OMNISCIENT
Maya was in her bedroom, scrolling through her news feed, but her mind wasn't actually paying attention to any of it, instead her thoughts were surrounded by something else.
Ever since Friday, she had been spending more of her time inside her room as she had yet to confront her mother regarding the entire fake cheating thing. She had recently started to bond with her mother after finally reuniting with her after years. And now after Friday, Maya didn't know how to look at her mom without thinking back to all those days, when she had silently cried in her room because of Massimo's fake betrayal.
Her mother had known about the truth all along and yet she had chosen to stay quiet. All the trust that Sophia had managed to gain in the past months, all of that was now fading away because Maya didn't know how to trust her mother again after all of that.
A faint knock on her bedroom door brought Maya out of her thoughts. She knew it was her mom since no one else was there.
Maya had been avoiding her mother and was about to do the same again, but then she decided against it.
Sophia thought just like previously Maya wouldn't answer her, but when the door to Maya's room opened and Maya looked at her mother, Sophia knew her daughter was ready to talk to her.
Giving out a faint smile, Sophia hesitantly looked at Maya. She had been having a hard time looking into the eyes of her daughter, because of what she had done. When she could've easily ended her daughter's misery, she had watched her very pregnant daughter suffer in silence.
"Uh how're you my dear?" Sophia asked.
"I'm fine." Maya simply replied.
"I um wanted to tell you something." Sophia then said. "I've been actually wondering about this lately..." She began. "....that I should start looking for a place to live." Maya didn't say anything as Sophia wasn't done yet. "I know you're probably having a hard time living in the same place as me, given what I did." Sophia let out an awkward smile at the end. "I don't want you to live uncomfortably in your own house." She then looked at her daughter in the eyes. "So, I've decided that I should move out."
Maya surely was very upset with her mother, but she also knew that Sophia didn't have anyone other than Maya, especially here in America Sophia had nowhere else to be. No matter how upset Maya was with her, there was no way she'd let her mom, especially when she was only getting older day by day, to be by herself. Maya wasn't that cruel.
Sighing, Maya took her mom's hand in hers, taking Sophia by surprise. "You don't have to move out." She said. "Yes, I'm upset with you, but we'll sort this out. You don't have to leave for that."
Maya had spent a lot of time thinking to herself as to why her mom had done what she had done. And as she had gone through each and every possibility, she realised from where Sophia was coming. Now that Maya herself would be a mother soon, she realised how protective she had started to feel for her unborn baby, and the baby wasn't even born yet. If Maya put herself in her mother's shoes maybe she would've also gone to any heights if that meant the safety of her baby, without caring about anything else.
What Sophia had done, it had been something any mother would've done, for the sake of their child's safety. Sophia had two choices to make for her daughter, a loving partner but dangerous life and other was a safe life but without that partner. Needless to say, Sophia had gone with the second one because she was a mother who only wanted her daughter, not to forget her only family that was left, to be safe and away from the dangerous world of mafia. Since Sophia had already lost her husband and other daughter because of the mafia, her decision had been the right thing at that time.
Maya realised that and with being pregnant, she could very well relate to her mother's situation.
Sophia could see the understanding look on her daughter's face. It was more like a soon to be mom who was looking at her than her daughter. Sophia couldn't help but to let out a sob as she realised how instead of holding any grudges against her, Maya understood her situation.
"I-I'm so sorry my dear....I'm so sorry." Sophia began to apologize as she started to slowly weep.
Maya gently pulled her mom in for a hug and let her weep on her shoulder while Sophia continued to apologize to Maya.
If Maya wanted she could've stayed upset with her mom, she could've even asked her to move out, but she did none. Because her being pregnant made her realise a few things. Out of which, one was how a mother could do anything if it came to the safety of her child. And Sophia had done exactly that. Yes, Maya had been upset but now she realised everything and decided to forgive her mom. Maybe if she wasn't pregnant she would've taken a lot of time, but as a soon to be mom, it helped her see things from a mother's perspective and it helped her realise her mom's situation.
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It was now Maya's 13th week into her pregnancy. In her last appointment, Maya had finally found out about her due date, which was around 6 months from now. Since currently it was December, her due date would be around the month of June, the next year.
Maya was both nervous and excited, with other different kinds of emotions, all at the same time. Also, she could now very well see the bump on her lower belly. The other day she had been taking a bath when her eyes had fallen over her naked body in the mirror of her bathroom, and there she could easily see that bulge protruding from her belly. Needless to say she had started crying and had almost put her mom into worry.
It had been a week of Massimo being here in California as well. Ever since that day in the parking lot of the hospital, Massimo had not let go off even a single chance of approaching Maya. He had even forced his way into Maya's appointment with her gynaecologist. No matter how much she had wanted him not to go with her, she had no other choice but to let him accompany her, because legally he was the father of the baby and had all the rights.
So, Maya unfortunately had to agree with him, but she had warned him not to do anything that would annoy her and just mind his own business. But obviously Massimo had to do exactly the opposite of that.
The entire time, right from the beginning Massimo had made sure to let everyone know that he was the father of the baby. Not even Maya's side eye and glares had stopped Massimo from touching and caressing her hand, her cheeks and even her belly.
At one point Maya had almost yelled at him but the look he had given her when the doctor had announced about the due date, Maya couldn't manage to let out a word as he gave her protruding belly a gentle caress and had smiled warmly at her. A smile that Maya had never seen him given to anyone before. Needless to say, that smile had shut her up.
Maya had clearly understood what Massimo had been trying to do. If things hadn't been so messed up between them, they probably would've looked like a normal couple. But unfortunately they had been not.
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"I think I should start doing some yoga now." Maya said to her co-nurse. "I mean I still have around 6 months, but if I start now then by that time I'll be more flexible."
Currently, Maya was doing her job which was treating her patients. Today her shift was in the OPD (Out patient department).
"Ya you should do that." Sam, her co-nurse replied. "I actually know someone who can assist you with that." She then added. "Let me know if you need any help."
"Sure thing! Thanks." Maya exclaimed.
At that time, someone entered the OPD, it was probably the next patient they needed to attend. As Maya looked up in their direction, her steps halted to see who it was. Ugh...
Maya didn't know how to react. She was on duty at the moment and unfortunately had to maintain the decorum. So, she put a blank look on her face and made her way forward, as if the patient sitting there wasn't the father of her baby.
Taking the patient's file in her hand, Maya stood by the doctor's side in order to write down the required information. Dr. Harris began to ask Massimo questions, ranging from his age to his reason of visit.
"No, I don't have any medical history doctor." He answered, his eyes unashamedly going back and forth on Maya.
"Nurse can you please get me the sphygmomanometer." Giving a slight nod with a yes, Maya got the machine used to check the blood pressure and passed it to the doctor.
"Hey." Sam whispered to Maya when she noticed that the doctor got busy in checking BP of this new patient, who had been staring at Maya ever since he had entered.
Maya looked up at Sam to see what she wanted to say. Sam gestured towards Massimo and asked, "Do you happen to know this fine piece of meat?"
Maya didn't feel weird on hearing Sam saying such a thing because she had known Sam for awhile now. Maya knew the girl had no filter, just like Bianca.
Given how obvious Massimo was making it by continuously looking at her, she wasn't surprised that Sam noticed him doing so.
"Uh-" Before Maya could come up with something, they both heard Dr. Harris saying this to Massimo. "Your blood pressure is slightly on the higher side."
"I'd recommend you not to stress too much." Dr. Harris then added. "Other than that your heartbeat is also a little too high."
"I won't say I didn't see that coming." Massimo commented. "After all I'm in the presence of the person responsible for that."
"Excuse me?" The doctor asked, obviously not getting what Massimo meant. But Maya very well understood what he meant.
Massimo chuckled. "Pardon me doctor. I was talking about my girlfriend." As he said that he smirked knowingly at Maya.
The doctor still looked confused, now looking in between Maya and Massimo. Sam must've connected the dots because she then smirked as well.
"Oh are you Maya's boyfriend?" Sam asked, her eyes sparkled with curiosity.
Dr. Harris now finally understanding, looked at Maya with a smile on his face. Being in his late 40s, he was the most sweetest doctor according to Maya. Unlike most of the other doctors in the hospital, Dr. Harris had an easy going personality, that automatically made him the most fun to work with.
"This man's your boyfriend?" Dr. Harris asked. "You stupid girl what are you doing standing here and not talking to him instead?" Another thing about Dr. Harris was that he was a sucker for romance and every thing that's lovey dovey.
Maya so wanted to deny that. She also wanted to swipe that stupid smirk off Massimo's face, that he was currently sending her way. But she knew if she said anything against him, he'd only make his mission to say even more stuff in front of everyone, and make a scene.
And so Maya only faked a smile at him. "Uh I'm sorry doc but can you please excuse me for a while?" She asked, looking at Dr. Harris who immediately shooed her away as if he didn't mind her at all.
Taking Massimo's hand in hers, Maya made her way outside taking Massimo with her. Ignoring everyone's stares especially her co-nurses, Maya reached outside a small room, and only when she was inside along with Massimo, did she let go of his hand.
"What are you doing here?" Was the first thing she asked.
"I missed you too mio amore." Maya only narrowed her eyes at him.
"Don't play with me now Massimo." She exclaimed. "I don't have time for this, I'm on duty."
"But I'm not playing, I'm saying the truth mio amore." Massimo replied. "I really missed you." This time Massimo had no smirk on his face, instead his expressions were all serious.
Sighing to herself, Maya folded her hands in front of her. "You can not just come here like this." She said. "I work here. I have a professional life here and I definitely don't want to become talk of the town here."
"Fine. I won't come here." Massimo replied. "But then how else would I get to see you?" He continued. "Since you don't want to see me and I can't come to your place, how am I supposed to see you then?"
"But you saw me a few days ago when we went to the gynaecologist." Maya pointed out. "And you can see me again when the next time I go for my appointment."
"You mean after two more weeks?" Massimo let out a humorless chuckle. "I want to see you everyday not once in a month mio amore." As he said that, Maya wondered why she was even entertaining him at all. Why was she even having this discussion with him at all?!
"Sounds like your problem." Maya exclaimed. "I don't care whether you get to see me once, twice or none at all." She continued. "I don't want you to disrupt my life by barging in like this, especially into my workplace."
Massimo knew Maya was still very upset with him. He could tell she was very adamant this time, but even he was adamant and would not give up, no matter how hard he had to try. He'd keep on trying, he'd not stop, not until Maya was finally back to him.
"Fine. I won't disturb you while you're working." He promised. "But I can't say the same about the rest of the time." Maya rolled her eyes at this because she had expected he'd say something like that.
All of a sudden, Massimo started to walk towards Maya, making her alert of the lessening gap in between them with each step he was taking. Since the room was a smaller one, Maya didn't have much space behind her and in just two steps she was touching the wall.
Massimo only stopped when he was right in front of Maya, the front of their shoes were touching against each other. To Maya, it felt like deja vu on being against the wall with him in front of her. She couldn't help her mind from wandering back to all those times when Massimo had captured her body in between him and the wall. And looking by the way he was pinning Maya with her dark piercing eyes, she knew he was thinking about the same.
The temperature inside the room had started to increase all of a sudden, while the distance between them was now decreasing as Massimo moved his body, not being able to help himself. He again stopped right when his chest was nearly brushing against hers. Both of them had their eyes on each other, none of them looking away. It was as if they both were under some form of a trance.
Maya wanted to blame her traitorous body and her pregnancy hormones again, for making her behave like a hoe in his presence. Just that look from him and his close proximity.....and her body would stop coordinating with her mind.
Why can't she control herself?!
"You've gotten so beautiful.....bellissima..." Massimo whispered, looking at her. "I can't get enough of you no matter how much I look at you mio amore."
His hand involuntary raised to tuck a loose strand of her hair behind her ear. He couldn't help but to touch her skin with the pad of his fingers while doing so. Maya's eyes fluttered as she felt him touching her. Her tongue involuntary moving out to wipe across her lips, which obviously didn't go unnoticed by Massimo. The small, innocent action causing immediate reaction in him, as he without any thought brought his hand forward and brushed her lips with his thumb.
On feeling the smoothness and the velvety texture of her lips against his thumb, Massimo only felt this sudden urge to then feel her lips against his. Being not able to do that for months only added more fuel to the fire, and Massimo found himself only seconds away from taking her right there and then.
Maya could see it in his eyes. She could tell he was only seconds away from losing control. And although Maya should've been relieved that Massimo wasn't jumping on her bones, but deep down she wanted him not to control himself. She wanted him to make a move. She knew she'd regret it later but she'd be lying if she said she wasn't craving for his touch.
And so taking herself and Massimo by surprise, Maya eliminated any gap that was there between them. Massimo although surprised, but he couldn't be more happier. As he looked at Maya, he could see the need in her eyes. It was obvious that she wanted him as much as he wanted her.
"Amore...." Massimo whispered, his voice thick with need. Maya closed her eyes as he brought his hands towards her and cupped her waist from both sides.
A small sigh escaped her mouth as Massimo started to gently move his hands upward. Not caring about the consequences, Maya brought her own hands and wrapped them around his shoulder. Her chest was now completely pressed against his, making her nipples hard as they grazed against him.
Massimo could also feel her now, especially her hard, pebbled nipples. Although their clothes were still separating the skin to skin contact, they both could already feel hot....and they didn't even do anything yet.
An involuntary moan escaped past Maya's lips when Massimo all of a sudden brought his face to the side of her neck and then sucked on her skin. On instinct her grip around him tightened, causing Massimo to this time bite down on her skin a little before sucking on the same spot.
"Massimo...." Maya let out his name, it sounded low, like a whisper, but full of need.
"Tell me what you want mio amore..." Massimo asked, as he continued placing wet kisses around her neck. His hands caressing her waist, all the way up to the underside of her bossom. Wherever he was touching her, his touch was leaving a hot path behind.
Another moan left her mouth as Massimo gently gripped her waist and then made her feel himself on her. His hardness was so evident that she could feel all of it against herself.
"You feel that?" Massimo asked, his voice going deep. "It's all because of you...."
Maya felt like it was a torture, being in his arms and him not doing anything other than teasing her. Even now when she was the one mad at him, he still had the upper hand. Not being able to take it anymore, Maya unwrapped her hands from around his shoulder.
Massimo brought his face back and looked at Maya to see what happened. But before he could do so, his lips got covered by her sweet, soft, luscious lips. For a second he was in a state of shock, but as soon as he recovered from that, he returned the kiss with same passion.
Placing his hands on either side of her face, Massimo pulled her lips between his before sucking on them and then swiping his tongue over her lips. Maya moaned in between the kiss as Massimo managed to get past her lips and explore her mouth with his tongue. Taking her tongue, he sucked on it before taking her bottom lip in his mouth and sucking on it hard.
It was like Massimo was taking life out of her from kissing, the kiss was that passionate. In a way he was taking life but for himself, because after not being able to kiss her he was almost dying.
Maya on the other hand, felt all hot over even more from his kiss. At the very back of her mind, she knew she'd regret it later, but right then she only wanted one thing and that was....him.
She came out of her thoughts when Massimo pulled away from the kiss. Before she could complain as to why he stopped kissing her, he all of a sudden went down on his knees in front of her. Maya felt her breath hitched when he looked up at her from that position. His hands resting against her outer thighs as he caressed them gently.
Massimo was now eye level to her lower belly, which was also where the baby bump was. Massimo couldn't help himself as he brought his hands there and then he oh so gently massaged her bump and then gave it a long lingering kiss.
"Hey kid, it's your dad." Massimo said as if he was speaking to a real kid in person.
Maya was still looking down at him. A smile came up on her lips on seeing Massimo interacting with their unborn baby like that for the first time.
"You don't know about the gender yet, do you?" Massimo then asked Maya, looking up at her.
"Uh no I don't." She replied.
He hummed at that. "Are you planning on finding it out?" He then asked.
"No, I'd rather find out on birth." Maya wanted to keep it a surprise even for herself. And also she didn't care about the gender, because she'd be happy either way.
All of a sudden a thought came to her mind. What if Massimo wanted to know about the gender of the baby prior? What if for him the gender of the baby mattered?
"Do you have any preferences?" Maya asked him, voicing her inner thoughts.
Massimo knew what she wanted to know. She was probably wondering if he had any particular preference, but in reality he did not.
And so he smiled up at her and said, "No. I don't." That relaxed Maya. "I only want the baby to be healthy. What its gender is, is something I could care less about."
It was as if they were in their own world, where everything was normal between them. But it was only for the time being, unfortunately a bang on the room's door where they were in, sounded, bringing them both, especially Maya out of whatever trance they were in. She immediately stepped away from Massimo, she realised what she had done. She had given in and had he not started to talk about the baby and had continued with that, they both would've ended up doing something Maya would've definitely regretted later.
"Hey, is someone in there?"
Clearing her throat, Maya started to make herself look back to normal. She made sure her clothes looked fine. By then Massimo had also stood up from the ground. Maya ignored looking down at his pants where she knew a bulge was still prominent.
She didn't dare to look up at him either, only looked around.
"I-I hope you remember what I told you." She began. "Don't disturb my working hours."
Without listening for his response, Maya went towards the door and opened it without wasting any time. She didn't even look up at the cleaner, nor did she look back at Massimo who was still standing there, half-aroused from what they had just done.
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A/N: Sorry guys the exams are still on and I'm just not getting any motivation to write more, but I still tried to give you guys an update. I hope you liked it.
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