Reyona blinked awake groggily as she groaned and covered herself to ward off the thin ray of sunlight peeking through the closed curtains.
"Go away," she mumbled as she rolled onto her back.
"I assume that is not meant for me?" She heard Maxwell's amused voice coming from the direction of the door.
She peeked out beneath her hand to see him coming towards her bare-chested, with only his pants on and a covered tray in his hands.
He looked deliciously handsome in the morning light and Reyona was sure that her watering mouth wasn't just from the aroma of whatever he had with him.
"Good morning, sleeping beauty. Like what you see?" He teased her as he carefully placed the tray on the bedside table.
"Nuh uh, not sure. Come closer, let me see." She said flirtatiously, and he obliged her as he knelt on the bed beside her and leaned forward.
"What about now?" he asked with a wiggle of his eyebrows.
Reyona rose to wrap her arms around his neck as she pulled him down to her.
They shared a long kiss that left them breathless.
"My oh my, Miss Dexter. I think you are growing quite insatiable for me."
"Mhmm" Reyona said as she gave him a sultry look beneath her lashes and reached out to trace his biceps with her fingers.
Heat was already pooling within her. A few minutes after she woke up, and she was more than ready to have him sink into her over and over again.
Damn.
"Or should I say, Mrs Rohan? We are still very married, you know."
Reyona's fingers stilled, and she cleared her throat as she looked towards the thin ray of light that had probably woken her in the first place.
"Can you please pull the curtains tighter? I think I am not ready to face all that much lighting yet" she said with a smile.
"Sure," he responded as he got up.
She lifted and readjusted until she was lying on her back against the headboard.
"That for me?" She asked as she pointed at the covered tray.
"Yes, Your Highness." He said as he lifted the tray, then handed it to her as he said. Here, hold on to this."
"Yes, please."
Maxwell moved to unfold the foldable mini-table he carried beneath the tray. "I had to go do something, you know. Otherwise, I am unsure if I wouldn't have given in to the temptation of waking you up with some action. You look so hot when you sleep."
Damn, his directness could be so hot at times.
Or maybe her heart was because she wouldn't have minded one bit if he had woken her up with what he had in mind.
"So what do you think?" He asked as he uncovered the mouthwatering dish of bacon, whole grain toast, and eggs, with warmed milk.
Warm?
"So, I was reading some articles earlier, and it says that warm milk is very good for expectant mothers" he said with a sheepish smile when he saw her feeling the milk glass with her hand.
Reyona laughed "I think I need to give you some heads-up that you can't always trust everything you read online. But thank you, and the article was right."
"Good, now eat up." He said as he held a strip of bacon to her lips.
"I need to go brush my teeth first," Reyona protested.
"Come on, that will take too long and it will get cold. Nobody said you have to brush before eating. Doctors only said brush twice daily."
"What kind of logic is that?" Reyona wondered aloud. "Obviously it wasn't stated because it was expected to be the normal thing to do."
Maxwell merely wiggled his eyebrows at her and shook the bacon slightly. "I can personally brush it for you if you want. Later. I think the baby wants to eat now."
Reyona shook her head at him in amusement, bit off the bacon and chewed, slightly self-conscious about how he was looking at her with such admiration in his eyes.
After a while of feeding her, he said "I am going to get some of those expectant dad books and learn some more. I am sure you can help me learn too. And when we go back…"
Reyona almost choked on the milk she had in her mouth at that moment.
He quickly patted her back as she coughed lightly, dabbing at her mouth with the napkin. She gawked at him and asked "When we go back? Where is that coming from?"
"I just thought…" he stopped talking when he saw her narrowed eyes. Then he said "I am sorry for assuming. That was inconsiderate of me. What do you want?"
She told him.
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The next couple of weeks were the most decadent Reyona had spent all her life.
It was also the most enjoyable time she had spent closely in the company of another person in a long while.
It had been enjoyable in many ways, yet she couldn't take her mind off one particular.
The love-making!
Damn, the rate at which they go at each other was just scandalously off the chart.
Reyona had thought her insatiable urge in the first few days had been because she had been suppressing the nerve-wracking urges for so long.
She had thought it would stop after a couple of days, and she would become her normal sex-when-you-can self again, but no such luck.
If anything, the urge seemed to be on the increase.
Despite her vow not to ask the doctor again, she couldn't help but share her concern with the woman when Maxwell drove her there for her next appointment.
"You are perfectly fine, madam. I am glad to see that your husband is here with you too. I would suggest that you two enjoy this moment the best way you can. Everything is fine with the baby and your health couldn't be better."
Still, Reyona wasn't so sure that "fine" was the term she would use for how she felt during the birthing class she had signed up for but had only attended once before.