UNSTOPPABLE (Siri's Saga Book 2) (22 page)

"I couldn’t just let you walk around with that hard rod bulging all day. You're enough of a damn chick magnetic without advertising your full package. These poor girls in here are about to orgasm at just the site of your ass."

He looks up in the reflection and catches them, gawking at him. "Hmm. Maybe."

"There ain’t no maybe." The elevator arrives and we exit first. He cinches my hand and leads me down the staircase. I hear the girls giggling like mad behind me.
He is my fucking fine feast!

As we cross the lobby, I notice another group of girls standing off towards Michaels. They are apparently waiting on the group behind us to join them. We stop at the front desk and I turn to look at the girls. They all look up from their phones at the same time. The girls from the elevator, walk across the big hall towards them. Several point and one is walking backwards to them, but they all are now staring at us.

When Aurei reaches over to take a set of keys off the desk with his name on them, his shirt slides up off his waist and his tight little ass below his beautiful golden skin over his muscular straight legs flashes them. Their phones flash as they snap a quick pic of him. I tell him as he straightens up and flips the keys into his hand. "You owe me something special."

"I do?"

"Yes. I def did you a favor." I tip my head with a nod toward the pack of googling girls and I wink at him.

He looks at them and smiles with his most beautiful smile. "I have a surprise already wrapped and waiting for you back in the room."

"What? You do?" I ask surprised.

He pulls me towards the exit doors. "That’s right." We pass through the door and he turns down the sidewalk.

"Where are we going?" I ask as we walk.

"To catch a bus to the metro, then to the Colosseum. I’m going to give you The Glorious Empire Tour of Archaeological Interest. I thought you would like to start there. How does that sound?"

I jump up and down while we walk. "Sounds purrfect! Why the car keys if we aren’t driving?"

"They brought the car this morning so I would have it first thing in the morning. I’ll take you back and forth myself to the studio every day. Compromise is what partners do."

I fling my arms around his neck and we almost fall. "You’re absofuckinglutely the sweetest man ever!" His arms catch me as we stumble and he hugs me tight to him to catch our balance. He easily controls our weight once he has us centered together.

"Yes. I am!" He admits, sending me into a fit of giggles.

He laughs at me, then with me. "You are so contagious."

When we arrive to board the bus, Aurei cinches my hand to lock us down tight. We board the back and he steers us to the middle. We stand inside the small box next to a family. Husband, wife, three small kids and a baby.
Oh lawd! I bet they are practicing birth control by pull out.
I look closer at her face and see a sweet, sincere look there.
She is content with her fate.
I look down at her children. Two are girls and they are holding hands. The other is a boy and he is hiding behind his Mamma. I lay my head on Aurei’s arm. He pulls his phone out of his pocket and reads a text. I hear a little voice say. "Mamma, bella." Aurei squeezes my hand and I look at him. He winks and nods down to the little boy. I look down to see he is still hiding behind his mother’s skirt, but his big chocolate eyes are peering out and glued to me. I smile and wink at him. He pulls her skirt in front of his face and hides.

I hear Aurei chuckle and when I lift my eyes back to his, the unspoken word jumps from him to me.
Boom!
It hits me squarely between my eyes, making me blink. "Oh...."

He chuckles louder and brings my hand to his lips. "See. It’s startling the first time."

I smile and lay my head on his shoulder. "Yes it is, but I liked seeing it too." He kisses the top of my head as he starts to text. I try to see who and read it, but it’s in Italian.

Suddenly the air is filled with a horrible, high pitched scream that curls the blood. Aurei and I flinch at the same time. The sound is piercing in the small enclosure. The baby is screaming!

I look at Aurei to see his eyes squinted in pain as he tries to concentrate on his phone. I lean over and say in his ear. "Shall we sing?"

He looks at me with a grumpy fuck frown. "What?"

"Shall we sing?" I frown and squint my eyes at him, mocking him.

He nods. "If you think it might help, please sing!" He focuses back on his phone trying to ignore the paralyzing scream. I glance over at the couple. The mother is digging into her diaper bag as the father gently holds the little body still. The screaming baby’s body is red with anger.
What do you sing to a baby? I don’t know any lullabies. I’ve never been around kids before.
None of the nursery rhymes I heard as a child come back to me. I stare as the baby starts to turn blue while the mother calmly prepares to change the diaper. She is cooing to it,
but that isn’t working.
I take a deep breath and start to hum loud my go-to song. I’ve sang it hundreds of time to the girls in Vegas. "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera.
I hope it works on babies too.
I’m competing to be heard so I let go of Aurei’s hand and step in front of him to sing directly to the precious thing. He swaps his phone to his other hand, and puts his arm around me, securing me as he buffers the bus movements for me. When I hum the high notes leading up to the lyrics, the baby catches its breath and pauses, listening. I shake my head and it stops crying to watch my hair float then fall. I sing using Aurei’s trick of changing the words. "Your day is wonderful, then suddenly, it’s hard to breathe. Every now and then, you feel insecure. Dang this pain...." I laugh down at him as he stops crying focusing on my voice. "Don’t feel ashamed." I smile at the father as the mother quickly and efficiently changes the diaper. I sing to the mother. "He is beautiful and that is what they say. Diapers can’t bring him down." I sing to the baby boy. "You are beautiful. Every single day. Don’t you let these diapers bring you down today." She finishes and smiles at him, then up to me. I hum a little more while she lifts her shirt, pulls her breast out, and puts him on it to suckle. He cuts his eyes at me one more time before he closes them, enjoying his warm ready meal. I spend the rest of the short bus ride playing peek a boo with the big brother while Aurei texts. When the bus stops, the family exits. At the bottom step, the little boy, Big Bro, still clinging to his mamma’s skirt, turns to look at me one last time. I give him a tinkling wave as the doors close and I’m rewarded with a beautiful smile.

Aurei rolls his eyes and mouths. "Whew! I’m glad that’s over."

The bus lurches forward and I bump him playfully then pooch my lips in a pretend pout. "I thought you liked my singing."

He laughs now. "I do like your singing. It was the baby’s singing that I’m glad ended. You have a voice like an Angel." He tips his head and looks up to the left. "Reminds me of someone. I can’t think of who right now, but it will come to me."

"That’s a Christina Aguilera song."

"Yes, but although you sing it beautifully, your voice sounds like someone else’s. It’ll come to me."

"I know I’ve told you before that your voice is as smooth as butter."

He chuckles. "I’m hoping you have a butter fetish now."

I giggle. "But.... It’s really more like rich, velvety chocolate and I def have a chocolate fetish."

"A fun fetish to explore. I like chocolate too. Especially tips of berries dipped in them. Umm. A delicious, delight. "

He looks at his phone again and I think about the chocolate eyes of the little Italian boy, then the chocolate eyes of Antonio. I look at Aurei. He glances at me and I muse softly. "I wonder if your kids will have green eyes or brown eyes."

He raises his eyebrows and mouths. "What did you say?"

"Do you want kids one day?"

"If you do." He answers immediately without thinking about it, then starts texting again.

My first thought is:
Me? Kids? Wait a minute!
Then I realize how sweet what he just said was. He didn’t think twice before he spoke. He assumed if he had kids, I would be his Baby Mama. I shake my head.
Of course, we would have kids together. We are forever now.
But then I frown.
I’ve never really thought about having kids before. Do I even want kids?

Aurei says as the bus arrives. "This is us. Come on. Let’s go!"

On the way to the metro stop, he tells me more about his visits to Rome when he was a teenager, but once we enter the station, the crowd is large and loud. We silently wait our turn to board, and when the train arrives, we maneuver with the others for position. Taking small steps as we jostle, Aurei has my hand cinched so tight it is hurting. As we go through the doors, the car is packed to bursting. I take one misstep and I get caught up in the wave of motion as people push to get in. There is literally no room and suddenly I feel small and vulnerable, not petite and feisty. Panic begins to fill me with fear when I realize I’ve lost Aurei’s hand and I’m wedged so tight in the pack of people, I can’t turn to see him. I start to pant.
Fuck! This is bad!
Then I feel a strong hand grab a handful of my hair and halt my forward progress. People push past, not concerned that I’m paralyzed by my head being pulled back, a prisoner of a death grip. I stare up at the ceiling, blinking back tears of pain and fear as the image of a big cat clutching its kitten comes to my mind’s eye. Slowly the people around me are forced away and there is breathing room, then I hear him. My hero tells me. "I got you, my Sexy Kitten Thang." I feel his strong arm slide around my waist and he pulls me tight. His body feels like heaven against me. His grip changes and he turns my face to his. I look up into those pools of peaceful paradise. His eyes are crinkled at the corners. "I’m never letting you go. Don’t you worry. Brutus may move mountains, but I’ll move heaven and hell for you."

I slide my arms around his waist and hold on tight.
Thank Zeus! You are an alpha male!
I lay my face on his chest and hear his heart beating.
Fuck! That was a close call.
I shudder. We ride the rest of the way to the Colosseum holding each other. When we depart the tram, Aurei wraps his hand in my hair and I lead the way out of the doors. Exiting is much easier, but still very intense. The aggressive people jostling for position are the ones boarding and they stand fidgeting like racehorses waiting to jump through the gate and push each other to enter the bottleneck.

When we have cleared the danger zone, Aurei releases my hair and grabs my hand. As he leads the way out, he takes his phone out of his pocket and looks at.

"Hello!" I tell him. "If my tour guy wants a serous tip afterward, then he needs to be in the game. No business texting!" He chuckles, but doesn’t put his phone back. He does stop looking at it though as he leads us out into the bright daylight.

As soon as the sunshine hits our faces, I start to jump up and down again, then I stop dead in my tracks. "Wow! Fucking wow!"

The giant skeleton looms larger than life and I stand staring with my mouth hanging open! I can’t take my eyes off it. "It’s ... it’s simply ... awesome!"

"Yes. She is."

"The Majesty!"

"She is quite impressive."

"That’s an understatement! Wow! Spectacular!"

"Yes. She is spectacular."

"The size of her!"

"She is larger than life."

"Yes! She is."

"She is simply stunning!"

"Yes. Photos don’t do her justice!"

"No. I agree. They don’t."

I grin, now knowing that he is a photographer. "No. Photos don’t cut it! She is very beautiful!"

"She is very beautiful, both inside and outside, but she doesn’t know just how truly beautiful she is."

"What?" I crinkle my eyebrows and look at him.

He laughs as he lowers his phone, grinning at me, then he puts his arm around me, turns me away from the view, holds his phone out away from us and snaps a selfie pic. I pucker my lips up to him and he lays his on mine and snaps another. I lay my cheek against his and pose. He snaps another pic. I stick my tongue out at him. He snaps another pic. I put a hand on each side of our faces and push, contorting them. He snaps another pic. We die laughing. He snaps another pic. I grab his hand, pulling him, and back away. He snaps another pic.

"Come on! Let’s go! This is a special place to touch and explore."

He smacks his lips. "And taste."

I giggle as he takes control again and leads me to the looming monument. I follow along behind him, looking around at everything, trying to take it all in. When we enter the actual Colosseum it feels like we have entered sacred ground.

Aurei tells me in order to go down to the gladiator area, we have to go on a guided tour. When the tour starts, we join the others and listen as the guide fills us in on all the little details. I’m fascinated by all she tells us and I’m quiet as I listen. When we walk past the small cells that held the gladiators before combat, I turn to Aurei. "Aurei, how do you...." He is taking a picture of me and I roll my eyes at him.