The second floor had the master bedroom, two bedrooms, which were now offices, and two spare bedrooms. But it was the third floor which I loved. It had a huge theater room, a weight room, sauna, and what was now a huge training room.
Zoey looked around with interest but didn’t say anything as she sat down at the counter on a bar stool and waited.
“Do you want some breakfast?” I asked as I poured her a mug of coffee and set it down in front of her and watched as she put cream and sugar in it silently. It was only after the first sip that she sighed and then looked up and shook her head.
“Not yet,” she said. “I have discovered that morning sickness turns into afternoon sickness if I eat before my coffee.”
I frowned and looked at her, what Michael and I knew about pregnancy could fix in a cup, maybe I should borrow that book from Reilly. “Is it bad, honey?” I said and she shrugged her shoulders.
“I suppose it could be worse, but so far I have adapted. But I am going to need to get some new clothes though.” She grimaced and looked down. “My pants are already getting a little tight.”
I grinned and walked around the corner of the breakfast bar and turned her around and lifted up my tee and stared at her stomach. I hadn’t noticed it last night, but she did have a little pouch there. I looked up at her in wonder, our baby was in there. It was humbling, I dropped to my knees in front of her and pulled her close then whispered into her belly.
“Hey, baby, it is one of your daddies, how are you doing in there?” I said and kissed her stomach. I heard Zoey sniff and I looked up, she had tears in her eyes.
“You really are happy about this, aren’t you?”
“Michael and I both are thrilled. I mean, it isn’t like we planned it of course, but what in life is? So many things are fucked up in this world for us to be upset about being parents. It is a gift,” I whispered.
I must have said the right thing because Zoey’s eyes shown with happiness and she nodded. Fuck yeah I could be sweet, look at that shit, Fin and Tony were going to owe us huge when they heard this. Those assholes said that Brooklyn would swear they were the sweetest men. Pft, whatever.
“What are we doing today?” she asked hesitantly. “I mean, I know we can’t leave, Ranger said that he was sending a protection detail here, and Tony said some man named Jet was gonna be outside sometime today too.”
I nodded and said, “Yep, Michael ran into Slinging Ink for few hours to make sure everything was set and ready but then he will be back. Maybe we can shop online for some clothes and stuff while we are just waiting.”
“Shopping?” Zoey’s eyes lit up and I grinned and rolled my eyes.
“How about this, you come up to my office, I will set you up with my spare laptop, you shop and I will get this program going.”
“What program?” Zoey asked and I shook my head.
“Not now,” I said because there was no way in hell I was telling her anything that would put her in danger, the less she knew the better.
Michael
We were all in the gym watching as Fin taught both Jet and Reed some moves to help them out when they went undercover. I needed to get back home, but first I needed to make sure everyone was on the same page as to how we were going to keep our family safe. Besides that, I had a great idea I needed Tony and his men to work on.
Right now, the plans to my house were spread on the rickety table where Fin usually kept the boxing gloves.
“Okay, so here is gonna be the nursery,” I said, pointing to the room right next to the master bedroom. “I figure if we tear down this wall, we can replace it with a bulletproof interior and move it about three feet back. That way the cameras we put in the corners will catch everything.”
Tony leaned down and nodded. “Yeah, hey, we can do this in our house too.”
“Yeah,” I nodded and smirked. “But you don’t have a baby coming and I do, so I am first.”
“Bastard,” Tony muttered and I laughed.
“Hey, if I don’t get this started who knows what Dad will come up with next. Hell, did you know there is a bulletproof/fire proof mattress we could get as well, says it has the comfort and safety all in one,” I said and Cal frowned.
“Why the hell didn’t we think of something like that. Damn, we could have made a fortune. Hey, we could design a bulletproof vest for pregnant ladies, we could make a killing.”
“Fuck this shit,” Falon grumbled as he backed up toward the door. “You know, you all have babies on the brain, I have no idea why the hell you have all lost your minds but shit. This is outta control, the folks talk about it, you guys talk about, hell, I even went to the bar last night and the fucking bartender asked how the baby was. What the hell is wrong with you guys, you know we used to have fun, we used to date, we used to fuck anything in a skirt with hot legs, but now it seems like you are going to pull out the knitting needles soon and start gossiping.”
Sean laughed. “Dude, you just wait, when you find a woman.”
“Fuck that! You bastards are dropping like flies, which means even more women for me,” Falon snorted and then turned around and ran smack dab into the small but powerfully built woman who I know he had been pining for these last few weeks.
“Asshole,” Mel muttered and rolled her eyes. “Pretty sure your cock is gonna fall off from diseases soon.”
“Ahh, honey, you are thinking about my cock?” Falon snorted and winked at her. I knew what was coming, my dipshit brother was just too stupid for words sometimes. Maybe I needed to have Dad talk to him some.
Mel’s eyes narrowed and she hit low and right in his crotch, Falon yelled loudly and dropped to the ground and rolled while cupping his dick.
“Asshole,” she muttered and then saw Fin standing in the ring and Tony at the table, she nodded and said, “Hey, boss, just thought I would tell you I have shit taken care of, I am just waiting for my final stamp on the paperwork, but I am back. Give me a few days to get my shit put away and I will be ready to work, okay?”
I looked at Tony who nodded and his brows pinched, then I looked at Fin who also had an intent look on his face. Oh shit, it hit me like a fucking jack hammer, Mel would be perfect.
“Mel,” I said loudly and she turned and nodded to me. “Hey, who knows you are back in town?”
She frowned and then shook her head. “No one.”
I grinned and looked at Tony who was also smiling. “Well come on, honey, I have a job for you, but first off you need some ink.”
Mel snorted and shook her head. “Ink, I think I have plenty,” she said and turned around and showed us her back. She had a huge set of angel wings on her back and the tank top she wore showed them off perfectly.
“Nope,” I said and smiled. “I think maybe you need a little bit of color.”
Chapter Sixteen
Zoey
They were hiding something from me, I could tell but I wasn’t going to ask questions about it. Mainly because they weren’t going to tell me the truth anyway. So when I went upstairs with Reese I figured I could snoop. Unfortunately, that hadn’t gone like I expected.
Sure he had set me up with a laptop and then handed me a credit card, which we fought about for like a minute before I gave in. Mostly because I had no clue where the hell my purse was. Then I had spent the last two hours buying some clothes and other stuff for the baby that I should probably have not bought but they were too cute to pass up. Which reminded me to make my appointment with the OB/GYN, which turned into a half hour call with Ms. Maddie who had already set it up.
Now I was watching Reese as he typed into the computer and then sat back and then leaned forward and typed again. He was chatting with someone I think, and I was curious as to who it was. So I stood and walked around the desk and looked over his shoulder and frowned.
“What is that?” I asked and Reese kinda jumped, he had been focused and hadn’t realized I had moved. I could have just stood there and watched, but the screen was so different than anything I had ever
seen before so I was curious.
“Shit,” Reese said and turned and looked at me with a frown. “What are you doing?”
“Watching,” I said with a shrug.
“Baby, you do not need to know this,” he spoke softly and firmly but I rolled my eyes.
“Come on, Jorge Vasquez was my client and you are asking questions about him on your computer. Why? What is going on that none of you want me to know?”
“Honey, there is a lot of stuff you don’t need to know.” I shook my head.
“Listen, I get you are all trying to protect me, and if I was gonna go and shout from the rooftops everything you guys told me, fine, I would agree you shouldn’t tell me, but I am not going to go and shout from the rooftops what you say to me. I am asking why you are looking into my client’s death, and what it has to do with Noel, Ranger said he would explain but he hasn’t yet. Now, I wanna know what the deal is.” Reese groaned and wiped his face off and was silent. I knew he was thinking because I could literally see him struggling on what he was going to say to me.
“Okay listen,” Reese said. “I am going to tell you, but I need to be real clear, I am not going to risk you or the baby because I am telling you this stuff, you are not to repeat one single word of what I say.”
I nodded and then sat down on his desk and waited while he figured out where to start. And when he started, I swear, it took him two hours to explain everything to me. I was worn out, I mean totally exhausted and I was freaked the fuck out when he was done.
“How was Noel involved? Or was she collateral damage?” I had to know.
“She wasn’t, it was Ranger who got too close, like I said, they wanted to make him stop, so they made him stop by killing her. Baby, you have to understand who we are dealing with her. They are the scum of the Earth. They will think nothing of killing a woman, or a baby. You need to promise me you understand and will not say a word. Noel was picked to get Ranger to back off on the case, it worked. Now, we are going back and looking at exactly what Ranger was working on then and comparing it to now. We have leads coming out of nowhere that do not make sense. The only thing we do know is right now there are at least five deaths related to this shit, and there are probably more we don’t know about. It’s not stopping, these people are not afraid of being caught, they are acting like they are sure they will NOT be caught, which means they know something we don’t about this case. I am searching in the deep web for clues.”
“The deep web?” I asked with a frown and he nodded.
“The deep web, deep net, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason. The deep web is opposite to the surface web. It allows people with the knowledge and need to hide their shit a place to hide. Most people do not know how to access it, hell, most people are upstanding citizens and would never need to hide like this. These people though, they do, they are putting up live video feeds of the illegal fights and taking bets on them. I am searching for the link,” Reese said and I nodded and shivered.
“Jorge?” I whispered and looked at the computer like it was a snake ready to bite me.
“His video was on there, I was trying to find out who was taking the bets, they have to be on site while the fight is going on. Most people who run this online betting are just peons who the big men pay handsomely for. They are easy to turn and we only need to find one person to turn on them, and everything will fall down around their ears.”
“Okay but what does this have to do with why they shot at me, Maria, and Judge Sanders?” I asked and Reese frowned.
“A message?” Reese said and I shook my head.
“No, if they wanted to send a message they did it with killing him. Why us?” I asked.
“You were assigned in the courtroom, right? You weren’t the caseworker who was supposed to be on that case originally, right?” Reese said slowly and I nodded.
“Yeah.”
“We are missing something,” Reese muttered and then he pushed the button on the computer and pulled up the screen again and began to type into the message box. I leaned over to read what he was searching for. He had put our names in the search box separated by plus marks and suddenly the screen was filled with a ton of conversations.
“Fuck,” he whispered. “We have been looking for the wrong thing.”
“Why? What is that?” I asked, leaning forward and shaking my head, I had no clue what it all meant.
“How long was he in custody?” Reese asked and I shrugged.
“Overnight, I have the file but I haven’t had a chance to look it over. I grabbed it from Maria just before I went to Southside Haven. It should still be in my bag,” I said and Reese stood and held out his hand to me.
“We need to make some calls.”
I shrugged and followed him as he dragged me out of the room and down the stairs until he found his cell and began to make calls. Something happened but for the life of me I had no clue what it meant. I sat in the chair and listened as Reese talked into his cell, he was going to have to explain the things he was talking about. Only getting one side of a conversation sucked.
Reese ran his hand through his dark brown hair and leaned back against the counter. I shifted in my seat as I continued to look him over. The damn hormones were going to be the death of me, they had to be the reason I was thinking how I wished he would take me upstairs, throw me on the bed, and ravish me. When his eyes met mine, he smirked and winked, it was like he read my mind. Maybe I was going to get my wish, so I smiled back.
Michael
I left Jet, who was on duty, sitting in his truck out front when I pulled into the garage. The phone call from Reese to Tony earlier in the day had given us all hope that maybe we were going to catch a break, it depended on locating Zoey’s briefcase and purse. They’d been misplaced after the incident.
When I came into the house it was quiet. I walked through the downstairs and it was empty so I made my way up to Reese’s office. The door was open but my friend and woman weren’t there. The moan that came from down the hall told me just where I would find them. And hopefully I would walk in on the beginning and not the end.
The sight before me stopped me in my tracks, Christ, we were lucky bastards as I watched Zoey riding Reese, her back arched, her blond hair flowing down her back, her moans had me hard and I was glad I had let my brothers handle the shop so I could home. My shoes, shirt, and pants left a trail across the floor as I moved closer to the bed. Reese sat with his back against the headboard facing me, he spotted me first and grinned, I put my finger to my lips and he nodded. As I eased closer to the bed he reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the lube we had left out from last night.
I stopped at the foot of the bed, stroking my cock in rhythm to Zoey’s movement as Reese lubed his fingers and reached around Zoey, his fingers touching her back hole.
“Oh yes!” Reese’s actions had her crying out and leaning more into him while arching further to give him more access, allowing him to push pass the rim and into her ass with first one finger, then two. I watched her grind down on him as he scissored his fingers, preparing her for me. It was the hottest damn thing I’d watched and if I didn’t take action soon I was going to blow before I even got to touch her.
“That’s it, baby, you are beautiful, take what you need. You’re so wet and tight.” Reese kept talking to her and moving his fingers while taking his other hand to pull her more into him. Zoey was lost and focused on the pleasure he was giving her that she hadn’t even noticed when I eased onto the bed, slowly moving up behind her.
Reese slid down, moving them till he laid on his back, Zoey never missed a beat. Reese spread his legs, making enough room for me to move in directly behind her. When I was in position, he pulled her into him, kissing her and pulling his fingers out of her ass, placing his hands on the cheeks and spreading her wide for me. She broke the kiss, lifting her head.
“I need more,” she told Reese just as I p
laced the head of my cock against her back hole and leaned in till my mouth was at her ear.
“Is this what you want, Zoey? Do you need my cock in your ass with Reese in your pussy?” She jumped from the surprise of me, but it didn’t last long as she pushed back till the head of my dick passed her rim. I grabbed her hips, stopping my movement, gritting my teeth, trying hold back from pushing in to the hilt as I waited for her to answer me.
“Answer Michael, baby. Tell him what you want. I know you want his cock, I felt your walls tighten around my dick when he pushed in. Tell him to fill you, Zoey, and Michael and I will give you the release you are reaching for.” As Reese talked to her, she groaned and bared down, tightening around us. If she didn’t say anything soon I was going to blow before feeling her wrapped completely around me. Her body shivered and she leaned further into Reese, pushing her ass more onto me, forcing my cock another inch into her.
“Damn, fill me already.”
“That’s what I wanted to hear,” then I pushed forward, not stopping until she’d taken all of me. I waited for her to adjust to both us filling her before I pulled almost out and Reese pushed in. We set the pace, one in, the other out. “Not going to last long, watching you fuck Reese before I joined in already had me on edge. Let’s get there together, Zoey.”
“I’m close,” she said, her body shaking with the beginning of her orgasm.
“Getting there too. Take us with you, baby. Work us, shows us who these cocks belong to.” She whimpered at Reese’s words.
“More. I need more, damn it,” at her demand, Reese moved his hand between them.
“Ah, your little nub is swollen and hard. Does that piercing feel good while I rub your clit, Zoey? Do feel my cock piercing hitting your sweet spots as I push in? I can feel the ripple of your pussy when I hit them.”
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