by K. M. Scott
Return to Club X one more time…
Cassian March finally found a reason to give up his player ways. Crazy in love, he and Olivia are ready to take the next step and make it official, but just when life is perfect is exactly when everything can slip away.
Stefan March has lived in the shadow of his two older brothers for too long. With Shay, he sees a chance to finally be the man nobody thinks he can be. But old family wounds have a way of opening up, and sometimes love may not be enough to heal them.
Kane Jackson knows a good man would be by Abbi’s side as she prepares to give birth to their child, but he’s not a good man. Or at least that’s what he thinks. Willing to do anything to protect her, he hides himself away so he can’t hurt her. Abbi still believes in him, but will her love be able to overcome years of him being told he’s only meant to hurt?
The three brothers of Club X have all that money can buy, but will they find the happiness each of them wants more than anything else in the world?
SATISFACTION
CLUB X #4
K.M. SCOTT
Satisfaction is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to events, locations, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
2015 Copper Key Media, LLC
Copyright © 2015 Copper Key Media, LLC
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
Published in the United States
ISBN-10: 1941594271
ISBN-13: 978-1-941594-27-8
Cover Design: Cover Me, Darling
Adult Content: Contains graphic sexual content
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Table of Contents
About the Book
Title Page
Copyright Page
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Epilogue
About the Author
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Chapter One
Olivia
I must have been lost in some wedding magazine haze when I told Cash I wanted to get married in a traditional June ceremony. Seduced by those glossy advertisements and picture-perfect brides in their gorgeous wedding gowns, I’d totally forgotten about the typical congestion the Tampa area experienced once the summer months rolled around. Five days away and already traffic snarl ups were making driving a mess all over the city. A huge festival combined with a concert and a convention and our little shindig couldn’t hold a candle to them. Every day, the wedding planner frantically reported on more people having a hard time finding hotel rooms and rental cars.
Maybe we should have eloped.
Cash, thankfully, seemed unfazed by it all, oddly enough. I’d never seen him so calm as since he and his brothers decided to shut down the club. Not that they meant for that to be permanent, but even so, his entire demeanor had changed from tense and worried all the time to so relaxed. It was like he was a new man.
At the moment, my new man lay in bed naked looking entirely too enticing for me to leave, despite the fact that I had a nine o’clock meeting with Samantha, the wedding planner who seemed hell bent on making this the worst week of my life.
Crawling onto the bed, I kissed Cash lightly on the tip of his nose. “Hey, you. Are you planning to just lie around all day like this?”
“I don’t know,” he said with a sexy smile. “I figure since this is technically the beginning of our wedding week, I should take it easy. I don’t want to be too tired for the honeymoon. You should follow my lead.” Running his hand up my thigh, he said, “Take off that dress and get under the covers with me.”
I sat down on his legs and hung my head. “I wish I could. I have another meeting with Sam. She texted me last night to let me know that she’s been hearing from guests far and wide who can’t get hotel rooms because they waited too long to reserve them and now with all the events going on this weekend, no more rooms are available.”
“So they don’t get a room. What do we care about that?”
I lifted my head and sighed. Men were so lost when it came to all these details. “We care because they’re our relatives and their families, and if they can’t get rooms, they might not show up to our big day.”
Cash cradled my face in his hands and sat up to kiss me tenderly on the lips. “Will you and I be there?”
I nodded.
“Well, then that’s all that matters to me, other than the minister who’s going to do the marrying. I don’t care if anyone else is there.”
“I think state law requires that we have at least two witnesses,” I said, half-jokingly. Cash’s idea of our perfect wedding was beginning to sound pretty good.
“Then Stefan and Josie will have to be there too. Since they don’t need hotel rooms, problem solved.”
“I wish it was that easy, Cash. This is the biggest day of our lives. Well, my life. I know you’ve done this before, but I wanted this to be the perfect wedding. Now it seems like it’s all going to hell before my eyes.”
“The last time didn’t count for me, so this is the biggest day of my life too. I just don’t care if anyone else is there. The only person I care about is right here. If you tell me you want to run away and elope tonight, I’m in the car ten minutes from now wondering what’s taking you so long. It’s just you and me in this, Olivia. All that other stuff is window dressing.”
Looking away, I mumbled, “I know, but I wanted all the other stuff to go perfectly and it’s all a mess.”
“A few relatives stuck sleeping in their cars isn’t a mess. Even the two of us sleeping in the Maserati isn’t a mess,” he said with a chuckle.
“You’re not taking this seriously at all, are you?” I asked as I glared at him.
He shook his head. “No. All I take seriously is how much I can’t wait for you to be my wife. The rest of it I leave to Samantha, the high-strung wedding planner from hell.”
“Do you promise no matter what, no matter how big a disaster it is, that come Saturday we’ll be married?”
Cash pulled me to him and smiled in that way that never failed to make me feel like the luckiest woman in the world. “I promise. It’s just you and me, baby. You and me. Never forget that.”
“You and me,” I repeated. “Okay. I’m off to see Samantha to find out what we can do about our stranded relatives. Do you think if worst comes to worst a few of them can stay here?”
He narrowed his eyes to slits and groaned. “Only if I’m staying at a hotel. The last thing I want is out-of-town relatives surrounding me all week.”
“You’d leave me here to entertain them?”
Sliding his
hands down my back, he held me close. “No way. If they’re here, you and I are enjoying a deluxe suite somewhere. Remember, it’s you and me, right?”
“Okay. You and me. At a hotel. While my Uncle Jim and Aunt Elizabeth and their three kids hang out here at our condo.”
Terror flashed in Cash’s eyes. “Three kids here?”
“Yeah, but they’re adorable little girls, not terrors like you and Stefan were when you were young.”
Leaning back, he sighed in relief. “Oh, okay. Not that I don’t love kids. I can’t wait for us to have a whole baseball team full. Just not here in this condo, though.”
My heart skipped a beat and not in a good way. “A baseball team full? What’s that like, a dozen? That seems like something you might have wanted to mention before you asked me to marry you, don’t you think?”
Cash moaned and lifted his hips off the bed to let me feel his excited cock. “I think we should get busy starting on it right now, in fact.”
“Mr. March, I have to meet with our overexcited wedding planner, so beginning this team of yours is going to have to wait. When I get back, we can talk about this dozen or so kids you want.”
I moved to get up and Cash playfully slapped me on the ass. “Nine on the field is what I meant, but talking isn’t how we’re going to get that team I want, Miss Lucas.”
“Time to get out of bed, coach. When I get back, we need to head over to your mother’s, remember?”
Cash rolled his eyes and waved me off. “I remember.”
“Well, give me an hour and I’ll be back.”
“Got it. One hour and then we’ll work on starting our team.”
I slipped a white sweater over my shoulders and pinched his leg under the covers. “An hour and then we’ll head to your mother’s.”
“I haven’t spent this much time with my mother since before I was born, Olivia. Is it really necessary for me to be there?”
“Don’t think for a second you’re going to stick me with your mother when she wants to talk about how thrilled she is to see you getting married again, Cassian March,” I said sternly, hoping he understood just how little I wanted to spend my afternoon talking about my wedding with Alexandria. I loved her like a second mother, but a little of anyone’s mother went a long way.
Cash’s smile slowly faded away. “What’s wrong? I was just kidding about bowing out of visiting my mother.”
I shook my head and pressed a half-hearted smile onto my lips, pretending everything was okay. “Nothing. I’m sorry. I guess I’m just stressed out a little over everything. I’m sure we’ll have a great time at your mother’s.”
He waved his hand to beckon me. “Come here.”
“Okay,” I said as I sat down on the edge of the bed next to him.
“Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed by my mother. She loves you like the daughter she never had, but I know she can be a bit much at times.”
“I know. I’ll be fine.”
Cash took my hand in his and lifted it to his lips to kiss it sweetly. “We’ll be fine. You and me, right?”
I couldn’t help but smile. He meant well, even if he didn’t know what was wrong. “You and me. Got it. Well, we need to get moving this morning, so time for you to get out of bed and time for me to run out to my meeting. See you in an hour, okay?”
“It’s a date,” he said with a sexy smile.
*
Josie leaned against her silver Volvo waiting for me outside of Samantha’s office, and since I was ten minutes late because of Cash, she looked none too happy. As I walked toward her, I raised my hands in hopes that I could offset some of that irritation.
“I know. I’m late. I’m sorry. I got tied up.”
“Unless you and that man of yours were doing some tying up for real, I’m not accepting your excuse for leaving me standing here for the last ten minutes.”
I hung my head. “I’m sorry.”
Josie nudged my arm. “Hey, I was just kidding. What’s going on here? We’re into the final leg of this wedding and you’re all mopey. Do I have to bitch out dear Samantha about her late night texts of bullshit?”
“No, it’s not that,” I said and sighed. “Cash has started talking about kids.”
“Oh.”
“And it’s all Alexandria seems to be able to talk about too. I don’t know what to do.”
Josie pushed my hair off my shoulder and smiled. “The doctor didn’t say it was impossible, did she?”
I shook my head and worked to hold back the tears. “She never said impossible. She just told me that the shape of my uterus would make having children difficult.”
“Why haven’t you told Cash yet then?”
Josie and I began walking toward Samantha’s office. “I didn’t realize until recently that he even wanted children. I mean, I thought since he was such a huge player that he might not even want any. You know, maybe he liked our life as we are now.”
“I think you should tell him, Liv. I bet he’d be the same wonderful guy with this as he is with everything else.”
“Now he’s talking about wanting a team of kids. And his mother never stops talking about babies. I swear she thinks of nothing else. You’d think hovering over Abbi would be enough, but no.”
“Don’t worry about his mother. As for Cash, what does he mean a team?”
“I don’t know. He said something about a baseball team of kids. I think he said that’s like nine. I’ll be lucky if I can even give him one, Josie.”
Taking my hand, she gave it a sympathetic squeeze. “You have to tell him, honey. What are you worried about? Disappointing him?”
“Of course. What if he decides he doesn’t want someone who may or may not be able to give him any children? What if he calls off the wedding?”
Josie stopped short and spun me around to face her. Placing her hands on my shoulders, she frowned and stared into my eyes with a look of determination. “Don’t you dare diminish yourself like that, Olivia Lucas. Cash doesn’t love you because you can make babies or give him some baseball team of kids. He loves you because you’re sweet and generous and make him happier than he’s ever been before.”
“But what if he doesn’t want it to always just be me and him? What if that’s not enough?”
“Then you adopt or do whatever people do to find a child when they can’t have one. There are millions of children who need loving parents in this world, Liv.”
“What if he wants a child of his own and I can’t give him that? What if he wants a Cassian March V? Is it fair to tell him about my problem and still expect him to marry me?”
“Don’t be stupid. You can have a surrogate carry a baby. It’s the twenty-first century, for Christ’s sake. We have modern medicine now.”
“I don’t think I can sit through another get-together with his mother as she talks about grandchildren like they’re right around the corner. I swear the lady is chomping at the bit for grandkids.”
“She’s loaded, so she probably just wants to have someone to spend her money on,” Josie joked.
I took a deep breath and thought about what Josie was saying. She was probably right. “Okay. I can do this. I’ll talk to him tonight after we get back from his mother’s house. For now, let’s go meet spazzy Samantha and see if we can find somewhere for all these wayward relatives.”
“That’s the spirit. And don’t worry. You and Cash are meant for each other. Nothing’s going to come between you unless you let it.”
Chapter Two
Cassian
Olivia held my hand tightly as we walked up the front stairs to my mother’s house, and even though they’d always gotten along, I sensed something was wrong. She’d been acting strangely since I mentioned begging off this visit, but I didn’t know why.
I brought her hand to my lips and kissed it. “You ready for the interrogation?”
She smiled, but it was forced. Something was definitely wrong. “It’ll be fine.”
Just as we reached the door,
I stopped and pulled her to me. Lifting her chin, I looked down into her dark eyes and saw worry in them. “Hey, what’s wrong? You know my mother loves you. This is friendly territory.”
“I know. Just a lot on my mind. You know, wedding stuff.”
With my thumb, I traced her beautiful lower lip. “I should just whisk you off right now and kidnap you so we can escape all of this wedding madness. What do you think?”
“I think it’s not really kidnapping if I race you to the car.”
“I’m not kidding, Olivia. We can be out of town in an hour and on a plane to anywhere in the world in two. Maybe three if you want to go to one of those eastern European countries with three wheeled cars.”
She didn’t want to laugh at my stupid joke, but she couldn’t help it. Giggling, she rolled her eyes. “I love you, but you’re insane. We have a wedding in just days and you’re talking about us flying away.”
“The offer is open, so just keep that in mind. If this is too much, we’re out of here. My mother can have a big party and entertain them all. She loves that kind of thing.”
“We better go in, Cash.”
She turned out of my hold, but I pulled her back and kissed her. “I think I should warn you that I have a night of incredible sex planned tonight. You know, before your relatives take over our condo and we have to have hotel sex.”
“Really? Thanks for the warning. I better gird my loins.”
“See? That’s the spirit, but I think the loin girding would be more useful for what we’re walking into. I’d like your loins open for business tonight, if you don’t mind.”
Olivia rolled her eyes. “If I didn’t love you so much, I’d think some of the things you say are crazy, Cassian March.”
“It’s okay if you think I’m crazy. As long as you still love me, everything will be okay.”
“I do.”
“Remember those words.”
She did more eye rolling as she turned to open the front door. “Girding will now begin. You ready?”
