Secrets Chapter 3

Brooke took another bite of her delicious pancakes. The expression of pure happiness showed upon her face. “ Sweetheart, you have outdone yourself.” Thorne had indeed outdid himself, banana pancakes, fluffy eggs, turkey sausage with freshly squeezed orange juice and hot coffee. Brooke sipped the hot coffee.
“Only one cup Brooke, too much caffeine isn’t good for the baby.” Thorne gave Brooke a warning look.
Brooke saluted Thorne. “Eye, eye Captain.” Brooke smiled. Thorne kissed her on top of her head.
“I gotta take care of you, I know how much you like freshly brewed coffee in the morning with vanilla hazelnut cream. Thorne put Tabasco sauce on his eggs and ate a forkful. “ You know Bridget, your mother likes to sneak coffee. You and I are going to have to monitor her.” Bridget took another bite of eggs.
“ Yeah, we will.” Thorne noticed that Bridget hadn’t eaten much breakfast and he knew that she loved pancakes. He reached over and patted her hand. “Are you alright, you haven’t eaten much.”
“Yeah.” Bridget looked down at her plate. “It’s good Thorne, I just think that I might have overdone it on the icecream last night.”
“ Honey, are you sure that is all it is?” Brooke gave her daughter a questioning look wondering if Bridget were thinking of Kyle.
“ God, you two. I’m fine.” Bridget laughed nervously. “ Just because you two are going to have a baby doesn’t mean you can start babying me okay?”
Brooke shrugged her shoulder and gave Thorne smile. She threw her hands up. “ Okay, okay. Maybe we are overdoing it but it’s in our nature to worry.” Thorne raised his eyebrow at Brooke. “Okay. It’s MY nature to worry. We just want to make sure that everything is all right. It’s the mom in me. Just wait until you are mother. You’ll worry.” Bridget’s stomach turned at the mention of her being a mother. She got nauseous all of a sudden. Bridget jumped up from the table and ran upstairs. Brooke got up. Thorne put a hand on Brooke’s shoulder.
“Honey, I’ll go and check on her. YOU finish you breakfast. Thorne started toward the stairs when Brooke reached for the coffee pot. He didn’t turn around. “ Don’t you dare touch that coffee pot.” Brooke groaned and put the coffee pot down. A few minutes and one pancake later Thorne came down the stair.
“ Too much icecream or some sort of bug. I’m going to give her your morning sickness stash.”
“My morning sickness stash? I haven’t had any morning sickness yet.”
“I know but I got things just in case. Crackers, pretzels, warm tea with NO caffeine, cola and ginger ale.” Brooke caressed her husband’s face. “ You thought of everything.”
“ It’s our first baby but I don’t want you to suffer. I’m going to be ready for anything. NOW, finish your breakfast, while I handled Bridget.”
“ Do you think that I should take off…”
“ No, Brooke, if it is a bug I don’t you catching it.”
“ Thorne you are taking this too far, the doctor said that I’m fine.”
“I know honey but I want make sure.”
“ Is this because of the last time that I was pregnant? It’s because I miscarried.” Brooke wore a worried expression on her face.
“No honey.” Thorne took Brooke hands and pulled her down toward the sofa. “ That miscarriage was not your fault. It just happened.”
“ I used to think that God punished me because I didn’t tell Ridge about Thomas.”
“No…baby.” Thorne caressed her hair. “ God wasn’t punishing you. It just happened. It wasn’t your fault and you weren’t to blame for what happened. Brooke maybe happened because you weren’t meant to be with Ridge. You were meant to be with me. Okay?”
Brooke nodded. “ Okay..” Tears threatened to spill from her eyes.
“We are going to have one healthy baby. He or she is going to come into this house full of love. Because he or she was make out of love.” Thorne pulled Brooke closer to him and claimed her soft lips. Brooke melted into the kiss. Soon the kiss became passionate and Thorne pulled away. “Sorry, I’ve got to take of Bridget. He went into the kitchen and came back with a plate of crackers cheese and a glass of cola. “Hold that thought.” Brooke smiled and patted her stomach as Thorne went to take care of Bridget.



Bridget made her way to her bed. God, this is what morning sickness was. She had thrown up until she couldn’t seem to throw up anymore. She used a hanky to wipe her mouth but the bitter taste of the bile was still there in her mouth. She heard the knock on her door. “Come In” Thorne made his way toward her. He handed her a cracker, she groaned when she looked at it.
“Come on. You’ve got to eat it, it will help you.” Bridget took the cracker and took a bite.
“Thanks” Thorne felt her head.
“ You don’t feel warm. Still you could have some sort of bug or too much icecream. I think that if you don’t have a class this morning that you lay here and get better. Do you want me to call Katie and have her take care of you?” Bridget wasn’t sure what she wanted. “ I would have your mother to stay but I don’t want her to take a risk of getting sick.” Bridget patted Thorne’s hand.
“You really want this baby don’t you?”
“More than anything. I never thought that I’d be a dad. When I was married to Macy, we tried and it didn’t work. Then the last time we were married, she wanted too….but I just wanted your mother.” Thorne grinned sadly. “ I am sorry that she never got to be a mother, but I just didn’t want a baby with her. But now, I am happily married to your mother and I can’t think of anything that I’d want more than a child of my own.” Thorne handed Bridget another cracker and nodded toward the cola. “ Not that I didn’t mind practicing on you a bit, but you are my kid sister and you aren’t really a kid anymore.”
“ I know Thorne. I want you to know that I am happy for you.” Bridget weakly sat up and kissed Thorne on the cheek. “ Now go on. I’ll stay here and get some rest. You don’t need to bother aunt Katie. I’ll be fine.”

Eric looked over the reports and the demographics from the latest fashion show. “It seems that Carlos’s designs were a big hit. And it was a good thing, we were really in a bind after Morgan left, since her line was such a hit.” Ridge looked at another set of reports.
“Brooke’s Bedroom did exceedingly well with the boutiques. In fact, they grossed more than the two years put together.” Brooke leaned back in her chair looking stunning in a sleeveless buradany wrap around dress, with a lowered V neckline that hinted at her bountiful bosom. On her neck she wore a gold chocker that matched her golden high-healed sandals. Her long hair flowed freely past her shoulders and she only wore a hint makeup.
“ I expected that, they were some beautiful designs.” She looked over at Thorne who had been studying another set of reports; he smiled once he felt his wife’s eyes on him. Thorne had helped her by giving her his own intense personal opinion about the line. Thorne grinned at his wife…he too remembered how much he had loved helping his wife.
“The line was a good one.” Thorne looked toward Ridge. “ Good job.” Ridge smiled.
“ Hey I do my best.”
Brooke leaned forward. “ Ridge when are you need to make sure that you have all mockups created for Celeste. She said that she wanted to make a few changes and we all have to agree on it.” Brooke shook her head. “ You are lucky. We get approached by Celeste Montgomery to create our own Forrester Boutiques in best spot of Monte Carlo and you and Taylor get a nice trip.” Brooke smiled at Ridge giving him a knowing look. “Just make sure that you do get some work done, we need that information to help use decide if we are going to go along with this idea.”
“I know what you mean Brooke. Anyone might get lost in the casinos and all the partying.” Kristen kidded. “ Brooke is right, I’ve been to the spots that Celeste owns and it is fabulous. Are you sure that you don’t need me to go? I think that Carlos would love a trip like that.”
“He would.” Stephanie said bitterly. She didn’t like the idea of her daughter seeing that man; he has worked for Sally and had been part of a plan to bring Forrester down until he fell in love with Kristen. Most likely he was in love with Kristen’s money and Forrester stock. Kristen ignored her mother, she was used to her treatment of Carlos. It amazed her that her mother could love someone like Amber but hate Carlos.
“ Hey.. I don’t do that much partying. Besides, I’m not going.”
“ What?” Stephanie and Eric were surprised Ridge announcement.
Thorne stood up. “ I think that I can clear things up.” He looked at Brooke who was speechless. “ Ridge isn’t going because Brooke and I are going.”
“What?” Brooke looked at Thorne.
“I wanted to tell you this morning but we got busy with Bridget and everything. I asked Ridge to step aside and I figured that we could go. Brooke, you know more about this deal than anyone. I’ve worked with you on it and I think that we both would do a fine job, besides it will give us a chance to check Monte Carlo out.”
“ But what about Rick and everything that he has been going through.”
Eric stepped in. “ Brooke, Rick will be fine. We will be there for him when he gets back.”
Thorne nodded. “ Dad’s right. Come on honey, we haven’t had a chance to have a vacation since our honeymoon. Monte Carlo would be great.” Brooke saw the excitement in her husband’s face.
“ You don’t have to twist my arm. I’d love to go to Monte Carlo with you.” Brooke kissed her husband. “ Oh god, I’ve got so much to do if we are leaving tomorrow.”
“ Don’t worry Brooke, I’ve cleared your schedule.” Kristen walked toward her sister-in-law. “ And I’ve done most of your shopping. Thorne wanted you have the best outfits and who better to fit you than Forrester. There are however a few items that you should pick out yourself.” Brooke instantly thought of a new naughty nightie in the Brooke’s Bedroom Line.
“ I think that you are right. Thanks Kristen.” Brooke looked at her watch; she still had quite a bit to do before she even dealt with this trip. “ Thorne, I’ve got to go and call Dr. Kelsey and cancel my appointment for Friday.”
“ Logan, you are going to the doctor, is everything alright?” Brooke and Thorne looked at each other, they read each other’s mind.
“ Should we tell them?”
“Tell us what?” Ridge asked.
Thorne put his arm around Brooke’s shoulders. “ Family, we were going to wait until Rick got back but since we might be gone when he does, we have some important information. Brooke and I are going to have a baby.” Kristen broke into a smile.
“ A baby. That is wonderful.” She hugged Thorne and then Brooke. Eric followed. Brooke looked at Stephanie who had been quiet during the announcement.
“Mother?” Thorne looked at his mother. “ Don’t you want to congratulate Brooke and I.” Stephanie had mixed feelings about the entire situation. Although she had managed to let go of most of her animonisity toward Brooke, and the two of them had gotten along much better since Morgan tried to kill her, she hadn’t expected this. Brooke would be the mother of HER grandchild. Now, she loved Rick and Bridget.. But now another child and one who would call her grandma. Stephanie saw the hope and excitement on her son’s face. Thorne was obviously happy. She stepped forward hesitantly. “Thorne…congratulations.” She hugged her son and then made her way over to Brooke. She wasn’t ready to hug her right now; she had conflicting feelings about this baby. Brooke didn’t pressure Stephanie. “ Congratulations Brooke.” Stephanie said.
“ Thank you Stephanie.” Brooke knew that this moment was hard on the older woman. Even though they hadn’t been biting each other’s heads off in the last year. Brooke knew that this was Stephanie’s wake up call. The wake up call that Thorne and Brooke were made of lasting stuff and that they going to stick it out together. Ridge stood back watching his mother and Brooke. Then he watched as Thorne talked to their father and Kristen, the whole time with his arm around Brooke’s small waist. Brooke took Thorne’s hand and placed it on the stomach as Brooke relayed to Eric and Kristen how she found out. He watched as Brooke face lit up with joy and she looked at Thorne with such love. A baby…they were going to have a baby. Ridge couldn’t believe it, he was actually jealous.
“ Ridge… don’t you have anything to say?” Thorne looked at his brother.
“Yeah… congratulations.” He looked at Brooke for a moment. “ You too Logan.” Brooke saw a strange look in Ridge’s eyes and wondered what it was all about.
Eric stepped in. “ I think that this calls for a toast. Champagne.”
“Not for Brooke.” Thorne looked pointingly at his wife. Brooke rolled her eyes. She turned to Kristen.
“ He is going to drive me crazy by the time this baby comes.”
“ He really wants this Brooke.”
“ He does, doesn’t he?”
“Yeah, I remember when he used to be married to Macy and it seemed like he couldn’t father a child. It hurt him. He didn’t like to talk about it but he really wanted children. To have them with you means a lot to him. I just know it.” Brooke looked surprised at Kristen. “ He loves you more than he loves anything. I saw how he was with Macy the first time that he married her and now I’ve seen him with you. He loves you so much more.” Brooke looked at her husband who was popping the bottle of champagne.
“I love him too. Much more than I ever expected to.”
Brooke felt a pair of eyes studying her; she turned to find Ridge looking at her intensely. When her eyes met his, he quickly looked away.

Brooke finished looking at the mock-ups for her meeting with Celeste. There was a great deal to do and a small about of time. “Do you think that you have a moment for me.” Brooke closed the file on her desk.
“For my husband… maybe.” Thorne gathered his wife in his arms. “ You little devil.”
“What?”
“Planning this trip to surprise me. You are right, I think that we need some time for a little work and a lot of play.” Brooke leaned her head back, which gave Thorne more access to her neck. “Mmmm” Thorne worked his way down her neck and nuzzled a sensitive spot on Brooke’s neck.
“You like that don’t you?” Brooke leaned back further against the desk.
“You know that I do.” Thorne starting to use his tongue to trace his way up the throat. His slips caught hers and kissed her passionately using his tongue. Brooke reclined against the desk. Thorne’s hand found the tie at the side of Brooke dress, he untied the bow and the dress fell open. He studied his wife who was extremely sexy in her gold-laced bra and panties. He traced the curve of her breast, which swelled about the bra. Brooke sighed as Thorne’s fingers caressed her nipples through the bra.
“ I see that they are more than ready for my attention. Her rubbed her right nipple slowly in a sensual manner. He leaned down and kissed the naked skin that rose above the bra. His tongue traced where the lace and the skin came together. Brooke’s breast started to swell. “ It amazes me, that one day our child will get nourishment from your breast.” Brooke started to breathe heavily; her husband’s mouth did amazing things. Brooke clutched Thorne’s head to her breast. Thorne unhooked the clasp of Brooke’s bra from the front and her breast spilled freely. Thorne’s fingers found her erect pink nipples, which he caressed. Thorne softly pulled and twisted her right nipple while he suckled her left nipple. His fingers traveled down her stomach and his mouth gently kissed down toward her stomach. “My baby is in there growing and thriving.” He looked up at his wife. “ Our beautiful baby.” Thorne smiled up at his wife. Thorne kissed her stomach and laid his head on her stomach for a moment. His lips began to travel back down her body toward her laced panties. He traced her mounds through her panties and then pulled then down. It took him a moment to remove her panties because she still wore her high-healed gold sandals. His hands moved down toward her love button, he began to rub her with his fingers. Brooke head moved back and she sighed. Thorne inhaled her soft sweet scent. He gently kissed her mound, Brooke shuttered as his hot breath caressed her soft flesh. Thorne rubbed her gently feeling her hot wetness. “ You are so hot…I want so much to have you.” He gently began to caress her love button with his tongue that stroked and played with her.
“Ooo, yes. Please…please. Lick me Thorne.” Brooke cried out in ecstasy. “God, it is sooo good.” Thorne suckled and licked at her love button feeling the creamy essence of her heat while Brooke spread her legs wider. Thorne moved so Brooke could wrap her legs around his shoulders. Ridge walked outside of Brooke office when he heard a small cry.
“Logan?” Ridge opened the door a bit and was surprised to see Brooke with her dress open, breast bare and nipples erect. Her eyes were closed with passion and Thorne’s head lay between legs servicing her. Rick stood for a moment shocked by what he was seeing. He gently closed the door behind him. But the image of Brooke filtered in his mind. Brooke and Thorne were so enthrawed in their passionate play that they didn’t notice Ridge’s entrance or his exist. Thorne continued his assault on his wife; she pulled him tighter against her when she suddenly erupted flooding her husband with her essence. Brooke weakly opened her eyes when Thorne caught her with a searing kiss in which she could taste herself on his lips. It was a bit erotic. Brooke breath was labored and she started to unbuckle Thorne’s pants when the buzzer sounded. Brooke ignored it and freed Thorne’s member, the hot hard shaft filled her hands. Thorne’s tongue filled her mouth and his hands gripped her bottom. The buzzer sound again.
Brooke groaned. She pulled her mouth away from Thorne. Brooke hit the buzzer.
“ Yes.” Megan voice filtered over the intercom.
“ Brooke your 4:00 meeting is here. Bernard is waiting in the conference room.
“Tell them, I’ll be there in a moment.” Brooke groaned. Thorne looked crest fallen.
“ Sorry honey.” Brooke leaned forward her head touched Thorne’s shoulder. Thorne put himself back in his pants while Brooke reclasped her bra. Thorne handed her panties and she closed her dress. “ I better go wash up and..” Brooke waved her panties. “ I have better get some other underwear. Just promise me that we will finish this tonight.”
“ I promise we will. Maybe I better go to my office or go home for a COLD shower.” Thorne kissed his wife and left.



“Logan” Ridge walked into Brooke’s office.
“Ridge, did you bring those sketches that I needed?” Ridge handed her the sketches and leaned over her shoulder. “These are the newest ones from the interior designer team.”
“Wow, they are something.” Brooke’s hand skimmed the pictures of the dressing rooms. “Boy, you can get lost in these. Lots of room for…” Brooke looked up and Ridge was studying her intensely.
“ Lots of room for what?”
“You know, a little Rand R”
“ R and R, is that what you and Thorne were doing earlier.” Confusion clouded Brooke’s face. Ridge shook his head. “ You should really learn to lock your office door, someone might walk in on you.” Comprehension showed on Brooke’s face.
“ You?”
“Yeah, I came to give you these and I got an interesting show.” Brooke’s face reddened a bit with embarrassment. “Sorry..”
“It’s alright…I mean you two ARE married. It’s just…” Ridge backed away. “ Never mind.”
“No, what were you going to say?”
“Nothing…”
“ You were shocked weren’t you? You didn’t think that Thorne and I make love. Ridge, I’m pregnant, how did you think that happened?”
“ Logan… of course you do, I just didn’t expect …well.” Brooke shook her head and laughed lightly. “ You thought that Thorne and I didn’t get into the heavy stuff like you and I did. Well, I have news for you. Your LITTLE BROTHER is a very sensual man.” Brooke had a far away look on her face and she played with a strand of her hair. “ He is totally amazing.” Brooke looked pointy at Ridge. “ He makes me very happy.”
“ That’s enough Logan. I don’t want know about you and my brother or even think about you..”
“ Enjoying making love to my husband in many ways.” Ridge looked away. Brooke stopped teasing him. “My god, you really are upset by that? Ridge…it doesn’t make sense.”
“Logan, I’m not upset..It’s just. I thought that what we had was special.”
“What we had was special. But Ridge, that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy being with my husband or make what I have with him any less special. He makes me happy and I’m a woman who is comfortable to my sexuality and sex. Thorne feels that same way. Ridge, it doesn’t mean that what we had together was an exclusive thing and that I’d never feel that type of pleasure again. I mean, that would be saying that sex stopped being intense and exciting once you married Taylor. I’m sure that she pleasures you just as much as I did when we were married.” Brooke stopped when she noticed the look on Ridge’s face. “Doesn’t she Ridge? Never mind. Forget that I asked you that. It isn’t any of my business.” Ridge was caught off guard by Brooke’s question. The truth of the matter was that sex with Taylor was wonderful but his mind kept replaying the look of rapture on Brooke’s face when Thorne had been pleasing her. When was the last time that Taylor had looked that way or he had even felt that way? Brooke moved toward her file cabinet to get another file and to put some distance between she and Ridge, at that moment she felt uncomfortable because although Ridge hadn’t answered the question, she knew the truth. Sexually, he and Taylor weren’t on the level that he and she had been when they were married.
“I think that it’s time that we got back to work.” Brooke looked at Ridge.

Brooke finished reading the report and took notes on what Ridge told her about the conference that he had with the interior designers. “ I really like what they did with the showroom, the pink hues flow beautifully. Ridge hardly heard what Brooke was saying, she had crossed her legs and the dress had fallen and he couldn’t help to notice her legs. From the tips of her burgundy painted toes to her tanned thigh. In a flash, he saw her she was laying against the desk with her dress opened with her naked breast showing, her head thrown back and her cries of passion filtered through the air. Instead of Thorne’s head between Brooke’s legs giving her pleasure he saw his head. Ridge was shocked, where in the hell had that thought come from? He was suddenly uncomfortable. He was happily married as so was Brooke. The telephone rang. Brooke picked the phone up.
“ Brooke Forrester.”
“Mom” Relief swept Brooke’s face.
“ Rick.. Thank god. Where are you?”
“ I’m back home.”
“Thank god. I’m coming over to see you. Okay?” Rick rubbed his eyes. He poured himself another drink.
“Mom.. I’m not sure…”
“I’m coming over honey.” Brooke hung up the phone.
“ Rick?”
“Yes, thank god he is home. He sounds horrible though. This thing with Amber is really tearing him apart. God, I can’t believe that little tramp did this to my son. When I get my hands on her, I’m going to make her pay.”
“Brooke, I know that you were upset but you know that getting upset isn’t going to help the situation.
“ I hope you remember this conversation when Phoebe and Steffy start dating. Look, I hate to cut this short but do you think that you could come over later to my house tonight to finish? I really want to talk to Rick. You don’t mind do you?”
“No.”
“ Thanks Ridge.” Brooke picked up her purse and headed out the door. She was going to see her son and hopefully by the time they got through with their conversation he’d want to start divorce proceedings against Amber. Ridge watched her leave and realized that he was lusting after Brooke. God help him.

Taylor finished writing her notes when her eyes started to blur. She tried to get up for some water but her office started to spin. She sat back down holding her head.
“Dr. Forrester your 6:00 appointment is here.” Stacy, Taylor assistant came into the office. She noticed that Taylor was holding her head. “ Another one of those headaches. Do you want me to cancel your appointment?”
“No Stacey, but if you don’t mind. Could you call Dr. Reins and make an appointment for me. ASAP.”
“Sure. Stacey gave Taylor some aspirins and water although she knew that it wouldn’t make much of a difference. Taylor needed to see a doctor soon, the headaches were becoming frequent.

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