“I’m fine. I’ll do whatever you need me to do.” Again, she tried to stifle a yawn. “Go to bed, that’s an order.” She rolled her eyes again.“I’ll put that down on the board.”She chuckled, and he looked toward the board at their names as well as their weaknesses. Johannes walked over and rubbed it all off.Making his way to the main house, he closed the basement door and found his friends in the small study, sipping bottles of beer.“Sneaking it in again?” Johannes asked.“Someone has to. There is no hard stuff here but a can of soda,” Cash said. “Want one?”Johannes shook his head. He stopped drinking beer years ago. He was a scotch man himself.“Laura suspects what we’re doing,” Johannes said. “What I’m doing.”“Which part?” Saya asked.“Manipulating her to fall in love with me,” Johannes said.“How?” Marcell asked.“I don’t know how she knows, but I heard her talking to Billy today.”“Oh,” Cash said.“Yeah, oh. I can only guess that Leon has taught her to be cautious of everyone an
He growled and then reached for her hand to press it against his hardening cock. “Feel what you do to me. How desperate I am for you.” He groaned, resting his forehead against hers.“We better go inside.”“Yes.”Neither of them moved. They both panted.He didn’t want to give her up. His cell phone rang incessantly in his pocket. “I’ll lead,” he said.After opening the car door, he stepped out, making sure to button his jacket and smooth it out to hide the outline of his erection. He wasn’t a fucking schoolboy, but she made him lose control.Once at her side of the door, he held the door open and presented his hand for her to take, which she did with a smile at him.They had practiced this in the basement a few times. Laura had to get used to looking at him, and the first couple of times they tried it, her face was always bright red.Staring at her now, he saw the fullness of her lips, and she looked so beautiful. The gown he’d ordered accentuated her curves. It wasn’t drab or dull. Th
She walked inside and found that it was empty.After going to a stall, she closed the door, flicked the lock into place, and then turned toward the toilet. Once she’d put the lid down, she stood on it and then sat her ass on the back of the toilet seat, keeping her feet on the lid.Resting her elbows on her knees, she collapsed into her hands and groaned. Arguing with her father always made her feel queasy. It wasn’t a good feeling.She wanted to cry. If she did, that would smudge her makeup, and she had worked hard to make it look just right. She blew out a breath and tried to calm her nerves, to focus on what was important.Billy had warned her when it came to those kids, her father and she would never see eye to eye.She tensed up when she heard the door open and close.“I don’t know about you ladies, but Saya is looking so good tonight. I didn’t even care that Johannes was there.” Laura frowned.“Oh, please, Charlotte, you were trying to get Johannes’s attention just as we were.”
“I know who I am talking to, and I am asking, no, I am demanding. You hinted at Laura’s death being the perfect opportunity to get out of this arrangement. I need to guarantee that you’re not the one pulling the strings.”“Johannes, I like Leon Horowitz. He’s a hard-working asshole. I’ve liked him for years. I watched him after his woman died. At first, I didn’t see what the big deal was since he hadn’t married her. She was just a piece of pussy, but I saw his devotion. I knew that the only way to guarantee our security and safety was to one day unite our families. He’s not mafia, he’s not family, but he is as good as any mafia and family. I would never do anything to jeopardize that. I also happen to like Laura.”Lucas shook his head, and Johannes had no choice but to believe him. It was as he suspected all along, a ruse.“You will not go through with the adoption of those kids,”Lucas said. “I have had our lawyer cease in the pursuit.” “No,” Johannes said.“No? Do I need to remind y
“Yes.”She had no doubt this was what she wanted.Johannes reached between his legs, and she felt the tip of him as he slid against her, bumping her clit and making her cry out before he slid down, poised at her entrance.This was it.In one hard slam, Johannes tore through her virginity, taking it for himself. The pain was instant, and his invasion took her by surprise.She clenched her hands into fists, which also caused her pain. From holding the piece of glass tightly in her first, she had caused herself an injury as the glass had embedded into her hand. She had a bandage on her palm.Johannes’s arms wrapped around her, and he held himself perfectly still within her, but his gaze was on hers the whole time.Her vision blurred as tears filled her eyes.“I’ve got you, Laura. The pain will go, I promise.”She knew the pain would go. She had finally given herself to Johannes, to her husband. To the man she had once promised she would never give anything to.He wasn’t who she thought h
Laura tilted her head back, but with how he held her, she couldn’t move out of his grip, and he wanted time for his cum to stay within her, to fill her up, to keep her as his.“We do?”“Don’t you feel it?”“I guess.”“We can make this marriage work, Laura. You and me.” He ran his hand down her hips and then up toward her breast, cupping the flesh in his palm. “It’s like your body has been made for me.”She groaned. “We’re going to have to go down for breakfast eventually.”“Eventually, but not right now.” He let go of her tit and cupped her face to kiss her. “We can stay here for as long as we need to.” “What about getting back to the kids?” Laura asked.Johannes sighed. “I know, I want to get back there as well and tell them the good news, but I don’t think that’s a good idea.”“Because of the attack?”“Laura, babe, you have a black eye and several cuts.”“You’re right. I don’t want to worry them.” She gave him a sad smile. “But I can’t wait to tell them the good news. I’ve always wa
stepped out for just a minute to take a private phone call, and then Lucas had wanted to know progress, which had turned into him berating him for fucking failing.Staring at Leon, he knew he was in for a world of pain. The man removed his jacket and started to roll up his sleeves. “I’m not going to fight you,” Johannes said.“That’s assuming you will get any hits in.”He didn’t want to fight her father. “It was all a mistake,” he said.That didn’t stop Leon from advancing toward him. Hitting Laura’s father wasn’t going to fix anything.“Mr. Horowitz, I suggest we go in and talk.”“Do you think I will have anything to talk to you about after what I just heard?” Leon charged at Johannes, but he didn’t put up his fists or block any of the hits.He took each blow.Leon wasn’t hitting lightly. He was angry, and Johannes understood the rage. TJohannes couldn’t believe Laura heard his father! Leon hadhe hits sent him to the ground.“Get the fuck up.”He expected Leon to hit him while he w
Johannes looked at Laura, and each time one of them called the kids bastards, she got angrier. That was good. His wife was a fighter.She wasn’t going to be taken out easily.He hoped Phillip had underestimated her.“Do you think it was hard? Lucas didn’t even know I existed. He already had his main son. The heir. His pride and joy. I was … nothing to him. He didn’t even see me when I stood in a room with him. It wasn’t hard to figure out I could learn everything I needed to by just being in the right place and right time. The men would come with their whores, and they would ask him to fix it. So he did. If she didn’t have an abortion, or was too far gone to, Lucas made sure the baby was taken, and I found out where. Sometimes the kids were put in foster homes, but like the case of little Stuart, he was hurt, left, and abandoned. It was a coincidence that day that you found him, you know, but I have a feeling that is what led to the Augustus Horowitz alliance.”Phillip glared at Johan