Roxanne's Redemption (17 page)

Taking care of a four
-
year
-
old with zilch in the experience department wasn’t as hard as she’d assumed; however having Sebastian with her made it easier. After ordering a pizza for dinner she’d
given
Zach a bath as they waited. At the end of their meal when Sebastian offered to do the dishes, Roxanne had accepted his help then left to finish get
ting
Zach ready for bed.
Sometime
later
,
after Lexi called and talked with Zach for a little while, he finally fell asleep. Sebastian had smiled and joked that
,
although Zach was tired
,
he’d refused to succumb to sleep until he heard from his mother.

Roxanne had smiled and nodded in agreement.

She turned the shower on to an acceptable temperature, stripped off her clothes and stepped under
the water
. She didn't know how long she was under there for, but a hand around her waist
made her realize that she wasn’t alone
. A muffled shriek escaped
before
she heard a chuckle.

“I'm sorry I startle
d you
.
I’d said
I was going to finish what we started
,
but
if
you don't want to
,
tell me
to leave
.”

“Stay,” she said and prayed she
wouldn’t
regret her rather impulsive decision.

“You don't know how happy you just made me.”

* * * *

Sebastian
knew he had to inform Roxanne about the situation with Ashley
,
b
u
t he hadn’t wanted to go to her.
Seeing
her naked would make his
resolve about
letting
her com
e
to him
crumble
.
Hence the reason he followed behind her an hour after
she went upstairs. He’d thought that was enough time for her to shower, dressed and be in bed before he went to talk to her.
No such luck.

Instead, he’d arrived in the middle of her shower. One minute he was trying to leave,
next
his feet
were
carr
ying
him to the bathroom.

He
sa
w her standing under the shower
with her face turned up, breast
s
thrust out in silent offering.
His
cock responded immediately.
When
h
e’d asked her permission to join
her in the shower
, he was
thinking about ways to convince her
to let him,
if she
had
declined
.
To say her
answer surprise
d
him
was an understatement,
not
that he wasn’t happy she wanted him to stay
.
B
ut
the fact
that she didn't hesitate with her answer
delighted him
.
He
wanted to lick and explore every part of her body, but right now he felt like he was about to explode
,
so
that
would
wait
un
til later.

“This is going to be fast
.
Next
time
I’ll
go slower.”

“Not too slow I hope.”

Sebastian smiled before
capturing her mouth in a heated kiss, swallowing her moans as he checked her readiness.
She was soaked. He released her mouth
,
licking the evidence of her from his fingers, loving the way her eyes darkened
as she watched
.
He guided his cock to her opening and pushed until he was seated to the hilt.
He groaned
through
gritted teeth to keep from moving be
fore she got use
d
to his size and hope
d
he wouldn’t
embarrass himself.

“Wrap your legs around me
.
N
o noise
.
We
wouldn’t want Zach
coming
up
here.”

He started moving as he lowered his head
,
taking a nipple in his mouth
and
cutting off her nod of agreement as she moaned, before clamping her mouth shut at his raised brows.
She was so tight
and
he
knew he wouldn’t last much longer in her wet heat. One hand held on to her waist as the other found her clit
and rubbed it
. Her scream was muffled by his shoulder
and
as she bit
him
the same time
her pussy tightened around him
as her orgasm washed through her
.

His groan of completion was muffled by her breast as he climaxed.

They were breathing hard
, though it didn't stop him from
chuckl
ing
when she mumbled something
that sounded
like
,
“L
et’s do it again after resting.
”
He eased out of her as she unhooked her legs from his waist.
When
he was sure he could stand properly with
out
his legs failing him, he washed and rinsed himself and
then
her before leaving the bathroom with her in his arms.

“Is it always like that for you?”

“No. What about
you?”

Her brows furrowed. “Never,
not
even with my ex-fian—” she stopped
abruptly
.

He was
tempted to ask her to finish, but he knew she wasn’t ready so he changed
the
subject
.

“Ashley was watching my house Thursday.”
He hadn’t wanted to ruin the mood by telling her now, but it had to be done.

“What?”

He took a deep breath,
then
told her everything
,
not leaving
a
n
y
thing out
.
H
e tried to calm his wildly beating heart as he waited for her to say something
that would break the sudden nerve
-
racking silence that
had
descended
.
“I'm sorry I got you involve
d
in this. I swear I didn't know
it would turn out like this when I asked for your help.
I thought that after she saw us together as a couple
,
she would finally understand I meant it when I
told her
I didn't want a relationship
that wasn’t work
-
related
with her.”

She sighed. “It’s okay.
Besides,
how could you have known she
would've acted this way?
”

He nodded
but didn't respond.

“Are you ready to tell me
about Lexi’s family
?”
he said.

She
grimaced.
“Do you know anything about Parker Chase?”
she said.

He nodded and w
ondered
what tha
t had to do with
Lexi
. “Yes.
He
owns hotel
s
in
twenty-four states and two countries
. Why?”

“Parker Chase is
her
father
.”
S
he shook her head when he
opened his mouth.

“Her mother, brother and sister had never loved her as a family should
and I don't know why
.
Two
months
after
your brother
left
she found out that she was pregnant
.
She
thought that her family would
’ve
at least
helped
her
.
I
nstead her mother told her to abort the baby
.
When
she
refused
,
her mother
disown
ed
her and turned the rest of the family
against her
—her sister and brother already hated her so that didn't take too much effort
.
They
called her
a few choice
names I’d rather not repeat and s
top
ped
paying her college tuition.
One
week
later
she legally changed her surname and never spoke to
or of
them
again.”

Sebastian
felt like he’d swallow
ed
a rock, and then he suddenly felt like paying her
parents
a visit and
introducing
them to his fist
.
Weren’t fathers supposed to love and protect their daughters no matter what? And
how
could a mother treat
the child she brought into the world like that
?

He was sorry for all the bad things
that happened to
Lexi
.
I
f he’
d known that Michael
had
gotten her pregnant
,
he would
ha
ve helped her whether his brother knew or not.

“What does she do now?”

“She’s a surgeon.”

“How did she manage that with a baby on the way?”

“She was
messed up
after
what
your brother and her family did
.
So
Ava, Kira and I took her, well drag
ged
her to Vegas is a better way of putting it. We were trying to cheer her up w
hen
we made her promise to try one game
at the
casino
before
we
left
her alone. She played
and
w
on a lot of money
.
A
fter returning
home
,
she paid for her education and took care of Zach. It was
hard, but
she lived with
Ava,
and
Kira and I help
ed
when we could
.”

“How long have
you
all been friends?”

“Since high school
.
W
hen her mother found out about
us being
Lexi’s
friends
she
tried to get Lexi to stop being friends with us
.
As
it turn
ed
out
,
we’
re more
of a
family to her than her real one.”

He nodded. “I'm sorry for t
he things she’s been through
.
I
f I could
,
I would've changed the way my brother hurt her, but not for having Zach. He’s a sweet little boy and I'm glad she didn't listen to her mother.”

She nodded
.
He stroked her back softly, listening to
her
breathing as it began coming out shallow. Sebastian felt his cock twitch and
he
groaned. His prick was getting greedy but Roxanne needed her sleep and there was always tomorrow. As soon as the thought crossed his mind he heard her snoring softly
.
Sebastian chuckled. Suddenly he went
rigid
as a thought occurred to him; he hadn’t used a condom.
Ever since he began engaging in sexual activity he had never fail
ed
to use a condom
.
Sebastian wasn’t mad; no
,
it was the opposite
.
H
e was glad because he wanted her to conceive and he was hoping for it. A little of his euphoria fled as he wondered how Roxanne
would
feel when he told her?