The Brightest Stars ✨

Chapter 38

"Gabe I love you so much but you're driving me insane. Please find a hobby, something, anything that isn't me." Natalia pleaded, threading her fingers through the silky strand of his hair as he breathed evenly in and out.

He was wrapped around her like a twine on a tree. His head was on the crook of her neck and he used all his limbs to anchor her to him. Natalia was so hot, Gabe was a big muscular furnace that she couldn't escape because she was on strict bed rest orders.

Gabe grunted in the negative, meaning that he wouldn't move from his position.

"Ty mentioned that he's got some new equipment," she tried again. "Why don't you take them to the gun range?"

That got his attention, he titled his head back to make eye contact with her. If she wasn't so exasperated she'd laugh. He looked exactly like Max, their puppy when anyone mentioned walkies. "You're suggesting I go out and play with guns?" he asked incredulously because Natalia had made it very clear that she hated them, didn't want to see them in her home and did not at all approve of Gabe's involvement with them.

"Yes, it's either that or I shoot you myself if you don't give me some breathing space."

"One hour," he bargained.

"At least five," Natalia shot back.

"Three, no more."

"That's a start, I guess. Deal. Ty's waiting for you outside."

Gabe huffed, getting up from bed and realising she had gotten the better of him. He looked adorable with his hand-mussed hair, and sleep lines on his cheek. But it was two in the afternoon and Natalia was on her fourth day of bedrest at home. She had spent every waking moment of those four days with Gabe and she needed a break and so did he after keeping a constant vigil by her bedside at the hospital, even if he didn't realise it himself.

Natalia had been released from hospital after the doctor had given her the all clear. She was connected to a portable monitor that reported back all her vitals to her doctor, and a nurse would come every two days for a more thorough observation.

With all things considered she was extremely lucky to even have the opportunity to serve out the rest of her pregnancy at home. It could have been so much worse.

Lima appeared at the bedroom door, Gabe grunted a garbled greeting at her, he was still in his feelings about Lima's presence.

"Hi Gabe, lovely to see you too," Lima chirped back at him. Natalia could see the frown on his face faltering, at the heart of it he was a gentleman and it hurt him to be rude to a woman.

"She was in on this too I suppose?" He asked a grinning Natalia.

"Of course, she's my ride or die," Natalia answered, wiggling to the side so Lima could slide into bed with her.

"God, I want the record to show that I'm only getting into this bed because I know you two aren't allowed to have sex."

Gabe scowled a final time before he bounded out of sight in long angry strides. Natalia hated to see him leave but she loved to watch him go, the way his clothes clung to his fit, muscular body was positively obscene. The T-shirt he wore stretched over the delicious muscles of his wide back, the basketball shorts he wore, although baggy could not hide his sculpted thick thighs and glutes from her hungry gaze.

Gosh, she missed scoring his back with her nails
as he moved inside her. She missed clutching at his ass, as he ground against her and made her disintegrate with pleasure. Not being able to have sex was torture and that was one of the reasons why she had to get him out of there.