Total pages in book: 125
Estimated words: 115272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 115272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 576(@200wpm)___ 461(@250wpm)___ 384(@300wpm)
I just want to go home and hug my husband, but first, I need to pick up my daughters in London. It was Gianna who’d come up with the excuse of a shopping trip to get the others from learning what we were really up to. Though I’m a bit surprised that Draco agreed without argument, I’m glad that things went off as well as they did.
To make the whole thing seem legit, the girls were indeed dropped off in London to do some shopping so there would be no questions when we returned. Of course, I plan on telling him the truth as soon as possible and hope that he’d understand. I did this for me, for my son, and for the new daughter, we’d accepted into our family.
DRACO
“Are they in the air yet?”
“Just took off; it’s time we head out. They have an overnight in London; then they’d be heading home in the morning.”
“You still not gonna tell their men yet?”
“Dafuq, would I wanna do that?”
I can’t get a bead on this Lyon guy. For one, he must be the only man I know besides my brother, father, and son, whoever got me to just follow his lead without question. When my wife and daughters cornered me at the breakfast table a few days ago and told me about their impromptu shopping trip, I didn’t think there was anything amiss.
I mean, they said it would be good for Natalia, and since I know fuck all about the teenage female psyche, who was I to argue? The poor kid has had a time of it here lately, and if my wife and daughters were now willing to treat the poor girl like more than public enemy number one, I figured this was a good thing.
I knew it was important to Gabe that his brother and sister were treated fairly and if, as my daughters said, this was a good way for them to bond, I was all for it. There was no longer a reason to keep my family out of Europe, and since I’m not in the habit of denying them anything, why would I start now?
So, imagine my surprise when Lyon called and told me what was really going on. To say I lost my shit is an understatement. Then Gabe walked in in the middle of that call, and the circus began. I fought against it, of course, but they both somehow convinced me that she needed this, that it was important to her healing, and finally putting it behind her.
LYON
I stood over the bed, looking down at my little PITA. Twenty damn years and she’s still up to her shit. Katarina Lyon, I’m so proud of her. It’s not the first time she and her posse had stuck their noses in, but it was the first time they’d pulled off something this big. I held up my hand when I sensed my sons behind me in her hotel room to let them know it was me.
“Dad? What’re you doing here? When did you get in?” Aiden whispered in the dark. I ushered them out of the room and followed them to theirs through the connecting door. “How’d it go?”
“Oh, if you hadn’t warned us, we wouldn’t have suspected a thing. At least they did go to the dress shop.”
“Fine, I’ll see you two in the AM. Get some sleep.” I went back to my wife, who was sleeping like she had no worries, that soft little ladylike breathing thing she does, the only sound in the room. I pulled the Henley off over my head and toed off one boot before dragging off the other one by hand and losing my jeans, then crawled into bed behind her.
She startled awake at first, but by now, she knows my scent, knows the weight of my arm around her middle. “Colt? What’re you doing here?” She turned in my arms, all soft and warm from sleep, and I covered her lips with mine while spreading her thighs with my knee and slipping into her. “What do you think I’m doing here?”
“Umm, you missed me?”
I grinned against her lips and took it deeper. I give up; I’m just fucking done. Eleven kids and her ass can still find time and ways to best me. “Kat, how are you still so fucking tight?” She grinned and did that Kegel shit with her snatch. Yeah, that’s how she gets over.
GABRIEL
“Don’t move!” Her cute giggle and the way she scrunched up her shoulders to protect her neck from my teeth made me grow harder inside her. I nibbled her ear until she sighed and exposed her neck, which is what I was really after. I licked the spot I’d mauled the night before as I rocked into her sweet heat from behind.