Chapter Thirty
Tania lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling as she listened to Tim talking to their son in the next room. When Carter had started fussing, he’d told her to stay put, he’d get him. She felt a little bad over that because she’d been the one to wake him when she’d screamed.
Still, she smiled to herself. She hadn’t felt this good in longer than she could recall, even with the soreness from the beating Rod had given her, she felt better than she had in ages. Then again, she couldn’t recall the last time she’d had an orgasm like that. And there hadn’t been only one.
The bedroom door swung open and Smokey stepped in, he’d pulled on his underwear before going out to check on the baby. Now he stood there, mostly naked, with Carter held against his chest.
“See, there she is. Mommy is just fine,” he spoke in the high pitched tone so many used with babies.
“We’re going to have to figure out what to do about that screaming, Shell.
Waking him up every time I make you come is going to get old quick.
” He lifted one brow and experience told her he was about to make some inappropriate comment. “Would you consider a ball gag?”
She stared at him for a moment, then opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. She considered throwing a pillow at him but didn’t want to hit Carter. Smokey laughed, turned and went back into the sitting area.
“You’ll pay for that!” she yelled when she was able to speak again.
The sound of his laughter made her grin. She could live like this forever.
Well, maybe not exactly like this. It would be nice for Carter to have a bedroom of his own, though now that she thought about it, they could turn the seating area into a bedroom and either let him have this one or put his bed in there.
But it would be a while before they had to worry about that and she might not even be around then.
Did she want to be? She thought so, especially if Smokey would treat her like Raven and Dagger treated their women.
But after everything she’d done, keeping Smokey’s son from him, she didn’t see that he’d ever want anything more from her than that.
But they’d just had sex. Didn’t that mean anything?
It did to her, but did it to him? Men like Smokey slept with a lot of women.
She hadn’t missed the room downstairs with several barely-dressed women.
She’d seen several men go in or come out.
She hadn’t asked yet, but she had a good idea what was going on in there.
“Hey, Shell?” Smokey’s voice broke into her thoughts.
She blinked a couple times then turned to where he was holding out Carter in her direction.
“Can you take him for just a minute. I need to throw on some clothes. Hawkeye needs me downstairs and I don’t think it’s a good idea to go down like this. ”
Tania pushed herself upright and took the baby.
“I guess I’ll get up and take care of this one.
” She turned her attention to Carter. “Guess we blew you having a long nap, didn’t we little guy?
” She knew from experience there would be no getting him back to sleep anytime soon.
Not unless they went for a long drive and she wasn’t even going to suggest it, not with everything that had happened lately.
“Nah, I’ll take him. I just needed to put him down and with you he was less likely to have a fit,” Smokey said pulling on his jeans.
She watched as the thick denim slid up over his ass, then was pulled snug as he fastened the buttons.
“Babe, keep looking at me like that and I’ll tell Hawkeye to screw himself, then get one of the other old ladies to watch the squirt while I wipe that hungry look off your face. ”
Tania blinked then shook her head and grinned up at him. “
“I wouldn’t say no if you want to do that later, but you better go see what he wants.
” She glanced around, wondering how long they’d been up here.
“Shit. I better go down too. Fletch said he’d have the changes done to my paperwork in an hour and that’s already passed.
” She lifted Carter to blow raspberries into his belly then set him in the middle of the bed before getting up.
“Where can I do laundry? We’re running out of clean things. ”
“There’s a laundry room down the hall, but go online and order whatever you need.”
“With what?” she asked as she searched for her underwear. “I may have money on paper but I don’t have any way to access it.”
“Here.” He reached for his wallet that had been sitting on the dresser. “Use this.” He handed her a credit card.
“Thanks, I’ll be careful how much I spend, and I’ll pay you back as soon as I get access to the money.”
Smokey grunted but didn’t respond as he sat on the edge of the bed to put on his socks and boots. Tania found her panties hanging from a drawer knob on the dresser. She plucked them off and put them on, wondering how in the hell he’d managed to get them there.
When he’d finished dressing, Smokey scooped Carter up off the bed then moved to where Tania sat on the foot of the bed putting on her leggings. He bent and placed a kiss on top of her hair, then lowered Carter.
“Give Mommy a kiss so we can go downstairs,” he said to their son.
She tilted her head back and accepted a sloppy kiss from the baby.
“Come on down when you’re ready. I’m headed to Hawkeye’s command center.
I’ll ask if your papers are back yet. You can grab my laptop off the desk next to his crib if you want.
” He jiggled Carter in his arms. “I don’t know if you’d rather the bigger screen for shopping. ”
“I’ll do that. Thanks.”
She watched as he went into the connecting room, then left the small apartment. She took a deep breath and tried to calm her racing heart. Things were going well but would they stay that way?