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Watching Everleigh relax makes me relax. I was worried she’d want to leave early, but the food is almost ready, and it looks like she’s having fun.
“How did you and Viktor meet?” she asks Rosalie.
Oh, Fuck. I spoke too soon.
“I kidnapped her,” Viktor mutters from the grill.
Everleigh laughs, “Funny.” She glances at Rosalie again. “So, how did you meet?”
“No, really. Viktor kidnapped me a week before my eighteenth birthday.”
Everleigh’s mouth drops open, then her eyes flit to Isabella. “But I thought you saved people from sex slavery?”
Jesus Christ.
Before I can jump in, Viktor says, “I waited until Rosalie was twenty-one. Give me credit.”
Rosalie places her hand on Everleigh’s arm. “He was the perfect gentleman. He basically saved my life by kidnapping me. Then he let me go and had to save me again. Now he’s stuck with me for life.”
“Oh,” the word pops from Everleigh, then she gives Isabella an apologetic look. “I’m sorry. The words came out before I could censor them.”
“It’s okay.” Isabella brushes it off as if Everleigh didn’t just insult her. “But yes, I rescue sex-trafficking victims. It’s a passion of mine.”
“I think it’s amazing.”
“You know what else is amazing?” Alexei asks.
When Everleigh shakes her head, he places a book on her lap. “Read it. Best work of literature ever.”
“I thought you were joking when you said The Art of War is your favorite book,” my woman mutters as she pages through it.
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle,” Alexei quotes the book. “Sun Tzu was a wise man.”
“I like the sound of that,” Everleigh says, a smile curving her lips. She starts to read, and Alexei leans closer, pointing out more quotes.
That’s what a father should be like.
Emotion wells in my chest because Alexei is a father to us all.
Needing to hug my son, I get up and walk to where he’s playing with Alex and Lucian.
He points at me. “This is my daddy.”
I crouch by him and press a kiss to the top of his head before sitting flat on my ass to play with him.
Minutes later, Viktor calls out, “Food is ready.”
I climb to my feet and lift Vincent to my chest. “Do you want a hotdog, buddy?”
“Yes. I want two.”
“Please.”
“Please, Daddy.”
It will never get old hearing him call me Daddy.
Everleigh grabs two plates and loads some food onto them. “Sit down so you can eat.”
