Page 30 of Ruined By the Rook


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“Sure did, sunshine, he needs to learn you’re mine.”

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Later that night,me, Gage, King, Knight, Vin and Bishop all sit around the pool with beers in our hands talking shit and celebrating that the twins turning one. It’s hard to believe that Havoc and Chaos are growing so fast, and in six months’ time, Royal and Channel will be one. Then Meela will be seven… Fuck, time is going by so quickly. I look around at my brothers and Vin, then smirk. We’re all shirtless and in our board shorts, each of us now covered in ink. We really do look the part of the mafia family now.

“Anya and I are going to Switzerland for three months.” Gage’s announcement has all of us focusing on him.

“Why?” King asks.

When a look of uncertainty flashes through his eyes, we all sit forward. “We found a doctor that has a 92% success rate of extracting eggs and inseminating them.”

“Wait, but I thought she can’t carry a baby?” I ask. Gage cuts a glance to Vin, so naturally we all turn to him.

“She isn’t. Carlina is going to carry the baby for them.” My jaw hits my fucking lap. I don’t know how to describe how I feel but it isn’t shock it’s… awe. Carlina doing this for them is the most selfless act there is. She is granting Gage and Anya the gift of being parents.

“I… I don’t know what to say, man. Congratulations,” Bish says as he extends his hand for Gage to shake.

“Thanks, bro. It’s scary as hell but we’re ready for it. She’s it for me. I can’t see my life without her, which is why I asked her to marry me this morning.” We’re all on our feet in seconds and hugging our brother, giving him and his bride to be well wishes.

“A toast.” We’re all huddled in a circle with our bottles out ready to cheers. “Man I never thought this would ever be our lives. I didn’t think any of you ugly fuckers would find beautiful women, that’s for sure.” We all grumble at Bishop’s insult. “Seriously, though, I am so fucking grateful for each of you standing by my side and helping me build this empire for our family. So, cheers to being a Murdoch–” Vin clearing his throat has Bishop snapping his gaze to him and narrowing his eyes playfully.

“Your sister is a Murelo,” Vin states proudly. We all groan knowing what is about to come, Bishop has been trying to convince Vin and Car for months to change their names to Murdoch. He says our family name holds weight and Vin’s doesn’t. Which, then in turn, leads Vin into explaining how he is the Bloodhound and feared by many. Blah blah blah.

“Cheers!” Gage cuts in before these two can get into it. Spending the night with my brothers, drinking and talking shit is something we do regularly now. We each have our second in charge running our territories. I took over the Murelo side for Vin and Car because he needs to travel for work and refused to leave his wife to run things without him. Bish and King were eager to agree with him, thus me now running it. Car, Kiara and Koby run the gym. Anya still has her business in Russia with Vor and Krill. Ally is now a nurse and works at the local hospital and Clare is still studying to be a vet nurse while running her own animal rescue. Thank fuck the rat goes to work with her every day.

All in all, we have a fucking great life. Bishop and Kiara will fly to Miami in a few months to take over for Tony, who is ready to step down so he can spend more time with his daughter and grandson. It’s gonna suck them being gone, but at least we own two planes so we can visit often until they move back here. The sound of laughter coming from the back door pulls our attention to the girls. Fuck me dead, each of them is wearing a two piece and fuck my girl looks sexy.

“None of you fuckers are fucking in my pool!” Bishop declares as the girls reach us, making us all laugh. Fuck yeah, this is the life alright. I place a chaste kiss on Clare’s lips before smiling down at her.

“I love you, sunshine.” Her features soften and she melts into me.

“I love you too. Now, come on, let’s go fuck in the pool to piss your brother off.”

“I fucking heard that!” Bishop scolds, making me laugh so fucking hard tears leak from my eyes. I fucking love my family.

Royal

19 years later….

I’m so fucking over having to do this school shit. Dad refuses to allow us to join the family business and said we all have to go to college!

Why would the heirs to the biggest mafia family in the continental US have to go to college, you ask?

Because our moms told our dads they didn’t want us involved in the business and wanted us to be free to choose what we want to do. We all may be cousins, but we’re close like siblings. Well, the four of us are. We all applied to the same college and given who we are, we knew we would get in. If not on our own merit, our parents would have paid our way in.

“Stop fucking pouting. We have six months of school left and then we’re out of here.” I glare at the asshole as he reclines back on my bed, tosses a football into the air then catches it. Unlike me, Chaos doesn’t want to join the family business. He wants to go pro and get drafted into the NFL.

“Fuck you! None of this shit is gonna matter when I take over,” I state in a matter-of-fact tone. It’s true what I say, I am the one who is going to take over and lead this family when my dad steps down.

“Calm down, Royal. We all know you’re the future king of the family and all that shit.” I glare at Havoc as he saunters back into the room with a towel wrapped around his waste, water dripping everywhere.

“You’re leaving footprints on my carpet!” I scold. The asshole comes closer and shakes his hair, flicking water droplets all over me. Chaos laughs at his stupid ass twin. I strike out and punch the asshole right in arm.

“You sound like Aunt Ally.You boys stop playing ball in the house.” We all laugh at his impression of our aunt. We haven’t been home in a long time, the last time was months ago to celebrate Meela graduating and becoming a doctor. She is crazy fucking smart but, due to the age gap between her and the four of us, we never really hung out much. Destiny is three years younger than us, she’s seventeen. Uncle Gage and Aunt Anya are pushing her to become a lawyer but Dest isn’t having any of that and wants to be an MMA fighter. We all know secretly Uncle G is thrilled at the idea. Nytress and Unique are fifteen and sixteen and only care about cheerleading. Uncle Rook is trying to convince them that they don’t need college and to stay home with him. Honestly, my poor cousins are going to rebel so hard when they finally get their freedom from their dad.

The door to my dorm bursts open and Channel rushes in with a panicked look in her eyes. Havoc, Chaos and I are on her in seconds.

“What happened?”

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