FLAMESFOUR MONTHS LATER|PRESENT DAY|MOTHERFUCKING DAMN IT.Hands clutched around my walkie, I stared at the screen hard as the man I had told to stay undercover rushed in like a fucking rookie.“I told him to stand down!” I roared, “I told him to fucking stand down!”“I know”, Holy said beside me as he started pulling as much of the feeds inside as he could.The rookie who had been promoted to field agent a few weeks ago had taken the bad fucking time to turn rogue.He was supposed to stay and observe the in and the out, not to be fucking involved in the dealings, in the auction goddamn it!“Do you see him?”Holy checked the feeds again, the party was still going on strong, no alerts that us and the FBI had infiltrated the black-market auction and that should have calmed my titties down but it didn’t.My man was nowhere to be seen and if he wasn’t dead, I would kill him my fucking self.“Still no sights of him. He went right in after Aiden Hunt, you think his cover’s blown?”The fu
MIA|PRESENT DAY|“Charlie will take care of the sales and the venue. Go home, MAE”WITH A SCRUTINIZING LOOK, HER HANDS REACHED over to mine over her glass desk, running a creasing thumb on my palm.I gave her a small tight smile. Work was the only thing keeping me sane and home well home was just one apartment filled with things Elise had bought over the past months and it didn’t really feel like home.“Okay”, I said curtly, she stood up from her chair walking around her desk and leaning down to hug me.“I’m not trying to get rid of you, you know that right? You deserve a break, sis. You need a break from all of this”“I know”And she was right. Kissing the top of my head, her heels clicked against the floor as she went back to her seat.Then with that business look she posed for magazines on many occasions, she leveled me with,“I’ll see you later?”“Yeah, and please make sure Charlie doesn’t mess this up”“I will, take care”Picking my bag from the seat opposite mine, I struggled
FLAMES“SIT”As soon as I stood in the doorway closing the door behind me, the mutt came running, clawing my pants at the seams.His eyes wandered to the shopping bag in my left hand and I barked another order knowing very well he wouldn’t listen to a damn thing.“Stay” He barked and I picked him up with one hand setting my bag somewhere on the ground.Training Thunder on the dos and don’ts had escaped my mind a long time ago. He didn’t pee or poop in the house thank the fucking gods for that.We had established some sort of system together. He didn’t leave me and I fucking didn’t leave him either.He was the only fucking good thing going on and I guess deep down I was the only person he gave a fuck about.Setting him down on the couch and escaping to the kitchen to get his bowl, the metallic container had barely touched my fingers when my phone buzzed in my pants.Geoffrey Culkin aka Jeff never called if shit hadn’t gone sideways on my end.And on occasion, it was either my men had
FLAMESI WAS BLOODY RUNNING TO MY CAR TOO.CRAZED, OUT OF MY FUCKING MIND, PISSED, CONFUSED.The phone I had dodged somewhere on my passenger’s seat rung. Traffic gained on us, the Audi sedan changed lane and I was two fucking cars behind to catch up to her.Fucking Mia Tonelli.I came to a stop the minute the red light shone from the traffic post picking my phone with hands shaking and that was a first.I might have been angry at the situation, probably angry too at myself for chasing after a woman I swore never to chase the minute she left my fucking life but I was anxious and with the anxiety came the realization that she was two times her weight with a baby bump of what?Five? Four months?Around the time we weren’t together?She was carrying a fetus in there not that pregnant women carried canon balls in them in the first place but the question was…Shit.Was the kid mine? I might have not have liked the idea. Might have not wanted to chase after a woman under the hot sun across
MIATHE COPS MIGHT HAVE RETURNED MY CRUSHED BEYOND REPAIR PHONE. PROBABLY ASKED ME IF I NEEDED ANY ASSISTANCE BUT what I needed so bad was to run away.Then Alessandro had caught up to me in the parking lot and no matter how hard I tried running he caught up to me but the most heartbreaking thing of the day was the way he looked at me, the way he said what he said, how happy he was when I told him he wasn’t the father.And that moment right there I wanted to tell him he was the father instead, to watch his reaction as he realized well surprise surprise we were having a fucking baby.The tears I had shed when I got into my car were so bitter, I felt like I was drowning in a pit of lemon sours.It hurt in my chest, it hurt in my muscles and it hurt that no matter the time and distance, Alessandro Petrakis was in my heart.Taking the elevator to my apartment had been so difficult, I had to lean against the walls taking short breaths to even out the melancholy circulating my body the way
FLAMESTRACING HER BACK TO HER APARTMENT WASN’T A PIECE OF CAKE BUT Holy had done it and while I absorbed every little information in her life, revelations were made, surprises I didn’t see coming assaulted my mind threatening to turn my whole world upside down.But the bloody surprise of them all, was fuck…fuck, fuck, fuck, I was going to be a father.A father to her kid and she’d straight up lied to me like it was nothing.The minute the gringo with the beige suit left her apartment, I was already up in her little fancy elevator making my way up with the mutt in MY hands.I wanted her to see us when I confronted her about all the shit she had done to us.I wanted her to feel that we were better than okay after she left us.And most of all I had brought this dog with me because I didn’t trust myself around her.I wouldn’t kill her and the urge was there but at the same time I didn’t trust myself enough to act right around her.There would be some ugly revelations, there would be some
MIA“I’VE BEEN CALLING YOU SINCE FOREVER, Chen said everything is alright but he is Chen he’ll say just about anything to cover for you. What’s going on Mia? Do I need to take the first flight back home because I cannot risk anything happening to you or my baby niece or nephew”Elise rambled on and on, I was practically biting my nails torn between telling her the truth and not telling her.“Um I lost my phone, so sorry for not calling you. How’s Singapore?”“Everything okay?”No. fuck no.“Y-yeah I’m in tip top shape Lise, don’t worry about me”“Okay so about Singapore, I think I might stay here for a while. I don’t want to bore you with the tiresome details of what’s going on here but the bottom line is, everything’s a mess. See you in a week two and hey, take good care of yourself”“If anyone can fix the mess there it’s you. Take all the time you need; your nephew and I will be on my couch waiting for you”She laughed and with a few jokes here and there she hung up.Whatever anxiet
FLAMESTHE MOST EROTIC SHIT I HAD SEEN IN MY LIFE?WELL, IT CERTAINLY WASN’T A PREGNANT woman licking icing from a cupcake.“You come here a lot?” she asked snagging another cupcake from the box, taking the paper off carefully before she stuffed her face with the small cake barely chewing it.I didn’t come here a lot.Hell, the only time I had come here was with Lucy and Molly in their attempt of trying to make me alright after the woman seated across me practically tore my heart from my body.“No”, I answered.She wiped her cheeks with the napkin entirely missing the white frosting at the edge of her lips. If I so much as stood up from my chair and leaned over I could practically wipe it from her face with my tongue but that would be torture.Torture for me because she was a fucking no go zone.I didn’t feel shit for her anymore, all I cared about was my little monster growing in her belly.“Ooh”, she pouted, “well care to tell me why you were following me?”It wasn’t following, it w
A FEW YEARS LATER“YEAH, yeah…fuck”I moaned loving the feel of him moving in and out of me while he enjoyed the show like he always had.He let me take over at times and this was one of those times where I sat in his arms, his hands on my back as I bounced my titties off his dick.The bad thing about it is that it didn’t feel half as satisfying like when he had control over everything and he knew that.“Had enough?” he asked, I slapped his cheek.“Fine you win you can take over”He chuckled,“I thought you would never ask”Holding me in place, my head towering his and our eyes locked on each other, he slipped his dick in me again taking control over everything.Then just as fast and rough as he always was, he thrust once in me and I could feel him all the way in my womb, all the way in to my hilt hitting that spot that only he could reach.“That felt good, didn’t it?”“Don’t gloat, just make love to me like how I like it”His thrusts increased, stretching my insides, forcing my walls
FLAMES“WE ARE GOING BACK to Austin, Texas”, Bates spoke over the phone.“Miami’s not good enough for your playboy ass?”I would miss him but I also knew Miami was never the kind of forever he wanted for him or for Cannon’s kid.“My playboy ways are over Flames. It wounds me that you think I’m still the same fucker you are”“Fuck off”, I laughed and he laughed too and together we were drawn back to our days when it was just me being fucking grumpy at everything and him being the annoying little fucker that buzzed in my ear like a pesky mosquito.“There’s still room for you in B&A, YOU KNOW that”“I know but the kid’s been a lot and I think it’s time I put down my Glock and focus on what matters”“Yeah and what is that?”“Family. I might have a family of two but I love it because it’s so much than I ever had when I was a kid”It was the first time he was admitting that even if we all knew his life story. I could particularly relate to the word family because soon enough I was starting
MIAI LAUGHED.Andro twirled me around bringing me back to his arms as we danced the morning away.The song we were dancing to was something between the lines of ‘baby mama’ and ‘I’ve been pregnant FOR way too long’.“You did not tell me you could dance like that, mister”, I poked my FINGER on his bare chest and what I felt was a brick of hardened muscles.“I’m a man full of surprises”, He said cockily, hands on my waist, eyes so glued to mine I felt like a mushy mud puddle.“Do the guys know you dance?” I teased, he hit me back with a hard,“No”“It’s not a bad thing if a man dances, that doesn’t mean you are weak”“It doesn’t but the last thing I want is for my men to think I’m weak. Believe it or not, they look up to me and I’m the glue that holds them together. If they know I dance or I have a weak spot for anything, they’ll relax and that’s the last thing they should be doing”“I’m I your weak spot?”I was.I knew I was.He had assured me of that in the last few days I had almost
MIAI’D HALF THOUGHT THAT WATCHING a chick flick with a stone-faced guy was the last thing I would have to face for the day but no.Right now, I wasn’t in the room with Pindrop seated on the couch and half explaining the things about the movie that he didn’t understand. That was too good of a gift to ask from God.So instead, He brought this man and trust me hell hath no fury like a scorned Alessandro Petrakis.“Thirty-three calls, fifty messages, five bouquet of flowers and nothing. I had to rush all the way home because my heavily pregnant woman is throwing a tantrum so tell me what’s wrong right fucking now or I’ll show you just how much agony you put me through for not answering my calls”He thundered; I didn’t flinch because this was how he acted when he was mad.I was mad too; I had no right to be but I was because he—he was in Germany with my sister.Alessandro’s eyes searched mine, the bowl of fruit salad resting on top of my bump shook with my hands.I wasn’t scared of him.R
FLAMESEVERY time I landed my ass in this summit there was always the rare occasion, that one I would have to listen in on bullshit conversations about leadership or two, pretend the suit I wore to this function wasn’t choking the life out of me.And the suit was really fucking tighter than the last one I had worn last month.Seated next to the CEO of Alpha security didn’t help my cause either.Elliot Guzman listened to every goddamn word the host spoke, pausing for a second to jot down what he found important and what he needed to change in his firm.The dude was so uptight, I had hated Alpha security the minute I met its leader. And there was that rivalry between us that we both failed to acknowledge.While Guzman scribbled shit in his dandy notebook, my hands itched on my screen.The fuckers I had told to keep an eye on Mia had been MIA. AND WHEN THEY DID TEXT me right this second, they sent a picture of them enjoying pizza with…was that?The fucking guy from Mia’s apartment? The f
MIAI HAD BURNT A LOT OF BRIDGES with him by leaving him but he was here, he was asking how I felt, he was massaging my feet, he was listening, he was acting jealous even if he would have rather died than admitted that and name any woman who would have resisted that.I hadn’t had him for too long and something in my mind and heart—like a kill switch just snapped and I went in for the big prize.A shudder racked my whole body when our lips connected.Sparks might have buzzed and scintillated between us as I took more of his scent, as my fingers found his terse jaw and as uncomfortable as it was I had to move and so I moved.Onto his lap, dry humping against his crotch like a wanton.And maybe I was a wanton woman for wanting him to do dirty things to me a few feet away from the kitchen counter where I had caught Lucy and Blaze going at it like cats on heat.But that’s the thing, I didn’t care.I wanted him.I loved him.He smelled so nice, he looked nice.All muscle and brawn, all hand
FLAMES“HOW’D I DO?”Rakkon’s grin was so wide I could see it beyond the screens and it chuffed me.“Don’t gloat just bring them home”, I sighed getting off the comms.I had one man down and one family to break the news to and honestly this was the part of the job I hated. To have a family entrust me with their delinquent only for him to wind up dead.“I’ll make the call”, Blaze appeared behind me, understanding wedged between his usual cold stale aura.And if the lady’s perfume he had on was any indication, I might have got the hint he was fucking someone in the parking lot before he showed his ass here.I didn’t have time to think about that. Hey whatever kept him happy was fine by me.“I’ll check on Mia”Holy gave me a curt nod of understanding, Blaze stood beside me with that hard and blunt face he wore like a mask.“Word of caution though, your sister’s here”I turned to him with a gutted look.Lucy. Here? Fuck. I thought she was home for the summer after months of attending show
MIA“SAY SOMETHING, ANYTHING”He’d freaked out the minute we stepped into the parking lot and even when we got inside his car the situation hadn’t changed.“I don’t- “The ringing of his phone from the dashboard cut him short and he picked it up faster than I had ever seen him. To avoid the conversation and mostly to avoid the news.I was the one who should have been shocked anyway.I was the woman who was going to push three of his babies out of me and that…would hurt like a fucking bitch.“Situation? What do you mean one of them got fucking shot? They are bloody rookies they should have had someone looking after them. Ooh, right.I’m not going to grovel at the kid, Holy. He made a mistake, granted I shouldn’t have fired him but he needed a time out to cool off. Yeah, call him in, loop him in on the situation and get him on the field. Well, he’s re-hired damn it!”And when he had thrown his phone somewhere in the back seat like soggy spaghetti he didn’t like, I was still there locked
FLAMESTHE TEAL COTTON AND LACE CHEMISE STOPPING MIDTHIGH ON HER didn’t make her look less pregnant but she did look fucking gorgeous and it took every fiber in me not to give in to the feral urges.And my favorite thing in the world I had discovered was placing my hand on Mia’s tummy, protecting the kid in there and sort of assuring him his daddy got this.Mia’s face snored in front of mine, I pulled the covers even higher to cover her sleeping body.“I would have dropped anything for you, Mia. Anything you would have asked me of, I would have given you but you left as if we were nothing, I was nothing and damn it I want to hurt you too but how can I when you are giving me the most precious gift a man like me doesn’t deserve”A child.A bouncy baby girl.The thought brought a smile to my face and I grinned in the dark.The clock to Mia’s right on my nightstand read 0300 hrs. I hadn’t slept a fucking wink and I would have gladly put the blame on little miss snores next to me but someh