AllFreeNovel
Share Us
"I wish I could, hon, but I need to go run some errands for Angel that are time-sensitive," Hanna replied with a tired chuckle, prying my arms off and bringing a hand up to her lips to kiss the back of it.
Letting out another long groan, I pull her on top of me with a cheeky grin. "Were you really gonna leave without giving me a morning kiss?" I pulled at any string I had to keep in her in my arms for moments longer to ease this creeping feeling in my chest.
Giggling, Hanna turned her body to face me with pinked-tinted cheeks. "You are so beautiful." I couldn't hold back my smile as I stroked her burnt cheek with the back of my fingers and hand. "Uniquely you."
"You're just saying that." She fought me with a pout while trying to hold back her smile.
"Have I ever lied to you, tigress?" I questioned with a raised brow while tracing patterns on her cheek. "Just know that I will never tell you anything but the truth."
"I still don't see what you see in me." She sighed sadly with a smile.
"Everything." I breathe out with an uncontrollable smile. "You are perfect to me in every way. Even if you are broken, I'm helping you piece yourself back together to be better. You are so confident and spunky, so carefree, it's refreshing to see. You really aren't like most people or any woman I've encountered, and that intrigues me, but what really captivates me is you yourself. I'll spend every day of our life caring for you and cherishing you until no more doubts remain." I whispered against her lips before kissing her slowly and deeply with a groan. "I've caught my little tigress, and I'm gonna make her live in her little caged paradise with her Daddy."
Before I could try to slide her down to sneak my morning wood into her, her phone went off. With a giggle, Hanna slapped my chest softly before pushing off of me to pick up her phone. "Hey… Yeah, I'm about to… Yeah, I know, be nice to Benjamin… No, I really was about to go until someone tried to keep me in bed… No, I'm not sitting on his dick right now… Oh don't worry, he's taking the best care of me... Yeah, he's the best... Yeah, I'll catch up with you later after the assignment, go enjoy your time with Nikolai, I can hear him trying to get at you... Bye take care."
Sitting up, I leaned over, hugged her from behind, and kissed the back of her head. "Join me in the shower? I'll make us some breakfast afterwards." I mumbled against her neck, trailing little nips and kisses along her succulent skin, leaving a small trial of love bites.
"I'm so sore Daddy." She hissed with a wince when my fingers brushed against her bare pussy.
"Since when has that stop me?" I chuckled deeply, nipping at the shell of her ear and playing lazily with her sensitive clit. "Gonna be a good girl for me and let me fill you up before you go? Fill you up so that when you're out there you'll have a constant reminder of me dripping out of you, staining your little panties and thighs with my seed and scent."
Her resolve fell away with every shudder, and with every word until she leaned back fully against me with her legs wide open for me. "Good girl." I purred with delight, letting out a small growl as I sank my teeth into her shoulder.
"Ow! Daddy!" She yelped and tried to pull herself away from me, which made me bite her harder until I tasted blood.
"Have to mark what's mine for all the other fuckers out there to see and back off. You're mine. No one else's."
I'm pretty sure I made Hanna late for whatever she had to do with taking her in the bed before going another round with her against the shower wall until the water ran cold. I certainly didn't mind keeping her around longer, but I was biased in that department.
"Well, you look too happy to be in the dog house. I'm taking it your talk with Hanna went better than okay?" Angel asked with a soft groan of discomfort as she sat down across the patio table from me. "What did you want to talk to me about anyways?"
Needing answers to questions Hanna won't give me, I went to the only option I had besides my brothers. Unfortunately, my brothers wouldn't be much help if what I gave them to work with was shoddy.
"About that…" Rubbing the back of my neck nervously, I let my eyes draw away from Angel's scolding glare.
"Stepan, I swear on my children, if you do not tell her soon, I will. It's not right for you to hold such a secret like that from her." Angel threatened while mean-mugging me.
She'd been pestering me nonstop about coming clean to Hanna about how I stalked her and violated her privacy and personal space with my late-night antics and of course, how I threatened her last boy toy. Hanna only knew about the near-miss bullet, but not all the other things I did to Logan behind her back.
Scoffing softly, I looked at Angel challengingly. "Oh? You're the one to talk, or need I remind you about you withholding your real name from your own husband?" That was a big little issue not too long ago now.
Nikolai had married Angel under a false name. Now, she did come clean to him about that part, but she never told Nikolai her real name—he had to get that from her half-brother. All her skeletons came tumbling out of the closet rather messily once we got our hands on her real file.
"That is not the same. Kolya never asked me about it. I would have told him if he did, but he didn't. You and Hanna, on the other hand, she's asked you and you've been avoiding it like fucking COVID." Angel snapped back with a harshening glare. "Why didn't you tell her yesterday like you'd planned?"
"Well, that's part of the reason why I'm here. I did plan on telling her, but then she flipped out when she saw Lilian Wu in my office, and it was just a dumpster fire all the way home until I made her talk. I didn't find a good opportunity to tell her the rest of the night because of how vulnerable she became and how she regressed." I replied with a tired groan that became muffled by my hands running down my face.
Angel's face unfurled as she settled fully in her seat. "What happened? Tell me everything from the start of the day to wherever." A soft sigh of defeat and a look of understanding crossed her face.
"It was a normal morning, normal day at the office, we were all doing our jobs, and I was getting ready to call it a day when Lilian Wu showed up at my office unannounced, demanding protection from the bratva along with other bullshit." Angel opened her mouth, but I held a hand up to stop her. "And no, before you say anything, I wasn't going to entertain her request given the information about her. I was about to send her away until Hanna showed up and bat shit hell happened."
Just the memory of yesterday evening brought a pounding headache to my tense head. "I don't know what she said to Lilian because it was in another language, but she was pissed and upset like never before. Hanna's usually so put together no matter what, that seeing her go off the bat like that was a little concerning to me. Lilian had a few spats with Hanna too before turning her attention back to me and saying she wasn't done and would be back, which Hanna did not take kindly to at all."
Groaning, I ran my hands through my hair and leaned over onto my elbows on the table. "Hanna got all pissy with me at the office then went silent, angry silent, until we got home and I made her talk. I forced her to open up about her and Lilian, and she told me about her past, but something about me doubts half of what she said. I know she was telling me the truth, or some semblance of the truth. She had this distant look to her eyes when she spoke, the dulled over eyes whenever she disassociates or regresses." I didn't bother mentioning how cold Hanna got with her emotions.
Angel let out a long sigh with her sagged shoulders. "What exactly did she tell you?" She sounded so worn, like some parent asking what trouble their child got into this time.
Taking a moment, I reiterated what Hanna told me about her past, furrowing my face at Angel's saddening expression. "It's mostly true, yes, and don't hold anything against Hanna because to her, it is the truth."
