Page 118 of Viparious

“If you touch someone else, apart from your usual bloody torture, I’ll kill you both, okay?”

Nodding again, too much honesty comes out, feeling relaxed.

“You’re the only woman I’ve touched since it was agreed you’d be my wife.”

It wasn’t purposeful, life was busy, and I couldn’t sleep without checking on my family. I wasn’t going to let some random fuck in my house with them. She straddles my waist, wanting attention and prods my chest when I don’t open my eyes. Blinking up at her, I hold her thighs and comment on what we can both feel.

“You’re leaking our cum on my abs, malysh.”

The apples of her cheeks turn pink and she clenches as though it’s something bad.

Inessa crosses her arms over her chest loosely and scrutinizes my features. Whatever she’s looking for has her brows coming together and her face moving closer.

“I don’t think you’re lying, but you’re a good liar.”

I’ve said a lot of shit in jest, to get a reaction or to shock her, but I’ve never lied about anything that has any worth.

Holding her chin between my thumb and forefinger, I bring her closer so she can’t see anything but the sincerity in my eyes.

“I won’t lie to you. Anything you want, ask me, and I’ll give you it.”

Relaxing at my honesty, she plants a chaste kiss on my lips and tries to sit up. When I don’t let her move, her eyes turn the softest brown I’ve ever seen.

“Get up. We need to shower and then you need to steal our daughter back.”

Springing up, I chase her lips, begging without words to hear her say it again.The stubborn shit doesn’t say a word. All this time, she’s been running her mouth and decides to shut up at the worst fucking times. Kissing her cheek, hoping it softens her, she proves she’s part of the family instead.

“Up. Val will be speeding up the terrible twos with his tantrums.”

She lifts off me and steps off the bed, uncaring that she’s naked or that I can see her thighs glisten.

“If her first word is a curse word, I’m shooting your brother.”

She’ll only end up missing anyway, so there’s no need to argue for his safety.

1 My wonderful husband

2 You gave me my soul

3 Sorry

THIRTY-TWO

Vlad

People have tried to kill me and taken up less space in my mind than Inessa when she’s silent. Her silence will always be more violent than my scarred hands. Dani has become the person I get to do things for me when I want my bratty wife to have something or be in a certain place. It’s why I stop her leaving the kitchen after having silence for the last twenty-four hours. She looks up at me, confused after losing some of her fear since being reintroduced to the family, and waits for her new task.

“Go find out why she’s pissed.”

She laughs and shakes her head like she already knows before looking around me to see my wife and kid giggling at each other in the other room.

“She looks happy to me,” she says. “Maybe she’s just pissed at you?”

That much is obvious, and I turn to watch them as she walks away. Inessa is laughing and talking to Ana, but she fucking ignoresme. That little weirdo has become her best friend and I grimace at the thought of telling Inessa to do something.

Even Verena is besotted with the soulless pipsqueak as she reaches her arms out towards her. Fuck it, I’ll force it out of Inessa myself. Verena’s giggling gets louder, with the babysitter from hell tickling her stomach. Dima voices it so I don’t have to, as he asks Ana, “Did Satan run a daycare service?”

She answers in the same monotonous way as always, making everything awkward.

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