by V Vee
As I hurried to the limo waiting for me, I made sure I took apart the rifle I’d used, tossing the bits and pieces of it in various bushes, cars, and tossing some of it into the manmade lake on grandfather’s property. I quickly climbed inside, knowing that Grandfather O’Sullivan would have no problem leaving me, and gasped at the person who sat inside waiting for me.
“Mama!” My son exclaimed happily, hopping across the floor of the vehicle into my waiting arms.
I wrapped him in my embrace and looked up at my grandfather in surprise.
“As promised.” He shrugged. “When you complete a task successfully, you get a reward.” He shook his head. “Zander never quite understood that.” He turned his head back and looked at me with a penetrating gaze.
“Do you understand, Charlene?”
I nodded quickly even as I tightened my grip on Andrew Junior. I would do whatever I had to do in order to get my son back.
Even if that meant killing innocent people, killing my sister…
Or killing the president and framing the McCarthys for it.
Chapter 20
Steele Family Home
Eddie’s Childhood Home
Baltimore, MD
Eddie
I carried Heaven upstairs to my bedroom and into the bathroom. I placed her on her feet and placed a gentle kiss on her nose.
“Are you okay?” I asked her. She’d been extremely quiet since Zander had been shot twice, once by her hand, and once by an unknown woman. The car ride had been silent except her call to Ashley who was being babysat by Logan and Parker. Our daughter was fine, a little annoyed that we’d taken her away from watching Frozen II, but she was extremely happy to know we were both still alive.
I still couldn’t believe I had a kid.
Heaven didn’t respond, she simply glanced up at me and began to slide down my body. My breath caught in my lungs. She was on her knees in front of me.
"Do you know what you’re doing down there?”
"I’ve learned a lot since high school, Eddie want me to show you?”
And show me she did, until I was trembling and speaking in a foreign language.
Heaven
Not two seconds after we went back into the bedroom, clean, showered, and Eddie’s cock drained from the exception head I’d given, I lay back on the bed, welcoming him into my arms, tugging his shirt off, giving me a view of his perfect chest and abs. I salivated over the sight of him; the hunger in his eyes prominent, and the glorious power in his arms and shoulders evident as he crawled over me. It was the promise his mouth held with every lick and kiss against my stomach and between my breasts that had my hips circling, hopelessly seeking friction, needing it.
Eddie took a peaked nipple into his mouth and sucked hungrily. My back bowed from the sensations he produced, causing my body to shutter from shockwaves flowing all through my body. I closed my eyes and wrapped my hand around the back of his neck, holding on for dear life. I didn’t know how he could make my body sing for him with just a simple touch. Eddie lapped and sucked and savored each of my nipples with his fingers and his mouth. I circled my hips, rubbing myself against his chest, dying to explode. He squeezed my breasts, and I thought I was going to lose my mind.
“Eddie, please baby,” I pleaded on a harsh whisper. “I need you, please.”
“Damn right you need me. Do you want me to make you cum, baby?” he prodded, his voice low and full of the same need I felt.
“I want to come. Please, Eddie.” I wasn’t above begging for him to take me. With the way he was looking at me, he was going to deliver. He pulled himself further up my body, his hot flesh stroking my heated skin, making me tremble, until his lips were inches from mine.
“You are mine. Now and forever. Nothing will ever come in between us,” he murmured against my lips.
I half cried; half sighed. The pleasure was too much. It was overwhelming me, and I needed Eddie to put out the fire that was burning inside of me.
He smiled down at me and whispered half growled, “Bloody hell, I can’t believe it took me so long to come back to you.”
All I could do was moan in response as his lips took mine in a kiss that had my body igniting in pleasure. My fingers roamed through his dirty blond hair, raking my fingernails along his scalp. I caressed his shoulders, tracing the many and various tattoos that decorated his skin, hugged his body to me, anything I could do in order to feel all of him and brand him on myself. As quickly as he took my mouth, he released it with a growl and slid down my body until he was a breath away from my pussy. He looked at me and gave me the most lascivious grin and wink I’d ever seen, before he took a languid lick from my pussy to my clit.
“Oh, Eddie,” I blurted sitting up from my reclining position, my eyes wide as pleasure burst through my body.
“Hush, love. You don’t want to scare our neighbors,” he scolded lightly and pushed me back down onto the mattress. The second his lips covered my clit, and he sucked, I exploded. White hot sparks ignited behind my eyelids as I screamed into the silent bedroom. It was one of the greatest orgasms I’d ever experienced in my life, even with Eddie, and my body twitched and trembled as Eddie continued licking and sucking.
“You taste so goddamn good, baby,” he whispered against my soaked slit. He moaned and rubbed his face up and down and all in my pussy. My juices smeared his nose and his chin, but he never let up on his exquisite torture.
“So sweet, so good. Come again for me, love. Let me taste your squirt in my mouth again.”
Eddie continued to make me lose my mind between his dirty, filthy, sexy talk, and the way he was feasting on me reverently, possessively, demandingly. I had no control over my body as he took what he wanted from me with just the sweep of his tongue. The scratch of his stubble caused a different sensation within me, causing me to grip his hair as tight as I was squeezing the mattress beneath me. And when he slipped two fingers inside my slick, wet heat, my entire body practically elevated from the bed in ecstasy.
Eddie finally came up for air as my body climbed down from its euphoric sated high. He stared down at me with a satisfied smirk, his face red, my juices glistening all over his beard. Without a word, he worked the front of his pants and slowly, carefully, slid the opening in the front of his pajama pants over his thick, engorged length. My mouth salivated with the need to taste him again and it must have been written all over my face because he shook his head and said, “Another time, sweets. I want inside your tight pussy.”
I loved it when he talked dirty, he had such a filthy mouth. I circled my hips and bit my bottom lip. I teased him, to encourage him to hurry up, I grabbed my breasts and pinched my nipples. His eyes went even darker than before.
“Fuck, Heaven, you are so damn sexy.”
My soul and my heart felt refreshed hearing his compliment and praise. I let go of one breast and scraped my fingernails down his perfectly carved abs to the elastic of his underwear. He pushed my hand away.
“Play with your nipples, baby,” he demanded, his voice low and guttural.
I did as I was told and watched as he dropped his pants to his knees and slid his boxer briefs down just enough to release his cock. My eyes widened at the sight of his rock-hard dick. I sat up slightly on my elbows and looked at him. Did he grow bigger as I watched him?
Eddie continued to study me while he stroked his length.
“I’ll be gentle,” he said to me.
He gripped my hips and slid me closer to him. I fell to my back and spread my legs for him as he climbed my body slowly. He kissed my inner thighs, my stomach, and then ever so lightly brushed his lips against the skin of my left breast.
Right above my heart.
He nestled in between my legs. He hovered above me with a look of longing in his eyes.
“I am so in love with you, Heaven,” he whispered, and I couldn’t help the smile that spread across my face.
“I’m so in love with you too, Eddie. Always have been,” I returned, my voice eq
ually soft.
Eddie dropped to his elbows and took my mouth in a hot searing kiss right before he lined up his dick to my entrance and slammed inside my pussy. I screamed out in pleasure and pain, his mouth muffling my cries. He instantly began to move inside me with a ferocity that had my teeth clicking against each other, my heart slamming against my ribcage, and every nerve in my body tingling. His hips moved with deep, controlled thrusts that caused his pelvis bone to make intimate contact with my clit.
I fell over the edge immediately, my nails digging into his back and his shoulders. Eddie buried his face in my neck and sucked and licked at my now glistening skin as he claimed my body with every determined thrust of his hips. Eddie started moving faster, getting deeper inside me, and I could do nothing but dig my nails into his back and hold on.
“Oh god, Eddie, baby…shit, shit, shit!” I cried out.
He hooked my leg with his arm and threw it over his shoulder. Somehow, when he did that, it felt as if he fell deeper inside me. I felt so full of him, and it was too much. I had to slide back a little to relieve the pressure building. I couldn’t take it.
“Fuck, sweetheart, you feel so fucking good. Your pussy is squeezing the hell out of my dick, milking it. Cum for me again, baby. Let me feel you soak my cock with your juices.”
He hooked my other leg with his arm, sat up and pushed my legs into my chest. The sensation of the new position pushed me into another overwhelming orgasm that I had to grab one of the bed’s decorative pillows to muffle my scream. I’d already treated our neighbors and any passersby to the sounds of my pleasure and enjoyment, they didn’t need to hear any more.
My body was exhausted by the time he was done with me. I was drenched with sweat, unable to move and Eddie didn’t look too far off from me. His hair was damp from sweat. His muscles tightened and stretched, moving with every stroke. I begged him to come. I needed him to come. I needed to feel him take pleasure in my body. Pleasure in me. I needed to experience the moment when bliss, lust, desire, and passion collided inside of him and rained down contentment, satisfaction, and joy, all because of me. However, when he did, I would have sworn he pulled another from my tired body.
The pace of his hips slowed as he growled out his release, filling me up with this new love we’d rediscovered in each other. Once his body stopped twitching, he pulled out of me and collapsed half on me, half on the bed next to me.
“Fuck yeah. Never giving this up. Never leaving,” he moaned. Then he looked over at me with a smirk on his face. “If that didn’t get you pregnant, I don’t know what will.”
I snorted on a laugh and before too long he was joining me in my amusement.
Eddie and I had started off as high school sweethearts, then he’d left me. When he’d returned our relationship had become complicated, and our affair was twisted, but as he always said… we were destined to be together.
We belonged together.
And thanks to Eddie’s persistence, we would be.
Epilogue
Steele Family Home
Home of Edward, Heaven, and Ashley Steele
Baltimore, MD
One Year Later
Heaven
I bit my lower lip nervously as I headed down the stairs from the master bedroom I shared with my husband, towards the living room where he was currently sitting on the floor playing video games with our daughter. Since the night of my “failed” engagement party to Zander, the one in which the man I was engaged to was brutally murdered by members of the drug cartel associated with a member of his business, Ashley and I had been living in the Steele home. Eddie had all of our things moved out of my old condo and moved into his childhood home. My condo was put on the market, and promptly bought by Andrew and Kyra, for… “reasons.”
Eddie and I had waited six months before getting married, in order to make sure there was no speculation or suspicion cast on me for Zander’s death. But I shouldn’t have worried. The O’Sullivans were nothing if not resourceful. It was their publicist who’d released the story about how and Zander had been killed.
Crazy ass family.
Thank god I hadn’t married into it.
And while that was good news, nothing was as good as the news I held in my hand.
I stood right in front of the television and waited for my husband and my daughter to scream at me to move out of the way.
“Baby, I love you, but move! You’re going to make me crash my car and Ashley is going to win with fucking Yoshi ©!”
I rolled my eyes, Eddie and Ashley took Mario Kart© a lot more serious than they needed to. Well, I had something for that.
I didn’t say a word, I simply stretched out my arm, and held out the plastic, white stick I’d been clutching.
“What’s tha—” Eddie’s voice trailed off. “I-is that what I think it is?”
I nodded.
“Oh my god!” He leapt to his feet and pulled me into his arms. “You have never been as beautiful to me as you are right now.”
I giggled and squeezed him back.
“I don’t get it,” Ashley piped up and Eddie and I turned to her with wide grins on our faces.
“Your mommy is pregnant, Bug,” Eddie told Ashley, using his nickname for her. “You’re going to be a big sister.”
Ashley’s eyes widened. “Yeah?”
I nodded. “Yeah, sweetheart.”
I watched as my daughter smiled widely, before returning her attention to the television screen and the game.
“Cool.”
Black & Green Security
Eddie’s Office
Baltimore, MD
Eddie
I grinned at the framed sonogram sitting on my desk. Heaven and I had just gone for her six-month appointment, and while she looked as if she were big enough to be carrying quads, my wife was only pregnant with twins.
I’d officially lost that bet with Logan. Dammit.
I didn’t care though. I was simply happy to know that I was here, with my woman, for this pregnancy.
And I would be there for every pregnancy to follow. All the cravings. The labor pains. The diaper changes. The bruised knees. The college tuitions…
I was a family man.
The Marines had turned me into a man with the ability to protect and provide for his family.
But Heaven made me into a man worthy enough to have one.
I sifted through the mail on my desk and stopped at the sight of a large manila envelope. I reached out for the letter opener, just as my office phone rang.
Then my cell phone rang.
One was my brother.
The other was my wife.
I figured Heaven was simply calling to tell me about a craving, but Logan? He’d gone to take care of a job for Andrew, so if he was calling me, it was a big deal.
“Bro? What’s up?”
“Did you get a manila envelope?”
I stared down at the item in question in my hands and nodded, though he couldn’t see me.
“Yeah, why?”
I started to slide the contents from inside.
“Whatever you do, don’t open it, and for sure don’t look at it. I’m on my way back. We’re going to take care of it. Every man in the clan got one. Just don’t look and especially don’t take it upon yourself to handle it.”
I frowned, trying to figure out what the fuck Logan was talking about, but then I focused on the numerous pictures I’d pulled out as well as the letter with them.
Pictures of my wife.
Pictures of my wife nude.
Pictures of my wife nude in our home.
Unaware.
Vulnerable.
Pregnant.
These mother fuckers were recent.
Hello Edward,
You have made a very powerful enemy.
One who finds your wife very appetizing.
You have three weeks to complete three tasks.
Succeed and your wife and children will live.
Fail and the next pi
cture you will receive will be those of their dead bodies.
Ciao,
A Friend
“Logan?”
“Yeah bro?”
“Get home fast. You have three hours, then I’m burning B-More to the ground to find this mother fucker.”
“Got it.”
End one bitch ass mother fucker and three more popped up.
Who the hell was behind this Hydra-like asshole and why the fuck did they think they could come for me and mine and survive?
I would have to teach them differently. I was more than ready.
I was a Steele man after all.
*This story continues in Heaven is Eddie’s Woman. Releasing soon!
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