Reyona disconnected the conference call with her Sydney team and swivelled her chair around to face the window.
She reached for the neck massager that Maxwell had gotten for her with one hand.
She fixed the device on her neck and switched it on.
Reyona sighed as the pouch-like device vibrated against her neck.
It was truly soothing, but it had nothing on Maxwell's soothing warm fingers.
Boy was he skilled.
And to think he had only learned how to give a good massage recently.
"I never had a need to worry about it before," he had said. "Now, there is every reason."
He had hired a professional massage therapist to teach him.
Then he tried it out on her every day until he was declared skilled enough.
After which he added his innovative ways of massaging, of course.
Ways that Beatrice, the massage therapist could have found scandalous.
Reyona chuckled as heat filled her body at her thought.
"Hmmm," she half-moaned at the thought of the machine being replaced by his fingers.
She shifted her weight slightly and leaned back again.
She was getting heavier by the day and the twins seemed to be doing acrobatics most of the time to make up for their late start.
Even Maxwell couldn't pretend that he couldn't see that her feet were swollen now.
Not after Junior had pointed at her feet one day and said "Your feet look like Pokémon feet!"
The fact that the animated creature did not necessarily have fat feet did not matter, Reyona had known what he meant.
And she had dared Maxwell to tell her that she was wrong this time.
All he had done was rake his hand through his hair, give her a sheepish smile and say "You look so beautiful anyway. Right, Junior?" he had added with emphasis.
"Yes, you are beautiful, Reyona. Very beautiful." Junior had said with exaggeration while grinning up at her.
The little charmer sure knew how to wiggle his way out of any tricky situation.
Maxwell was becoming an influence on the kids for sure.
Reyona mused as she smiled at herself with her eyes closed.
She was almost sure that he would be there anytime soon.
She had fought her way back to coming to the office.
Yet she was sure that he had sic almost all her employees on her.
What with Charlotte popping in every few minutes to ask if she needed something?
Then Samantha casually strolling into her office with the pretence of having one thing or the other to discuss with her.
Reyona knew what they were all doing.
They were checking on her to ensure she did not overwork or anything.
She could almost feel the eyes of her employees glued to her body anytime she walked along the floor or just had anything to do downstairs.
The torrents of "Do you need anything, ma?"
"What can I do for you, ma?"
What can I get for you, ma?" was more than overwhelming.
It was his fault.
He had found a way to charm himself into the graces of her employees.
Not just through the ongoing publications and broadcasts about them which are still happening.
The news was now positive and most of the time had to do with one thing or the other that Reyona and Maxwell had done together.
They were calling them Kayooma's most worthy power couple.
If they were not gushing about that, then they were talking about how much Maxwell doted on his wife.
Most of them still speculated on when and how they had got married.
Many lamented openly about missing such an event.
After Reyona had told him that she didn't mind the news and the fact that someone somewhere always finds a way to get their pictures whenever they were out, Maxwell had told her that he didn't mind either.
Then he started taking her out more.
They stopped being so conscious of who could be watching them and just did what they would love to do.
They go out a lot, especially since she had started feeling cramped recently.
She had craved going to the ice rink two days ago, and he had immediately taken her there.
Of course, they had a good laugh when she conveniently remembered that she couldn't even ice-skate after they got there.
She had been watching a movie where she saw a couple ice skating.
And boom, that had seemed like the best thing that could happen to her at that moment.
When he gaped at her after she pointed out that she had never gone ice skating before in her life, she pointed out that it was his fault in a way.
It was the movie he made her watch just to get her off her feet that caused it.
Reyona chuckled under her breath.
Then she let out a soft moan again.
Just as she heard a little giggle behind her.
She lazily opened her eyes and turned her chair around just before Maxwell reached her.
"Oh, shoot. You ruined the surprise, dummy" Allysyn said with a grin as she poked Junior's hair.
"I did not," Junior said weakly as he grinned at Reyona.
Reyona was surprised that he momentarily did not mind being called a dummy by Allysyn.
Something was up.
"Hey you," she smiled at Maxwell as he moved closer to her with an intent look on his face.
Then he bent towards her, ignored her ready lips and whispered in her ear "I hope that moan was because of the thought of me. If this massager is the cause of your ecstasy, Mrs Rohan, then I think I need to return it. Then I will beat the CEO up for indirectly making you moan."
Reyona giggled as she inhaled his intoxicating scent and her whole body went on alert.
Damn.
She threw her arms around his neck and turned her head to gaze into his eyes. "I was just thinking of the producer, you know. A man that could make something this good must be…"
He swallowed the rest of the words in his mouth as he captured her lips in a kiss.
"Yuck!" Junior said enthusiastically.
Maxwell and Reyona laughed in the middle of the kiss before they separated.
"Hey, go get your own woman, kiddo," Maxwell said with a mock offended look.
"Eww," Junior said with such emphasis that they all laughed again.
Maxwell gently pulled Reyona up from her seat, thoroughly enjoying the feel of her swollen belly against his body as she rose.
He bent down to kiss her stomach with a whisper "Hey, kids. Miss me?"
Then he rose to face her while wrapping his arms around her body.
"We've come to abduct you, Mrs Rohan."
"Abduct me?" She asked with an incredulous look on her face as she looked at the excited kids before looking back to Maxwell again.
"For what?" She asked.
"It is a surprise!" Junior answered with a clap while dancing from foot to foot.
Another surprise? Reyona thought with a rise of excitement as she looked back at Maxwell and asked.
"What kind of surprise?"
"It is a surprise, Reyona. You are not supposed to know," Allysyn said with emphasis.
Reyona raised her brow at Allysyn's expression before lowering her voice to whisper to Maxwell.
"I swear I think Toria gave her a mini-me injection before leaving. Must have something to do with all those calls they have been making too."
"Then I think we need to get moving before she literally drags us out", Maxwell returned in the same conspiratorial whisper.
Reyona laughed and reached for her bag.
She couldn't wait to see what they had up their sleeve this time.