Sensing that he wasn’t going to say anything more about the deceased woman, she asked, “Why did you name her Lili?”
An affectionate smile crossed his face.
“Her full name is Kyla Liliana Landry.”
“You combined our names.”
“Lena did actually. We were thinking of a name for this precious girl and Lena suggested Kyla jokingly, but I agreed immediately. My mom liked Anna and I liked Lily, so we combined the two.”
It was so sweet of him to have still wanted to name a part of their daughter after her, even though he thought she had abandoned her baby. A sob caught in her throat.
His arm went around her. “Even though I hated you for leaving us, I was grateful that you gave me such a precious gift. I was so happy that you didn’t terminate, or worse, given her to strangers.”
She shook her head. “I would never do that to my baby, even if its father was the devil himself.”
Lifting her head and gazing into his eyes, she said, “Thank you for giving her a part of me.”
He smiled and brushed a loose strand of hair from her forehead. “She has more than your name; she has your spirit.” She was touched by his words.
After that, things became easier to talk about. He told her how challenging his life had been raising a newborn while he attended University. Even though he had help in the persons of his mom and Lena, he had still desired to spend a lot of time with his daughter. He had changed her diapers, fed her, and rocked her to sleep.
His words made Kaiya more depressed about everything she missed. Her hatred for her father grew.
I’ll never forgive him, she resolved inwardly.
***
“You can’t imagine the horror I felt the day she came up to me and told me that she wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. All I could think was that she was indeed her mother’s daughter!”
Kaiya laughed heartily.
Tyler watched as Kaiya’s brown eyes brightened as she laughed. He was glad that the tears had dried up in her eyes as they spent the past two hours trying to catch up from the time they’d been apart to the present. They had also talked of ways they would present the news of her being Lili’s real mother to the little girl.
With Lili spending the weekend with his mom at his mom’s sister’s house, he and Kaiya had had the whole house to themselves talking and watching videos of their daughter.
For hours, he had itched to draw her into his arms and kiss her passionately, but he controlled himself. The memory of their hot sex in the washroom was still fresh on his mind. He wanted to take things slowly with her this time around. He would worship her glorious body with kisses before he made her his yet again.
As if she sensed what he was thinking, she whirled her body to his on the couch. Perhaps she saw the desire in his eyes for her lips parted, and her eyes became glazed.
Reaching out, he caught a strand of her hair, caressed it, and then ever so slowly, he covered the distance between them.
Tyler cradled her face and brushed his lips against hers. His mouth left her lips moments later and worshipped her beautiful face with kisses. His lips covered hers again, demandingly, forcing them apart as his tongue stroked hers.
His hands went from her face and lowered to her breasts. He kneaded them while Kaiya moaned with pleasure. The kiss wasn’t broken even as his hands roamed and caressed her body.
Their tongues locked as they continued smooching on the couch. Kaiya reached for the buttons of his shirt as his hand went behind her shift dress to lower the zip.
When his lips closed on her nipple through her dress, she arched her back, and he felt the sensations running through her body. His body shook from nearly uncontrollable desire.
He had promised himself that he would take things slowly this time around, but he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to keep that promise because he wanted her so badly, he couldn’t wait. Perhaps after taking her fast and hard, then he could go slowly. After all, they had all night to make love since both his mom and Lili wouldn’t be back tonight.
Tyler removed his hands and mouth from Kaiya’s body and was just about to rise so that he could carry her back upstairs to his room when the doorbell rang.
They both froze.
Tyler wondered who in the world could have such poor timing. He gritted his teeth as he rose from the chair.
Kaiya giggled. “Perhaps you should do something about that before answering the door.”
