I roll over and pull her with me. We take a moment to catch our breaths, and she traces her fingers over my chest, brushing the scar lightly.
Katriona props up her head, and I have never seen a more beautiful sight or felt prouder. I take in the woman marked with my sperm, and I can’t wait for the day her belly is swollen with our child. Whoever’s it is, he or she will be loved.
“What was the surprise? This morning Sylan said you three had a surprise for me. What is it?”
I ease from the bed and reach for something from the side table.
I can tell she loves the way I marked her and I love the sigh of contentment she gives.
I offer her my hand, and she takes it, coming to stand by the end of the bed just as Drake and Sylan enter the room. One look and they know what is about to happen and come up behind our woman. Our family is complete, Sylan, Drake, my blood brothers, myself and now Katriona.
“Marry us,mo chroí.”Sylan and Drake take in the way she’s wearing my seed and smile. They kiss her and then quietly fall to their knees alongside me.
“Mo chroímeans my heart in the old Irish tongue. You are our treasure, our everything. Our life and our heart are yours. They beat for you and only you.”
“What Sylan says is true,” Drake follows gruffly. He doesn’t get emotional often and to hear his voice shake is huge.
I don’t expect the tears, and my heart breaks as she falls back on the bed. She clamps a hand over her mouth and shakes her head.
We go to stand but the next words out of her mouth slam into us like a sledgehammer and looking at my blood brothers, I know it’s a welcomed, glorious pain.
“Yes. Yes!”
I’m on my feet first, taking her in my arms before she can utter another word.
Tears sting the corners of my eyes, and I’m right there holding her close.
“Here, let me.” Drake slips the delicate gold band we had specially made on rush order—we have connections—onto her ring finger. Irish knots are woven into the gold and are Sylan’s personal design with tiny details that only we would recognize and ones I can’t wait to teach her.
“There’s no beginning or end,” she says with a smile.
I take her finger and trace over the beautiful lines. “Endless like our love for you. We are forever tied together in this life and the next.”
Epilogue
Katriona, One year later
Idon’t know if I ever did manage to earn out that ten-million-dollar debt. I mean, how much sex is needed for that to happen? I don’t have the answer for that but I know to me, the love I’ve been given has placed me more in debt, if you ask me. But you know what? I’ve given just as much as I’ve taken so maybe that debt that landed me in front of Chicago’s most powerful mobsters is repaid after all.
After today I am scheduled to begin college and practice what I’ve always loved: psychology. Sylan loves the idea and has vowed to see that I reach my goals even if he has to stay up late with me. Of course, Grey and Drake feel the same so they are all fighting to see who gets to be my study partner. I love their devotion. I don’t dig too deep into their business, but I’m not blind to their dealings.
With a grin I open my husbands’ office doors and signal an enforcer with a crook of my finger to step out. I see him signal to the men that he’ll be right back.
Silly man should know by now I have an intricate plan all laid out that won’t have anyone but myself and my men in this office for quite some time.
I tuck the long trail of my dress around my arm to free up my feet. “Sally said she needs help setting up the tables and has requested you specifically. Something about someone she wants you to meet.” I wiggle my brows at the baffled enforcer.
He grunts, but I know he trusts I don’t have anything sinister planned for him. A little matchmaking never hurt anyone.
I smile and step around him and lock the office door behind me once I have the ton of material to my dress through safely.
“Mo chroí, what are you doing here?”
Grey and Drake turn and I light up with a smile so big when our gazes meet. “We aren’t supposed to see you until later.”
“Like right before the wedding,” Grey says with his brow arching high.
I smile and my whole body feels it. We are so in sync, in tune and connected that I don’t have to say a word for him to know I’m near.