The Journey Home(69)
Author: Kelly Elliott

“Mom,” I said. “You weren’t a bad mother…always.”

She made a face at me. “Ha, ha. The bottom line, Cale, is that girl would walk over hot coals for you. The only thing she truly needs in this world is your love and Lily’s. If you’re meant to be blessed with another baby, it’s in God’s hands.”

The door to the bedroom opened and Lily came walking in. “Daddy! Bird!”

My heart broke that I couldn’t spend much time with my girl. “Hey, Princess.”

Monica came in behind Lily. “Peanut missed her daddy and threw a pretty massive fit to get into this room.”

I smiled as my mother picked up Lily and brought her to the other side of the bed. She set her down and Lily looked at my dumplings. “Nummy!”

I chuckled and then groaned when pain shot through my side. I put some of the soup on my spoon and blew on it to cool it off. Lily had her mouth open and ready for some yummy goodness.

“When did she start saying that?” I asked, putting another spoonful in her mouth.

“About a minute ago,” Maddie said as she leaned against the doorjamb, watching me feed Lily between my own bites.

“Well, the kid sure is smart.” I said with a wink. “Takes after her father, that’s for sure. Knows a good, home-cooked meal when she tastes one.”

Maddie laughed and came over to kiss me on the forehead. “Do you like it?”

“Like it?” I said. “I love it. Where did you learn to make it?” I took another bite and Lily pulled on my arm for more.

“Michelle has been teaching me. Today’s lesson was lemon cheesecake.” She wiggled her eyebrows and I moaned.

Mom stood up and picked up Lily. “You know what your father and I need? We need time with the little princess here. How about if I take Lily for tonight and most of tomorrow? That gives y’all a bit of time to just relax. Maddie made enough chicken and dumplings to last five days.”

Maddie laughed as she watched my mother. “Mary, are you sure? I know I could use a day of sleeping in.”

I’d been home from the hospital for a few days, and my parents had been here ever since the accident. Monica and Jack had practically camped out in our house for the last three days, and I was pretty sure Maddie was ready for everyone to leave.

“I’m positive. You’re probably sick of seeing Mitchel and me. And I need my own bed again.” She started to walk out of the bedroom as she talked to Lily. “Come on, Princess. Let’s go pack an overnight bag and plan our slumber party.”

Thirty minutes later, the house was cleared out and it was just Maddie and I. Except I had no clue where Maddie was. I was about to call out for her when I saw her standing at the door. She was wearing a light blue corset and her hair was pulled up in a messy ponytail. She looked hot as hell. My eyes trailed up and down her body and I licked my lips, taking in the thigh-high stockings that were help up by a matching powder-blue garter belt. She had on white pumps.

“I’m pretty sure I just died and went to heaven.” I said as she ran her tongue along her lips.

“I figured that your broken bones didn’t mean I couldn’t show you what I’d planned to wear on our wedding night.”

I closed my eyes and moaned. I wanted to bury myself deep inside of her. “Fuck. Maddie, you’re killing me here.”

She put her finger in her mouth and then pulled her hand out from behind her back. I chuckled as I watched her put the nurse’s hat on. She slipped two hairpins in and winked at me. “Nurse Maddie is here to take care of you, Mr. Blackwood. Are you finished with your lunch?”

I looked down at the empty bowls. I’d eaten everything my mother had brought in. Maddie took the tray from me. She turned and started out the door, but not before looking over her shoulder and saying, “I’ll be back to give you a sponge bath after I take this to the kitchen.”

I pulled the covers away to reveal my favorite pair of sleeping shorts. I looked around. No way I could take them off by myself with this damn broken leg and my messed up ribs. I yelled out the bedroom door, “Maddie! Bring scissors with you when you come back.”

She poked her head around the corner and gave me a puzzled look. “Why?”

I pointed down to my shorts.

“Your shorts?” she asked.

I nodded. “Yeah. I want you to cut them off.”

Maddie came back and stopped in the doorway to our bedroom. She slowly began to walk over to me. The come-hither look on her face instantly had my poor dick jumping in anticipation. I wondered how the hell were we going to have sex when I had so many broken bones.

“Did you bring scissors?” I asked.

She moved to the right side of the bed and crawled onto it slowly. We had a Tempur-Pedic mattress, thank goodness. I didn’t feel Maddie moving on the bed.

“Oh, ye of little faith,” she said. “I’ve got this.” She slowly moved up and gently kissed me on the mouth.

I smiled against her lips. “I love you, Maddie.”

She pulled back and looked adoringly into my eyes. She didn’t have an ounce of makeup on and her brown hair was beginning to fall down from her ponytail. She’d never looked so sexy. “You’re so beautiful. You steal the air from my lungs with just a look.”

She began to chew on her lip.

“Maddie, I wish like hell we could have sex, but…” I looked down at my leg and placed my hand on my ribs. “I can’t move without something hurting.”

She began to gently slide down my sleeping shorts. “Don’t move. The nurse at the hospital showed me how to do this, and I watched the nurse here the last few days.”

My parents had insisted on having a nurse come help for a few days. I couldn’t take the babying and sent her home earlier today. Maddie skillfully removed my shorts, and I hardly moved an inch. The worst part was moving my torso, because of the broken ribs.

Maddie got up and walked into our closet and came walking back out with a bag. “What’s in the bag?” I asked as I raised my eyebrows in an expectant manner.

“A welcome home gift,” she said as she began to slowly strip out of her clothes.

She stood before me naked, and I began stroking my dick as best I could. I closed my eyes and moaned. I heard her pull something out of the bag and then I heard a buzzing sound. I snapped my eyes open to see her holding a vibrator in her hand.

“I’m going to take care of you first.” She wiggled her eyebrows as she took off the nurse’s hat. “Then I’m going to let you take care of me.”