Tatum's POV:

I feel soft kisses on my forehead as a sweet voice brings me back from dreamland,"Come on baby you need to wake."

I open my eyes slowly, adjusting to the emitting beams of daylight.

I turn around with my back towards the person not fully conscious yet.

"Leave me to sleep."I mumble as I nestle my head into the pillow.

"We'll be late for your appointment."The voice says, but sounding very distant as the holy slumber pulls me closer.

"Tatum."He says softly whispering into my ears.

I feel a warm hand sliding under the covers and lightly placed onto my stomach caressing me lightly.

I feel the lovely kisses on my neck moving up to my jawline. I can't help but to smile at the tingly feeling.

I open my eyes once again, blinking a few times before my sight is cleared.

I turn my head to face him and I smile at him fondly.

"Good morning."I greet Brandon as he stares at me affectionately.

"Good morning."He says and a smile creeps its way onto his face.

"What?"I ask.

"How is it possible to be so beautiful waking up?"He asks, but more to himself than to me.

"Stop it."I blush and turn away from him but he catches my lips before I could leave his side.

He pulls away and speaks.

"You hungry?I made breakfast."

"I could use a Carter Snack first."I say suggestively and he chuckles.

"Can't get enough?Can you?"He says boastfully.

"No I can't."I say honestly.

"Well lucky for you I can't get enough either."He says and crashes his lips to mine.

I welcomed his tongue feverishly.
After a sweet dance of tongues we pulled away to catch our breathes.

"Stay with me."I say breathlessly as I caress his cheek.

"Stay with me. Don't go to work today."I say imploringly.

"How can I say no to you?"He says and I smile at him brightly. I don't know what came over me with this sudden need for him to be here with me now. It's by instinct,maybe because of the baby,but I just know that I want him here with me.

"Come on let's go have breakfast."He says and walks out of the bedroom door.

"Hey! I said I want a Carter snack first!"I yell at him.

"Feed the baby first."He says popping his head in the doorway looking at me expectantly,"Then you can have me for the rest of the day."He says smirking and then walks away.

"Damn tease!"I say,annoyed and then get up from bed making my way towards the kitchen.

I move over to the counter where he's setting plates onto the table.I lean with my side against the counter watching him intently.

"What?"He asks,quickly glancing at me then faces the food again.

"Nothing.I just think that you love teasing me."I say in a matter of fact tone.

He looks up at me.

"Its not that I love teasing you.Okay,I do enjoy it sometimes, but you know that once I start I can't stop."He says and moves in front of me putting his arms on either side of me with his hands resting on the counter top, forcing me to face him with my back against the counter. He leans in close,"You know that I can't help myself."He continues leaning in closer and closer making my heart raise in anticipation.

Not being able to handle the wait anymore I go in to kiss him,but my lips catch the emptiness of air when he abruptly moved away before I could even go in for the kiss, throwing his hands up in the air dramatically,"And that is why we have to eat breakfast first."He says as if he's a professor teaching a lesson.

Fucking asshole.

He smirks as he sets a plate in front of me.

"Have a seat."He says as if nothing happened. I stand still where I am not even paying attention to the food, although the aromas almost got me drooling,but I kept myself composed giving him a death glare.

"Whoa,who's an angry bear now?"He asks as I remain silent.

"Come on now."He says and rubs my furrowed brows trying to straighten them out.

"Don't touch me."I say harshly and slap his hand away from my forehead.

I sit down on the chair angrily and start eating without looking at him.

I'm having this inner battle because it's hard to stay mad when this food tastes so fucking good.

From my peripheral vision I can see Brandon sitting down next to me.

When he stops looking at me I close my eyes savouring the delicious flavours on my tongue.

"How is it?"He asks and my eyes snap open.

"Don't talk to me."I say frowning.

"Tatum."He says my name drawn out and turns to me putting his hand on the small of my back.

"I said don't touch me."I say composing my angry facade. I am mad at him it's just, how can I keep up this look of displeasure when there are angels dancing in my mouth.

I get up from my seat moving towards the living room as I slump down onto the couch with my plate in my hand.

"Babe?"He calls and I ignore him.

"Tatum."

"Stop saying my name too."I snap at him.

"Tatum, Tatum, Tatum..."He says as he walks over to me and sits down next to me.

"Babe what's wrong?"

"You are a fucking tease!"

"Baby I thought you understood.You know that when we start it's hard for me to stop and I love making love to you, but I need to take care of you as well."He says and tugs a stray hair behind my ear.

"No I understand pretty well Brandon. It's Abigail isn't it."I say and he's taken aback by my words.

"No baby what are talking about?"

"Now that I'm pregnant I'm not attractive to you anymore."I say setting my plate down on the coffee table and getting up to leave him on his own. My tone becoming more apprehensive as I walk towards the room silent sniffles fill the quiet room.

As I sit on the bed Brandon walks into the room with a concerned expression on his face.

I look down away from him as he makes his way towards me.

"Tatum I love you and nothing can make me unattracted to you. Nothing.You're beautiful my love."He says taking my face into his hands and wipes my tears from my face.

"Don't lie to me Brandon you're attracted to her and I know it, but you know what,I might be pregnant and unattractive"My voice cracks before continuing,"but at least I don't have STD's.Who knows what diseases she has. So if you want her fine."I say and his lips twitch trying to hold back a laugh.

"Baby come here."He says and pulls me into his arms.

"I don't want her and you are not unattractive Tatum. I didn't think it could be possible,but you grew even more beautiful with your pregnancy.I've never even thought of her in that way and I never will. I'm even more attracted to you now."He says placing a kiss on my forehead as he caresses my arm up and down.

"Then why...won't you touch me?"I ask through sniffles.

"I'm afraid."He says with a sigh, but I can hear the honesty in his voice.

I look up at him confused.

"You're afraid?"

He looks down at me wiping away my stray tears and looks at me as if I'm the most fragile thing on earth.

"Yes. I'm afraid that I'll hurt you. Tatum you know that I can't handle myself sometimes. Back then it wasn't so hard for me to control myself, but as the days go on it gets harder and I'm afraid that one day I'll be too rough to the point where I'll hurt you and the baby."He says sincerely and I don't know what to say to that.

"I do want to touch you so badly and that's what makes me scared.I'm sorry it upset you."He says and I kinda feel bad right now. Me and my bloody hormones.This is one thing I hate about pregnancy the mood swings that comes with it.

"I'm sorry for overreacting."I say and he smiles at me lightly.

"I think the whole Abigail thing got to me more than I thought it would."

"I understand you're really sensitive now, but nothing will ever happen between Abigail and I. Besides why would I want her, when I've already got the best."He says making me smile.

"Being away from you during work hours drive me crazy.I was so used to always being around you and you know what we did with most of our time together. I think that that's the reason I can't help myself anymore. I miss you too much."He says.

"It's okay. I know you won't hurt me."I say reassuringly.

"How can you be so sure?"He asks.

"I trust you enough to know so."I say putting my palm against his chest.

"Now let's get breakfast finished so that we can rip 'n' dip."I say and get up from from bed and he chuckles.

"How sweet Tatum."He says sarcastically.

"What? I'm aroused by you and I'm not afraid to say it."I say proudly.

"Come here."He says and pulls me back to him with me landing on his lap.

I caress his cheek gazing into his eyes.

"I love you."I say the words slipping out of my mouth so easily.

"I love you too."He replies and claims my lips.

I moan into his mouth once I felt his hard shaft against me.

He pulled me closer, placing his hands on either side of my hips rocking me back and forth against him in slow and steady movements.

I remove his shirt and start trailing wet kisses up his neck.I nibble at his ear,which makes his hold on my hips harder.

I reclaim his lips. We pull away for a moment so that he can remove my shirt.Feeling him this close drives me into complete ecstasy.Each time with him feels different from the next and I never tire of it.

I push him back onto the bed.I remove his boxers feeling pleased with his need for me.

He groans as I caress smoothly.He pulls me up to him,we lock lips and he fills my every desire.

But...why does my heart feel so sad.I've always felt alive around Brandon, there was never a moment of sadness with him. I just feel this massive feeling of dread. Whatever this feeling is or whatever it means whether it's important or paranoia I don't like it at all.

...

When we finally dragged our ruttish ass' out of bed, we got ready to go to the hospital for my Tuesday prenatal appointments.Everything seems normal and the baby is growing really well.Two more weeks to go and then we'll be in the second trimester of my pregnancy.
I really can't wait to meet our little bean. I'm carrying very well. The pregnancy symptoms aren't too rough with me. There will be a moment or two where I'll feel nauseous, but otherwise I'm good.

Brandon decided to take the day off and stay with me just as I had requested.I have accepted where life brought me. If things were meant to be with Samuel and I, they would've been. I still sometimes wonder how it would've been though. If I were with Samuel now, but I deeply love Brandon and everything he does. Sometimes I think that Brandon's too good for me, you know. I don't feel like I can ever do enough for him to meet the things that he does for me.

"Here it is."Brandon says pulling me from my thoughts.

I screech in excitement,"Yess."

"If you didn't have it anymore I probably would've killed you."I say and take the box from his hands.

"You might have bought it for my birthday gift, but you bought it more for yourself."Brandon says smirking.

"Hey! I bought it so that we can have a good time."I exclaim and he chuckles then sits down on the bed next to me.

I open the box and slide out the foam container.

"It still looks brand new."Brandon observes.

"That's because we only used it once on your fourteenth birthday."I say as I take out the wireless microphones.

On Brandon's fourteenth birthday I got him a set of microphones for his gift.They were both custom made one for Brandon and of course one for me.Our names are engraved on both microphones. Brandon's one is plain and boring silver, because that's what Brandon likes.Mine on the other hand is a Royal blue metallic colour.

"Why didn't we use it again after that?"He asks trying to recall why we haven't used it since.

"No I'm lying, we used it more than once. Remember, we used it at my house once, but my mom couldn't stand the noise-"

"Then we used it at my house when my dad wasn't home."Brandon finishes my sentence and laughs at the memory.

"Yes. We did and your dad wasn't happy when he came home."I chuckle.

"No he wasn't."Brandon says laughing lightly. His dad said that he thought the house was haunted and we got complaints from the neighbours. They were exaggerating of course.

"We weren't even that loud."I say amused by their reactions.Okay we did sing our hearts out but it wasn't that bad?

"Not back then."He says in a playful tone,smirking at me. I blush at the lewd meaning behind his words.

"Brandon shut up!You're always making everything sexual!"I exclaim setting the mikes next to me onto the bed then I grab a pillow from behind me and hit him with it against his arm.

He chuckles,"And you like it."He says with that stupid smirk on his face.

"Brandon stop it!"I say holding the pillow against my blushing mess of a face and I hear him chuckle. God that laugh of his.

I feel warm hands running up my inner thigh causing me to shudder.

"Brandon?!"I throw the pillow at him and he catches it in his hands then throws it to the side.

"What?Don't you like it when I touch you?"He asks inching closer to me.

"I don't know,maybe you'll have to remind me how it feels."I say playing along.

He leans in closer to me laying me back onto the bed.

His lips grazes mine,but before I can claim his lips he moves to my neck placing gentle kisses on my sweet spots.The sensual feeling causing me to bite my lip.

Brandon removes my silk robe and starts nibbling on my shoulder. He moves his warm kisses down my neck over my bare chest and trails his kisses down my stomach.

My nails dig into his firm and muscular arms as I await his next move.

He massages my breasts,arousing me even more as he uses his other hand to play with the lace of my underwear,teasing me mercilessly.

"Brandon!"

I can feel him smile against my skin. He then starts removing my underwear,throwing it to the side.

He plants hot and damp kisses on my inner thigh.

"Brandon I can't take it anymo-"

"Oh God!"I cry out as his hot tongue comes in contact with the burning core of my desires.

I move my hips in circular motions, running my fingers through his hair as he goes to work.

"Yes!"I moan out.

He replaces his lips with his fingers.

"Do you like the way I make you feel?"He asks lowly.The amount of pleasure is too much and it takes me a second to answer.

"Y-yes!"I cry out.

I shut my eyes as my head tilts to the back. Brandon gaining more approbation as his movements and tempo changes.

He brings himself up to me and attaches to his lips to mine, still pumping his fingers in and out of me.My moans are muffled up against his lips. He kisses me alongside my jawline.I moan as my core tightens around his fingers getting closer and closer to the edge.His movements become faster and faster until he takes me over the edge.

"Brandon!"I cry out in complete ecstasy.

Once I come to my senses I'm breathing hard with Brandon gently kissing my face.

"You like that?"He asks smiling at me.

"Yes."I answer pantingly. I return his smile and gaze into his eyes dreamily.

His places a gentle kiss on the tip of my nose.

"I love you so much."He whispers.

"I love you more."

We just laid in each others arms for a while and then we had a relaxing bath. We visited the orphanage and took Cassie with us for lunch, then went back to the hotel.

As soon as we walk into the door Cassie runs into the living room and squealed in excitement.

"Paper, paper. Ogami!Ogami!"She yells in her sweet voice.

"No no. No origami for today."I say and her emotions change in an instant from pure joviality to sad pouting.

"Oh no baby, come here."I say and bend down to her height,"We have something else to do for today. Something more fun."I reassure her and her eyes light up,showing me that oh so heavenly smile of hers.

"We're going to sing today."Brandon says smiling at her brightly.

"Sing.Sing."Cassie cheers.

"Daddy going to sing with us?"She asks sweetly,referring to Brandon. I love it how she calls him daddy, it's so sweet.I can see by the look of admiration on Brandon's face that he loves it too.

"Yes he is, but he doesn't sing that well."I say and she giggles holding her hand to her mouth to cover her laugher.

"Hey!"Brandon exclaims just causing her to laugh more.

"Oh, but..."I gesture for her to come closer.

"We still have to cheer for him even when he sings bad,because we wouldn't want to hurt his feelings right?"I whisper into her ear and she pulls away to look at me then nods, smiling at me brightly.

She then cutely gestures for me to come closer and I do as told.She cups my ears with her tiny hands and whispers quietly into my ear.What she said next completely amazed me.

"I love..."She starts but whispering seems to make her short of breath so she pauses before continuing,"... you."She pulls away to look at my reaction and I smile at her in complete awe. She goes back to my ear and says:"You my...first mommy."

It breaks my heart a little to hear her saying that. Sure Katherine has always been there for her,but Cassie never had a mom and Katherine couldn't fill those shoes, because she has to take care of a whole orphanage.

Cassie never had a mother figure in her life before, but now she feels like she has it with me.

I rest my palm on her cheek, smiling at her softly.

"I love you too baby."I say and pull her in for a hug.

Brandon winks at me and gives me a thumbs up.

I showed Cassie the mikes and she was really excited, of course she liked mine more.

"I don't know if I should be jealous or impressed."Brandon says looking over at Cassie as she sits on our bed playing with the mikes.

"What are you on about Brandon?"I ask.

"I didn't even get an 'I love you' yet."He says with pretense of sadness.

I roll my eyes at him.

"I earned it."I say triumphantly.

"What?You barely did anything."Brandon scoffs, but before I could give a comeback he speaks.

"But, I do understand that you are very easy to fall in love with."He says sincerely gazing into my eyes.It crazy how he always knows what to say.

"Sing sing."Cassie hands Brandon his microphone.

"Shall Princess Cassie come sing with me?"He asks lending out his hand for her to take.

"Yes!"She squeals and takes his hand,then raises her other hand up showing his that she's got my mic.

"Seems like the Princess is all ready."I say and we make our way back to the living room.

After setting up everything else and connecting the mics to the speakers Brandon and Cassie started off singing to the introduction soundtrack of Sofia the first. He didn't know the lyrics so he had to Google it and I was quite enjoying my time watching him try to keep up with Cassie. He was out of beat, off pitch and I couldn't even understand half of the words that came out of his mouth.It was all too amusing.Although, I do appreciate his efforts and I got a good laugh out of him.

The song comes to an end and they both cheer in excitement.Brandon high fives her.

"You did really good."Cassie says looking up at Brandon. She's so sweet.

"I love you daddy."She hugs him and he is shocked at first, but soon comes to terms with whats happening and he picks her up then hugs her too.

"I love you too princess."He says and kisses her against her forehead.

"You both did great."I cheer them on and join in on their hug.

"Now it's mommy's turn."Brandon says.

Anonymous POV:

"Enough with your excuses!"

"Get it done now. I don't care what the situation looks like, just get it done!"

"You know that I can't just-"

"Do it! You know that I can turn you in to the police and you'll serve at least 15 years for what you've done to Cassie."

"Hey I said I'll do it!"

"Watch your tone.Don't forget who you're speaking to."I snap at him, irritated by his childish behaviour.

"I need that spoiled brat gone."I say, the coarseness of my tone becoming more ominous.

"I know, I know."He says.

"For God's sake! Leave my sight and when you return-"

"-I won't be empty handed."He finishes my sentence.

"Get it done."I order for one last time and thereupon he leaves.

A/N

Ooh what's going on?
How is everyone? 👋

There's a story part that I'm working on and it's really wrecking my brain, because I really wanna make the next chapter great. I have so many ideas for the next chapter and I think that I just need time to put things in the right order and to figure out how I want it to be structured. I was going to add it in this chapter but that would've made it too lengthy.

So I think that it'll be a while before I publish my next chapter. 😔
Two weeks tops.

I hope you understand.
Thanks for all the support. ☺

Hope you all have a great week. ♥ 😀