The Wedding (3 page)

Chapter 5

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Standing with three of his brothers in front of everyone while waiting for Lily to show up on the arm of Lucien, was damn nerve racking. The fact that his brothers had spent the morning telling him Lily had probably snuck away, or even worse, that she’d run off with Lucien hadn’t helped any.

H
e’d finally settled down over his possessiveness towards Lily and accepted the fact she was best friends with one of his brothers. It hadn’t been easy and every now and again he would have to stop himself from making a comment, which Lily found amusing and would plant a hot kiss to his lips before disappearing for coffee with Lucien.

Glancing around him
, Michael saw all his family and friends; employees of McKenzie Holdings were all smiling in his direction with quick glances towards the back to see if Lily had arrived.

She didn’t have far to walk, just from the house wh
ere they’d both spent the night in separate rooms. That had been hard, having never slept apart from Lily for about a month, but he’d managed it.

Sebastian nudged him, which caused Michael to look at his brother, who was looking towards the back of the
seats.

Michael followed his ga
ze and his breath stopped at the same time as his heart started to beat wildly in his chest.

“Breathe, Michael,” Ramon whispered into his ear.

He let out the breath, which had gotten stuck in his lungs at the vision of Lily, while he watched her walk down the man-made aisle on the arm of his brother.

Lily never once moved her gaze from him as she glided closer and closer to him, with a sl
ight smile on her lips and eyes bright as the sun.

She was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen
as she came to a stop beside him. Lucien took hold of her hand, kissed her knuckles before placing her hand into Michael’s. He gave him a serious look and then stepped back to stand beside Michael and his other brothers.

“Breathtaking,” Michael whispe
red to Lily before leaning in and giving her a soft kiss. “I missed you,” he said against her lips, finding it difficult to pull back.

Lily smiled and caressed his face with one hand before pulling back
when Sebastian started to cough rather loudly.

Hearing a few snickers in the background Michael and Lily smiled at each other before turning to face the front so they could be married.

The whole wedding seemed to pass in a blur, one minute they where exchanging rings and the next he was being asked to kiss the bride, which of course he had no problem with.

T
he minute his lips met Lily’s everyone and everything else was forgotten, as he tasted his woman; his wife.

The sound of cheers and the annoying call of lou
d wolf whistles, obviously from his brothers, pulled Michael from the sweet embrace of Lily and into the present.

He moved a breath away from Lily as he caressed her face. “Hello wife,” he said grinning.

“Hello husband,” Lily replied, reaching up for another toe-curling kiss.

“Okay, you two. That’s enough. There’re four bachelors here,” Sebastian stated, dryly.

“Not if mom has her way,” Michael smirked, ignoring his brothers, he wrapped Lily’s arm through his as he led her back down the aisle, unable to wipe the grin from his face.

“Ramon’s next,” Ruben commented behind the happy couple,
which had Michael chuckling. Ruben carried on escorting Sylvia down the aisle, trying not to look down her dress. Every time she took a step, her breasts looked ready to spill out from the top of her bodice.

Ramon snickered behind him. “Nope, but it may be you if you keep looking at what you’re looking at.”

Ruben turned and glared at his brother, before glancing back at Sylvia to make sure she hadn’t heard the discussion.

“
Jailbait
,” Sebastian whispered as Ramon chuckled, patting Ruben on the shoulder.

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After what felt like hours
of having their pictures taken with family and friends, Michael took the beer George passed him and stood looking at his friend and driver.

He
was looking a lot better since Michael had made him rest up. He’d had three nurses, the last one had lasted the longest because she gave as good as she got, plus Janet had said something to him about his nurse problem or rather his manners. He’d finally hooked up with Janet, who was also George’s guest at the wedding.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this happy,” George
finally commented.

Michael took a long drag of
his beer before turning to watch Lily talking to his mom and Sylvia.

“That’s because I haven’t been this happy before. She makes me whole.” Michael laughed in embarrassment
. “What about you and Janet? You both seem rather friendly,” Michael asked in an effort to change the conversation.

“
We’re, um, fine,” he replied, going a shade of red that shouldn’t be worn by a man. “Lily’s on her way over,” he said in relief. “I better go and find Janet.”

Michael laughed as he darted away towards the dancing marquee, which had been set up with a free bar. The meal would be served soon, which had his stomach g
rowling. He’d been unable to finish his breakfast thanks to the nerves sitting heavily on his stomach.

Lily approached with a wicked grin on her face.
She was up to something
.

Michael held his arms open and Lily walked straight into them, wrapping her arms tight around his waist.

They both stayed silent just holding each other before Lily spoke, “I’ve missed being close to you. If I ever suggest going without sex again, please promise me you won’t agree.”

“I promise.” Michael leaned forward and placed a kiss on the top of Lily’s head
with a soft smile on his lips.

“I
mean we haven’t cuddled in bed with skin against skin like we would do, because we’ve both been frightened of breaking my rule. I was an idiot. My body craves being close to you, wanting you inside me.”

Groaning, Mi
chael clenched his jaw as his breathing became heavy against Lily; his passion for her rising. “Lily, I’m sure you can feel what you’re doing to me,” Michael moaned as Lily rubbed against his erection, while his hand traveled south, landing on her bottom.

Michael could hear Lily’s breathing change, so he decided to tease her and come clean. “I woke up and ejaculated all over my stomach this morning.”

She froze. “What?”

“I dreamed about that time you rode me on the Harley, and I woke up as I shot
cum all over my stomach. It was the hottest damn dream I’ve ever had.” Michael felt wicked; whispering that to Lily.

He imagined crawling under her dress, moving her thong to one side and sliding his fingers along her wet lips before sliding two fingers inside her, making her wetter.

“Michael,” Lily panted pressing closer. “You can’t be telling me things like that when we’re surrounded by family and friends… and what the hell are you thinking about to grow even harder.”

“I was thinking about crawling under your dress to put my mouth
on you and my fingers in you.”

Giving out a steadying breath, Michael shifted slightly to give more space between them. He needed to calm down before he came like a teenager.
She always made his body react that way. How the hell he ever lasted long enough to get his cock inside her to get her pregnant amazed him because with just one look from her, he was hard as hell and one touch he was ready to come.

Michael and Lily wh
ere brought out of their wicked thoughts by Ruben, who coughed once or twice to get their attention.

“Mom ordered me to come get you before you missed your own reception,” he told them with a smirk as he started to walk back to the marquee before he altered course to intercept one of his servers.

Michael groaned, giving Lily a quick kiss, his fingers slid down her arm, raising gooseflesh on her skin as they went, before he took hold of her hand. “Let’s go and celebrate with everyone. We can have our own celebration later… When I have you all to myself.”

As Lily started to move away
from him all Michael wanted to do was haul her back into his arms.

Chapter 6

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The happiest day of her life to date had taken place a few hours ago.  She’d become Mrs. Michael McKenzie in the most beautiful ceremony on Michael’s parents’ ranch.

Although she’d seen Michael in suits on a regular basis, she
’d had never seen him looking so handsome in one; he’d taken her breath away.

His brothers had looked just as handsome in the same type of suit Michael was wearing, but they had different colored crav
ats fastened around their necks with matching waistcoats.

Lily
had given Sebastian pink, Lucien pale blue, Ramon lemon, Ruben pale green and their father Elias had worn a deep purple. They had all looked so handsome standing together for the ‘father and sons’ photograph, which Lily had insisted on.

They had dined to a beautiful meal of chicken
parmesan crostini as the starter to wet everyone’s appetite, which was followed by slow roasted herb crusted beef tenderloin. Dessert had been a decadent affair of chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries – the perfect way to top it all off.

Until the food had been placed in front of her she hadn’t realized just how hungry she was,
but her stomach felt like there were four babies inside instead of the two.

Lily had come outside to the patio hoping Michael would follow her so she could
tell him about the twins. She’d put it off because of the stress she’d felt he was under leading up to the wedding, but she didn’t want to leave it any longer.

“Hey, beautiful
.”

“
Hey Sebastian, you look handsome,” she replied and gave him a hug.  He really did.  She’d noticed some of the women from the company drooling over him. Since he’d taken his jacket off, you could tell how tight his abs were, which she was positive he knew.

“You eyeing me up?”
he asked grinning.

“Yep.  I’m trying to decide who I need to introduce you to.”
She grinned in mischief, her smile deepening at the sour look on his face.

“No, you’re
not going to introduce me to…” he trailed off. “Her.”

Lily looked across and he’
d gone still, staring at Ramon’s date.  “Ah, Sebastian.”

“Who’s she here with?” he asked, still stunned.  “Lily, who is that bodacious babe with?”

Lily snickered.  “You did not just call her a bodacious babe?  How old are you?  Seventeen!”

“Trust me, no horny seventeen year old boy would be thinking of doing what I’m thinking of doing to her.”

“Bodacious!” Lily giggled, still unable to recover from him using the word.

“Bill and Ted
’s,” Sebastian replied, not really listening to her.

“What?”

“Never mind.   You haven’t said who she’s with.”

Crap
, he was really taken with her.  This wasn’t going to go down too well.  “You need to keep your zipper up.  She’s here with Ramon.”

Lily
heard a laugh behind them.

Chapter 7

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Keep your zipper up.
  What the hell was Lily discussing with Sebastian?  Then he noticed the woman Sebastian couldn’t move his eyes from. 
Ramon’s girl.

“How can she be with R
amon?” Sebastian asked, frowning.

Michael wrapped his wife in his
arms and laughed at him.  “Well, I guess our brother is finally serious about someone and Lucien needs to get his facts straight in the future.”

“She can’t be with him.  Are you sure?”

Michael frowned at him.  He’d never known his brother to be upset about a woman being with someone else.  He usually just moved on.

“I’m sorry, but she is,” Lily told him.

She was walking towards them and Sebastian couldn’t stop staring. 

“Hey Lily. 
Do you know where Ramon is?” Carla asked.

Lily knew she had to show some manners and introduce her to Sebastian, but
she also knew it was probably unwise. “I’ve not seen Ramon for a while.” Lily looked at Michael for help, but he was just staring at his brother.
Oh, what the hell.
“Let me introduce you to Sebastian, Michael’s brother.  Sebastian, this is Carla.”

He stood there frozen while he exchanged heated looks wi
th Carla, until Lily prodded him in the back.

“Carla, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”  He took her hand and kept it in his.  She seemed just as taken.  “Are you really with Ramon?”

That seemed to bring her back to her senses as Carla pulled her hand away as though it had been burned. “It’s great to meet you, but I better go and find Ramon.”  Carla turned tail and retreated back towards the marquee.

“I need some fresh air,” Sebastian
murmured before heading off in the direction of the garage; obviously unaware he was already outside.

Lily turned and wrapped h
er arms around Michael before snuggling close.

“Are you getting tired, Lily?” Michael
moved his hand up and down in a soft caress over his wife’s back and curve of her hip. “We can leave if you’re ready,” he said, hoping she was.

He’d had an amazing day, but all he wanted after the long day of festivities was to take his wife back to the honeymoon suite in the hotel he’d booked so he could make sweet love to her.

“Soon Michael. Soon.” Lily met Michael’s eyes. “I love you, Michael, and I’m so glad you married me today, because I have something to tell you, and you can’t get away from me now.”

What the hell?
This couldn’t be good.  “Do I really want to know this?”

“Oh y
es.”

“Well get on with it.  You’re killing me.”

“We’re having twins.”