Page 52 of Vengeance

It’s not possible for us to be any closer than we are now, but it doesn’t stop us both from trying. From her pressing kisses into my shoulder and chest, from me wrenching her head back and capturing her lips and then groaning into her mouth as with one final thrust I come massively inside her.

She shouts my name, and then her eyes roll back and she passes out for a few seconds, before coming back with foggy eyes and a dazed smile.

We both fall onto the bed without concern about cleaning up right now or even moving. I’m totally spent, but even now, I can’t help but anticipate being ready to fuck her all over again.

23

Dele

Over the next two days, Adrian and I never get dressed. We fuck, have meals brought to our rooms, sleep, fuck again, take a shower to get cleaned up only to fuck again during and after.

I do get a little anxious about being away from Bella, though. She’s only five weeks only and when the twins were this age, I spent every second of every day with them for the first three months before I started working. I’m already going to be leaving her all the way across the Atlantic in a week or so, and there’s no telling how long it will be before I can send for the children. If I can send for them. So I have Bella brought to the room doing the day.

Not only that, the sex makes my breasts swollen and leaky with milk, especially when Adrian decides to suck and pinch and play with them. So I feed Bella every few hours when she’s with us, pump what she doesn’t eat, and give it to the servants when they come to get her at night.

On our final night cooped up in this room, though, on this mini honeymoon before we have to get back to our lives and back to plotting against the man who is legally my father now after taking on the identity of Adelena Fantoni, I decide to keep Bella with us.

I’ve just placed her in the bassinet near my bed when there’s a knock in the door. Adrian throws on a pair of trousers and opens it to reveal Lady, Leon, and Velia at the door.

“Velia was worried when the maids didn’t bring Bella back,” Lady blurts out.

Velia glares at Lady and says, “So were you! You’re the one who said we should come to make sure.”

“And I couldn’t let them go by themselves!” Leon interjects, interrupting the argument between the two girls.

I tie the sash around the robe I threw on to combat the slight chill as I nursed and go to the door to spare them all their pride.

“Well, it’s definitely too late to go back to your rooms by yourself this late. So I guess you’ll have to sleep here tonight.”

Lady rolls her eyes and says, “We’re not babies. But if you’re going to make us.”

With that, she shoves her way into the room and Leon and Velia follow behind her. If Adrian is irritated that the presence of the three older children has guaranteed we won’t get in one last fuck before tomorrow forces us back into the real world, he doesn’t voice it. Just clicks off the light, opens the curtains of the window to let the starlight shine through, and gets in the bed next to the children on the side closest to the door, while I get in on the side closest to the bassinet and window.

I watch over the children until they fall asleep. It doesn’t take them long. After that, still not tired myself, I’m content to simply watch them breathe. To think, something so mundane and normal and unexciting brings me so much peace and joy. A decade ago, I would have laughed anyone out of my apartment for suggesting one day I’d want this.

“You’re thinking loudly over there,” Adrian says.

“I was just picturing how I would have reacted ten years ago if someone had told me in a few short years I’m be any child’s mother, I would have laughed. Let alone if you told me I’d have four.”

“So we’re claiming Velia now?”

“You already did.”

The children have been clingy in response to the trauma of fleeing New York, and Bella and Bond’s death, and I haven’t missed the way Adrian’s made sure to include Velia. How when the children would follow him to the office Sabino gave him to work from when I was still recovering and did little more than sleep all day, he’d look back to make sure Velia was there or ask if she was coming. How when he comes to our suite late after a long day of planning and meetings, he peeks into Velia’s room in addition to the twins. How, even before that, he used to send her gifts along with the twins for every holiday, special occasion, and even the twin’s birthday until Bella told me to tell him to put a stop to the last.

And Velia has grown fond of him too.

Bella is no doubt rolling in her grave at the fact.

“What am I supposed to do? Ignore the last living heir to the Uccello estate?”

I let him save face and say, “We’ll let Velia decide exactly what place she wants to have with us. Anyway, I was just thinking how peaceful this is. How this would have driven me insane even for a few minutes back then.”

Adrian doesn’t answer, but I wasn’t particularly expecting one. So I settle into my pillow to get an hour or two of sleep before Bella wakes up for a feeding.

“We could stay here, you know.”

I prop myself back up on my elbow to look at Adrian and find him mirroring my position.

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