Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“All seems fine for right now. Your blood pressure is a little higher than I would like to see, comparing it to previous visits you’ve had at my office. However, it is well within the normal range.” I watched as he made a note in his chart and checked my histories. “Your heart is pumping enough oxygen throughout your body as well so we don’t need to worry about that.” He noted as he pulled the device off my finger.
“Question Griffin,” I grinned as I looked at Joaquin who was hovering just behind the couch, “would it make my blood pressure higher if someone fussed over me too much?”
“Only if it truly aggravated you that the person was there and fussing about. Is that the case?” Griffin raised an eyebrow at me as if daring me to say that I was aggravated that Joaquin was being so attentive to me.
“I wouldn’t say aggravated really, no. Annoyed sometimes when he rushes over if I do something as simple as shift my weight for a fraction of a second.” Griffin laughed at the defeated tone in my voice.
“Yeah, I can see why that might be bothering you. And to be honest that could potentially raise your pressure as well. You’re not going to break if he leaves you alone to study, but I don’t think we can convince him of that.”
“You do realize I am standing right here and can hear the two of you talking, right?” Neither of us paid any attention to Joaquin, effectively acting as if he wasn’t in the room. I really did enjoy it when I got to play these little games. It was fun and Joaquin pouted so adorably when it was all over with.
“From what I can tell things should go just fine from here on out. Just stay off your feet and don’t attempt anything strenuous.”
I noticed the tone to his voice and I was pretty much able to guess what it was he was trying to say. I wasn’t going to say anything though. I didn’t want Griffin yelling at me the day after I got home from the hospital.
“Strenuous?” Joaquin asked him with a clear question in his inquisitive tone. “What do you mean by strenuous?”
“I am sure you can figure that out Joaquin. Anything that gets the heart rate going faster, possibly making one or more persons sweaty. Physical activity that does not necessarily involve walking.” He was emphasizing this for Joaquin because he probably thought Joaquin was the one who had needed the warning and not me.
To be fair, I pretty much already knew that Griffin wouldn’t have approved of what we did this morning. That was why I hadn’t mentioned it at all. But, dammit, I wanted to be with my husband. Was that so bad?
“Oh, so you’re saying we shouldn’t be having sex at all until after the babies are born.” Joaquin was playing it off like he was just finally understanding what was being said. “I hear you loud and clear.” I watched as the evil grin spread across Joaquin’s face. “I figured that all along but Riviana apparently didn’t get that when we left the hospital. She insisted on a little bit of light physical activity this morning.”
“Light physical activity?” Griffin looked intrigued. “Does such a thing truly exist?”
“It does. And I swear it was gently done. I don’t know how it affected her heart rate, I was a little preoccupied, but I think the water helped to facilitate a calmer environment.” Joaquin looked as if he were truly contemplating something at that moment.
“I truly do not need to hear the details Joaquin. That is not something I need to be privy to.” Griffin glared at Joaquin firmly then turned to level the same glare at me. “I do, however, recommend that you refrain from doing anything else of the sort until after the babies are born. And might I suggest a little while after they are born. You will be hyper fertile after the delivery and you do not want them to be too close together now, do you?”
“Absolutely not.” Joaquin and I both answered in a hurried and panicked rush.
“Good, I will take my leave now. Riviana, no more ‘exercises’ please.” I blushed at that last warning of his before he walked out of the room.
I was thoroughly mortified, especially considering that Gabriel had been in the room for that entire conversation. He was, after all, my personal assistant. He was expected to wait with me while I did most things during the day.
I had a sudden thought as I remembered Gabriel and his competent ways. He could ‘monitor’ me while Joaquin took care of other things. That way I would be able to study in peace and I didn’t need to worry about Joaquin rushing over if I moved my arm from one place to another or shifted a tiny bit to fart or whatever. Dammit, I didn’t care what it was that I needed to do, I just didn’t want to have Joaquin fussing over me with every little thing.
Not to mention, I think both Joaquin and I were feeling quite a bit of embarrassment after what had just happened with Griffin. I truly think it would be best if we just spent a few minutes apart from each other. Partially because, scolding from Griffin or not, Joaquin was my super sexy and hot as hell husband that I wanted more than anything else in the world right now.
Honestly, how damn horny did these pregnancy hormones have to make me? All I had to do was think about Joaquin and I wanted him. Seeing him just made it that much worse. I needed to get him out of the room for the time being so I could calm my raging hormones. I didn’t need to be known as an uncontrollably sex fiend by the only doctor that I ever saw regularly. That would just be embarrassing.
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Riviana
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“Hey, Joaquin, I have an idea.” It was time to implement this plan so that we could try to instill some peace and calm around here.
“Yeah? And what might that be, Little Bunny?” He sank down onto the sofa next to me and slung his arm around my shoulders.
He just didn’t know that I couldn’t have him this close to me right now. I needed to have a break from him because I was already finding it difficult to concentrate. Not just with him incessantly fretting about. I needed to have a break from the hot, steamy, sexy thoughts that kept running through my head.
I would be completely honest if I said that every time I saw Joaquin right now I had to wade through at least fifteen different sexual fantasies just to form a proper, non sex related sentence. I am guessing that that is not exactly normal. UGH! What the hell was the matter with me and these raging hormones and this over active sex drive.
“Well, if memory serves, I went into the hospital the day of the baby shower, right?” I brought up that memory but I didn’t want to cause him pain. Unfortunately, the memory of that day must have caused him just that as his eyes clouded over with worry and fear as he must have remembered exactly what happened.
“Yes, but I don’t see what your point is.”
“Well, I had pulled you out of that little workshop you set up for yourself. I know that the custom building of baby furniture was not going well. How about you start putting everything in the room together or go to purchase something that is already assembled.”
“No! Absolutely not. I am not going to leave you alone.”
I had a feeling he would balk at the very idea. He didn’t want to leave me alone at all. Joaquin was just an overprotective worry wart with a jealous streak that ran at least a hundred miles wide. This was going to take some convincing.
“I won’t be alone, Joaquin.” I smiled at him as sweetly as I possibly could as I worked to show him that there was nothing to worry about. “Gabriel can keep watch over me while I study, Joaquin. That will give you the time to work on the nursery.”
“No, Riviana.” He was shaking his head back and forth furiously. “I can’t do that. I can’t let you out of my sight. I need to be here for you. I took the time off of work to be with you. I had spent so much of my time working on the nursery leading up to the baby shower that I didn’t see the signs of what was happening to you. I can’t do that again.”
It was clearly heartache and pain that he was feeling from what had happened. I could understand that, I truly could. But we couldn’t let this rule our lives right now. We needed to be stronger than it and take control of it all back.
“Joaquin.” I cupped his cheek in my hand, luxuriating for a moment in the feel of his skin in the palm of my hand. “I promise I will be fine. Don’t let this episode run our lives. We need to be stronger than it is. We need to move on and finish the things that we started. I am going to finish these classes no matter what. And you Joaquin, you need to finish the room for our babies. Didn’t you promise me that you were going to do it all? I want to see what the final product will look like. I want to see where my babies will be sleeping.”
I could see the pride swelling behind Joaquin’s eyes as he listened to my words. I was stroking his ego here a bit. I knew that he wanted to do this. He wanted to be the one to say that the nursery was entirely his doing. He wanted to be able to proudly claim that achievement for himself.