanging next to the lights.
"It says the door in the middle is another entrance to the office but when you open the door it looks like a regular closet. The door near the pool is the bathroom and the door to the right is for a storm shelter?" Chris was confused as I was. Sure, California had its fair share of shitty weather but rarely we needed to hide in another room. We would get the usual or fires or earthquakes.
Amelia chuckled while sauntering to the storm door. "In Iowa we tend to get some nasty storms. Boys we are in a part of the tornado alley." She opened the door to reveal that it was ready for someone to be stuck in there for a day. "We don't get them as bad as the other parts of the alley, but even straight-line winds may require seeking lower shelter."
We walked up the stairs to the second floor while she explained the summer weather that we would be in for. She explained that being in the valley of somewhere was better than being on the flat open plain. When we reached the second floor she had explained all new home roofs were built to help withstand the strength of the tornadoes, sometimes. When got to the top we could see that hallways were on both sides, each one with four doors on each side and a lone door in between. It was like a u shape layout for upstairs, there seriously was enough room for our crew, us and the babies if needed.
We started walking down one of the hallways and noticed that in the middle was a door with mine and Amelia's name on it. Three doors down from there was a room with Chris's name on it.
"So, this must mean the rooms in between are for the babies?" I looked to Chris and Amelia. They both shrugged at me. We opened our room and it revealed a giant room. To the left was a giant bathroom and next to that was a walk-in closet. I knew the whole house was full as if had just unpacked, so I knew the closets were full. To the right was small door that lead to one of the nurseries and from there was another door to the other baby's room. I looked to Amelia and pushed a lose strand of hair behind her ear. "How about until they are old enough we make this the main room and the other as a toy room for them?"
"I would like that very much. I was also thinking." She was looking around the room. "I want to do our favorite nerd things into the room. But I also want to change little man's name."
"What do you mean baby?" I came up to her and cupped my hands around her face.
"I was playing with the name and it didn't flow. Same with little girl's." Her mind was going a million miles a minute, I could tell because her eyebrows were furrowed. "I want to keep the middle names the same. I was thinking Malcom and Zoe."
I looked at her and could the feel the passion pouring from me. "Like Mal and Zoe from Firefly?"
She nodded with a grin. "Yeah, it's hard to explain but it feels right. I also want to do their nursey in stars." Her grin was bigger. "Mostly something that would be a mix of firefly and Star Wars."
I peppered kisses all over her face. "Fuck I love you my nerdy girl." I saw her try to suppress a yawn. "How about we lay down and take a nap."
She did not put up a fight with me on this. We got to our giant platform bed. It was perfect for Amelia to roll right onto it and off of, the bedding had a black comforter, red cotton sheet, black fitted sheet and four different pillows with the same set up. I got into the bed with her, rolled her into my arms, she nuzzled into my neck, I caressed her back like normal and we both drifted off quickly.
My dreams were very dark when I slept. I could hear Amelia crying for me while I held Chris's limp body in my arms. I had placed him down and began to run to her screams. They were horrible screams like someone was ripping her heart out. I felt like I was running in a maze looking for her when I found a single room where she was on the floor bleeding, her stomach was no longer swollen and no matter how close I tried to get to her I could not. Something was stopping me, then seeing her point to a figure in another doorway holding our babies while she cried. Someone was taking our babies, they had killed Chris, Amelia looked near death and they were walking off with the twins. I could not do anything I was stuck. When I turned around I was stuck, one side was of Chris dead and the other was watching Amelia bleed out. It was my father's laughter that shot me out of sleep.
I looked to my side and Amelia was gone, every nerve in my body went on auto pilot like when we rescued her. I reached for my gun that on the nightstand and started to get out of the bed when I smelled coffee as well as bacon. It was just a nightmare and my wife was downstairs with our partner. I repeated that to myself over and over until I reached the kitchen. Chris was cooking while Amelia was on a laptop surfing through Pinterest. I came up behind her and wrapped my arms around her. It did not even startle her; she could almost sense me anymore when I was near.
I kissed her head and smiled seeing the star theme nursey ideas pop up. "I am surprised that you aren't shopping online yet."
Chris turned around to put some bacon on a plate. "Oh, she was but I stopped her because the website yelled at her for having too much in the cart." He poured me some coffee and handed it to me. "So, I convinced her to do a registry. I cringe just thinking on what it looks like."
"It isn't that bad. There was a lot of furniture that a baby requires." She drank her orange juice and sat it down. "We just need double the normal. I found a cute onesie for Zoe that said something about 'my dad and uncle can kick your ass' and an adorable one for Mal that said, 'sister protector' they were adorable."
Chris sat the complete plates of food down; it was then I realized we had slept into the next day. I looked at Chris "Did she tell you we decided different on the twin's names?"
"She did but she also shot my plans down for the day." I cocked an eyebrow at Chris. "What did you ask?"
Amelia took a bite of her bacon and while chewing joked. "He asked if we could go cow tipping today. I had to explain to him that does not happen at all in the Midwest."
I could only shake my head at the conversation I missed. At least it had not been about anything else. I would be okay with baby talk and Midwest myth talk, as long as it got her to relax and not focus on where we were at. While we ate our breakfast we went over what the plan was for the time being while we waited for our stuff to get delivered to the home, it was too cold to do anything outside, we did not want to drive around looking at our new territory yet and Amelia was not scheduled to see her new doctor for a few days.
We got into a very domestic routine, it was weird, but I could get used to it. Chris and I would take turns cooking, Amelia mapped out the house and found the laundry area eventually in another portion of a house we missed. Off the living room was the laundry room and a game area. She was not to happy when I would not let her walk up to our room to get our laundry. I told Chris about my nightmare and he agreed I was letting it get to me. If we were not cooking, Chris and I played video games, while Amelia watched us or rested in the living room watching tv. It felt so weird but felt good to just relax for once. I could not wait until the summer so we could break in the outside patio area.
A couple days in the house we all checked out the garage, Ghost had provided us motorcycles, crotch rockets, 4-wheel drive vehicles and couple muscle cars. I was itching to get the Camaro or Charger out. Amelia swatted my hand from the keys when we were getting ready to leave for her appointment. I learned that during winters in the Midwest we were to use the truck or SUV. Summer, spring and fall we could use the other ones. The drive to the hospital was not very long and it put me at ease knowing when it was time to go.
At her appointment we met a Dr. Navarro, I heard a nurse refer to him as doctor dreamy and fuck was he. I swear he was like another version Ryder. Thankfully, Ghost had filled him in, and he informed Amelia and I he was a former Marine on top delivering countless babies. It put us at ease that this man could and would be prepared for it all. The appointment went on like her other ones, we listened to the twin's heartbeats, the doctor measured her stomach, he checked Amelia's vitals and addressed any concerns we had. Dr. Navarro had urged Amelia to rest as much as possible and only expressed that she was dealing with a normal pregnancy for a women carrying twins. Which meant that things were touch and go. This shit was so confusing but if the doctor was not too concerned then we should not be either.
Once into the warmth of our truck I texted Chris to let him know how the appointment went. When I placed the phone down I noticed the fatigue on Amelia's face. It was amazing on how this woman was able to move through the day all while growing our children. I placed a hand on the swell of her stomach and gently glided my thumb back and forth. Our eyes met and a small smile played across her face, something so small made my heart swell for her. "How about we grab a snack from somewhere before we head home?"
"I think I would like that. We can check at the food court for the mall. I want a variety of things."
I pulled up the directions to the mall and headed out. When we pulled up to the mall I heard a small sigh escape from her, and she shook her head. "Baby, we don't have to come here. We can just order in." She unbuckled her seat belt and looked at me. Her face was hard to read until she spoke.
"Jax, I can't keep hiding. I eventually need to face this crap." She shook her head. "I can't say I will enjoy any of this or that I won't lose my shit, but I can't hide."
My heart swelled with pride at her tackling this head on, in a way. I leaned over in the truck and kissed her gently. When we pulled a part, our foreheads met "Amelia, I am so proud of you. You have done so much over the past few weeks and been able to carry on." I caressed her cheek with the padding of my thumb. "Now let's go feed you three." Her smile was worth it all.
We had made it into the mall which surprised me when we got to the food court. There was plenty of places for eating but there was a small area of recliners, couches, and small tables near a fireplace. Amelia explained that there was a coffee place and was fun during the cold months to sit by the fireplace. When we reached the line of food places, her demeanor changed. She was on edge and looking around the area. Her hand was on her belly almost protectively and she looked tired again. I had ordered Amelia to tell me what she wanted and to sit down. She reluctantly nodded, told me what she wanted, and I could not help but laugh. She demanded I get us shakes from this zombie themed place with fried pickles, but I was also to grab tacos. The way she had been eating, Chris and I had been hitting the gym more, I am convinced that we were the ones gaining the weight not her.
With my arms full of our food, I turned around to look for Amelia until I saw her face I always worried that she would not be there. My eyes grazed the crowd until I saw her, she was sitting peacefully at a table slowly caressing her belly and a small smile creeped onto her face. Every time the twins kicked or moved she always smiled; it always took my protective guard down to see my growing family. All of this was worth it, as long as they were safe. However, our lives felt like they were never meant to keep that peace yet. I had made it halfway to her when a scruffy looking man approached her. I could instantly see body tense and go into fight mode. They were exchanging words of some kinds and I could tell it was heated. My Amelia was restraining so much as I could see her fists clench at her side, and she spoke to the man.
As I approached more, she caught me coming from the corner of her eye and create a sense of comfort in her. Her body relaxed a little more. I was close enough to hear some of the conversation.
"..oh Millie, how much you have changed." The man was saying coyly towards her. I already was not liking him. "I can see you still couldn't help keeping your legs open.��
"Please Phillip, just leave me alone." Her voice was a mix of fear and uncertainty. "I want nothing to do with you or anyone else."
"You fucked up so much for everyone." His words were almost spitting out of him. "You should have just done everyone a favor and did it correctly. I think some people would be so thrilled to hear you are home finally."
"I don't care about you or anyone else. No one cared then so why should I care now what you think or say?" The tiger in Amelia was coming out but I needed to step in because this man was about to get his ass kicked.
"Hey baby, I got our food." I announced when I was closer to the table and sat down. Locking eyes with the man. He looked like someone in his mid-fifties but also look strung out. I sized the man up and did not look like a threat. "Is this gentleman bothering you?"
She scoffed, oh definitely tiger Amelia was out. "This man is far from a gentleman and he was leaving."
He glared us down before he left. I turned to Amelia as she was still watching until he walked out of the door. She was on edge so much that I am sure her blood pressure was rising from it all. I grabbed her hand and kissed her knuckles. "Love, he is gone." She shook her head and looked as if she wanted to cry. "Who was he baby?"
"That was Philip. My step-dad and the guy who was part of my past."
Couple days, that is all it took for her past to come to her. Fuck this was going to be harder than I thought.