Music Notes (Heartbeat #3) by Renee Lee Fisher

no idea that she would ever be at one of our shows. I felt like I was playing this entire show to her at a private performance. I didn’t miss a beat. A few times when I caught those beautiful eyes locked on mine I saw her smile slightly, and she looked so nervous. She kept checking behind her to see if I was really looking at her. I hoped she felt me, hoped she felt the music, and this crazy connection that I was feeling for the first time. My heart was racing, and not because of the show. When the show came to an end, I hung back on the stage. I never do. I usually want to get through the meet and greet line signing CDs and then out to party. I hung back and pretended to play with something on the stage area. I watched as she stood at the end of the show with the crowd and was cheering with them for our performance. I wanted to send her a wink or blow her a kiss, I felt compelled to. But then she turned to grab her jacket and that moment passed.
    She stood there though, long after all the fans started to leave. Madison stood there looking at the stage. I fumbled with a few things, some stupid electrical cords or such, not even knowing why I was waiting. Maybe I was willing her to approach me. I pretended I didn’t see her there. Then I heard it, this shy voice call out, “Max, Max Rand.” Madison had reached out to me. I raised my head and put my sweaty palms on my jeans and looked into her beautiful eyes. I wasn’t sure what she wanted to talk to me about, but I just cared that she was talking to me. It was a dream of mine that came true.
    I’m lying in bed coming out of that awesome dream. I remember that moment like it was yesterday, I reach out for her now and I see that she is already out of the bed and seated in the chair next to me with a white box. It looked like a pastry box of some sort.
    “Hey Love, sorry I dozed off with you. Come here, let me feel those lips I have missed for so long.”
    “Rand, I have missed you more than I thought a heart could, but first things first. I have a present for you.”
    “Love, you’re all I ever need.”
    “Well, I think you will like this present.”
    “Okay I give. You brought me a cinnamon bun all the way from Philly with real cream cheese on it?”
    “No something far better—cupcakes,” and she licked her lips and made them glisten.
    “Okay, let me at them.” I sat up and opened the box of goodies and watched her eyes, not even blinking. In the box were two cupcakes, one blue and one pink iced.
    “Are you kidding me?” I shouted with happiness and pulled her in dropping the delightful cupcakes to the floor but taking in all the sweetness this woman could give to me. We were having a boy and a girl. It had slipped my mind that she was getting the ultrasound and finding out. I hadn’t asked because I didn’t know if they had told her or if she decided to wait. She feathered her lips slowly across mine, savoring this moment, but I couldn’t wait. I crushed mine into her and also began to rip her clothing off. I looked at her chest. That too had grown more than I ever thought it could. I gave each nipple some long overdue attention. I wasn’t going to last, and had no patience for long foreplay. “Love, I need to be in you now. I can’t wait one more second.” There was a part of me that wanted to be gentle, but I drove in full throttle. Thankfully, she was so wet that I slid right on in. I groaned out loud and shouted, “Oh Hell Yeah!”
    I was moving so quickly inside her until Madison said, “Oh, Rand, it hurts…” I immediately stopped the motion within her and then I heard her continue, “It hurts so good. Please don’t stop.” I didn’t have to hear her ask a second time, I was back to moving inside her so deeply and taking my wife all the way to bliss right along with me.
    I took my wife a few more times before we both were more than exhausted and definitely in need of food. Madison was surprising me by how she ate room service early and