Page 105 of Clap Back (Carter Brothers)

Nastya looked at me then. “You shouldn’t be. They never stopped fighting for you. That’s how one day I’ll be with my children. And now you’re here to help raise them, too.”

My heart pounded in my chest. “I want to be a part of that.”

“You are,” Dima said. “The only question is, where the hell are we going to live when we’re visiting?”

I laughed. “There’s a subdivision just right across the street waiting to be developed.”

Dima’s grin, so much like my own it hurt, turned feral. “God help the Carters. They get us whether they want us or not.”

I had a feeling the Carters were more than willing to add my family into the mix.

“They’ll enjoy every second of it.”

“Your family is the best,” I said to Auden later that night.

He trailed his hand up the length of my bare back, fingers tickling along my spine.

He rolled over onto me, his mouth at my throat, making me giggle.

“We’ll have to agree to disagree,” he drawled. “I didn’t think they’d ever leave.”

They hadn’t wanted to go.

Neither had mine.

But I’d had the time of my life.

Each day that I’d spent with all of them over the last week had been the best.

And now, I was lying underneath Auden, and he was pressing against me with his thick erection, and I wanted to think nothing of either family.

I only wanted to focus on him.

“Your focus needs more focus,” I quoted Karate Kid.

His grin turned lecherous as he forced my legs open wider to allow his hips to fall between.

My teeth sank into my bottom lip as he pressed upward, not quite entering me, but close.

So close.

“My focus is legendary,” he teased. “Let me show you.”

Then he sank that glorious cock all the way inside me and showed me.

I bring the razzle dazzle to people’s lives, whether they want to admit it or not.

—Maven to Auden

MAVEN

The next morning, my belly was a ball of nerves as I made my way up the length of the walkway that led into the middle of the police station.

Every single Carter who’d left and wanted to go back to the DPD was reinstated post-haste.

Quincy had decided to move to Sunnyvale, however, to take up a job closer to their home.

Atlas met us at the door, offering me a side hug as he helped us up the steps.

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