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She sighs contentedly, nestled between us. Then a mischievous grin crosses her face. “Sooo, does this mean I get the keys to my bike back now?”
I chuckle and pull her closer. “Nope. Maybe after the honeymoon. But I do have something else for you. Something for both of you.”
Reaching under the couch, I retrieve several small bags and hand one to Tobias and one to Bellamy. Her eyes light up as she opens it and peers inside.
“You got us new colors!” She pops a personalized M&M engraved with her name into her mouth, savoring the sweetness.
It’s a tradition I started back when we first opened the club, bringing the candy for aftercare, the little chocolate circles printed with our names reminded her she was mine since she couldn’t wear my collar.
Tobias frowns but dumps the candy into his hand, turning each one over. Understanding dawns in his eyes, and he smiles as he holds up one with his name.
“This is unbelievably sappy, Owen. I’m going to give you shit about this for the rest of our lives.”
Bellamy’s eyes fill with tears, and she throws her arms around me when she reads Tobias’s name. “Thank you, Sir. You’re fucking perfect.”
She turns and gently snuggles closer to Tobias, careful not to hit his injured shoulder, and kisses his cheek. “And so are you.”
I share a look with Tobias over her head, a kind of bonding moment for us as we realize we have years of teasing ahead of us because we’ll be in each other’s lives from now until we’re old and gray.
Bellamy settles happily between us, eating her M&Ms.
I never imagined a world where I would be able to call her my wife. It was supposed to be impossible. The consequences too high. And it may turn out that there is more fallout from our union than we expect, but together we’re going to face it, because even in a high stakes game like the one we find ourselves playing, it’s sometimes worth it to go all in.
Chapter thirty-nine
Epilogue
Owen
Five weeks later
Skylar’shandlandshardacross her brother’s cheek, and I almost wince. Not because I feel sorry for Bryce, but because I would hate to be on the receiving end of her wrath.
We’ve spent the last several weeks untangling more and more of the web of corruption in Las Vegas that has had its hold on Bryce since before we came to town.
It was unfortunately wrong of us to trust him, but we had no way of knowing that. And for five years, he was a faithful soldier who did whatever we wanted him to. Now we know that’s because he was biding his time, and quietly passing information about us to corrupt officials such as Phineas Draven, and other individuals who want to see the Russians regain their stronghold in the city.
Anyone who prefers the Russians’ brand of organized crime over ours is truly evil.
“Come on, Skylar. You’re not even married to the prick. Why are you taking his side?” Bryce shouts, throwing a glare at Matteo.
She holds up a hand to stop Matteo from intervening and stares her brother down as she speaks. “Because, he’s been more like family to me than you or our parents ever were. And the other three men in this room are the brothers I deserve. Now get the fuck out of here and get on that plane before Matteo changes his mind. I never want to see you again.”
I know it’s hard for Skylar to utter those words, and I’m grateful that Bellamy won’t have to have such a confrontation with her family. They are quietly agreeing to whatever we want right now. They still don’t know about our unique relationship, but they know we know her father was willing to sell his daughter to the highest bidder. We’re helping her process the grief that comes with realizing something like that about a parent, but it’s not easy.
Bryce Cameron knew Lorenzo Trentini as a kid, which makes sense since he was Matteo’s best friend. He knew Lorenzo had an obsessive crush on Bellamy, and set the wedding massacre in motion at Draven’s request. I was supposed to wind up dead or behind bars for being involved, but Bryce has always been careless, and he didn’t count on Lorenzo being such a fuck up. The fact that Tobias could have been killed too was icing on the cake for Phineas Draven, because he still holds a grudge against Tobias for cutting business ties with him.
It took us weeks to prove that Draven is indeed the funding behind all of it. The Russians promised to make him governor before they went down, and he believes they can still make it happen if they regain control of the region. There are numerous visits to Russian mobsters in prison on record, and he tried to continue their human trafficking ring despite not having all the details about how it was ran.
Bryce knew him because they both sat on the board of his father’s company before Hunter Novak took it over. When Bryce told Phineas he was working for us, and we were quietly pushing the Russian’s out of business, Phineas started paying attention, and had Bryce gather all the details he could.
The good news is, Phineas no longer has an information source in Bryce, because he’s about to get on a plane to London where he’ll be facing trial for his part in the wedding massacre. It was that or Matteo was going to put a bullet in his head—something I thought Skylar would never forgive him for. Now it seems she’s made her choice, and Bryce is in her past.
Matteo taps his phone screen, and the door to his office opens. Two large bodyguards step in.
“Mr. Cameron is ready to go,” he says, not even looking at his former best friend.
My heart aches for Matteo that his story of drifting apart from his childhood best friend didn’t end as well as mine did. Tobias and I drifted for nearly a decade, but we now share a wife in Bellamy, and we’re growing closer than ever.
