Page 78 of The Mistake

I stare at Ivan, and he looks right back at me with a smile on his lips. He knows what he’s doing. Of course he does. He always knows what he’s doing.

At least he didn’t knowwhat I was doing ten minutes ago. I would have lost my erection without a doubt. There were limits to what I would accept, and Ivan in my house, while I was screwing my wife, was not one of them. He always came with a risk. There were a lot of men and women who’d like to see him dead.

Eating the slice of pear that was starting to brown, I looked at Ivan and wondered what could be so important to interrupt my honeymoon.

I have to think of my city, my territory, my men. I’d purposefully kept away from any kind of news, because if I had anything about wars on the streets, I wouldn’t have been able to control myself. I’d have to go and fix it.

“You’re looking well,” Charlotte said.

“Thank you, my dear. I have to say you’re looking radiant as always.” Ivan reached out and touched her wrist and Charlotte offered a smile. “Has he been treating you well?”

I want him to stop touching my wife.

Gripping my fork tightly, I’m pissed off that he’s so familiar with Charlotte. However, what I also see is that he’s very caring around my wife. How had I missed that?

Ivan doesn’t raise his voice, he’s not threatening violence. Not that they were part of his character, but I knew what he was like. He didn’t make any sudden movement to scare. With Charlotte, he takes great care with everything he does.

“Of course. I’m worried I’m boring him, though,” Charlotte said and turned her head toward me.

“You couldn’t bore me.”

“Don’tsay stuff you don’t mean.” She chuckled. “How is Cassie?”

I hadn’t checked in with her sister and I looked toward Ivan.

“She’s settling in really well, in all honesty,” Ivan said.

“She hasn’t returned home?” Charlotte asked.

“No.”

“What about Rage?” Iasked. The sister I could handle, the new Evil Savages MC president, I didn’t want to.

Rage and I were never going to see eye to eye. I was never going to agree with him holding back when it came to Demon and his treatment of Charlotte. In all honesty, I didn’t want Cassie around either. None of them had done a good job when it came to my wife.

“He returned to the club.”

Somethingwas going on. I couldn’t help but wonder if they had accidently killed Hank. Keeping prisoners, weakening them, took some finesse to get right.

I’m guessing Charlotte sensed the need to talk business. “I’ll be in the game room with Hubert.”

“You don’t have to leave,” Ivan said.

“I need to get better at my air hockey. I nearly beat him last night.”

She had,but only because I’d been distracted. To make the game room more interesting, I’d gotten her to remove every single item of clothing, and well, that had been my punishment. My reward for still winning had been her spread open on the sofa as I took her hard and fast, showing her how to make love and to fuck.

Charlotte moved toward me and I was tempted to push her away, but I wouldn’t do that. Not with her. She pressed a kiss to my cheek and then smiled at Ivan before leaving the dining room.

“I can see thetwo of you are getting along swimmingly. Just as I knew you both would.”

“What’s going on?” I asked.

Ivan picked up a glass of juice and took a sip. He continued to drink and I ran a hand over my face.

“Have you killed Hank?” I asked.

He finished drinking. “Nothing of thesort. No, Hank is very much alive. I mean, he’s pissed off that he is, but he has a nice little cellmate with him.”

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