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“Now, back to feeding our son,” Nico prompts.
I roll my eyes knowing full well that I need to pick my battles. I won’t win this round. “Ugh. Give him to me.” The asshole grins, knowing he has won and hands him over to me.
Taking him, I move to the Chesterfield chair that overlooks the big bay window. My mouth drops open at the view. Plush gardens, an Olympic sized swimming pool and a stone path that leads to the beach.
“Wow,” I gasp, feeling Nico step up beside me.
“Don’t tell me that you’re impressed by all this? You must have had similar surroundings growing up in a rich family.”
I stiffen, my head snapping up to him. I grind my teeth so hard I’m surprised they don’t turn to dust. “You don’t know anything aboutmy family,” I spit.
His eyes light up in challenge. “Oh yeah? I know the Caldwell’s are a prominent family in Seattle and that they have been looking for you.”
My heart picks up speed, panic coursing through me. “You-you didn’t tell them where I am, did you?” Right now, I don’t care about anything. I am more concerned that my father might know where I am.
He searches my face, for what I’m not sure, before shoving his hands in his pants pockets. His gaze narrows. “No. Not yet. But don’t think I won’t contact them. You do as I say and don’t step out of the lines I draw for you, then I will keep you hidden. Will keep you safe from whatever it is you ran from.”
I don’t miss the threat in his voice, but I can’t bring myself to be scared.
Living with Nico’s rules is a far better fate than returning to my family.
“I understand,” I say with resignation, my shoulders slumping in defeat.
He watches me with a blank look, no doubt for any trace that I am lying. I’m not. I would rather be a prisoner here for the rest of my life than ever see my father again.
“I am glad we got that cleared up. Now feed our son.”
Chapter10
Nico
“So how is it going with the little Houdini?”
I frown, pinning Dante with a confused glare. “Houdini?”
He chuckles. “Yeah. She is good at disappearing.”
“Idiot,” I mutter, running a hand through my hair.
He laughs harder before his expression sobers. “Well?”
I sigh. It’s been two days since I brought Ocean and my son home. Two days of mixed feelings. One minute I want to fuck her senseless, the next I want to wrap my hand around her pretty little throat and watch as I squeeze the life out of her. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been amazing having Romeo here, but every time I look at him, I am reminded of Ocean’s betrayal. Of how she kept him from me. At missing his birth. At the time I lost with him. I’m just so fucking angry with her.
Children were never in my future plans. I knew I would have to produce an heir one day, but I would have been quite happy not bringing a child into my world. Now that I have a son, I want to keep breeding with Ocean and never stop. It’s a paradox of mixed emotions for sure. And then there is my mamma and sister, the happiness that exudes from the both of them just from having Ocean and Romeo here. They are besotted with my son. Especially Mamma. And I see the way she is with my deceitfulTesoro. How she has taken her under her wing. Mamma has a new lease on life and after what happened with my papà, it makes me happy to see.
“Honestly?” I ask, and he nods. “I have mixed feelings. Obviously, I am happy about my son, but I am just so angry that she kept him from me. Even if it was only a matter of months. There is a part of me that wants to forget what she did, move forward as a family and make her mine forever. But there is also a small part of me that wants to take Romeo from her, even if only for a couple of days, just so she knows how it feels to be away from him. It’s fucked up, but it’s the truth,” I admit.
He runs a palm down his face. “I get it Nic. I would feel the same. You were denied being there for your son, for the first couple months of his life. It sucks, because I know how much you would have wanted to have been there, even if your papà had still been alive.”
My jaw clenches. The anger I have been trying to tamp down the anger surging in my veins. “Exactly. Which is why I want to punish her for it.”
“Nic, she has nowhere to run. Her life is in your hands.” He smirks, telling me what I already know, his underlying message clear. I grin. Yes. Yes, it is. She is mine to do with as I please. Though I don’t want to hurt her, I can toy with her. After all, she did it to me for over a year.
“She thinks that I married Gianna,” I tell him.
His eyes light up with amusement. “Use that,” he frowns. “Just don’t tell your sister I said that. She has taken a shine to the girl and will have my balls.”
I grimace. “I don’t want to hear the words sister and balls in the same sentence.”
