Page 60 of Black Mark's Heart

I channeled my anger to drown out the pain. "Right now, I hate the Fehu and every one of its members with my every breath, and that includes you and Darius, Dad. I loathe what being your daughter has cost me, from the very day I was born." I hung up the phone, shoving it away. Jack was watching me in the rearview mirror. He was an average-looking man, in his mid-thirties at most. "Are you married, Jack?" I asked.

"For seven years next month, Miss Blake." Jack didn't smile.

"Do you still love your wife?"

"Yes, more so since our two beautiful girls were born."

"Make sure you tell her how much you love her when you get home."

"Why's that, Miss Blake?"

"Because you should tell her every day, and because if you hadn't been married, I'd have invited you upstairs with me when I got home."

Jack blinked. "If I wasn't married, I would have happily done so, Miss Blake."

I gave him a pathetic smile. It felt like a pathetic attempt of a smile anyway. I pulled my phone out. "Cass? I need to fuck. Want me to do you?"

Cassandra gulped, "Hold on a second." I heard her murmuring quietly. "Can Jeremy join us?"

"Clarify?" I requested.

"Just watching. Maybe some touching," she replied instantly. I heard Jeremy scoff on the other end of the line, and it made me smile.

"We can do that," I exhaled.

"We'll come over tonight after we get the kids to bed and Svetlana can watch them," Cassandra was grinning in her voice. I hung up and sighed.

That's how I ended up spending the night with Cassandra and Jeremy in my bed, with Cassandra as the meat in our sandwich.

As Cassandra lay panting between us, Jeremy reached over, taking my neck and drawing my mouth to his for a deep kiss. "I knew you'd be my mistress one day, Mora," he teased.

"Keep dreaming," I laughed. "I'm your wife's mistress, not yours."

Cassandra chuckled and stole my mouth from her husband’s for several intense minutes. "I should tell you," she panted, "I'm pregnant again."

My brows hit my hairline. "I thought you were stopping at three?"

Cassandra elbowed her husband behind her with gritted teeth. "So did I, but someone was impatient last month and shit happens."

Jeremy smiled happily. "Well, at least I can't get either of my women pregnant now." Jeremy's hand grabbed my hip, pulling me tight against his wife. "Ready for round two?"

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Not having Jacob with me on Sunday night was hard. I planned to relax and have a long hot bath. I was fretting and I needed to relax so when the door buzzer sounded fifteen minutes into my bath, I cursed the soul who did so. I climbed out of the bath and wrapped a towel around me to go to the intercom.

"Dare?" I asked, surprised to see him. I could hear Jacob crying through the intercom. I pressed the buzzer, letting him up.

I opened the door and waited as he came out of the elevator with Jacob screaming all the way. As he came into the foyer, I understood. Jacob was screaming for his mama.

"He was fine until I tried to put him to bed, and then he started asking for you and that devolved pretty quickly. I couldn't settle him," Darius explained, handing him to me.

"Shh, gorgeous boy, mama has got you," I murmured, trying to calm him. I put his head to my chest to let him feel my beating heart as I continued to soothe, stepping back inside.

"Shh, it's okay, bub, you are home now." Jacob started to calm down, his screaming stopped and his crying becoming sobs racking his little chest.

Darius looked relieved. He put Jacob's bag inside my door. "Thank you for trying, Mora. Obviously, it's too late for this to work." He turned to leave.

"Wait," I grabbed his arm, "You don't try once and give up," I scolded. "He was fine until you went to put him to bed, right?" I asked. Darius nodded. "So, just have him for the afternoon for now. As he gets used to you, we can try letting him spend the night again."

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