Page 27 of Promise Kept

A… what?

A kid?

Is that what you were about to say?

I rub my jaw.

“It’s only fair,” Henri says. “We all have equal ownership.”

“Then Heston’s part gets split between all of us. Simple.”

“What about Larissa then?” Aron asks.

“She gets taken care of. From the business. From us. She’s not part of it.”

Julian steps up next to me and grabs my shoulder. “It’s good to keep an eye out for her. She must be going nuts with all the changes. I’m not sure walking in here and throwing knockout punches and attacking everyone is going to help.”

The room is silent again.

Damien has his lip curled, his suit jacket still open, showing off his gun.

I look around the room.

Before I can say anything else, the door opens.

In walk two women, fully naked.

“These are new,” Devyn says with a sly grin. “Figured you’d want to see the new product, Ellis.”

The new product…

My jaw clenches tight.

Julian stares at me.

His look tells me everything.

This is what this business is about.

This is what we all invested in.

This was Hux’s dream for all of us.

“I don’t see a thing wrong here,” Aron says. “Which one do I get to try? Oh, wait, I get them both. I own the fucking place. I’m the product tester!”

The two women smile. They laugh.

This… all of this…

This is what I’m going to protect Larissa from.

LARISSA

Sometimes it just happens.

One second I’m sitting on the couch, nursing a hangover, sipping coffee, and the next second I’m holding a bright purple vibrator against my clit, my head back, groaning with deep breaths, smiling, doing my best to not picture my dead father’s best friend’s tongue between my legs.

That’s my morning right now…

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