His Love (11 page)

She cleared her throat and sat up. She was at a disadvantage. Rayne was in her pajama shorts and a bulky sweatshirt, she didn’t exactly scream sexy. Her eyes took him in and lingered on the length of him. She had never gotten the opportunity to just look at him. Usually he blinded her with passion and she was writhing in pleasure beneath him, at the mercy of his expert hands and lips.

“If I ask, you might just say no.” He moved to the bed and Rayne rose to her knees. She wanted to touch him, but that would be too easy. She licked her lower lip, how she wished she could taste him.

“You don’t ask, you demand, command.” She moved back on the king size bed as Antonio advanced toward her like a predator. The lust shining through his eyes made her shiver.

“Then I will ask, nicely.” Antonio stood up and she almost screamed out in protest. Where the hell was he going?

Antonio returned moments later with a velvet box in his hands and a towel wrapped around his waist. Rayne seemed more bothered with him covering the goods than excited about the eminent proposal.

“I don’t know any flowery language, that’s not me, but you see me for who I am and you were able to love me at my worst. I am asking you to love me at my best, to love me forever. Will you marry me?” His eyes were filled with earnest as his hand trembled.

“Come to bed and we’ll talk.” Rayne pulled the sweatshirt over her head.

She heard him growl and could see the battle going on between his body and his mind. “I’m really trying to stay on topic here, but you are making it close to impossible.”

Rayne stood on the bed and shimmied out of her pants. She stood bare in front of him and had the pleasure of seeing him gape in awe at her nudity. “Come to bed and we’ll talk.”

“I am on the last thread of self-control here,” Antonio pleaded.

“I want to make love with my future husband. Come-Ah!” Rayne screamed out when Antonio grabbed her feet and pulled them from under her. She landed flat on her back and in a second Antonio was on top of her.

She barely had a second to appreciate the weight of his body, when his fingers started to work their magic on her nub. Rayne arched off the bed, bucking her hips against his fingers, while her hand held Antonio’s head in place as he teased her nipples. Her body tightened as a tingle shot from her toes to the top of her head. Rayne moaned in pleasure as an orgasm rolled through her, but just as she was about to reach her climax, Antonio withdrew and sat back on his legs.

“What are you doing?” Rayne asked as her body ached to feel his touch, to reach its peak.

“You didn’t say yes.”

Rayne stuck out her trembling left hand and he slipped the ring on. “Yes, now could you get back here?”

“With pleasure Mrs. Burke.”

Antonio settled in between her thighs and massaged her center and just as she came he drove himself inside her making her orgasm stronger. Rayne held onto his shoulders as her body writhed beneath him from the assault. She tried not to lose herself in the pleasure wishing that her body would come down from its high sooner so that her senses could concentrate on Antonio moving inside her. But she couldn’t. Antonio didn’t stop. He rocked faster and harder each time her orgasm seemed to die down. Rayne grabbed at the sheets beside her, her head thrown back as her hips rose to meet him.

EPILOGUE

“Alessandria! Sweetheart, get the phone and call Daddy.”

Rayne was happy about moving out of the Hamptons house after the wedding. She was glad because she was sure the distance would help mend Kane and Antonio’s relationship. Plus she wanted a house of her own to raise her family. It was a smaller house in Tribeca with only one maid who wasn’t a stay in, but now she wished she had waited until the baby was born. She leaned against the vanity as she bit down on her jaw.

“Ten minutes apart.” She lifted her legs one by one and frowned at the mess flooding at her feet.

“What do I tell him?” Alessandria held the phone in her hand as she played with the buttons.

“Tell him Mommy is leaking.”

Antonio was in a late-night meeting. They had been trying to restructure the two companies into one, and having meetings with all the department heads with no one watching was accelerating the decision making process. She knew Antonio would pick up her calls even though he was in the meeting, if only she could get Alessandria to dial the number.

***

“Hello?” Antonio knew that Rayne must have been worried. Her due date was getting close and she disliked his evening meetings, but he had promised Eliza on her deathbed to make the business successful. He would have done anything Rayne asked him to. He knew she was the one whom he could speak his thoughts out loud and they would be received with interest. She didn’t pull any punches with him, and he had never been challenged like that before. She was his equal, his love.

“Mommy told me to call.” He smiled when Alessandria’s voice came through.

“Does she want me to pick something up for her at the bakery?”

“No, she’s leaking.”

“What?” Antonio tried to calm his nerves; he didn’t want to scare the little girl. “Is there anything red on the floor?”

“Nope.”

Alessandria sounded calm, so it was either that Rayne was hiding how she was really feeling or everything was going fine.

“Don’t hang up the phone until the EMTs arrive.”

Antonio took his work phone out and dialed 911, he would have felt better if he could hear Rayne’s voice. He had to make due with listening to Alessandria tell him about her day.

Antonio was already at the hospital when Rayne arrived in the ambulance, his mother with her. Kane, Jacqueline, and Alessandria were in the car that followed behind.

“How are you doing?” he asked, as he held onto Rayne’s hand.

“Are you seriously asking me that question?” Rayne hissed and squeezed her eyes shut. Another contraction sliced through her. “I love you, I love our baby, but I just want him out.”

Antonio left her side for a second and took off his jacket and tie. He rolled his sleeves to his elbows and watched carefully as they prepped her. Two nurses rushed past him with an IV.

“No pain medications,” Antonio instructed.

“Not even to get her comfortable?” The nurse asked in shock.

“Nothing. Don’t even prick her with a needle.” Antonio stroked Rayne’s hair back as she groaned in pain. “I know it hurts but you can’t have any of that stuff.”

When she nodded and tried to smile he knew she understood.

“Are you ready to push?” The doctor asked.

“She’s ready.”

***

Rayne watched her new family gather around her. She missed her parents, her brother, even her grandmother. But the Burkes gave her the love she knew she would miss if she was alone. Antonio held Alessandria and she held Reno in her arms. Antonio had decided to name their son Reno Kane Antonio Mathews-Burke. He was supposed to be the new Mathews-Burke to make his own legacy. Antonio wanted to make his relationship with his son better than what he had with Kane.

Rayne stared at Reno, apart from his curly hair he looked exactly like Antonio. The look of awe on Alessandria’s face was priceless and when Reno opened his eyes they stared at each other like they were communicating on a deeper level. Seeing them like this she doubted that she would be able to go to work at all, but if she did she would have a baby on her hip and Alessandria in tow. Rayne wasn’t the house wife type. She wanted a job, a career, but the two beautiful children in front of her made her rethink that. Antonio would go to work and make them even more money, that they didn’t need and she was content with just sitting home and making the babies.

“What do you think about your little brother?” Antonio had an everlasting smile on his face.

“Can we keep him?” Alessandria asked the innocence filling her voice.

In the midst of all the laughter Rayne answered. “Sure.”

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the team at Breathless Press for all of their hard work on
His Love.

Biography

M.O. Kenyan has been writing for four years now. She tries to put herself in every character and scene. Her books are a huge part of her and she draws her inspiration from everyday life. Writing is her escape from the real world; strange since she tries her best to make her fiction as real as it can be. She has three books published by three different publishers.
His Love
includes her first bi-racial and Latin characters, and she hopes everyone can fall in love with Antonio and Rayne just as she did.