Making You Mine (51 page)

He began to straighten out and she pulled him to her and kissed him. “Thanks for understanding about me not wanting to say anything yet.”

“You know I’ll agree with whatever makes you happy.”

She waited until he was out of the room before picking up her phone. Sydney would always be a sticky subject for them. She still didn’t understand why after all these years Angel could possibly be insecure about this. She hadn’t even seen Sydney in over a year. Sighing, she read the text and smiled.

~*~

He’s single now and he has no one but Sarah to entertain him? A married woman whose husband has never made it a secret that their relationship is not one that thrills him? How stupid was this guy?

Romero pulled them out of his pocket and handed him the tickets. He started going on about how great the seats were and he was supposed to go with Alex but the twins were under the weather and neither he nor Valerie wanted to leave them. Angel took a few steps away from the table where Isabel sat, hoping Romero wouldn’t hear Raul doing his usual flirting.

“And get this. Manny’s friend will be able to get tickets if they go to the World Series.”

Just then Raul laughed and so did Isabel. Romero stopped and glanced back at them taking in Raul from top to bottom. He glanced back at Angel. “New waiter?”

“Yeah, just started couple of weeks ago.” Angel took a deep breath as Raul started his usual, ‘you look so familiar’ routine.

The table covered Isabel’s swollen belly so there was no way Raul could tell he was flirting with a pregnant woman. And the last time the whole gang had been together, Sarah had had to endure Valerie, Isabel and Grace complain about their pregnancy woes. One of which was Isabel saying she couldn’t wear her wedding ring anymore because her fingers kept swelling up.

“So the World Series uh?”

Romero turned back to Angel and Angel could see Raul had already struck a nerve with him. Before Romero could answer Raul continued.

“It must be that sweet smile.”

Though Romero had gotten better about his temper, he still annoyed easily especially when it came to his Izzy. “Is this guy for real?” he said, glaring at Raul.

Thankfully Raul walked away from the table just then right past Angel and Romero who stared him down
hard
.

“Relax he does that with everyone.” Angel smirked trying to soften the moment but Romero wasn’t smiling. “I’ll go get your drinks.”

Angel hurried back to the bar area where Raul was waiting on Romero and Isabel’s drinks. “What’s that guy’s problem?”

“That was his pregnant wife you were just flirting with, you idiot. Will you stop laying on the flirting shit so thick and just take orders like a normal waiter?” Angel reached for the tray with the two drinks for Romero and Isabel. “I got this, and have Julie take over this table.”

“Are you serious?” Raul chuckled.

Angel shot him a look and Raul lifted his hands. “All right. But don’t you think that’s kind of stupid to go all cave man over something so small. I complimented his wife. He should be flattered.”

“Yeah, well he wasn’t.”

After dropping off the drinks then the tray back at the bar Angel headed to back room lost in thought. He thought about Raul’s comment. Was it stupid for Romero to get so worked up so easily? In the middle of that thought he walked into the back room where Sarah was laughing reading her text. Immediately the annoyance he’d felt earlier was back doubled. “What’s so funny?”

She seemed startled but attempted to play it off and shook her head. “Sydney.”

“Really? What about him?” Angel wasn’t so sure what pissed him off more. The fact that Sarah could smile so brightly over something Sydney texted her or that they’d obviously been texting all this time.

“He had sent a text earlier saying it should be illegal for some people to wear flip flops. Then just now he sent a picture he took of the guy’s feet he was talking about.” She put her hand over her mouth to stifle a laugh. “His toes are all nasty and hairy.”

He glanced back at her. The smile was gone. “No he hasn’t, Angel. I said he’d sent me that text about the guys feet earlier. I got caught up with what I was doing I hadn’t even responded just now when I got the picture.”

“I was just asking a question, Sarah. No need to get all defensive.”

“I’m not getting defensive.”

Angel put the cap on and hurried to the door. “All right you’re not.” He stalked out before he blew up.
Fuck!
He was better than this. It
was
stupid to go all cave man on her but he couldn’t help it.

Luckily Romero flagged him down as soon as he saw him. Manny, Aida and Max were sitting with them now.

“I wasn’t there,” Manny said as Angel walked up to their table was. “But this guy was. Hey, Angel, tell Izzy about the time Romero burned his eyebrow off trying to light that bonfire at the beach. You should’ve seen him,” Manny turned back to Isabel. “And then he wouldn’t shave off the other one so he wouldn’t look so stupid with only one eyebrow so he walked around for weeks like this.” Manny covered one eyebrow with his finger and wheezed in laughter. Aida snorted and Romero rolled his eyes. After a few minutes with those guys, Angel snapped out of his mood—a little.

The doctor had confirmed what they already knew. Sarah was pregnant. With the twelve week mark long behind them now everyone knew and they’d even made it through the not so wonderful part of being pregnant—the first trimester.

It hadn’t actually been too bad. The physical symptoms weren’t nearly as bad as the raging hormones. Sarah cried at the drop of a pin, and even though it didn’t annoy Angel nearly as much as it bothered him, he’d always hated to see her cry, Sarah admitted she was getting on her own nerves.

Understandably even Angel had gotten choked up when they first heard the heartbeat. But weeks later Angel’s heart nearly stopped when she suddenly jerked awake in the middle of the night only to tell him she’d felt the baby move. That was just the beginning. A few weeks later the leg cramps in the middle of the night started; the first was the scariest. She yelped in pain nearly stopping is heart again and when he got the light on he saw her leg in the air.

“Cramp!” Was the only thing she said. Her agonized expression told him the rest. Luckily, both Isabel and Grace had recently mentioned this. Both Sal and Romero had had to come to their rescue by massaging down the cramped area so Angel jumped on it, attacking that cramped muscle on her leg like it was the enemy. He massaged with conviction glancing back as his poor wife as her expression slowly soothed.

After that he had it down. The moment it hit again he didn’t even have to turn on the lights. Though the amount of times it happened decreased once they looked into what was needed to avoid them. As much as Angel had prayed Sarah would finally be pregnant he never imagined it would be so nerve wracking, until things took a completely unexpected turn.

All this time Angel had searched online for things like morning sickness remedies, mood swings and how the hell to fix it. He’d never taken into consideration some of the more pleasant side effect of pregnancies. At first he didn’t think much of it. Three nights in a row Sarah had attacked him before he even tried to make a move and then woke the next morning in the mood again.

He sat in the back finishing up the schedules for the next week when Sarah walked into the back room with a wicked smile on her face and her green eyes smoldered.

Her kiss was so frenzied it made his legs weak but other parts went solid immediately. His arms wrapped around her and stroked her back as her hands held his face. Angel hadn’t felt this damn excited since they’d found out she was pregnant and he’d been so focused on her well being—both physical and emotional.

Her hands came down to his pants, undoing his button and unzipping him, then she stood just long enough for him to pull them down. For a split second he actually considered objecting, they
were
in the restaurant and employees were just outside the door, but that passed real quick. He hadn’t even thought about it until then that Sarah wore a skirt. She rarely wore skirts to work. His eyes opened wide and he looked up at her. “Did you plan this?”

Her only response: a big sexy smile, as she slipped her panties off from under her skirt, making his heart beat even more wildly. She made her way on to his lap again, staring deep into his eyes as she sat down slowly and he slipped right in.

Wrapping her arms around his neck she began to ride him. Angel tried but couldn’t help groaning.

“Shhh,” she said, but even that was strained. Her own breathing was labored now.

They kissed, their rhythm, long ago perfected though right now, Sarah couldn’t seem to get enough; sucking his tongue, then his lips, as she began riding him faster and harder. She lifted her feet off the floor and he went even deeper. Sarah moaned, pulling away from his lips and burying her face in neck as she began to pant and he felt her unmistakable trembling.

Angel brought his hands down to her legs and squeezed her soft thighs just as her panting got a little louder. He felt her squeeze around him and the oh so familiar wet signs that she was just about there when she licked his neck and he was a goner.

He squeezed his eyes shut as he pushed up into her as deep as he could and felt her nails dig into his shoulders. They sat there for a few moment, breathing hard without saying anything before Angel reached for the apron he’d taken off earlier and thrown onto the other chair.

Sarah finally pulled away from his neck and faced him. He smirked. “What’s gotten into you lately?” Then added quickly. “Not that I’m complaining.”

She shrugged and if he wasn’t mistaken his pregnant wife who was still straddling him in broad daylight in the back room of their restaurant, where their employees were just on the other side of a wall, and this was all her idea—was blushing. He had to laugh and he kissed her. “You’re amazing. Whatever it is. I just want you to know I’m loving it. And if this has something to do with you being pregnant and somehow makes life easier for you. I’m willing to take one for the team every time the mood strikes.” He leaned his forehead against hers. “I mean that.”

She giggled, kissing him back. Once she left the room he looked up,
increased sexual drive during pregnancy
. Bingo. He was right. First thing he looked for was how long it lasts. It was about time one of these pregnancy side effects went his way and he was going to make the most of it. He couldn’t believe some idiot husbands were actually complaining about it in some of the discussion boards. Angel was already shifting in his pants just thinking about what he was in for that night. He smiled when he read one woman mention it only intensified as her due date got closer.

~*~

Of the five babies due all that same year, baby Vivianna had been the first to arrive. She was a chubby little thing with a ton of hair just like her mommy. Grace named her after the mother she’d never met. Sal couldn’t be happier about his little princess and Sarah loved going over to hold the newborn. She could hardly wait to hold her own.

Next came Amanda Romero. Unlike Vivianna, Amanda was born with virtually no hair and Manny told everyone that listened that just like her daddy,
Mandy
would probably be bald as an egg for the whole first year of her life.

Surprisingly since Isabel had to have a C-section and had limited physical capabilities for the first week Romero became Super Dad. The man once terrified-of-even-holding a baby was now doing it all. Even with her sisters and mom offering to help he insisted he could do it, telling everyone “I got this.” And he certainly proved he did.

Then came baby Alex. Even though he’d weighed more at birth than both twins put together Valerie was so relieved she didn’t have to deal with another set of twins. And the twins were eager to help out with everything that had to be done with their little brother. Well, everything except change his “stinky
diapuh
.”