60. Colt
60
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It’s been hours and the Vice President is off to bed. And if my dad is willing to play by our rules, I want him in my life even if it comes with a smattering of appearances. I’ve endured worse.
Law stretches out his long legs. “Mags, I look forward to getting to know you.”
“I think I know all about you but not you.”
“I’m a mystery, wrapped in a riddle. Smoke and mirrors, baby.” He tucks his hands behind his head and leans back a little.
Hayden says, “No. You’re all about your dick, but somebody is going to come along and break it.”
Dax smiles and says, “Off. Someone is going to break it off.”
I grin and stand to help clear plates with the girls but as I turn, I hear Robbie say, “What’s the standing bet on the secret baby?”
I offer up, “You mean the happy accident?” Everyone laughs.
“I think it’s up to 2 now. And I have to wear diapers in public or you all do, to a game when I hit thirty-five.” He shoots some finger guns at Tony. Then grins and says, “I always wrap. Never gonna happen.”
Maggie turns to us, “Wait. You all have a two-dollar bet on whether Lawrence has spilled seed?”
They laugh and Tony corrects her, “Two million. And if he loses, he owes us each four at this point.”
“That’s too much money!”
Monica saunters up behind her and fixes her flower crown. “That’s what I said. Mak and Claire turned all their cash into a nonprofit, but I’m the one who’s going to run it. I get to decide where all their dumbass cash goes. Time to leave the woods and use my admin powers fah good.” They all yell and point at her.
Robbie says, “Wicked accent dere, girlie. Yah mutha know ya running with an uptown boy?”
I’m not sure I can hold on to even more joy than I thought as the brothers bust each other up. And then Maggie slips her arms around my waist.
“Mrs. Andrews?” She sighs. “Time for me to ravage a married woman. Say goodnight.”
“But—” She protests until my hand brushes over her ass, and my lips find that intersection of shoulder and neck.
“Say goodnight, Meerkat.”
She gasps out, “Goodnight, Meerkat.” I pinch her ass with a sharp, precise pinch. I need to be inside my wife. She jumps a little but smiles at everyone.
She removes the flowers from her head and hands them to Mak. “Hold my crown, I’ll be done in a minute.”
I toss her over my shoulder to much clapping and cheering. “No. She won’t be right back,” I yell. “My love, it’s going to take years to be done with you.”
I put her down at the entrance to the house and she says, “I’ll never be done with you. It’s an impossible idea. I was given time to get over you and move on and that didn’t work. You are the one thing in life that I could never be---”
I cut her off with a soft kiss and murmur on her lips, “Focus.”
End.