Chapter 6
The kiss was one
to write home about. It was a fire burning slowly, building up to the fire
works show. My lips parted a little. His tongue pushed a little in, I let him
into my mouth. His tongue danced and laced with mine. He knew how to kiss. If
only we hadn't jumped into bed, if only.
I broke the kiss
as I looked at Victoria who's nursing turned into napping, she still sucked and pulled
hard on my nipple.
"I can't
just I can't," I said breathlessly.
"You can't
what?" He said almost in a whisper pulling closer to me.
"I..."
I looked into his eyes, he leaned in again. Wanting to kiss me and leave me
aching for hours if not days for those lips.
"No stop, I
can't have sex now, not again, I want only one child right now. That kiss was a
mistake, we don't know each other and yet we both want different things for ourselves."
I pushed him back a little. I felt hollow inside, as I said what I did. I
wanted to be kissed, by him. The timing for us was not right, or at least not
right now.
He looked hurt as
I carried on talking.
"I'm not on
birth control, I have a baby, I just want." He looked at me, listening.
"Safety." My voice cracked. "My business is failing, I have no
money, I can't afford my house, and I am a mom." I wiped a tear from my
eye knowing Mitchell couldn't help me. I had to prove to myself, I could do it
on my own. I looked at him as I took Victoria away from
me and burped her. He sat closer as I switched breasts and I covered my
sensitive nipple. I looked at him, he kissed my hair.
"Close your
business, rent this place out, and move in with me. That way I can protect you,
I can watch over our daughter. We will have our own sleeping quarters. You and I will co-mingle. You take care of our daughter but we don't date or sleep
with each other. Unless you change your mind, you can see who ever you want. I
will see whom ever I want, and if you come to a point where you want to live by
your self, I will gladly step out of the way. At that point we will talk about
our daughter's living arrangements. If I find out you are mistreating our daughter
in any way. I will take her away from you, and you will never see her again. Are
we clear?"
"Yes
sir." He smiled as I said it.
He put his arms
around me to hold me closer as I fed our daughter. The room temperature did get warmer in the
last few minutes that Mitchell was sitting beside me.
"Where you
go?" He asked after a few silence moments had passed.
"Out to get
milk and coffee creamer." I sat up as I answered him. He made me
nervous being so close to him.
"Ok, I
looked in your fridge last night you don't have much food. You go out
much?" I shook my head.
"I have been
busy with her, and nobody has stopped by with a care packages. It's hard to put
her down and eat food. I didn't tell anybody I was expecting, other then
Melissa. Also I was up to two-hundred pounds before I had her now I am down to
one eighty-five, and I still have another sixty to lose before summer." He
looked at me shocked.
"What? Some days
I could go without a meal and be stressed out to not eat, and not know it. Mind
you it was before I was pregnant. When I was pregnant, I would snack and eat
everything that looked like food." Mitchell breathed a sigh of relief at
my explanation to my answer.
"Ok
Christina, I need you to eat please, every day every three to four hours,
please. I want our daughter to be healthily and not eating off of nothing like
you. Come on, if there is no food here, I will take you to get a hot meal
now." He stood as our daughter still nursed.
"I can't, just
let her finish, then I get her and myself ready." I explained.
"Let me help
you out with that. Where's her bag?" I looked at him.
"Doesn't she have a diaper bag or something?" I pointed to her stroller.
"On the back
there should be her diaper bag." He walked over and looked inside.
"Ok looks
like she has everything she needs, when she woke up when you went back to sleep
I changed her, also I changed her before you came back, that's when I knew she
wanted her mom."
He smiled and
walked over to the counter and put away the milk and the cereal.
"Ok how long
do you think you will be?" He seemed eager to get me out of the
house.
"Why not eat
what I brought home?" I asked as he looked up and down at me.
"I don't
like the fact you feeding your body crap glucose foods and passing that on to
our daughter! I would like it if you ate a high protein meal like eggs or
fruits, none of this." He went to my cup broad and found my cereals.
"Rice Krispy vanilla shit, or honey shreddies! Like come on! No wonder
your business is failing! You're eating this in the morning, and your brain is trying
to think but it's in a fog. Christina, I don't want you eating this."
Pointing to the cereals.
"And your
fridge that's a sight! Nothing but cold cuts!" He pulled my freezer open.
His mood got more foul as he poked his head around my fridge.
"Frozen
chicken, only ray of hope. I knew you were horrible to yourself, this just
proved it! And look, I can't believe it, 2% milk! The second fattiest milk that
is probably loaded up with anti-bodies and steroids! Like fuck!" He
slammed my fridge door so fast and hard it made me jump.
"Sorry just
I take my health and life very seriously, I look for that in other people, it's
hard to find I knew you didn't!" He pointed to me as he said it.
"Then why
you sleep with me?" I questioned him, close to tears.
"Antonio
said you needed to get laid, and I did everything I could in my power to get
you into bed, and it was too easy. You might have as well painted a sign over
your crouch saying." I starting crying, Mitchell knew how easy it was. I
was on my fifth cosmopolitan, and well into my sixth as he came around. He
could have been mute the whole night and I would had slept with him. However I
would have been the smarter one if I remembered the condom or birth
control.
I began a
hiccupping sob, Mitchell came to me. "I'm sorry I took it to far.
Christina stop look at me."
He pulled my face
up into his palms. My tear soaked cheeks moisten his hands. He tucked a strain
of my blonde hair behind my ear. I waved him away, as I sobbed. He was right, I
had let go, I stop caring for myself, and shifted my focus onto my daughter's
health and well-being. Mine fell to the waist side…Again.
"Stop just
stop," I sniffed. "You sound like my father, he blamed me for that
had gone wrong in my life. My sister's death, mostly he just force fed me
to believe it was all my fault." I hiccuped as I continued.
"The food,
the lonely nights, the work, I pour myself into it so I don't have to think
about how wrong my life is. Victoria ." I
looked down as Mitchell looked at me, I sniffed again.
"She has
given me a way to live again, I found a love so whole and pure, I couldn't
think my life would be the same if I took her out of the picture." I
looked at him, his green eyes looked deep within me as if to say, 'I
understand.'
"Please
don't take her away from me." I begged in a sob, he nodded and kissed my
cheek.
"I can
promise that if you promise to love and respect our her and give her anything
she wants." I nodded in agreement to his words. By all means it was a
promise I knew I could keep.
"Can we take
my truck?" I asked as I buckled Victoria in her
car seat that was mounted onto her stroller. He looked at me puzzled. "It
has the car seat holder mounted of it plus I like driving. Please?" I
asked again, Mitchell sighed.
"We'll take
my Audi, AND I will drive." I thought about it, and used this to my advantage.
"Your right
let's take your car, does it have a baby seat carrier in the back?" He had
the hand on my doorknob, as he cursed under his breath.
"Why must I
choose to fight with you when you can't see it will be better when I do
it?"
"We'd take
your car, had it have a back seat or baby carrier in the back." He looked
at me as I locked my door. We walked in silence down the hallway to the
elevator. I pushed the button for the elevator. Watching him watching me, gave
me uneasy feeling he had a plan. I wasn't going to like what he had to say.
"I want your
keys, and I want your fob, as of this moment, Christina Coals." The
elevator went ding, oh no, I grabbed
the wall for support. No wonder he wanted
me out.
"You are
moving in with me. That's final. No questions or yes
or no's your
apartment will be sub-least I will take care of everything." He guided me
into the elevator as he spoke.
"I will buy
you anything you need or want. What our daughter needs or wants until she is
eighteen." He paused when the elevator came to the underground parking. He
guided me out, and to the door to get out, as I pushed our daughter out. As he
walked, he talked.
"After that
our contract will be over and I will make sure she has a healthily collage
fund. You will be free to do what you like, I won't provide you with any funds
after she is eighteen. If your apartment is paid for by that point you can move
back in then. Ok?" I was feeling numb that this was happening to me, I
walked to my truck. We reached my red Dodge truck I bought last year.
"Christina?"
Mitchell asked, I looked at him in a blank haze.
"Do you
understand the contract?" I locked Victoria 's
stroller, and walked into his arms. I tried to hold in my tears as I buried my
face into his coat. His arms where at his sides as I wrapped my arms around
him.
"I
understand Mitchell and I accept your offer."
After he helped
put the stroller into the back of the truck. I looked at Mitchell in the rear
view mirror, as I got Victoria into the back with her car seat. Locking her in, I settled into
my seat as Mitchell started the truck.
"My truck?"
He looked at me as I said it. "It won't be taken away from me will
it?" He shook his head.
"Unless you
want a new one?" I shook my head.
"No, this
one is mine and I love her."
I watched as
Mitchell drove out of my old parking spot and out of my old home. Victoria was
fast asleep and happy. Maybe this is for
the best. I thought.