One Last Chance (16 page)

“I think someone has fallen in love with his
mom,” Cole said as he took the seat next to Ally and leaned in and kissed them both on the cheek.

“I think he is more in love with hi
s bottle,” Ally laughed.

Rosie placed their lunch down on the table as Ally finished giving Ben his bottle.

“Let me take the little man while you eat,” Rosie said as she lifted Ben from Ally’s arms. “I will burp him and change his nappy.”

Then she made her way out of the kitchen and
left Cole and Ally by themselves.

“Is everything okay?” Ally asked Cole once they were alone.

“Of course gorgeous girl,” Cole said a
s he smiled at Ally reassuringly. “What makes you ask that question?”

“Because you have been very quiet all day,” Ally replied staring straight into Cole’s eyes. “
I know you, and I know something is on your mind.”

“I’
m not worried about anything,” Cole lied. Ally didn’t reply for a moment. Instead she just looked at him.

“Fine!”
Was all she said as she stood up abruptly and went to walk away from the table, but Cole quickly caught her by the hand.

“Ally, I…” he began to say but she quickly yanked her hand free.

“Don’t Ally me!” She snapped back. “You promised there would be no more lying, no more secrets. But you are hiding something from me and you are lying to me right now. It is written all over your face. So you don’t want to tell me. It’s fine. I am done talking.”

She turned on her heels and headed for the kitchen door.

“It’s Jason,” he blurted out with a big sigh. Ally stopped dead in her tracks, she could feel the blood drain from her whole body.

“What about him?” S
he asked, her voice barely a whisper as she turned back to Cole, the colour drained from her face.

“He went to the garage looking for you,” Cole explained and his heart almost broke at the look of sheer terror that filled Ally’s face.
He was straight up on his feet and by her side in seconds. “Sid warned him to keep away. He said he just wanted to say sorry to you. But he has been warned. And I promise he will never get near you again. Ally, please don’t worry about him. I promise I will keep you safe.”

“Why can’t he just leave me alone?” Ally said looking up into Cole’s face with her two big sad eyes.

“You listen to me, Ally Thomas,” Cole said taking her by the arms and turning her completely around so she was looking up into his face fully. “You have nothing to fear, I will kill him before I will let him put a hand on you again. I promise you that.”

“Okay,” Ally replied and forced a smile on her face. “I think I will go and see how Rosie is getting on.
I’m not really hungry now anyway.”

Cole watched her as sh
e walked down the hallway, turned and headed up the stairs. It was hard for him to see her looking so despondent. He sighed as he promised himself he would deal with this Jason once and for all.

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They settle
d into a routine with Ben very quickly. When Cole returned to work, Ally got her own little routine with Ben each day. But Nick was always close by and Ally had to admit, she felt so much safer knowing he was there when Cole wasn’t about.

Ally also got it into her head
she wanted to get the nursery painted. On the following Friday, when she finally got Ben to settle down for a nap in the crib in her and Cole’s room, she plugged in the baby monitor and changed into old leggings and a t-shirt. She grabbed the receiver of the baby monitor and headed for the room that was to be both babies nursery.

She brought her iPod and the iPod docking station into the room
, put her music on shuffle and got stuck into painting the nursery. They had selected a soft cream colour with big colourful cartoon animal transfers around the walls.

She was halfway through her second
wall of paint when her favourite song came on the iPod. Etta James, “I Just Want To Make Love To You” filled the room.

Ally st
arted to shake her bum and sing along with the song. As the beat picked up, Ally flipped her paint brush around and sang into it like it was a microphone. She closed her eyes and got lost in the music. She sang her heart out and danced like she was giving the performance of her life.

When the song ended
, she took a dramatic bow in front of her imaginary audience. Suddenly, there was the sound of clapping coming from behind her causing her to jump with fright. She quickly spun around and found Cole leaning against the door frame, with a huge smile on his face.

“Now that was
one hell of a performance,” he said as he stood up and walked slowly towards Ally. Ally’s stomach knotted, he had a look in his eyes she had not seen for a while.

“You are looking very sexy in those leggings and t-shirt,” he purred as he slowly stepped closer and closer. “And you don’t know just how tempting you
r ass looks in those tight leggings when you shake it the way you just did.”

Ally’
s heart was now racing. She swallowed hard as she could feel her entire body react to his words.

“In fact,” he said breathlessly as he reached her and stood directly in front of her. So close she could feel his breath was
h over her face. He took the paint brush from her hand and sat it down on the lid of the paint tin. “So tempting, I think I need to have it. Right here! Right now!”

“Oh,” was all Ally could manage to get out.

“Yes, oh,” he breathed against her lips but he still didn’t kiss her. Instead his dropped his mouth to the bare skin of her shoulder and slowly worked his way up her neck, sucking and biting softly as he made his way to her ear. Then he whispered. “I want you, now!”

H
e quickly wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to him as his mouth found hers.

As he caressed her tongue with his
, he dropped his hands down to the end of her top and slowly slid it up her body. He broke his lips from hers long enough so he could pull the t-shirt over her head before he let it drop to the floor.

As his mouth claimed hers once more, his hand reached for her breasts
, cupping them in his hands as he softly stroked and circled her nipples with the pads of his thumbs, making them pucker with his touch. Making her moan into his mouth.

He br
oke his lips from hers once again and stepped back slightly, he then took her by the hips and turned her to face the wall. Taking hold of her hands, he raised them up and placed them against the wall.

“Don’t move,” he commanded in a soft but firm voice and then he softly kissed the back of her neck and slowly trailed kisses down the center of her back.

He hooked his fingers into her leggings and, as he dropped to one knee he slowly slid them down her legs along with her panties.

He pressed his lips to her backside a
s he softly traced his fingers up the back of her legs.

When he reached the curve of her backside, he dropped his hands in between her legs and let the tips o
f his fingers tease her along her folds and then back to her bum.

“Oh god,” Ally cried out a
s the simple touch of his fingers
there
, sent a thrill through her body. He pressed his fingers against her bum and her legs began to shake. He spread her cheeks further apart and pressed his mouth against her teasing her
there
with his tongue. “Cole, please.”

In one movement, he was on his feet again and stepping between her legs, pushing them further apart. Ally could hear his zipper opening and then the slick head of his rock hard cock being pushed against
her.

“You are beautiful,” he breathed against her ear. She could feel him press against her bum and slowly it slipped inside her. She gasped at the sudden fullness.

She remembered the first time he was inside her, there, she remembered how shocked she was that it was actually happening to her, but over time she had gotten used to it. Now, she enjoyed it as much as he did.

He pulled out of her slightly, then pushed back into her fully and she cried out in pleasure.

“OH YES! YES!” She moaned as he pushed into her again and again. His pace never slowed, he just pushed into her over and over again and the pleasure swept through Ally like a tidal wave, completely consuming her.

“Oh Ally,” Cole groaned as he pulled her tighter to him and pushed into her deeper. Ally’s legs turned to jelly as her orgasm
quickly built and exploded inside her.

Cole held her tightly to him as he slammed into her
three more times and then came hard inside her.

Still holding her close to him, he slummed to the
floor, both breathless and gasping.

He brushed her hair back from her face and kissed her on the side of
cheek.

“I love you gorgeous girl,”
Cole said breathlessly, still holding her close to him as he could. “God I can’t get enough of you.”

“I love you too,” Ally said turning and smiling up at Cole. “What brought this on?”

“I just missed you today,” he smiled back at her and kissed the tip of her nose.

“I miss you every day,” she replied honestly. Suddenly
, the sound of a crying Ben filled the room through the baby monitor.

“The boss is calling,” Ally laughed as she pressed her
forehead against Coles. Then, looking up into his eyes, she smiled. “I’ll go.”

“No,” Cole said releasing Ally from his arms and climbing up from the floor
. He quickly straightened his clothes. “I got this.”

He
quickly helped Ally up from the floor before he turned and walked to the door. He stopped and turned back to look at Ally with a big smile.

“Love you
, Mrs. Thomas,” he said as his smile widened.

“Love you more,”
she laughed back.

He blew her a kiss and disappeared out the door.

Ally lay o
n the bed in the doctor’s office. She looked up and smiled at Cole who was sitting next to Ally and holding her hand tightly.

“You sure you want to find out?”
He asked looking down at her hopefully.

“I’m sure,” she smiled. They are waiting on
Ally’s doctor to come in to do their scan and find out the sex of the baby. “Besides I know you want to, so I am happy to do whatever makes you happy.”

Cole leaned down and kissed her on the lips. Just then the
doctor walked in and caught them kissing and couldn’t help but laugh.

“
Good morning folks,” the doctor said sounding a little uncomfortable and blushing slightly.

“Good morning,” both Ally and Cole replied in unison.
The doctor walked to the monitor and pulled it closer to Ally’s bed.

“How
have you been feeling, Ally?” The young woman asked with a big, friendly smile.

“I’
m good,” Ally replied as she watched what the woman was doing carefully. “I’ve been a little tired the past couple of days. Is that normal?”

“That’s to be expected,” the doctor
replied. “You’re still taking your vitamins, I hope.”

“I am,” Ally nodded.

“Good,” she replied as she turned to Ally with a bottle of gel in her hands. “You’ve had this on you before, you know it’s going to be a little cold.” Ally just nodded and smiled.

She pulled the white sheet at the bottom of the bed Ally was on, up over
her legs and to the bottom of her stomach. Then she pulled Ally’s top up to the top of her tiny bump and squirted the gel on to Ally’s belly.

She then reached out and pressed the record button on the scan machine and picked up the probe
. She gently placed it on Ally’s stomach and began to move it.

She pulled it across Ally
’s stomach and back over again. She reached over and clicked the monitor several times before she moved the probe once again.

She clicked it a few more times and moved the probe once again and she smiled.

“So,” the tech said as she turned to Cole and Ally, smiling brightly at them both. “Everything looks perfect and the baby is exactly where it should be at eighteen weeks.”

“That is just what I wanted you to say,” Ally said with a sigh of relief as she quickly glanced up at Cole and smiled brightly.

“Now,” the tech said glancing back at the monitor briefly before she turned to Ally and Cole again. “You guys wanted to know the sex of the baby. Is that correct?”

Cole looked down at Ally then
back up at the tech and nodded nervously. He had been living for this moment but now it was here, he was oddly nervous. He held his breath.

“Well guys,” the tech continues
with another smile. “You are having a little girl.”