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He throws his head back and roars his laughter so loudly my ears ring. In all the years I haunted the estate back in St. Luis, I never heard him make that sound. Suddenly, getting home and hearing him laugh like that in every room feels like the most necessary thing we could do. I want to replace every terrible memory Xavier gave me in that mansion with memories of Hunter and I laughing and fucking and just being happy in it.
Then I want to burn the fucker down and build our forever home in the ashes of everything the Kingston family held dearest. With Hunter beside me, I finally believe the future is possible.
Epilogue
5 years later
Hunter
“Sissy’s here! Sissy’s here! And she bringed Uncle Henny!” Jade’s fourth birthday is upon us, and what she hoped for most in all the world was that her big sister would be back from her university semester abroad in time to come to the party.
Glory had been under the mistaken impression that she was barren, but I proved that shit to be fallacy. Three times now. Jade’s four and her twin brothers will be two in a couple months. Glory’s pregnant with number four, though she thinks I don’t know it yet.
Too bad for her surprise plans; there’s not a flicker of her eyelid I don’t clock and make note of. That’s how deep my obsession runs with my wife. Making her happy. Keeping her safe. Supporting her power moves.
Oh yeah, I said power moves. Marriage or not, Glory’s never given up the reigns in running every aspect of the Allard empire. Forged in the ashes of the Kingston family’s ruin, just as the home I’m standing in is, the family Allard controls the North side of the city as thoroughly as it ever has been.
“Yes, baby. Snow’s here and she’s brought Henry and the miners.” Glory had thought it hilarious the coded way Henry, Maxen and I had referred to Snow’s protection all those years ago, and the nickname for her security detail stuck.
The guys are good sports about it, not the least reason being that everyone in the city is aware of what happens to anyone who pisses Glory off. I wasn’t joking around when I vowed to end anyone who spoke the Kingston name to her or upset her with memories of the atrocities she survived. Not that Glory needs me to put a troublemaker in his place.
My wife has developed quite the taste for power. And bloodshed. Seeing Glory in her glory, well, there’s a reason she stays bred. Keeping my dick out of her when she’s regal and bloody is damned near impossible.
Today’s not for blood though. It’s for celebrating the life Glory has blessed me with, and being thankful for our family within the family. I pull my girls into my arms and blow loud smacking kisses against my wife’s neck. Jade giggles and insists I give her kisses too, and I do. Soon the boys are climbing all over us and demanding their turn. I let us topple to the ground in a heap of kisses and snuggles while Snow and her husband Henry laugh and teasingly ask where their hugs are.
Hard to believe it took murder, mayhem, blackmail and coercion to get us here. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
