His Unwanted Wife Again
Chapter Twenty

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Baylee, Lola, Clarissa, and Conner squished together in Baylee's two-door silver sports car. Baylee and Clarissa in the back, Conner driving, and Lola in the passenger seat. The radio was playing on a volume setting so low, that they barely registered it over the humming of the engine. Other than that, the car was quiet

"Wait." Clarissa suddenly looks away from the window.

"What?" Baylee asks.

"Turn around." She orders.

Conner looks into his rearview mirror. "Were in the middle of the highway."

"Exit off. I can't go home right now."

"It's going to be okay." Baylee tries to get her sister to relax.

"It's not." Clarissa makes a hiccuping sound.

"Just exit off here." Baylee points to the nearest exit. Exit 47.

Conner maneuvers the car to a gas station just off the highway. The second he puts the vehicle in park Clarissa hops out like it was stifling her.

Baylee and Lola rush to her.

"No." She holds out her hands. "Don't touch me." She goes up against the car tire and drops herself down.

"It's going to be alright." Baylee again reaches out.

"Stop." Clarissa pushes her hands away. "I don't want to be consoled."

"I'll be right back." Conner runs into the convenience store attached to the gas station.

"He's hotter than Nathan is any day." Lola turns and watches Conner back as he walks away.

"Can't you see Clarissa needs us. This really isn't the time." Baylee scolds.

"She said it herself she doesn't want to be consoled. She needs a distraction."

"Yeah, I really don't want to talk about it.

Let me freak out for a while." Clarissa interjects and wipes her nose with her dress.

Baylee releases a breath.

"Was it me or did Conner keep glancing in his rearview mirror to look at you?" Lola looks at Baylee suspiciously.

"What?" Baylee puts her hands on her hips. "He was looking at the cars behind us." She lies. Every time he glanced at her she got butterflies and butterflies equals feeling, emotions. A no-no topic and she didn't want anyone putting any crazy ideas in her head.

"Oh... So you two don't have a thing?"

"No Lola, he's a bodyguard for crying out loud."

"So?" She questions back.

Conner clears his throat behind them. "I thought you might like some water." He hands Clarissa as an ice-cold bottle.

"Thank you." She smiles back sympathetically. Then she opens the bottle and makes sure to take a few sips although she didn't want the water.

Baylee felt like an idiot. Shit! Did he hear that? Should she apologize? She didn't. Maybe it was better she didn't.

"I'm ready." Clarissa breaths and stands up.

Everyone wasted no time jumping into the car and getting on their way again.

Once they pulled into the driveway, all three ladies enter the house. Conner pulls out his phone and calls Hunter. "Where are you?" He answers.

Conner replies with the address and sits on the front stairs while he waits for his ride back. He looked at the time on his phone. He was going to be late tonight.

As he puts his phone in his pocket he hears tiny footsteps approaching him. It was Lola. She steps down to his step and sits near. "Lola Asher." She puts her hand in front of him.

He looks at her hand then at her face. She was pretty. Her skin fair and smooth, her eyes bright green and cat-like, her hair silky smooth, blond and curly at the bottoms. His lips look like they were naturally red and plumper than average. "Conner Nickels." He shakes her hand.

"Nice to meet you. So what's your deal?"

"What do you mean?" He joins his brows.

"Who are you and how did you end up here?"

"You mean as a bodyguard?"

She nods her head. "I kinda wanna know your life story.

After watching her for a moment. Her curiosity was cute. Who is this girl?

"My grandmother raised me. Both my mother and father were druggies and both eventually overdosed."

"I'm so sorry".

"Don't be. I have always had my grandma. She was my mother, father, and grandmother all in one all my life. He smiles.

She smiles back.

"Lola?" Baylee peeks her head out the front doors.

"Yeah." She stands. "I'll be there in a minute.

Baylee nods and shuts the door.

"We just started talking again so I don't want to ditch her for a guy."

He nods. "Nice meeting you."

"Take my number." She suggests and call me if you want."

The next morning

Nathan laid on the bed alone. He just opened his eyes from some much-needed rest. Sabrina he knew, was most likely with Jasmine. The last thing he remembers was laying on her stomach. That's where he had hoped to wake. What happened last night was on his mind. Clarissa must be devastated. Jacob loved her. He would have bet his last dollar that Jacob would have never cheated. He would have bet his own life that his wife would have never cheated. Fuck! He curses in his mind. Why did his thoughts always lead this way?

Sabrina got up when Jasmine cried and left Nathan sleeping the morning away. She did her normal daily routine and gave Jasmine her mid-morning bath before putting her back to sleep. When she entered her bedroom, Nathan was laying down with one hand behind his head and the other hand was holding her phone in front of his face.

"What'd you doing?" She hops on the bed and lays on his chest. When she looks at the phone she sees a picture of her from when she was around six months pregnant. She was surrounded by students from Hawkins. It was her last day there. "Why didn't you tell me?" He questions. "Why didn't you tell me the moment you knew you were pregnant? If you'd have told me yourself I would have taken it more seriously. I would have been there. He runs his thumb over her pregnant stomach."

"I was afraid." She admits. "After Auden." She pauses. "I was just afraid."

He wraps his arm around her and places a kiss on her forehead. "I understand."

He swipes his thumb to look at the next picture. It was a picture of her standing over her mother's kitchen counter eating ice cream. A picture Gracie had taken.

Nathan lets out a small laugh and runs his thumb on her body on the screen again before swiping to the next picture.

It was a video of Jasmine moving in Sabrina's tummy. Also takin by Gracie.

"Look at my niece or nephew go!" Gracie shouts as Sabrina giggles.

"Wow." Nathan smiles. "She was pretty active huh?"

"Yeah, she would keep me up all night sometimes." She inches closer to him.

He lets his fingertips raise up her shirt and begins to run his hand back and forth on the curvature of her body. He swipes to the next picture. He kept swiping through pictures until he reaches one with just of Jasmine from the moments after her birth. He inspects it for longer than a moment and then swipes to another one. One where she was holding Jasmine on her chest laying on the hospital bed with a tired smile on her face. "I wish I was there." He whispers then swipes to another picture.

"Me too." She whispers back.

Suddenly he leans his nose into her hair. "You smell good."

"Thanks." She looks up at him.

His gaze studied her beauty... "I love you." He swallows.

Her mouth opened slightly. She has been dying to hear him say that. He took her breath away at the least expected moment.

"Sometimes I wish you were a bitch. I wish you wanted money. I wish you took me to court for half of Alden Enterprises."

"Why?" She asks curiously. "Why would you want so much trouble?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

She shakes her head.

He brings her phone back in front of him. "Then I could've hated you and been able to move on." He clears his throat and swipes to the next picture. "What's happening here?"

"I was learning to swaddle her." She answers.

He inspects the picture and then rubs his thumb on her body in the picture again. Then he did it again to the next picture.

It was beginning to become annoying and her mind was reeling from his admission. He loved her and it wasn't the alcohol.

"I am right here." She takes the phone and tosses it somewhere on the bed. She then grabs his hand and wraps it around her body. "If you want your hands all over me, then put them all over me." She proclaimed seductively and pulls him into a kiss. He moans in her mouth and the maneuver himself in between her legs to take control.

She wraps her arms around his neck and keeps his mouth pinned to hers. Their mouths devour each other. "I love you too Nathan." Sabrina pulls away from his mouth and then dives right back in.

Her grip was so tight that Nathan had to take her hands and pin them against the bed for a moment to breathe. He holds himself and catches his breath. "Shit." He mutters when she turns her head and scrapes her teeth on his knuckles. "Fuck." He then breaths when she starts to squirm beneath him.

He grinds between her legs. He was rock hard already. He then lets go of her hands only to feel them gliding up and down his chest.

Swiftly he pulls off the nightdress she wore last night and transfixed his eyes on her now naked body. He reaches out and caresses her smooth skin softly. He feels the hairs standing on end throughout her body. "You want me, baby?" He asks. "Yes." She pants when he takes her tender breast in his mouth and plays with the other with his fingertips.

Once he's satisfied with the times he's given them he pulls off his boxers and inserts himself between her. He could no longer wait. She was squirming and panting beneath him and it drove him wild. He drove himself into her slowly and attached his mouth to hers.

"I want to be on top." She whimpers.

Nathan stills. He props himself up and looks her in the eye. When they had sex, he was always in control and he liked how wild she has gotten but really didn't at the same. It should have excited him and it did, but he couldn't help but wonder why she was suddenly like this...or how she got like this? This wasn't things he wanted to think about. He knew he had to let go of theses insecurities. He could see Sabrina wasn't that type of person but there was the faintest hint of what if, in his mind. What if he was completely blind to her.

He nods his head in agreement and lays himself back on the bed.

Sabrina's heart was pounding a mile a minute. She climbs on top of him and takes herself for a ride. Nathan held on to her hips and tried to let her take the lead. When she climaxes he couldn't hold it back. He grabs her by her hair and pulls her on his mouth. He flips her back on her back and passionately devours her.

After, she lay on his chest playing with his fingers.

"Do you want to go see Auden today?" He asks.

"Really? With Jasmine?" She traces the veins in her fingers.

"Of course with Jasmine." He kisses her forehead.

"I think that's a great idea." She turns around to look at him. "Let's go."

"First let's eat... I'm starving." He hops off the bed and leaves the room. "Come on... Jasmine will be up soon."

Later, when they arrived in front of Auden's grave they put the flowers they brought for him at the angel's foot and said a little prayer. Then Nathan set Jasmine's car seat down and began to speak to her. "This is where your big brother is. His name is Auden. He didn't have a chance at life but that's because God wanted him the be by his side. Your big brother is very special and is always watching over us."

A single tear fell from both of Sabrina's eyes. Seeing Jasmine and Auden's headstone side by side was an eye-opener for her. She knew that the pain of losing Auden will never subside but now she was realizing that she could have twelve kids and it would never help. She was trying to replace Auden before to heal the pain of losing him. On some level, she knew he was irreplaceable but now she just found herself wondering what he would look like? What would his personality have been like? Then she glances at Jasmine and wondered the same. The pain and memory were still very much there with or without Jasmine. She quickly wipes away her tears and reaches out to touch Auden's headstone. "I love you, baby boy. Always know that."

Nathan moves behind her and encircles her waist. As a family, they remembered their son.

Judd was sitting at a blackjack table of The Moonlight casino, sipping on vodka, and losing. He was almost completely out of money but he couldn't stop playing. When his aunt called him with the bad news his first instinct was to see if he could win big. All he was doing was losing big. With only about two grand to his name now, he knew he needed to run. Run or be killed. It was only a matter of time before someone got to him. There was plenty to count. The guy he was most afraid of was a loan shark nicknamed Cliff. He was also a drug dealer and sold firearms on the side. It wasn't beneath him to kill someone. He had it out for Judd before Vivian came to him with a proposition. Once he started to receive some of his payments he was quiet but Judd knew there was going to be a roar now. He stands, puts his jacket on, and walks towards the exit of the casino. He was beginning to feel like he was being watched. That, or he was being paranoid. He makes it back to his car and sticks the key in the door.

Glass shattering startles him. One of Cliff''s guys Carlos, smashed one of his headlights in with an aluminum baseball bat. Another one of his men Antonio approaches Judd and punches him straight in his gut.

Judd drops to his knee and gasps for breath. He had the wind knocked out of him. He puts a palm on the pavement and the other over his chest. He coughed and wheezed and before he could catch his breath he was kicked on the side of his head. "Where's Cliff's money?" He kicks him in the stomach. "What happened to the payment he was supposed to get two days ago?"

Judd felt like he was about to throw up his lungs. "I got screwed!" He managed to yell out right before he was kicked again in the stomach. Antonio grabs him by the collar of his leather jacket and slams him against his car.

"You think it's okay to play games with a man's money?" Antonio knees him in his gut and bashed his head in his side-view mirror.

Judd collapsed on the ground near his passenger side wheel. Pain shooting throughout his body and blood blurring his vision.

Antonio grabs a hand full of hair from the back of Judd's head turns him on his back.

Judd opens his eye when he hears a click. A sliver gun was pointed in the center of his forehead. "I'll get the money." He was terrified. His face was cut up and his eyes swollen. "I..I" He studded. "I can get all of it. Not just payments." Antonio pulls the gun away and puts his arms behind his back. "I'm listening."

"My aunt wants her daughter-in-law dead. She's willing to pay."

Carlos and Antonio glance at each other.

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