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Cleaningup the living room doesn’t take us long.
I’m about to pick up Emily, but Nikita does it before I can, cooing at the girl.
I don’t miss the way Declan watches her. He looks angry, but there's this look in his eye that makes me think he might not be as indifferent to the girl as he claims.
Hell, I hear him bitch about her all the time. He claims she’s the worst neighbor and curses me on a daily basis for making him share a building with her.
I know he watches her himself, along with the guard I have on her. He doesn’t trust her, and neither do I.
Yet, seeing her with my child, I think he’s seeing something different in her. Something that makes a man look past the hate and see the woman beneath it.
Fuck, I hope this doesn’t bite me in the ass.
Instead of taking my child from the girl, I decide to trust that Declan has this situation under control.
Miya and Cleo have fled to the kitchen to finish up dinner. Kai, Kado, and Kenji are talking quietly in the corner.
Autumn just disappeared down the hall to the bathroom.
I smile to myself.
No one will notice me missing for five minutes.
I slip down the same hall, waiting outside the door. When Autumn opens it, I push her back inside before turning and pressing her against the door, flipping the lock.
“Callum, what are you doing?” she hisses at me.
“I want to have another baby,” I proclaim.
I wasn’t planning to tell her like this, but the thought has been plaguing me.
“What?” she whispers.
“You heard me. I want to see your body swell with my child. I want to be there for the entire thing. Every single appointment. Then I want to raise our new little one with Emily being the best big sister ever. I lost out on a relationship with my sister. You never had any siblings either. Let’s give Emily something we both yearned for.”
Her eyes are glistening now. “Okay.”
“Okay? Yes? That’s a yes?” I push in closer.
She nods. “Yes. Let’s make a baby.”
I press my lips to hers, kissing her hard.
Then my hands are moving. She pushes against me, but I don’t move. Instead, I pull her dress up. Then I hike her up into my arms against the door.
“Callum, your sister is on the other side of this door, not to mention her scary as hell husband. We can’t fuck in his bathroom,” she says as soon as I let her lips go to kiss her neck.
“I think you forget my power,a stór. I’m not afraid of Haruaki Takahashi. I’m going to fuck a baby into you before you change your mind.”
I unbuckle my pants, pulling myself out quickly before pushing aside her panties and thrusting home.
Her breath hitches, but she doesn’t tell me to stop again.
Instead, she begins to grind on me.
“Tell me again how powerful you are,” she pants.
