by M. T. Ossler
“You two make me sick with how much you love each other,” Val says, and we stop kissing.
“You’re not the only one,” Bash grunts from the other end of the table. Lorenzo, Romeo, Bash, Ryder, and Ces all chime in agreeing with him.
“Guys stop it’s cute. This is a once in a lifetime kind of love we are witnessing,” Jules says. We all laugh, and Val stays serious as he breaks through the laughter to continue.
“I think I knew it all these years, I just never wanted to see my baby sister with anyone. I wanted them both to be nuns.
“I get it now, I see it plain as day. I can see how happy she is with you in her life for the first time since you left us. She was miserable after that, I figured it was just a schoolgirl crush, and she would get over it. She never did, and I just ignored it.
“When you would call to check in... I could tell you were different... You sounded, sad. When you would ask about her, to check on her, I would hear the hope in your voice, but again I ignored it.
“I’m sorry I didn’t see it years ago and accepted it, so you both would have missed out on all this heartache. I’m so sorry, sissy.” Val pushes his plate away and punches the table.
He then gets up from his seat and begins to pace the living room running his hands through his hair, frustrated.
The same thing Gio does when he feels the same way. I never realized it before, but they are so much alike.
I hop off Gio’s lap, with his help again, and walk over to my big brother. I grab Val’s hand in mine, stopping him from moving and imploring him to look at me.
“Vallie, stop this now!” I demand, with tears streaming down my face. I call him by my special nickname I’ve called him since I was a little girl. He knows I only used that name when I need him to listen to me.
He does as I demand and glares down at me. Val is 6”4’ just like my Gio, as muscular as him and full of tattoos too. Usually, he has them concealed under his suit, not today, he’s in a short sleeve shirt and jeans allowing us to see the half of the full sleeves he has on his arms.
“I was 13 years old when he left, I was just a kid. Yeah, I knew I loved him, but I was too young to understand the kind of love he and I share. I was too young for all of this,” I say, waving my hand around the apartment and landing on Gio. I turn back to my brother.
“I know you wish you could change the past and what happened to me, I get it, me too, sometimes. I’ve accepted the good and the bad, though. You want to know why?”
“Why, Bells?” he coaxes, watching me carefully as is everyone else in the room and they all stay quiet.
“Because if those things didn’t happen, the way God intended them to be, I wouldn’t have Gio back. I wouldn’t be here now, and I wouldn’t have these two miracles growing inside me.” I take Val’s hand and place it on my growing babies inside my tummy.
“But most of all, I wouldn’t be as strong as I am today.” I take a deep breath and say something only Gio and Blaze know.
“I’m going to tell you something; all of you should know this actually.” I turn to look at my other brothers and my baby sister. Gigi is in Romeo’s arms on his lap now, crying. I hate to have to say this with her in the room.
“Daddy came to me in a dream, before you all got here, and he told me some things that I’m gonna tell all of you. It may not be right what happened to me, but it did happen, and I’m okay with it. I have to be, it’s how I’ve survived it all.
“Daddy and mom are proud of the way I’ve handled things, and so am I. I stepped up for Gigi and myself, not only because I had to, but because I wanted to.
“Daddy and mom love us all so much and just want us all to be happy and be there for Gigi.” I turn back to Val.
“I love you, Vallie, please don’t blame yourself, because it’s not your fault. It’s his, all his.” I hiccup out the last part through my tears, feeling sad and happy at the same time.
My brother takes me in his arms in a big bear hug. I hug him back, holding him tighter than usual, needing his warmth and comfort. He kisses the top of my head.
“Damn, I leave you for a couple of months and come back to an older, wiser baby sister. I love you, Bells.”
“I love you too, Vallie.”
I feel Gio’s hand on my back as I pull back from Val.
“Yeah, but she still got that sassy mouth of hers,” Bash comments from his seat.
“I told Beast, she needs a good spanking,” Ace chimes in, shrugging his shoulders and they all laugh.
“Are we good here, brother?” Gio asks, sticking out his hand for Val.
“Yeah, we’re good, brother. Funny, I always thought of you as a real brother, and now you really are. I couldn’t ask for a better man to love my baby sister and take care of both of them. You be good to her and Gigi, and we’ll stay square.” Val shakes his head with a big smile on his face.
Yeah, we are all good now, and we can move on from all this, even from my tattoos.
Just then there’s a knock at the door and Aunt Cindy, I mean mom, gets up to answer it.
“Hi, Cindy, is Beast around?” Gator asks from the door with another man around the same age as him, mid-thirties, who I presume is Benny.
“He’s here, come on in Gator, Benny,” mom says. They walk into the room, and Gio takes my hand, leading me over to them. I nod hi to Gator with a smile.
“Benny, hey, this is my wife, Bella, and these guys here are our family.” We all say hi to him, and the guys all properly introduce themselves to Benny.
“I have your house plans, are you ready for this, sweetie?” Benny asks me, and I can’t help the enthusiastic smile that spreads across my face. I can’t wait to see what he has to show me.
Gio warned me Benny is a jokester, but is serious when it comes to business. So I’m to take him with a grain of salt.
Mom and Jules’ finish clearing off the table and Benny unrolls the large paper, placing it on the table. He places the salt shaker in the top right corner, and the pepper shaker on the bottom left corner.
Gio sits in the chair and pulls me onto his lap as Benny explains the plans to me.
He shows me the first floor, then the second and all the rooms we’ll have. We’ll have a suite for mom and a bathroom for guests, living room, dining room, family room and gourmet style eat-in kitchen on the first floor. The dining room is enormous and flows into the living area. It’s big enough to hold at least 20 people, and if we need more room, the living room will accommodate another 30 at least. Gio is planning to make a couple of tables large enough to fit everyone. One will stay out year round, and the other will remain in storage for the holidays.
The second floor will have six bedrooms. Our master suite has a sitting area, a huge bathroom, and two walk-in closets.
Gio surprises both my sister and me with a smaller suite on the second floor for her. She is so excited that she’ll have her own space at the opposite end of the hall from our room.
Across the hall from our bedroom will be two more bedrooms with an adjoining bathroom in-between them, for our twins. Next to our bedroom is the same layout, with two bedrooms and a bathroom in-between for more kids we will have down the road.
We’ll have a three-car garage in the front, with a large screened in front porch. We will have a circular driveway and small garden in the front.
In the back of the house is another covered porch, the length of the house and a yard wide enough to add a pool, if I want.
An attached smaller house is on one side of the main house. The small house is Gio’s man cave for him and the guys when they don’t want to be around the chaos at the Clubhouse. It’s a massive room with a built-in bar with sink and a full bath. He’s going to have a significant size screen TV, they can watch sports, and we can watch movies on. There will also be a poker and a pool table in the room.
I’m so excited now that I have seen the plans, but I’m also a little concerned. How am I going to keep
up with such a big house with two babies?
“Gio, I love this, but maybe we could build a smaller house. We really don’t need all this space. I could live in a home half this size and be happy because I’ll be with you.” I’m feeling a little overwhelmed here, maybe it’s the hormones, I don’t know.
The house isn’t that big, it’s half the size of my old house back in New York. I think Benny said that it is 5,000 square feet under air and total 6,000 or something like that.
Gio turns me on his lap, to face him, and cups his hands on the sides of my face. He gazes into my eyes for a minute, getting a feel of what I’m thinking.
“We need this big house for our growing family. It should probably be bigger, Princess.” He can see the fear and worry in my eyes that this is all making me anxious.
“You have nothing to worry about. We can have Maggie come to the house a couple of times a week to help you. I’ll pay her to clean and do anything you want her to do. I know it’s overwhelming, baby, but you deserve this and more, and you’re going to get whatever you want. Don’t worry about anything, that’s what I’m here for, got it!”
All the worry and fear wash away with his words. I have him to lean on. I’m not alone in all this.
“Ti amo, amore mio.” I kiss him with no shame of any of the prying eyes in the room.
He breaks the kiss, removes his hands from my face and leans his forehead against mine.
“Ti amo, mia bella Principessa.” I can’t take my eyes off his, I’m so happy.
“Let’s go take a walk down to the lake,” Gio says, placing me on my feet.
“Thank you, Benny, everything is perfect. Can you start next week?” Gio asks, taking my hand.
“We’ll be out there Monday. Gator already had Throttle do the background checks on my men, and cleared the ones that will be working here, so we’re good to go.”
Gio shakes his hand, and we thank him again before walking him out the door.
Then Gio excuses us from the gang so we can take a private walk down to the lake and by the area that will be our new home soon.
Privacy is just what we need to celebrate.
He grabs a blanket and a picnic basket, I hadn’t noticed sitting by the front door, and we head out.
Apparently, Jules and mom made a special lunch with bacon, for us to celebrate.
I finally get to sit and enjoy a romantic sunset with my husband.
We even indulge in a little lovemaking under the stars.
Chapter 20
Beast
It’s the beginning of October, and the weather is finally starting to cool off around here. My poor girl has been so uncomfortable with the heat and the extra weight from the babies, as she gets further along in her pregnancy.
She’s only 14 weeks, and as of two weeks ago, when we saw her doctor, she is growing properly, and the babies are doing well.
Doc and I had a private conversation while we were there, and she warned me that Bella would have to be on strict bed rest in a couple of months. With her blood pressure still high and not under control, and with the extra weight on her tiny frame, it will be for the best.
There is no mistaking that she is pregnant now, her belly is very round with my babies. She’s carrying low too, which, if the books are correct means boys.
Mom did an Italian wise tail on Bella a few days ago. You dangle a pendant over the babies to determine the sex. If it swings back and forth, it’s a boy, if it swings in a circle, it’s a girl. It swung side to side and up and down going crazy over her belly. So we’ll find out soon if the results are correct.
The glow that emulates off her and the happiness that shines on her beautiful face is radiating. Her body is off the charts, and I can’t keep my hands off her. Not like I ever could before, once I had a taste I was done for.
She’s good with all the changes to her body, and the way I react to it arouses her.
She has even come out of her shell in the bedroom. My sexy little wild mixen in my bed, and a lady on my arm for the world to see what I own.
My dad once told me a long time ago, when I caught him making plans with his Comara (mistress), that I would want both one day. He said I would want a sidepiece to be a whore in my bed and my wife would be the lady on my arm.
That was the start of my hatred for him.
I’m not built that way, my only desire was to have one special woman in my bed and on my arm. I knew if I ever got the one woman I craved for years, she would be enough.
After living in a dark hole all those years without Bella, then having her back and bringing the light back to my soul and heart, I knew... I just knew she would always be enough for me. I knew from the day she was born, she was all I ever would need and more.
I know what you’re thinking, once a manwhore always a manwhore, it’s in his DNA. How could I, the beast, turn into a devoted lover and husband, a one woman, faithful man?
I know it’s hard to believe, but put yourself in my shoes for a minute. I left the love of my life behind, the only woman I ever wanted, for good reason, or so I thought. And I moved on with my life and my cock.
Then after almost a decade, I hear her name spoken out loud for the first time, and find out she’s been hurt in the worst imaginable way. Those few words Jules spoke that day, turned my world on its axel, and I never thought I would recover from the guilt I felt. But I had too, for Bella and Gigi.
Until the day I held Bella in my arms again and saw the pain in her eyes... I knew that day, who I truly was meant to be. And for her, I wanted to be all those things and so much more.
I am a man of honor, love, and loyalty if nothing else. I am and always have been hers like she has always been mine.
My Bella is enough to keep me satisfied, forever. The love we share is special, she has my heart and soul, and I would never jeopardize that for anything or anyone. I would never do anything to threaten our marriage or family.
Bella is my... everything and more to me. Not just in the bedroom, either, even though, she can get so wild and lets loose for me when I get her turned on. Her body responds to me, in the ways I’ve trained her body to react to my touch. Boy, can I get my girl to detonate on command too. It’s incredible, to say the least.
She’s in her own little world these days and I for one, couldn’t be happier seeing her this way. Her therapist can’t believe the changes in her either, all good since her brothers have arrived.
When Cassy saw her the other night at dinner, she remarked how big Bella was to me. Not when my girl was around, she didn’t want to upset her. She said Bella is as big as she was at five months with Emma. That comment worried me a little bit. I remember how big Cassy was when she delivered Emma. Bella is only 14 weeks, already half that size and she has a ways to go.
When my girl hits six months, she may not be able to walk because she’s so tiny. Her belly may be bigger than she can handle.
I may have to carry my girl around, not that I would mind. She will probably protest that she’s too heavy, not going to work on me, she will never be too heavy for me to hold in my arms.
We’ll be seeing the doctor again in ten days. At that time, we will find out the gender of the babies. After her appointment, we are heading to Maddox’s Clubhouse to spend the weekend in Daytona for Biketoberfest. This is one of our annual bike rallies. We go every year and meet up with the other clubs. There are booths set up selling bike paraphernalia and other things. They also have fights set up to make money for the club. I will be fighting again this year, like usual, and so will my brothers. Bella, Gigi, Cesare, and mom will be accompanying us, since I can’t leave them here at our Clubhouse alone. All my brothers and the prospects are joining us this year. Gigi and mom will stay at Maddox’s Clubhouse with guards. Bella will be by my side the whole time, even if we can’t cruise up and down the coast on my bike this year. Her brothers will also be attending the festivities with us as extra protection for the girls and Cesare
.
Jules will be with Ace, of course, and Cesare will be riding with Ryder. They haven’t made anything official yet, but they are inseparable these days. I hope my brother claims him soon and doesn’t let any of our brothers influence him otherwise. I will stand up for them to our brothers if I have too. My brother, Ryder, will always have my support and so will Ces. Ces and I have become close since he’s been here. I like the guy and can see why he and Bella are so close. He’s a good person, very likable, I genuinely like him and am proud to call him my family.
In the meantime, Val, Lorenzo, Romeo, and Bash are still with us, and we are still no closer to getting our hands on Antonio or the organization back into Val’s rightful hands. Anton has taken full control of the organization and Ricco hasn’t stopped him just yet. Anton thinks he succeeded and Val, Lorenzo, Romeo, and Bash are dead, so that is at least working in our favor for now.
Things have been tense around the compound lately, and being stuck here doesn’t help matters.
I also have a feeling Romeo and Ace are about to go to blows very soon. They have been at one another’s throats since Romeo arrived, and saw Ace with his hands on Jules.
Romeo has tried to hide it from us, but I know my friend – Romeo - and I can see right through him. Val and I have had many discussions on this matter. He’s known for a while that Romeo wanted Jules, but he never made a move that he knows of.
Val’s seen the signs over the last couple of weeks that his brother is about to snap. When that happens, and it will, it won’t be good for anyone.
We can’t do anything to stop them, though. They are adults and will work it out in their own time. I just hope no one gets killed in the process.
We’re all hanging out in the bar tonight bullshitting, after another spectacular dinner the girls, Ces, and mom prepared for us. They all love being in the kitchen and cooking for us men, and we love to eat all the food they prepare.
