“She’s going to marry me. When I’ve asked her,” I say stunning Ramon who now looks like a fish out of water, opening and shutting his mouth without a sound bursting forth.
Looking down, Carla is beaming up at me and it takes everything I have not to throw her over my shoulder and carry her out of the hospital, back to my place so I can have my wicked way with her.
Ugh, now is not the time or place to have arousing thoughts, but how the hell can I not when she’s here with me. Touching me. Trying to get her hand into the back of my pants, which I remove when I hear Ruben snickering behind us. I ignore him and instead watch Michael walking towards us, looking ready to pass out.
“Michael, is everything alright?” Mom asks him, putting her arms around his waist. Probably thinking she can keep him up right.
“Yeah,” he whispers before settling his gaze on Lucien, who hasn’t said anything since we arrived up here.
“Lily keeps asking for you,” he tells Lucien, his voice gaining strength from whatever emotion he seems to be dealing with, “and I could do with you being in there as well. She’s more concerned right now about me than she is for herself.”
God, I have to turn away seeing Michael close to tears.
Watching Lucien stand and walk toward Michael, I notice Sabrina for the first time and she doesn’t look too happy with Lucien’s departure. Is she attracted to my brother? This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed something going on between the two of them.
“Hang on,” Ruben interrupts, “if he’s going in with you and Lily then I am.” He stands with his feet apart and his arms folded in front of him.
“Wait a sec,” Ramon now moves to stand beside Ruben, “if these two are going in with you then I am,” he says as his lips twitch.
Carla starts to chuckle and moves away from me, knowing what I’m about to do. I kiss her on the lips, wink then walk to stand beside Ramon. “If these three idiots are going in with you then I am.”
I catch Carla rolling her eyes from the corner of mine as I finish speaking, but I keep my eyes focused on Michael knowing if I look at her I won’t be able to hold my laughter in anymore.
Yeah, we’re acting like adolescents, but right now some lightheartedness is needed after the shit day we’ve had and we need to try and loosen Michael up before he ends up in a hospital bed beside his wife.
“Follow me,” Michael turns and starts walking back the way he came, “but no ones looking at Lily’s pus–“ he pauses as we snicker, “bits.”
“So that’s what it’s called now,” Ruben asks, with Michael turning to look back at him over his shoulder, giving him a death glare. It shuts him up anyway.
I just pray I’m not going to regret trying to get to Michael by wanting in the delivery room.
Chapter 29
Carla
Watching the guys go off into the delivery room, trying to outdo the other, I sit next to Pippa while Elias seems to be asleep beside her with his head back on the sofa.
“Don’t worry Carla. They’ll be back soon. There is no way they’re willingly going to stay in that room with everything going on. They just wanted to distract Michael with his worry over Lily and his children.”
Pippa now seems to be looking at me as though I’m an insect under the microscope. “So, you’re in love with my son. A different one than I originally thought.”
Not sure how to answer, I nod my head in agreement and can’t help chewing on my bottom lip. A nervous habit I’ve tried years to kick, but failed miserably.
Pippa takes my hand, which draws my attention back to her. “Carla, I’ve known from the start that you and Ramon weren’t all that into each other.” I frown. “A mother knows these things. Oh you were both relaxed around each other, but you acted more like friends than anything else. I also noticed how Sebastian reacted to you.”
She smiles. “It hurt me at first knowing how tormented Sebastian was because he was falling for you, but thought you belonged to his brother.” She lets go of my hands and looks around the room before moving her eyes back to mine. “I think it did him good. You not being available. He’s not whored around since he’s met you.”
“Pippa!” Elias growls beside her, straightening up he looks at her with eyes wide as saucers.
“Oh you, hush up.” She pats his arm before continuing, “Sebastian takes after his father by dipping it in lots of holes before finding one that’s a perfect fit.”
She cannot mean what I think she means? Can she? Elias flushes as red as a strawberry, which tells me she really is talking about getting his cock wet.
I hear chuckling from behind so I turn my head and meet the watering eyes of Sabrina who seems to be having trouble trying not to laugh, which causes my laughter to burst forth.