Page 45 of Karma Kitty Christmas
Isaac’s laughter shook them where they were still joined. “I’m glad you’re amused. Was it just me, or did the earth move?”
“Oh yeah,” Luca murmured, kissing along Isaac’s jaw. His cock, sensing that the fun was not over, began to do some stretches in anticipation.
“Really?” And Luca pulled back to see Isaac’s eyes on his face. “It wasn’t just me, right?” Those giant hazel eyes were wide and dewy, and Luca realized he had to take this seriously.
“No, love,” he said softly. “That wasn’t just you. When you mean it, sex changes everything. When you mean it for the best, sex changes everything for the better.”
Isaac’s eyes crinkled at the corners, and he lifted up to capture Luca’s mouth. The kiss was sweet, so sweet, with Isaac’s soul in it. “You say good stuff in bed,” he murmured. “But only because I know you’ll be here in the morning.”
“Oh God yeah,” Luca said softly. “Will I.”
Then Isaac kissed him again, and Luca’s hips started to thrust on their own, and the word, the thing, the glorious thing….
They were doing it again.
August
“ISAAC? OH,Iiiiiiiizzzaaac… you in there?”
Isaac looked up from the border he was putting on the baby blanket that had been joined by group effort and blinked at Roxy. Allegra and Luca were at work, and Roxy’s kids were playing at their feet while Euclid regarded them all from the kitchen counter with sleepy eyes. Yes, Isaac’s whole household had given up on keeping Euclid off the table or the counters whenever it suited him, but particularly now, when there were two toddlers out for his blood and a screaming infant who would cheer them on. Isaac was definitely on the cat’s side.
But that’s not why Isaac was distracted. “I’m here—oh, Justice honey, maybe don’t hit your sister with—”
But the wooden block came down on Patricia’s head, and the wailing commenced. Isaac set down the blanket and went to comfort the little girl, who sniffled on her Uncle Isaac’s shirt in a way that told him nap time was nigh, while Roxy calmly reprimanded her son.
Without looking back, Isaac carried the girl to the new baby’s room that he and Allegra had set up the week before, pleased to see that the toddler bed they’d both agreed would go on one side was already made up. Having a toddler bed and a crib in there had been Allegra’s idea, once she realized how often Roxy visited.
“We’re going to need it eventually anyway,” Allegra said with a laugh as they’d painted the trim in bright colors and planned. “Since me and Luca are buying the furniture, I figure this way the room can welcomeallthe babies, you think?”
Isaac had been tickled. The room—done up with bright red-and-blue trim and pale yellow walls—had hardwood floors but lots of thick colorful throw rugs held down by furniture and Velcro. A mom’s rocking chair stood in one corner, next to the crib and a dresser, and the toddler bed lined one wall, beside bright plastic chests full of stuffed animals and teething rings. Allegra was keeping a bassinet in her room on Roxy’s recommendation. “Those first weeks, before everybody’s sleep schedule is down, it’s just a blessing to put the baby in the basket and collapse.”
In the middle of the room, Roxy had set up a porta crib, soeverybodycould go down for a nap, because the temperature outside would reach the 110s and Isaac’s place was as close as these kids were going to get to outside for a while, even to swim.
Roxy had arrived that morning with an ice chest full of juice and cubed fruit, and Isaac—with Luca’s help—had taped foil insulation along the outside of the west side of the house, leaving the kitchen, dining room, and living room about ten degrees cooler when the whole world got crispy.
Luca was to the point where his entire crew had filled the swimming pool with water, and they were running the filters and waiting, chewing their nails, to make sure the thousand and one things that could go wrong with a job like this had gone right instead.
The whole reason Allegra had braved the elements to go into the office was to disburse the money when the check cleared, and Isaac was both excited and anxious for the two of them. They’d poured so much into this!
He left Patricia sound asleep in the bed and passed Roxy on her way down the hall with her son, his head lolling on her shoulder.
When he got out to the living room, he saw that Annie, the youngest, had fallen asleep on her stomach, soft little babysnores coming through her mouth as she lay under the ceiling fan on her thick flannel quilt, wearing nothing but a diaper.
With a sigh, he sank back into his armchair and picked up his phone, checking to see if there was a text from Luca telling him how things had gone.
$$$ We’re bringing home takeout tonight!
He smiled but shook his head.I’ve got cubed fruit and cheese—you sure you want takeout?
Good point. Take the rain check, baby—we owe you a whole lot of bacon.
Fair.
He sighed as he set the phone down and picked up the blanket again. It was not the only thing he and Allegra had made for the baby at this point, but everybody, Marcelle included, had been so excited about helping to sew all the squares together that they’d both initiated other baby projects while their helpers were helping.
Now there was nothing left but the edging, and Isaac had to laugh because the blanket didn’t match the nurseryat all, but he still couldn’t help but look at it with a whole lot of pride.
“You gonna let the baby have that, or you gonna put it on a wall and make it art?” Roxy asked.
