by L. Ann Marie
She says something under her breath and I hear ‘ugly bitch’ as she’s walking away. She’s too fuckin’ much. “Freeze.” She stops. “Clear your desk and turn in your badge. If I have to, I’ll have Sheila escort you out.” She pales then starts with tears that I ignore.
I look at Holly. She’s watching me with an eyebrow raised. This is new and I memorize the way that looks. I love how expressive her eyes are and bend to kiss her. “I like this look, it’s a new one. My mom does that with her eyebrow. Are you ready?”
I get my smiling eyes and take her bag. “Thanks.” She’s got her hair covering her left side. Some women are so fuckin’ mean. I just don’t get it.
She talks on the way home, but keeps her hair in front of her face. We pick up Mucimi and I call for dinner. I bring her some wine and hope it relaxes her enough not to hide. This is not how I pictured tonight playing out. Mucimi is playing on the floor. I sit close to her putting my good arm on her shoulder watching him. “It was a busy day.”
She looks up at me smiling. “Yes. I got my book done.”
Fuck! I forgot to look up her books. “Can I see?”
She laughs. “It’s dedicated to Mucimi. I used him as an example.”
I look at her as she opens her laptop. She used him as an example? I smile seeing the cover. She writes kids’ books. This is about a boy that broke his leg playing soccer. It’s fuckin’ cute. Mucimi comes over and she lifts him and reads the story to him. I remember getting her reading him a book when he’s older. Fuck that was in the hospital. He laughs every time she turns a page. All I can do is stare at them.
When she’s done he hits the keys and she laughs. “Hold on impatient boy. I have one I know you’ll like.” She goes to a file and I see all the books as she scrolls down.
“How many books do you have?”
Holy shit, she’s still scrolling. “Almost thirty. Here it is.” She starts reading to him and I get the door. Thirty. I get the table set and pull my phone looking up her pen name. She’s won awards with her books. What the fuck is she doing working at Princes?
When she brings him in we sit. I feed my boy and look at her. She’s smiling again and her hair is away from her face. “What made you take the job at Princes?”
She looks at her food. “The news showed Alex talking about the homeless. I spent my life in my house not doing anything for anyone. When I saw the job, I applied. Bull hired me and I started writing books for the neighborhoods. The one I did today finished a series for the island getaway neighborhood.”
Fuckin’ old ladies. I laugh. All this time and I’m just getting that she’s it right now. Every bit of her screams old lady. I need to order a cut for her. I kiss her and she smiles. “You’re perfect.” Her eyes are surprised and she opens her mouth. “Fuckin’ perfect. I’m not looking for an answer I’m just stating fact.” She nods and I get shy eyes.
Jacob comes in to help with bath time and I hand him a takeout tray as he leaves. “Thanks Brother.”
I just close the door to the garage and Taylor walks in the slider. I need to remember to lock the fuckin’ doors. “Beer?” he asks.
He looks rough and I’m wondering if he’s okay. With all the shit happening I haven’t seen him much. “Yeah. I need to get Mucimi to bed first.”
He smiles. “I got him.” Before he takes Mucimi I kiss his head and tell Holly I’m on the deck with Taylor for about an hour.
“I’ll get my book up on Amazon while you’re busy.” She’s excited.
“Don’t you have a publisher?”
She shakes her head. “With the series for the homeless I didn’t go through the publisher. I do it myself and Amazon sends the money direct to the nonprofits that take care of them. There’s no administrative costs taken out that way. Now that I know how to do everything, I’m not sending anything to the publisher. It’s fairly easy to publish a book nowadays.”
I kiss her then laugh. “Publish your book babe. I’ll be about an hour.” She smiles pulling her laptop over.
On the deck I tell Taylor about the books. He calls Jeremy and tells him. I just shake my head. Jeremy doesn’t talk much, so I don’t get why he’d call him. While he’s on the phone I order her cut. I can’t wait for it to get here. She’s the first Blackhawk in a Princess cut. She’s going to love it.
He hangs up looking at me. “You still pissed at them for not telling you about the crazy bitch?”
I shake my head. “Nah, they get so much. I don’t know what would have happened if they told me. We can’t have another Aubrey over it. Christian was torn up over it. We’re both alive and his arm is already healed according to Dakota. He gets his cast off in two days.”
He smiles. “I’d still be pissed. You’re a good Brother.”
I throw him chin. We talk about the trafficking Ops coming up while we finish our beer.
He stands. “I’m meeting that nurse up at the Club. I’m out Brother.”
I smile standing up. Jeremy liked him with the nurse, maybe she’s what he needs. “Later Taylor.” I go in locking the slider behind me. I don’t think I’ve ever used the lock before. I stick the pin in too, just in case, everyone here can get through the locks.
Holly is on the couch still on her laptop. I sit and she looks at me with her smiling eyes. “Just putting it on the website. I can play with it tomorrow.” She saves and clicks out of everything then puts the laptop in her bag.
“I’m excited for this one. The last of the series means I can start a new one. Mucimi gives me all kinds of ideas.”
“I have all kinds of ideas, but I don’t think they can go in your books.” I pull her to my lap.
“Aren’t you worried about your arm?”
“No.” I kiss her neck.
“Your collarbone?”
“No.” I move to behind her ear.
“Your fingers?”
“Not a bit.” I lick across her scar to her mouth then smile when she shivers.
“Your back?”
I lift my mouth from hers. “Babe this is happening right the fuck now and the only thing on my mind is how fast my mouth gets on you to taste every inch of that beautiful little body you’re wearing.”
She goes from shy eyes to fuckin’ sexy eyes in a New York minute. “Your eyes just turned a darker shade of crystal blue. I like this look best.”
She stands up pulling me with her and I laugh following her to the bedroom.
I spin her when the door closes. “Before I show you how much I want you, I’m telling you so there’s no doubt between us. Everything you are, everything you do, all your sweet for me and Mucimi, it’s what I want for our every tomorrow. This isn’t about a quick fuck Holly; this is about a life together. Every fuckin’ thing that’s happened and delayed me getting what I want, showed me who I want. You are mine.” I smile. “Forever and always.”
She has tears in her smoldering smiling eyes. “Mucimi.”
“Kuwômôyush mucimi.”
Her breath catches. “I love you too, Brantley.”
I love hearing that back and kiss her sliding the zipper down her back. She’s unbuttoning my shirt and makes a growling sound. I slide her dress off her shoulder and pull my shirt ripping the rest of the buttons off. “Fuckin’ old ladies and the sexy.” My finger slides under the lacy edges of her bra. I kiss her shoulder moving one strap down and pulling the hooks the opposite way fast. It falls to her elbows and I walk her back as I move my mouth back to her neck. “As pretty as that is the only thing I want on you is my mouth.”
She’s growling again with her hands all over my back and shoulder. When she goes for my zipper I kneel in front of her. There’s no way I’d get to taste her with her hands on my dick. “Fuck babe, these are sexy.” I hold the string in my hand and use my thumb to break it. With my hand running down her chest to her thighs, I follow with my mouth. She’s breathing fast and shallow with her hands in my hair and sliding to my shoulder. I push her back until her ass is leaning against the bed. She tri
es to open her legs and I stop her. I dreamed of waking her with my tongue and that’s what I’m taking.
“No fuckin’ clue why, but I want you just like this. Love the landing strip my beautiful sweet girl.” I dip my tongue at each crease of her leg then right up the middle rolling her nub and getting the sexiest fuckin’ ‘yes’ I’ve ever heard. “Keep your legs tight.” I feather my tongue, turning my head, and she’s moaning. My hand finds her nipple and I knead it. I keep rolling her nub and feathering my tongue against her closed lips. She starts shaking and I hear another sexy as fuck ‘yes’ then she growls my name and grabs my hair tight in two hands. When she comes I hold her lips together with my teeth and slide my tongue across her one last time. I kiss my way up and hold her nipple in my mouth scraping it with my teeth. She’s ready again. Fuck I love that. I kiss up her neck to her ear and then lick her scar across to her mouth. She takes over, holding me to her and taking what she wants.
“Fuckin’ sexy.” I pull away and she’s got my pants unbuttoned and zipper down. Her fingers wrapping around me has me growling. “Only way to do this one handed sweet girl is you turned around. You tell me if it’s too much.” She whimpers making me smile. I turn her putting her chest on the bed. “Spread your legs babe.” She does and I’m sliding in slow. “You’re so fuckin’ wet I want to slide right in.”
“Do it,” she moans out.
Fuck. I move faster afraid of hurting her, but needing to be balls deep. “Holy fuck Holly.”
“More Brantley, move.”
“Fuckin’ anything.” I move and don’t stop until I’m drained. “Jesus. Every fuckin’ day I wake up wondering and it never came close.” I hold still loving her pussy holding me right here.
She makes sound, but no words and I smile. Patches said if she can move I did it wrong. I can’t lift her, but I help get her on the bed then clean her up. I kiss her going up and wipe her face. “Love you isn’t enough.” She moans moving to her side. I kiss her cheek and lick across the scar to her ear getting another moan.
Feeling pretty good, I get Mucimi’s bottle ready and sit on the deck until it’s time to feed him. I smile, everyone was right, she’s the one. Fuckin’ Brothers always know. I hope she sleeps through the night without a problem. Mucimi needs to move back to his bed.
I hear him moving around and heat the bottle then feed him on the patio. He turns when I put him to bed and closes his eyes. “Kuwômôyush Mucimi.”
I slide into bed and pull her to me. She opens her eyes and moves to my chest. “Love you,” she mumbles and closes her eyes.
I wake up with her hands on me. It’s dark, but I see her shy eyes. “Mmmm ride me.”
She moves keeping her hand off my bad side and rides me. When she falls on my chest I kiss her and hold on with my good hand. “Best fuckin’ dream I ever had Holly.” She moans something that I don’t get and closes her eyes. There’s not a fuckin’ chance in hell I’d move her. She sleeps with my dick still in her and I’m thinking that’s the most erotic thing that’s ever happened to me.
Chapter Eleven
Two weeks
Holly
I feel his hand petting my face and open my eyes. “Morning mylittle happy boy.” He laughs then I do.
Brantley kisses me from the side of the bed. “Morning sweet girl.”
“Morning.” I smile up at him. He always brings Mucimi in before I’m awake. It hits me. “You need to go.”
He laughs. “Yeah. I have the early Ops for trafficking.”
“I have happy boy. Be safe honey.”
I get another kiss and he’s gone. I’m excited I get to do this alone today and get happy boy up and dressed, then fed. I talk to him the whole time, glad I’m not alone talking to myself so much anymore. He’s signing more and more and I kiss his fingers when he signs ‘I love you’. He makes me laugh when he laughs. It’s such a cute little baby sound. I type an idea on my phone and think I have another book. The boy is pure inspiration.
When Done comes out for him he screams making me jump out. Holy crap my heart is pounding. I move Done and take him out of his seat. He’s crying uncontrollably. Crap, crap crap! “Someone is hurt.” I walk into the daycare hoping it’s not Brantley, but hating for it to be another kid.
Loraine is holding Brandon with a towel on his mouth. She’s shocked watching Mucimi cry. He puts his arms out to Brandon and I move him closer. He stops crying and leans his head against Brandon’s chest.
“Can we sit them down?” I ask. Done takes them both. Walking to a mat he sits them down in front of him.
I walk over and watch Done take the towel from Brandon. He looks at me and smiles. Brandon’s lip is red but there’s no cut. I look at the towel and see the blood.
“Well hot damn!” Loraine says, making us laugh.
Mucimi signs, ‘I love you.’ Brandon signs, ‘Yes’.
I have another book! I shake my head smiling. I tell Mucimi I have to go to work and he moves so I can lift and hug him. “I’m so proud of you mylittle happy boy.”
I get a wet kiss on the cheek and he moves back toward Brandon. I’m a little nervous about leaving him and move away, but not out.
Done watches me. “I know what to do now. If it doesn’t work, I’ll video chat you until you get here.”
I tell me to trust him because the Club does. That works to calm me and I nod. “Thank you.”
I head to work feeling better. He fixed Brandon’s mouth. I laugh then think people are going to think I’m crazy and just smile the rest of the way.
***
Brantley
We run leads all fuckin’ morning. I’m glad when we finally get the teams running the bidders. MC is running auctions. They have four and take them all netting six kids and two teenage girls. Taylor, Jessie, Sheila and Aaron each end up kicking the shit out of at least one of their bidders. Sheila hit two. Prez has Jessie run one out of town four. He’s pissed the pussy was so close to a school.
I call Holly to bring Mucimi to the daycare and come up to the Club with Jess and Lily. She sounds funny on the phone but agrees. I’m wondering what went wrong in her day. She’s always happy and easy with Prince shit.
When I walk in she’s smiling at Nick and I’m on edge. She sees me and smiles bigger. “You did good today!”
I bend and kiss her. “Yeah.”
She looks at my eyes and hers go to confused. She looks at Nick then smiles. “I was a little nervous about leaving Mucimi tonight. He started screaming when I went to drop him off this morning.”
Fuck! “You didn’t call me.”
“No, well, he was fine within minutes. Brandon fell and split his lip. When I saw him, I brought Mucimi close and he stopped crying. Done sat Mucimi on Brandon’s lap on a mat and not ten minutes later Brandon’s lip was good as new.” She’s got her smiling eyes on and I laugh. Fuckin’ kids. “I asked Nick to check on him, but he was fine all day. He was just telling me to relax because Done was like a mother hen with him. I thought it would be good for another book.” Taylor cracks up.
I kiss her again. “Thanks for knowing what to do. He’s fine now?”
She nods. “He was fine before I left him, but I worried anyway.”
“That’s what moms do,” Prez tells her surprising the shit out of me. I didn’t know he was here already.
She gets tears in her eyes and thanks him. I hug her and kiss her head. “The best mom he could have.” She starts bawling and Taylor laughs.
I give him a look and he stops. Prez has Dakota get everyone’s attention and Holly looks around surprised. I smile and watch her reactions to the status and who did what. When he gets to me I’m surprised. She gives me her smiling eyes and pulls me down to kiss my cheek. “I’m proud of you Brantley.” She looks surprised. “I don’t think I’ve ever said that and I said it twice today. Both times to my favorite men.” Hoping the other is Mucimi, I give her a squeeze. When Prez is done everyone cheers. I take her with me to find Jason, then Sheila’s team. I get to Sheila
last. Jax thanks Holly for her quick thinking and fixing Brandon up. She laughs saying it was all Mucimi. Sheila hugs her and asks about the books.
We’re both surprised and Sheila smiles. “The MC and Baxters both have them up on the websites. I heard that Mitch has them going to the hospitals that use her robotics.” I laugh. Fuckin’ Jeremy. The kid is a wiz at marketing - that’s why Taylor called him.
She looks at me with the biggest smile. “Maybe they’ll make enough to open another neighborhood in a town that needs one.”
Jess hugs her. “You’re awesome. That’s all.” She walks away making us laugh.
I talk to Jax and Driscoll about the training and adding the forms like we have from MC-Baxters where the schedule pulls by experience and training. I keep an eye on Holly and notice she’s not shy around the other old ladies. She’s smiling and having fun. When we get the training for them set, I stand behind her happy she has this. She leans against me when she realizes I’m right there. Eliza asks how she’s been feeling.
“Perfect.”
I laugh. The Brothers start showing with their women. Eliza looks at Lily. “Girls’ night out?” Oh shit. I groan.
“Get used to it Brother,” Jessie says and the women laugh.
They get a day that works for everyone and Prez pulls Lily out. We all follow. In the truck she’s smiling, but quiet. “What’s the smile sweet girl?”
“Prez says I’m a mom.” She’s got happy eyes with happy tears in them.
I hold her hand with my casted arm. “You are. Mucimi knew it in the hospital. It took me two days longer to see it, but I got that too.”