Page 123 of Sinful King
“We’ll see, Amoy…” I kissed her forehead and dropped my hands to her ass. “I can’t make any promises. Anybody I feel means you harm will have to see me and that includes your friend.”
She frowned but didn’t fight me on it.
Her safety was my top priority. Fuck all the other shit.
“Thank you for sending me with Finn.”
I pushed her face to my chest, eyes on Liam as he paced in front of us. He was starting to get on my nerves with his nervous energy.
“My family is your family,” I murmured into the top of her head. “And I’ll keep reminding you of that in every way I can.”
Gently, I moved Blair from in front of me.
“Aye, what the fuck are you so nervous about?”
Liam turned, a frown on his face.
“Nervous? I’m not nervous. I’m fucking anxious and it’s pissing me off by the second.”
A few seconds passed between us before I started to laugh.
“Aw the little baby found him a love interest,” I teased, leaning back against the truck and pulling Blair to me again. “Go pace over there, because it’s starting to piss me off.”
He did as I asked without complaint and I laughed a little more.
“You’re enjoying messing with him, I see.”
I tightened my arms around her.
“Because I married my first love and don’t gotta deal with all that comes with the start of something new. Feeling a little smug about it, actually.”
She hummed, looking up at me playfully before saying, “Oh, so Penelope Buckley wasn’t your first love?”
Blair wiped the smile right off my face.
“Who is that?”
Her expressive eyes widened and then she burst into laughter.
The fuck was she on? I almost asked but kept it to myself, knowing how much she used to enjoy messing with me over that pale ass girl from high school.
“I see what you did there, little deer. Love when you prove I’m the only woman you see.”
She sighed and wrapped her arms around my waist.
“Can’t wait to go home and cuddle.”
It was all I could think about, getting home, showering and fucking my wife nice and slow while we talked about our day.
With that thought lingering in my mind, I checked the time.
Esmeralda’s plane would land soon and then we could get the fuck on. Liam had been tasked with taking her to the apartment she’d been renting in the city, but Blair wanted to lay eyes on her first.
She couldn’t sit still, which is how we ended up outside the Escalade. We stood in silence, Liam pacing somewhere out of sight for what felt like ages, when the plane finally slowed in front of us after taking the short trek from the landing strip.
Blair turned in my arms but I refused to release her, letting Liam be the first person to greet Esmeralda as she descended the steps.
“She looks like she hasn’t eaten,” my baby whispered, stroking my fingers.
