Fight for You: A Second Chance Romance (A Warrior for Her Book 1)

by Ayden K. Morgen

  "Cade," she moans and wiggles on the door, her eyes going dark with desire.

  "Later," I promise, straightening her panties. "We gotta go or we'll be late."

  Octavio Hernandez's girl is graduating from college. Yeah, we're cool now. We worked together to save his girl right after January was released from the hospital and the charges against me were dropped. I never blamed him for doing his job in the first place. He's a pretty good dude. January and his girl are tight now.

  January narrows her eyes at me and then huffs, exactly like her son does. "Fine," she grumbles, pouting. "But I want two orgasms when we get home."

  "I'll give you three orgasms and let you suck me off," I say, sliding her down my body until her feet are on the floor. I keep an arm around her waist until I know she's steady and then I flatten my hand across her belly. "How's my little boy doing in there today?"

  "You mean your daughter, and she's doing fine," January says, her tone prim.

  "Told you a thousand times, baby girl. You aren't having a girl. She'll look too much like you and I already got enough problems." It's still too early to find out what we're having this time, but part of me hopes it is a little girl who looks like her mama. The other part is fucking terrified to have a girl who takes after January. Watching her grow up was hard enough…and she had me, Titan, and an entire gang to keep anyone from getting their hands on her. If we have a girl, TJ is going to have to start a gang of his own to keep her safe.

  "Whatever," January says with a little laugh, not buying my bullshit. "You know you want a little girl to dote on."

  "Maybe I can just get her around-the-clock security," I mumble, kissing my girl and then pulling open the door to the nursery. "Then TJ won't have to start a gang of his own and I can actually sleep at night. We still have my trust fund. We can afford to hire people. I bet Naz could give me some names."

  His personal security team is comprised of former Israeli Special Forces.

  "Don't you dare," January says as we walk toward the living room. "We aren't hiring security."

  TJ's sitting in the floor, banging together two blocks while Kinley and Luke watch him from the couch. Luke has his arm around his girl, cuddling her close to his big body.

  "Luke, tell January we need to hire bodyguards," I demand, knowing he'll have my back. He's a guy.

  "Bodyguards for what?" Kinley asks with a little laugh.

  "Because God hates me, so we're probably having a girl," I say, huffing because that should be obvious by now. "We need to surround her with big guys with guns so no boys fuck with her."

  "Puck!" TJ happily agrees.

  "TJ, man! Stop snitching," I say, throwing my hands up in the air.

  Luke throws his head back and laughs loudly.

  Kinley just blinks wide eyes at me and then grins. "So you want to protect your daughter from guys by hiring guys?" she asks, that grin widening.

  "Dammit," I curse, shoving my hair back from my forehead. I didn't think of it that way.

  "'Ammit," TJ whispers, which makes Luke laugh again.

  January smacks me in the chest. "Stop cursing in front of the baby," she growls at me, stomping her little foot. "That's the fourth time today he's repeated what you said!"

  "Baby girl, it's not my fault you're talking about having girls and shi-stuff. You can't expect me to be rational when you walk around looking like a goddess." I wave my hand in her general direction. "If you give me girls, they're going to look like you. You're too goddamn beautiful. TJ and I are going to need backup."

  Luke narrows his eyes on Kinley when she giggles. "Why the fuck didn't I think about that?" he mutters, glaring at the little brunette like it's her fault she's hot and he's going to need security too.

  "You're both ridiculous," January says, burying her face in my chest before she starts laughing loudly.

  Luke growls at Kinley, who pats him on the cheek and then laughs too.

  "Security," I mouth to him. "Big guns."

  He nods his head in agreement, which makes me feel better. At least someone besides me knows what's up, because January and Kinley have clearly lost their minds if they think boys won't be beating down the doors to get at their daughters. They will be. I damn sure didn't wait until January was grown to claim her. As soon as she turned those bright emerald eyes up at me, I was hers.

  No way am I letting a motherfucker like me near our daughter.

  "We could still have a boy," January says softly, tipping her head back to peek up at me.

  "Please, God, do me a solid and give me another boy," I pray, clasping my hands together and tilting my face up toward the ceiling. "I'll never use your name in vain again if you come through with this shit."

  "Shit!" TJ yells.

  January turns that glare on me and Luke roars with laughter.

  I groan and hang my head, knowing damn well I'm probably going to end up with a little girl.

  "Fuck, baby girl," I growl, holding January's hair in my fist and watching as my dick disappears over and over in her mouth. The sight is hot as hell. Her eyes are wide and dilated, her cheeks flushed. Her free hand is hard at work between her legs. Even though I've already given her two orgasms, she's greedy for another. "Swear to God, you're too good at this."

  She flicks her tongue over the head of my cock before plunging down, making my balls draw up tight. I release her hair and grab her around the waist, gently tossing her on the bed.

  "On your hands and knees," I order, stepping up to the edge of the bed with my cock in my hand. I squeeze the head, trying to relieve a little of the pressure and keep myself from coming.

  January scurries to obey, which only makes me harder. Seeing her with that luscious ass in the air and her little slit peeking out from between her thighs is almost enough to have me shooting off all over her. But I'm not coming until I'm inside her.

  "Cade!" she shouts, throwing her head back when I line myself up with her tight pussy and slam home in one deep thrust. Her hair flies back, falling in waves down her back. It's so damn long. I love it.

  Wrapping my hands in it, I tilt her head back even farther and take her mouth in a deep kiss.

  She whines and rocks back and forth, impatient.

  "You gotta be quiet," I remind her before I bite her lip. "If you wake TJ up, I can't make you come again."

  If she wakes the baby up, he'll be a little ball of energy. He crashed hard on the way home from Faith's graduation party. I guess running around with Stella and Andrés wore him out for once. I don't know where he gets the energy from, but he is always on the move. If his eyes are open, he's running around like a tiny crazy person. He's lucky he's so cute, because I love getting inside his mama. He does not make that shit easy.

  January bites her lip, trying to hold back another loud moan when I ease out and then thrust back inside her. I run my hands all over her body, squeezing her ass cheeks and then spreading them apart so I can watch my dick disappear inside her, only to reappear covered in her sticky juices when I slide back out.

  "Cade, please," she begs, her voice soft. She arches her back, lifting her ass higher as her hands fist in the sheets.

  "You want more?" I ask her.

  She nods.

  "Fuck. I can't ever tell you no." I grip her hips tightly and pound into her, fucking her so hard the bed rattles beneath her. My balls draw up even tighter and I know I'm not going to last long. With her, I never do. No matter how many times I get inside her, it's always like the first time all over again. "You gotta come for me, sweetheart. Having my dick in your mouth while you played with yourself got me too worked up."

  She gasps and rocks back onto me, clawing at the sheets.

  I slide one hand around her hip and then press my thumb to her clit. As soon as I touch her, a moan breaks from her lips and she clamps down on me. She drops forward on the bed, burying her face in a pillow as her orgasm blasts through her, making her scream.

  I pound into her hard and fast. Within seconds, I'm following her ov
er the edge, roaring her name. I come hard, spilling into her until I'm gasping for breath.

  "Fuck," I pant, slumped halfway on top of her. My eyes dart to the baby monitor on the nightstand, but TJ doesn't make a sound. Thank God. I groan and roll to the side so I don't crush January or the baby.

  Once I'm on the bed beside her, I pull her into my arms, laying her on top of me. She snuggles up on my chest, her legs spread around mine and her cheek pressed over my heart.

  I run my hands through her hair, just enjoying the moment as we both come back down.

  "I've been thinking," I say a few minutes later.

  "Hmm?"

  "We still haven't touched my trust fund."

  "I know," she whispers, sounding sleepy and content.

  "Maybe it's time we find a way to put it to use."

  She lifts her head up and cracks her eyes open to look at me. "What do you mean?" she asks softly, pushing my hair away from my forehead.

  "I mean we're never going to use the money," I murmur, rubbing my thumb along her bottom lip. As far as I'm concerned, we don't need the money. I make enough to provide for my family and keep us comfortable. The trust fund has just been sitting there all these years, collecting interest. "Maybe we should set aside a portion of it and start an after school program in the neighborhood, offer mentoring and scholarships or something to kids who want to go into law enforcement."

  She watches me intently for a minute and then smiles. "We can do whatever you want to do, Cade."

  "I talked to Roman and Luke about it. They'd be down to mentor kids. We could probably convince some of the other guys to help out too…give these kids something to do other than get involved with all this gang bullshit."

  "Who would run it?"

  "I'm sure we could find someone qualified. Or I could do it."

  "What about your job?" she asks, her brows furrowing.

  I shrug my shoulder. "I'll still work with the Gang Unit. It'll just be a little less often."

  "You want to quit?"

  "I've been thinking about it," I admit, still tracing my thumb along her bottom lip. It's so damn soft. My job is important to me, but my family is more important. "I hate worrying that someone I pissed off might come after you and TJ and the baby."

  I've seen it happen far too often. Most people don't mess with my family because they know I will fuck their worlds up…but Kaleo came after January before she killed him. Other gangs have targeted my friends and their families. I worry history might repeat itself. January, TJ, and the baby are the most important things in the world to me. I don't want to risk their safety. I do as much as humanly possible to protect them, but we live in a bad neighborhood with new gangs popping up all the time. It worries me.

  "Do you want to quit?" she asks.

  I huff out a reluctant breath and then shake my head. "This city needs motherfuckers like me, baby girl."

  She eyes me for a moment and then sits up, straddling my hips. "If you seriously want to do this, I'm in," she says, making me smile. "But I think we need to compromise."

  "On what?" I ask.

  "On you quitting."

  "I want you guys safe more than I want my job, sweetheart."

  "What if we move somewhere safer?"

  My eyebrows shoot upward, shock running through me. I've wanted to move her somewhere safer pretty much since I got back to Los Angeles, but she was never ready. And I get it. This house is the only piece of Titan and her mom that she has left. I'd never ask her to give that up, even if getting her into a better neighborhood would make me happy as hell.

  "I love this neighborhood," she whispers as if reading my mind. "I grew up here. I fell in love with you here. It's such a huge part of my life, but I don't want TJ and the baby going through the same things me, you, and Titan went through. You've worked so hard to clean up this neighborhood and make it safer since I killed Kaleo, but you can't take down every gang that pops up. I don't want TJ and our daughter to grow up thinking that hearing gunshots at all hours of the night is normal. I don't want someone targeting TJ like Kaleo targeted you and Titan."

  "You're serious."

  It's not a question but she nods anyway. "I'm ready to move," she whispers. "And I know that, regardless of where we live, Titan and my mom will always be with us. We won't be leaving them behind if we leave here."

  "We will never leave them behind," I promise her. "They're part of us. That won't ever change."

  "I know that. I think I've always known that, but I just wasn't ready before, you know?"

  "I get that, baby girl. If you seriously want to move, we'll start looking. But if you aren't ready, you just say the word and we'll stay here. Regardless of where we live, I will keep TJ and the baby safe, I promise you that."

  "I know," she says and gives me a bright smile.

  The trust in her eyes takes my breath away. Fuck, I'll never get used to the fact that she loves me and trusts me to protect her and our family. Her unwavering faith in me makes me feel like a goddamn king.

  "But I think your job is important, and it's important that you keep doing it. You've saved so many people, Cade." She smiles like she's proud of me. "I don't want you to give that up because you think you have to do it. If you want to start a program for kids, I can run it."

  "What about your job?"

  "My job was never about the teaching, necessarily. It was about the kids. All I ever wanted to do was work with kids. I can still do that by helping run this after school program you want to start," she says, tracing her finger over one of the tattoos on my chest.

  Not long after I was cleared of the murders, I told her what each and every one of them meant to me. They're all memories of her that I had inked into my skin so I would never forget how much she loved me and how it killed me to know I failed her. Aquarius—her zodiac sign—is an air element. She was always my air, the thing that kept me breathing.

  For a long damn time, looking in the mirror hurt like hell because she wasn't with me. Now those tattoos are a reminder of what I stand to lose if I fuck up again. They motivate me to make it home to my girl and to give her the life she deserves. Titan told me to treat her like a princess or I'd answer to him. She's not a princess though. She's a queen. She's my queen. And I will never again do anything to risk losing her.

  "You'd seriously give up teaching?" I ask.

  "To make a difference for kids who need it most?" she says and then nods immediately. "By the time they make it to you, most of them are already in too deep to walk away. You save people from them when no one was able to save them. I'd like to be the one who tries to save them before they get that far."

  I'm not sure how I feel about her working with kids headed down a dark path…but that's not my decision to make. If this is something she wants to do and I have the means to give it to her, I think I have to do it. She deserves a chance to show herself what she's made of. This will give her that. Besides which, if anyone can keep these kids from joining up and tripping down the path guys like Kaleo set before them, January can.

  She's the reason I never walked that path. If she could keep my ass in line, I know she can make a difference for some of these other kids too. I have no doubts at all about that. I'll just have to make sure we have on-site security to watch out for her when I can't be there to do it myself.

  "Let's do it," I agree, leaning up to kiss her.

  She wraps her arms around my neck and slides her fingers through the hair at the nape of my neck, pulling me closer. "Yeah?" she breathes against my lips.

  "Yeah." I kiss her slow and sweet. At least it starts out that way, but then it turns hot and heavy. By the time I manage to tear my mouth away from hers, she's bouncing on my cock and crying out my name again. What? She's hot and she's naked. It's not my fault my dick knows where his home is when it's right in front of him.

  I spent ten years in hell without January. If she wants to ride me into heaven at every available opportunity, I'm certainly not going to stop her. I may do some
dumb shit, but I'm not a complete idiot. Give me a little credit here.

  Once I make her come again, she passes out, a sated smile on her lips. I lay beside her for a long time, just watching her sleep. She's so goddamn perfect. I don't know how I got so lucky. I'll never stop being grateful she gave me a second chance. Hell, she gave me everything.

  I'll spend the rest of my life making her happy.

  "Shit!" TJ shouts from the other room, letting me know he's awake.

  "TJ, man," I grumble, climbing out of bed and pulling on a pair of boxers. Once I'm decent, I head across the hall to find him trying to climb out of his crib.

  "Daddy!" he yells when he sees me, and then he army crawls the rest of the way down the front of the crib. He lands on his feet and then turns to face me, grinning and lifting his arms up like he's a gymnast who just finished a wicked routine on the balance beam.

  "Dude, you gotta stop cursing and climbing everything," I tell him, bending down to pick him up. "Your mama is going to kill me because we all know you get that shit from me."

  "Shit," he says and smacks me in the face.

  "Yeah, shit," I say with a shake of my head, chuckling.

  Fuck, I love my life.

  Keep reading for an excerpt of Desire Me, the final installment in the Her Best Friend's Father series!

  Desire Me: Her Best Friend's Father #4

  Excerpt

  "Where are we?" Mila asks, her voice husky from sleep. She brushes her long blonde hair away from her face and blinks those bright green eyes at me. She looks so fucking cute with that sleepy look on her face.

  My heart rolls in my chest, my cock hardening.

  "Hey, baby," I murmur, glancing between her and the road. "We're almost home."

  "Oh." She blinks those eyes at me again and then sits up and looks around. "What time is it?"

  "Almost eleven."

  Finn clears his throat. "I'll let you go, but I need you to come in tomorrow to sign off on all this shit."

  "Will do," I mutter and then disconnect, dropping my phone into the cup holder. I wrap a hand around the back of Mila's neck and squeeze lightly. "You sleep good?"