Total pages in book: 119
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113056 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 565(@200wpm)___ 452(@250wpm)___ 377(@300wpm)
What I did know is that more than anything, I wanted to watch my wife’s belly grow. Dare wanted to put a dozen babies in his wife’s belly. They’d just gotten married, but he said she was off birth control and they wanted to get pregnant immediately.
But, we had a fucking war ahead of us. A war with more than one enemy. So, I’d have to play dirty. If I had to channel all the dirty, evil shit I’d been fighting to keep at bay, all that I’d inherited from my father in order to clean all this up? So be it.
If I had to hang onto the reins of the crime empire I’d inherited a bit longer so that I have the firepower and connections to see my way through this shit, I’d do it. I’d get as dirty as I had to. I’d get so dirty it’d make Pop smile and say, “That’s my boy.”
Dare and his new wife were going on their honeymoon, so I needed to focus as everything was on my shoulders for the moment. Their wedding had happened fast and I didn’t blame him. Mine happened pretty damn fast, too. When a Ferrano man wants a woman, evidently, he doesn’t pull any punches.
I carefully extracted myself from the bed without waking Tia. She was the only person I knew who could sleep sixteen hours and then go back to bed ten hours later. The pregnancy was making her want to do nothing but sleep. And she was horny as fuck. I was not complaining.
She didn’t look pregnant yet, except her tits looked bigger, fuller. A nice side effect. But she complained they hurt, so I kissed them better at every opportunity.
Her tits aside, nothing seemed different. But everything was different at the same time. I couldn’t wait to see what it would look like. I couldn’t wait to meet this piece of us, this piece of her and me and of what had started out as an unholy union because it came from a place of greed and vengeance. It was already something beautiful, because of all she gave me, and now it would be more. Much more.
I could not wait until she was huge, knowing I made her that way. The ultimate power; to change a woman’s life like that? Tie her to you forever. It made her yours in even more ways. Getting her pregnant? Changing her life so monumentally? It made me feel like a king.
Today wasn’t going to be a good day to be king. I had to fly out to Vegas to meet with Johnny Lewis and Ben Goldberg. The best I could hope for was that it’d be productive. All sorts of shit swirled around this Fete project and it was getting more and more unpleasant by the day.
When I got out of the shower, I heard my phone ringing from the nightstand. She was sleeping right through it despite the blaring noise right by her head.
I glanced at the screen. Zack Jacobs. The guy I trusted. Fuck that lying Fed rat motherfucker. I declined the call. I spotted the pup halfway under the blankets with Tia. His nose poked out of the covers.
“Dog!” I clipped. He was sniffing the air, nose protruding a little more from the blankets.
“Marley,” I growled.
The covers started moving as his tail thumped slowly. He knew he wasn’t allowed in the bed. Smart dog, too, because he also knew she’d let him away with it when I wasn’t there. She put a dog bed in the corner of the room and the little fucker jumped in bed with her as soon as I left it every day.
“Out,” I told him and he jumped down and slunk away, back to his own bed.
“Tia.” I leaned over and kissed her bare shoulder. She was sleeping in the buff.
“Mphf,” she grunted.
“Baby girl…”
Her beautiful jade eyes opened and she smiled at me.
“Morning,” she said. “Mm. Suit porn,” she added with a little stretch, her eyes doing a sweep of me.
I chuckled. “You finish packing for me? Suitcase is wide open. Anything else need to go in?”
“Nope, it’s ready. Zip ‘er up. You going? I’ll get up.”
“No, stay here; it’s early. I’ll call you when I land. Have fun doin’ your girls’ night.”
“Mkay.” She puckered her gorgeous full lips for a kiss.
“Be a good girl,” I told her and leaned over and touched my mouth to hers. I went to move away but she had my hair.
“You got ten minutes?” she asked, her voice husky.
“Five. If that,” I told her.
“Quickie? You can do a lot with five minutes.”
“Baby, I don’t think so. Gotta zip up that suitcase, grab a coffee, hit my office for shit I’ve gotta bring. Nino’s probably outside already.”
“Aww,” she pouted.
“Tia, I fucked you twice last night. You’re that hungry for my cock already?”