38. Zoo Day
“Gage!!” Hazel ran to the man and he instinctively scooped her up for a big hug. “I missed you! where have you been?!” her little hands wrapped around his neck and he smiled brightly at Bree.
“Hazel honey, why don’t you take a seat, Gage is going to join us at the zoo but he would like to talk to you first.” Bree ushered both of them to the living room then she followed Mrs. Mancini as she was headed out the door wanting to give the three of them privacy.
“oh-oh… was it because I asked you to be my daddy?”
Bree took a deep breath and backed away when tears were threatening to roll down her cheeks. “It’s okay Bree, believe in him, believe in yourself,” her neighbor put her hand on Bree’s shoulder, assuring her. “I’ll be next door if you need anything, okay?”
“Thank you.” She said putting a smile on her face and toughening herself up. Bree locked the front door after her neighbor, then join Hazel and Gage in the living room.
“Mommy! mommy! Gage was sick, didn’t remember us, me, that’s why he never came.” Hazel shouted from the living room, Gage got her sitting on his lap while he was showing her his scalp. “Oh, no… does it hurt?” He was putting her chubby hand on his skull. His hair was still short from the operation but the scar was not visible from afar.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.
“You should ask mommy to kiss it, she always kisses my wounds and it gets better!” she giggled when Gage playfully raised his eyebrow as if he didn’t believe her one bit.
“Kiss it, mommy! you love him, right? he will be better in no time!” the little girl had known about Bree’s love for Gage since their beach getaway and with her innocence, she had assumed all things were back to normal with Gage’s explanation.
It was Bree who blushed and Gage was pleasantly happy seeing their dynamics with her little toddler.
“I do love him, sunshine, but,” she looked at Gage but he just smiled as if telling her silently to do what Hazel told her to do and make the kid happy. He was surprised that Bree was not hiding her love for him from her baby girl. Knowing so, made him happy that she still loves him after all that he had put her through.
“Well, I guess he needs to get better, do you want to get better, Gage?” Bree asked, wording her question, sneakily asking his permission to kiss his scarred skull.
“I do,” his voice was deep and suddenly scratchy, he didn’t know why he was so nervous about letting Bree kiss his head. But hearing Hazel clapping her hands excitedly made his worry turn to dust and he gave Bree his playful smile and she pecked his head while resting her hand on his shoulder just to have something to hold on to. It has been too long and Bree’s hand lingers a couple of seconds longer after the kiss.
“Better?!” Hazel asked loudly breaking the trance between the once engaged couple.
“Better.” Gage cleared his throat feeling the brief familiar intimacy, and… also acknowledge that his dick was starting to harden between his legs.
“Can we go to the zoo now?” the little girl asked as if they hadn’t been parted at all.
“Of course, let me go to the restroom first,” he said to Hazel, then faced Bree waiting for her to show him the bathroom. Her face grew a shade darker when she saw that he was trying to hide his erection tenting in front of his pants.
“I’m sorry, this is the first time my little guy get excited after the accident.” He explained the moment they were in front of the bathroom and out of Hazel’s hearing distance.
“Mm… okay,” Bree couldn’t help herself to giggle.
“What?”
“Come on…” she teased. “your little guy is far from little, Gage. Just hurry up and rub one out before we leave.” She giggled one more time, couldn’t believe her bold words. She was smiling freely, the first she’d done it since the day Gage lost his memory.
The man had never gotten hard from listening to a woman’s laughter, well, maybe he had and just didn’t remember. Because hearing Bree’s laughter just made his dick seeking for attention. The man decided not to be a pervert by rubbing his hardening cock to climax while Hazel was anxiously waiting for her zoo time. Instead, Gage took deep breaths and controlled his needs, thinking boring accounting stuff until he was no longer hard.
It took them less than an hour to get to the city zoo, Gage hadn’t been there since his elementary years and he had to admit that the place was way better than he remembered. The enclosures were tidy and looked natural, the animals were amazing, some cute, others were big and far from cuddly, rather making him think of the great wild majestic animals.
After hours of walking from enclosure to enclosure, they had lunch in one of the jungle-themed restaurants and Gage was laughing with Bree as they both look at Hazel as she try to soak in the atmosphere and eat quickly telling her mom that she wanted to watch the dolphin show. Bree put several attempts to pay for the tickets, then their meals but Gage refused sternly telling her that it was his treat for Hazel.
“I haven’t been this happy in a while, Bree, let me pay, okay?”
“Thank you,” she finally said and bit her lip when Gage took her hand in his when Hazel break away from their hold, taking a few steps before them wanting to see the dolphins closer.
“Why don’t you find our seat? I’ll go get Hazel, the show is about to start.” Gage let her hand go, Bree felt the loss of his hold and tried not to be disappointed.
Bree looked at Hazel holding on to Gage while one of the female staff talked to them and then they both smiled at Hazel’s expression of seeing the dolphins swimming inside their tanks.
When the show ended Gage took Hazel backstage, “Come on Bree, we need to take pictures.” He said happily and scooped Hazel into his arms to get her away from the crowd that was ready to go backstage as well.
“Hello there beautiful girl, you can stand here with daddy, and smile for mommy.” The female staff dressed in her wetsuit said giving us her trained megawatt smile and ushered Hazel and Gage to the edge of the dolphin pool. Her straightforward words almost made Bree drop her phone when she was getting ready to take their pictures. But they didn’t have a chance to react when the female staff put her hand in the water, splashing and calling one of the dolphins to the edge of the pool.
Hazel shrieked excitedly when the dolphin suddenly appeared from under the water and its beak touched her chubby cheek. Bree snapped their pictures when Gage knelt and had his arm around her baby protectively. Bree was about to take another picture when a male staff offered to take it and urged Bree to be in the picture. “I’ll take it, you can pose with your husband and your adorable girl.” Bree blushed and was about to say no when Hazel call for her.
Gage did not correct the staff and Hazel was too busy swallowing the experience while Bree was letting herself go. The heart-warming experience ended when Bree decided that it was time to go home when she saw Hazel was getting tired, but not before having an early dinner at the jungle restaurant and stopping at the gift shop where she lets Gage buy Hazel the largest dolphin stuffed animals.
The little girl slept on her way back, Rockford pulled up at the apartment complex and helped them with their stuff meaning Hazel’s since Gage decided that he was buying the little girl more than one item from the zoo’s gift shop. Bree invited Rockford into her apartment but he said he was meeting a friend in her neighborhood and be back when Gage needed him to take him home.
Gage had the honor to tucked Hazel in after Bree cleaned her and changed her into her pink pajamas. He settled beside her and read her the new dolphin adventure book that the man bought earlier. It didn’t take long before her lashes touch her cheeks and Hazel was fast asleep.
“Thank you for today,” Bree said when he joined her in the kitchen as she was pouring coffee into two cups.
The zoo excursion was an eye-opening experience for Gage and he had been wanting to wrap her in his arms all day long. And coffee was the last thing on his mind when he put her cup down and put his hand on her waist and pressed his lips on hers.
After days and weeks and months of missing him, she finally gets to taste him again, her inside burst with happiness and she couldn’t hold her moan when his tongue danced with hers. “I miss you, so much.” She whimpered when his hands hold her small waist possessively.
“I like you, Bree, I like your little girl too,” he said when he broke their kiss. “Thank you for giving me the chance,” he looked into her eyes, his hand wrapped around her neck and his thumb caressing her swollen lips. “I’d like to take you to dinner tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Yeah, too soon?” Gage didn’t want to waste his time, if she was already engaged to him and she was still in love with him he realized that he could too. The way they easily spend time today was showing him that he could really see their future together.
“Tomorrow’s perfect.” She smiled and let him give her more toe-curling kisses before he went back home with Rockford.