33. Daphne
Daphne
I wanted to keep on loving my woman, but I knew there were people just outside our bedroom door—and one of those was Cammie. That alone made me stop. “I think we better stop until later, baby. I’m pretty sure we have a little girl and your father in the kitchen waiting for us.”
“Yeah,” she laughs. “I can hear the cabinet doors opening and closing. I’m kind of getting hungry, too.”
“Well, we better go then. I need to feed my woman,” I purr next to her ear. She kisses me gently, then we head out to the others.
“Bout damn time. I was thinking I was going to have to come in there and pull you away from my daughter, Pez,” Sabre grumbles.
“Daddy! Language!” Daphne grumbles.
Sabre laughs and kisses her cheek.
I pick up Cammie and hold her on my hip while I watch Daphne hug her dad. They’re getting closer and closer. I can see how much that means to her, too.
“We got pizzas,” Cammie tells me, tugging on my hair—wanting my attention.
“Yummy. Did you get pepperoni?”
“Nana Cory! We gots pepperoni?”
“We did,” Ms. Grayson says from behind the bar, getting a couple pieces of pepperoni and putting it in a paper plate. She slides it over to me. “Drinks are in the fridge,” she murmurs.
“Thanks,” I say with a grin. “Gee Sabre, it sure was nice of you to pick up Ms. Grayson to join us for pizza,” I tease. I know exactly what’s going on here. I also suddenly understand why Sabre wanted to come back with me tonight.
“Shut it, Pez,” he laughs. Then, he walks straight behind the counter, takes Cory Grayson in his arms and kisses the hell out of her.
“Holy Cow,” Daphne says coming over to stand beside me.
“Nana and Papaw wike each other, Mama,” Cammie whispers.
“I’m seeing that,” Daphne says, going up on the tips of her toes to rub her nose against her daughters.
“It’s great!” Cammie announces. “I gots a new daddy and Papaw will bring Nana to our new house wots!”
“It’s pretty great,” Daphne agrees, walking around the bar to hug Cory. “Ms. Gray?—”
“It’s Cory dear, or Cora if you prefer, but never Ms. Grayson to you.
I know you had to call me that before because of that miserable man you were …
” Her gaze flicks over to Cammie and her lips thin out as she snaps her mouth shut.
“It doesn’t matter. Things are different now, but we have always been family and will continue to be.
You know I always thought of you as the daughter I never had, but always wanted. ”
“We are family. Cammie and I both love you. You know that.”
Sabre walks over and puts his around Cory, pulling her to him. “That’s good, because Cory and I are dating,” he announces. “Dating?” Daphne and I echo in shock. That’s one word neither of thought Sabre would ever use.
Sabre laughs. “Well, that’s what Cory says we’re doing, I’ve never done it, but as long as she’s happy then I’m game.”
Just like that the events of the day fade away.
This is my family. I’m a lucky son of a bitch to have it and I’ll never stop giving thanks.
After we eat, Sabre looks at Cammie with a smile.
“Cammie, Do you want to come home with me and Nana and watch the new Toy Story movie? The three of us can have a sleepover.”
“Yes! Awesome!”
“A sleepover, Dad? Is that part of dating?” Daphne laughs.
“That’s my way of dating,” he says with a wink, as he hugs her again.
“We’ve got you covered with your ex, Daph.
Spend tonight talking over what you want to do with Pez.
Once you reach a decision, we’ll send some men to visit him when he’s in jail and get the divorce agreement sign and the custody rights, if that’s what you choose.
There’s no right or wrong. All that matter is what you want and what keeps Cammie safe. ”
“There’s really on one decision that will work for that last one, Dad.”
“I’d like to say you got your brains from me, but the truth is, you’ve always been smarter than I was. I’m so fucking proud of you, baby girl.”
“That means a lot, Daddy. I’m glad you’ve found your way back.”
“God, I am, too,” he halfway groans, halfway laughs.
I listen to them and just let them have their moment. Once they leave, I close and lock the door, I pick Daphne up—despite her protests—and carry her into the bedroom. Once we’re both stripped down and settle, she curls into me, her fingers moving over my chest as we relax.
“Eli? Can you explain what Dad meant when he said men would handle Dane and which choice I take?”
“I figured that was coming. Wouldn’t you rather make love first and worry about that later?” I ask hopefully.
“Quit stalling,” she huffs, slapping my chest playfully.
“Well, I told you what all we had against Dane. King suggested we have Dane arrested on the small charges—the ones that show his violence, but don’t carry a lot of jail time.
It would however have his law license yanked if he’s charged.
Once he’s facing that, he might be willing to agree to the divorce on your terms and sign over all rights to Cammie. ”
“That would mean he’d get off on the big charges, though,” she says thoughtfully.
“It does, but his firm will probably get rid of him, so he wouldn’t be able to keep taking their money. We could always give it to the cops and forget about the deal once he signs the papers. Whatever we do, is up to you sweetheart. No one else.”
“I think I’d like to see if he’ll deal and give over rights to Cammie. It’s a long-shot, because Dane hates to admit defeat. I don’t really want my daughter subjected to his temper and Serena’s too.”
“I think that’s the best decision, baby. I just want everything to be your decision, though.”
“Let him get arrested. We can approach him afterwards, letting him know there’s more.
See if he’ll cave on the full custody. You know yourself he’s a danger.
You saw the marks on Cammie’s arms. It goes against everything I am.
I hate being as underhanded as he is, but I think it maybe the safest choice for my family. ”
I roll over and gather her, needing to keep her even closer than we were. “I’ll let King know. Now, what do you think we should do the rest of the evening?” I ask, wiggling my eyebrows.
“That’s a very hard decision,” she teases.
“Baby, you have no idea,” he jokes.
Her hand snakes down and she wraps it around my hard, aching cock. “Oh, I don’t know. I think I have a firm handle on the situation,” she croons
“You’re getting ready to see what happens when you tease a man to the brink of madness,” I groan.
“Madness? I think you’re exaggerating. I’ve just started,” she purrs, inching down my body.
“With you, it only takes one touch to drive me mad, Daphne. I love you.”
She settles between my legs and our gazes lock. Her’s is hungry and full of all the love she feels for me. It takes my breath. “I never knew what love was before you, Eli,” she says her voice soft and sweet. The emotion in it is thick and wraps around me.
I feel her whimper as she flattens her tongue against the base of my cock.
She licks upwards, leaving wet heat in her path that fires through me.
I get lost in the pleasure. Hell, it’s so good that my eyes roll back in my head.
When she has licked every inch of my cock, her eyes lock with mine again, as she takes me fully into her mouth sucking me in until I reach the back of my throat.
My hand tangles into her hair as I watch her love my cock.
It takes all I have not to push her to take me deeper, feel her swallow around me.
I force myself to arch my neck so I can watch everything she’s doing, as she lifts off me. She grins at me as she licks her lips.
“More …” My voice is somewhere between a gasp and an order.
“In time, Eli,” she promises. I wasn’t prepared for her hand grasping me firmly.
Daphne strokes me again, her hand sliding against my slick shaft.
Up, down, one stroke, two … It’s a steady rhythm which I’m getting lost in.
It feels good and my eyes close with the pleasure.
I can already feel the need to come, forcing me to do everything I can to hold back.
It’s the moment I feel her kiss against my balls, her tongue twirling on them, and then she gently sucks one in her mouth gently sucking it, her face nuzzling against the other.
Daphne’s grip on my cock tightens once more subtlety and as she strokes my cock, once she reaches the tip she twists gently, and pleasure bursts through me, my fingers tightening in her hair.
When she switches things up, and her hand begins caressing my balls as her mouth goes back down on me, I’m completely owned by her, a slave to the pleasure that only she can give me. Daphne is my world.
I’m never letting her go.