Total pages in book: 174
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 172061 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 860(@200wpm)___ 688(@250wpm)___ 574(@300wpm)
“And you didn’t see anything?” Theo pressed.
I ground my molars. “Nothing. Spent most of the night replaying footage and searching for something out of the ordinary, but I didn’t see anything.”
Didn’t mention the fact that the other part of it had been spent devouring Daisy.
Touching her.
Her touching me.
Taking her in a way that I had no right to.
Had almost crumbled and went back into my room so I could have her in every way I needed.
Didn’t know how the fuck I gathered the willpower to stop myself, but somehow, I managed to keep my ass in my chair so I could surveil the property the way I was supposed to do.
My only purpose guarding Daisy and those kids.
Not dipping my dick into the sweetest pussy I’d ever tasted.
“Could it have been an animal or something?” Kane suggested.
I huffed in discomfort. “I suppose it could have been anything. But I got that sense that somethin’ wasn’t right.”
River angled closer. “And all of us know never to ignore that intuition.”
I gave a tight nod. We’d all been through the most brutal shit. Had faced the wicked just as sure as we’d become the wicked ourselves.
Had been in so many situations where evil reigned that we could now scent it.
Feel it crawling over our flesh and winding into our bloodstreams.
A little cry suddenly erupted from the portable crib set up on the far-right side of the room.
Otto went from burly, raging beast to fucking heart eyes and smitten in a beat. “Sounds like Little Luna needs her daddy.”
The brute went stalking that way, and he dipped down and swooped his baby girl up. “There’s Daddy’s Little Luna. Did you have a good nap? Yes, you did, didn’t you?”
He held her up under the arms as he cooed at her, her tiny body curling into the sweetest ball as she made a bunch of adorable noises.
Addy, Eva, and Maci were all on their feet, running that way.
“My baby cousin Luna is awake! Oh my gosh, she is the cutest. I wanna hug her, Uncle Otto!” Maci crossed her arms over her chest and squeezed herself, swaying from side to side, while Addy and Eva basically tried to climb him to get to the baby.
“You need someone to feed her, and I’ve got you covered,” Addy told him. “I’m a really good babysitter, and I help my mom all the time, so I really know what I’m doing.”
“I wanna baby.” Eva grinned and beamed and tipped her precious face up to get a look.
Otto chuckled, just as enamored with the baby as the girls.
Luna had a thick head of black hair that stuck up all around her porcelain face. The baby so fuckin’ cute it was difficult looking at her.
“We’ll definitely let you all spend some time with her as soon as her momma gets her fed. But I’m thinking my little one is probably just as hungry for her mom as I always am.”
Otto tacked a slew of innuendo into it as he sent Raven a salacious look from across the room. Luckily the little girls were too young to pick up on it.
Raven and Otto were mad about each other, and Raven still fucking swooned every time he looked at her. Though right then, it was tender. All that love they held for their little girl pouring out between them.
It was that terrifying kind of love that would ruin you if you lost it.
But I guess it was the exact same expression every one of my brothers constantly wore when it came to their women. When it came to their kids. Their hearts and souls wrapped up in them, all while they continued to try to devote their lives to the purpose we found.
It was reckless.
So fucking reckless, trying to merge two worlds the way they did.
I could never understand how they gave in. The way they took on these families.
Didn’t they know what happened when you invited this kind of lawlessness into your life then turned around and tried to wrap it in some sort of normalcy?
People hunting us. Threats around every corner. Every second of our lives peril.
And then they wanted to sit down at the family dinner table at night.
It didn’t equate.
“Give me that baby.” Raven’s voice was wispy, adoration scored on her face as she took her daughter from Otto’s arms.
Love pulsed through the air.
Not just between the two of them.
But through every person in the room.
River gazing over at his baby sister and brother-in-law. The rest of my crew pausing to appreciate the moment, the girls in the kitchen with these awed smiles before their attention inevitably slanted to their children.
That same love profound.
Daisy looked at her kids, and a gush of it flooded free. A crash into the room before it was crashing into me.
She lifted her eyes to meet mine.