“Uh, about an hour,” Apollo replied.
“Make it an hour and a half.” I ended the call and shoved my phone back in my pocket. I lifted Royal into my arms and stalked to the stairs.
“What are we doing?” she giggled.
“Answering your question of what I look like under this suit.”
“Oh,” she gasped. “But the doctors,” she cried.
I made it to the stairs and stalked past Apollo and Murphy who were standing by the front door. That ruled out Murphy being in the pantry with Bristol.
“Whoa!” Meg hollered from the top of the stairs. “What’s going on?” Her hair was dripping wet, and she had a towel draped over her shoulders.
I climbed the stairs two at a time.
“Uh,” Apollo called. “I don’t think there is anything wrong.”
Meg jumped to the side when I reach the top of the stairs. “Oh.” She gave me a slight bow. “I’d tell you to suit up, but you’re way past that point.” She winked at Royal. “Ride ‘em, cowgirl.”
Apollo and Murphy busted out laughed, and Royal buried her face in my shoulder.
“Meg,” King called from the opposite side of the hallway. “Get your ass in this room.”
“Oh, hey!” she cheered. “Do I get to do a little riding, too?” she called to King.
“No. You’re soaking wet and dripping all over Marco’s floor.”
Her face fell. “Well, shoot.” She turned on her heel and headed down the hallway toward King.
King chuckled and leaned against the doorway to their room. “Though I thought we could test out this tub and see if it can really fit two people.”
Meg pumped her fist in the air. “Oh, yeah!”
I headed down the hallway to my room and didn’t stop until I reached the door.
“Oh, your room,” Royal gasped. She reached for the door handle and pushed it open.
“It’s your room now, too,” I growled. I stalked to the bed and laid her down in the middle of it. I climbed on with her while I undid my tie and jacket.
My clothes ended up in a pile on the floor along with Royal’s next to them.
“Wow,” Royal laughed. “You’re like Clark Kent when he changed into his costume.”
“I didn’t want to keep you waiting.” I leaned down and pressed a kiss to her bare stomach. “Or me.”
She self-consciously tried to cover herself with her hands. I grabbed her wrists and pinned them over her head. “What are you doing?” I demanded.
“I’m naked, Marco,” she whispered.
“I know,” I growled. “That’s how I want you.”
She groaned and closed her eyes. “Do you think we could do this with the lights off?”
I shook my head. “No. I want to see all of you. Just how you are. I want to remember you just like this.” I wasn’t getting any younger, and this might be the only time Royal would be pregnant.
With my baby.
I pressed kisses all over her stomach and my hands released her wrists. “Keep your hands there. I want to taste every inch of you.”
“Marco,” she moaned.
I wanted to touch and taste every inch of her at once. My hands roamed over her body while my head moved down her stomach and over her mound. I moved off the foot of the bed, and grabbed her ankles. I pulled her to the edge, spread her legs. and without warning, my tongue slipped through the folds of her pussy, and I tasted her sweet desire.
Her hands moved and her fingers delved into my hair. “Oh, my God,” she moaned. Her hips raised, and I buried my face in her pussy. My tongue flicked her clit, and a guttural moan ripped from her lips.
“Tell me what you want, Royal,” I mumbled against her.
“You, Marco. I want you.” She let out a cry when I spread the lips of her pussy and sucked in her clit. “I need you.”
Her words urged me on. I wanted her, too. I needed her even more.
She pressed her heels into the bed and thrust her hips up. My fingers plunged in and out of her while my tongue teased, licked, and caressed her clit.
“More, more,” Royal begged. “I need more.”
My fingers sped up, and my tongue swirled around her clit. Her hands tugged on my hair, and she screamed my name.
Her body shook and sang for me.
She finally sagged back onto the bed and panted.
I wiped her sweet juices from my chin and stood up. I looked down at her with absolute need pumping through my veins. “I want all of you, Royal. I need to know what you feel like wrapped around my dick.”
“Yes,” she whispered. “Please. Take me.”
I slipped inside her and fought the urge to come.
Holy fucking shit.
The walls of her pussy contracted around me, basically sucking me in. I pulled out and pounded back into her.
For a second, I worried that her stomach would cause some maneuvering problems, but it didn’t. Everything was fine.
No.
Everything was fucking perfect.
“Don’t leave me, Marco,” she pleaded. “Please don’t leave me.”
Her words hit me right in the heart. I would never leave Royal. She was mine now, and always would be.
A sob escaped her lips, and she slammed her eyes shut.
“Come for me, mio amore. Come for me,” I urged her on.
The walls of her pussy squeezed tight around me, and my name ripped from her lips. I thrust deep and couldn’t hold it back anymore.
I came inside her while she screamed my name
This was it.
This is what I didn’t know I needed.
Royal was the final piece to make my life complete.
Royal was it.
*
Royal
Wow.
Whoa.
Hot damn.
Sweet nibblets.
Marco gathered me in his arms and pulled a blanket over us.
“Sleep, mio amore.”
Sleep? I wanted to go another round or two. “Uh, I’m not tired,” I laughed.
Marco pressed a kiss to the side of my head.
You know the saying that pregnant women are horny all of the time? I didn’t believe that was true, but now that Marco was naked in bed with me, I did.
Oh boy, did I think that was true.
Or maybe that just had to do with Marco in general.
“Uh, how long until the next doctor gets here?” I asked.
Marco looked at his watch. “About half an hour.”
I tapped my fingers on his arm. “Uh, do you think we have enough time to do that again?” There was my inner Sophia coming out again. Though I was feeling more like Blanche. She probably would have told Marco to roll over and just start riding him.
Riding him.
A shiver ran through my body.
Yeah. I was thinking Blanche was going to become my favorite Golden Girl.
“You sure?” he asked.
I bit my lip. “Uh, more than sure.” I pressed my legs together and felt a tremor rock through me. “Do you think I could be on top this time?”
Marco sucked in a breath and tightened his arms around me. “Ride me, mio amore.”
*
Chapter Fourteen
Marco
“Would we be able to have the baby here?” Royal asked.
That was something I hadn’t thought about. I pressed a finger between my tie and neck. I honestly hadn’t really thought past more than knowing Royal needed a doctor.
Royal had said before that it had hit her that she was about to have a baby.
Well, it had just hit me, too.
Dr. Hamm smiled. “I don’t see why not. As long as you aren’t breach, we can certainly set up an area for you to give birth.”
“Uh, where exactly would that happen?” I asked.
Dr. Hamm laughed. “Uh, well, there are many options to choose from, but the most popular are either water births or just in her bed.”
“I’m going to need to count
all of the bedrooms,” Royal murmured.
A knock sounded on my office door. Apollo stuck his head in. “We have a situation, sir.”
Of fucking course.
I nodded to Dr. Hamm. “I don’t have any other questions, do you, mio amore?”
Royal shook her head. “Uh, no. I think I’m good.”
“Does this mean I get to be your doctor?” Dr. Hamm asked.
I didn’t have any reason not to like her. She was nice, didn’t talk down to us, and Royal seemed to like her.
Before Dr. Hamm, the second doctor had arrived and it was a disaster. He spoke to Royal like she was an idiot and didn’t understand English. I had tried to hold my temper in, but when he had insinuated that Royal was less than me, I had enough.
Apollo had stepped in and escorted the buffoon from the property before I stuck my foot so far up his ass he would have had to surgically remove it.
“Yes, please,” Royal pleaded. “I would love it if you would deliver our baby.”
I was still in shock over the fact it was our baby. It was what I wanted, but it had happened so quickly that it was slowly settling in.
Apollo cleared his throat. “How about you take Dr. Hamm to the kitchen and see what Bristol has for lunch,” he suggested.
I helped Royal up from her chair and pressed a kiss to her cheek. “Save me some dessert,” I whispered in her ear.
She blushed a pretty shade of pink and nodded.
Apollo held open the office door, and I was surprised when King, Hero, and Rigid walked in after Royal and Dr. Hamm walked out.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
King and Hero sat in the chairs in front of my desk, and Rigid moved to the window. I sat down in my chair, and Apollo moved behind me.
King sat back in his chair and sighed. “There’s been another murder.”
“Who?” I asked. I knew all about the problem they were having with some psycho killing women from the strip club.
“Girl named Savana. She only worked at the club for a month before shit started hitting the fan.” Hero pulled out his phone. “Easy and Snapper didn’t even know she was missing until Ransom barged into the clubhouse half an hour ago.”
“Cop?” Apollo asked.
“Yup,” Rigid drawled. “It’s always great when the cops think they can just walk in whenever they want.”
“Where was she found?” I asked.
“Gas station a mile down the road from the clubhouse. Clerk clocked in for his shift and was shocked as fucked to find Savana dead in the women’s restroom.” Hero shook his head.
“Are you assuming this is the same guy who killed three of your other girls?” I asked.
King nodded. “It has to be. It’s too much of a coincidence for it not to be.”
“Do they know how he got her?” Apollo asked. “I thought you guys had that place locked down like Fort Knox.”
“We do,” Hero snapped. “This is the second time this fucker has gotten into the clubhouse without any of us knowing.”
“Then maybe it’s someone who’s already inside?” Apollo suggested.
King’s eyes snapped to Apollo. “Are you saying one of my guys is doing this?” he barked.
Apollo held up his hands. “I’m not saying that. I’m saying maybe it is someone on the inside.”
“Maybe it’s one of the other girls,” I suggested. I knew it wasn’t any of the guys. They were my family. I knew Apollo wasn’t suggesting it was one of them either. “You said you’ve got close to twenty girls in there. You really think you know all of them?”
“Luna does,” Hero replied.
Apollo shook his head. “There’s no way she knows all of those girls. Let me talk to them. See what I can find out.”
“Sultry Knights is Luna’s baby. I really doubt she’s going to just welcome you with open arms,” Hero chuckled.
“That’s why you tell her she’s going to welcome Apollo with open arms,” I growled. Luna was one of the people I always seemed to bump heads with. Even though she was more than fifteen years younger than me, she always seemed to be the one with the biggest chip on her shoulder. “You run the club, not her.”
“You know how Luna is,” King drawled. “We’ll handle her. If you want to lend us Apollo, we’ll gladly welcome him. Even Luna.”
That was hard to believe.
“Did Ransom find out anything else when he came to clubhouse?” I asked. I had never personally dealt with the guy, but I had heard he was a hard ass who was hell bent on justice. And didn’t like the Devil’s Knights.
King shrugged. “Snapper told me he was still talking to the girls. We’re going to head back to the clubhouse within the hour to see if we can find anything out.”
“I’ll come with you,” Apollo volunteered. “It’s best I snoop around when things are still fresh.”
“You mean when Luna is on a tear. She’s going to chew you up and spit you out,” Hero chuckled.
Apollo cracked his neck. “I’d like to see her try.”
“Your women can stay here. It’s likely safer here while the police are sniffing around,” I offered.
King nodded. “I appreciate that. It’s hard to do anything when they think they need to have their nose in everything, too.”
“Do they know about Savana?” I asked.
King shook his head. “I wanted to talk to you before I told them. Shit spreads like wildfire when one of them knows something. I wanted you to hear what was going on from me.”
I appreciated that. I know the last time I met with the Kings, we hadn’t left on a good note, but they were still family.
“Take Apollo and let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.”
“The same goes for you. We know you’re handling the Meeks, but we are here if you need us,” King replied.
I waved my hand. “Right now I don’t have anything on Meeks. The fucker disappeared. No one has seen him since I left Miami. I can’t even locate Grit’s body.”
King cringed. “Jesus. I thought for sure he would strike again soon.”
I had, too. He was acting unpredictably. “Well, whenever he does, we’ll be ready. I’ve been trying to spread around our location but not make it obvious that I’m trying to lure in Meeks. No bite yet.”
Leo had agreed that our best option was to basically invite Meeks into our home and take him out.
Meeks obviously wasn’t getting the clue.
King nodded to Rigid. “Let’s go tell the girls they get to extend their vacation here, but it’s not for a good reason.”
King and Rigid walked out of the office with Apollo following behind.
Hero leaned back in his chair and kicked his feet out. “Quite the digs you have here,” he chuckled.
“You’re set up pretty good at the clubhouse, too.”
Hero shrugged. “Building and location wise? Yeah. I’m doing good.”
“But?” I asked.
“But you’re stepping up a hell of a lot more than I am.” He frowned. “I thought for a second that I was going to get King’s chair, but with this serial killer bullshit going on, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.”
“Give it time, Hero. You’re still young. When I was your age, I was Leo’s driver for six months because he told me I needed to learn everyone’s job. Even the ones that I would never have to do when I took over.”
Hero chuckled. “He made you prospect.”
I nodded. “Yup. That was exactly what he did. Got the idea from you guys.” I shook my head. “I have to tell you, I did not like it at all at the time, but it did help me. It’s good to learn how every wheel, screw, and bolt holds everything together as a whole.”
Hero nodded. “I guess I can understand that.”
I stood and buttoned my jacket. “Have faith, Hero. It will happen, but you just might have to wait a little bit longer.”
We walked out of my office and toward the kitchen.
“You have to work as the chef?” Hero lau
ghed.
I nodded. “Though that didn’t last for very long. Uncle Leo found out quickly that cooking was not something I was gifted in.”
A wave of cries and gasps came from the media room.
“Sounds like King and Rigid told the girls about Savana.” Hero shook his head. “This shit needs to end, Marco, but we can’t figure out why it’s happening.”
I clapped him on the shoulder. “Sometimes things don’t get fixed as soon as you’d like them to. I’m chasing my fucking tail with Meeks right now when all I want to do it find him and blow his head off.”
“Well, if anyone can find him, it’s the Banachis.”
I appreciated his vote of confidence, but even I was beginning to doubt that it was going to happen.
Murphy briskly walked down the hallway with his finger pressed to his ear. “Secure the gates,” he barked.
Princeton came running down the stairs with his gun drawn. “A car is tearing down the driveway headed for the house.”
King and the club rushed from the media room. “What’s going on?” King called.
“A car has breached the property and is headed this way.” Apollo grabbed my arm. “We have to get you to the safe room, sir.”
I yanked my arm from his. “I’m not fucking running.” Especially not without Royal and everyone else. Royal and Dr. Hamm came running from the kitchen with Bristol and some of the other staff members following them. “Marco,” she called.
I held out my hand to her, but a loud crash sounded outside.
Everyone who had a gun drew it and looked at the door.
“Hero,” Rigid called. “Get your mom and all of the women in the media room. Lock the door and don’t let anyone in,” he barked.
I could tell Hero didn’t want to listen, but at the end of the day, he wasn’t president of the club. He quickly herded all of the woman back down the hallway.
“Go with Hero,” I called to Royal.
“Hero,” she called again.
“Just go!” I shouted at her. Now was not the fucking time to try and argue with me.
She let out a whimper but finally did what I asked.
I watched her until she was out of sight and I heard the media room door close.
Apollo moved next to me. “What do you—”
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