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We both nod and head out into the early morning sun. I slip my sunglasses back on and look at my watch for the third time since I walked in the house.

“You got somewhere to be?” Tor asks as we get to the pool gate and both the kids jump up as Tor motions that they can get back in the shallow end of the pool.

“Yeah, that’s the other shit part of the evening. Took a bet from fucking Niko on my last hand. His brat daughter is in some charity softball deal today and he wanted to make sure her team won. So, he threw in a hundred grand, and all I had to do was agree to play on her team if I lost. My head was fucked and he took me with a full house to my two pair. I gotta be there by ten.”

“Your athletic legacy lives on.”

“Unfortunately. Couldn’t stand for his little princess’s team to lose, so fuck me. I’m going to be up to my balls in brats.”

“Hi, Uncle Cyrus!” Chase shouts and dives into the water holding his nose before I can wave back.

Tabitha comes running my way as Tor walks through the door of the cabana to check on the baby.

“Hi, Wncle Cyrus.” She wipes a drop of water from her forehead, her bright eyes wide as she stands in front of me with her little toddler tummy and chipped pink and green nail polish on her toes.

I crouch down, looking over my shoulder to make sure Tor isn’t within earshot, then say, “Good morning, your highness.”

I bow my head and do this little loop de loop thing with my hand toward her little Buddha belly, as she plants her fists on her hips.

“You are m’nvited to my tea party w’ater. All my w’adies in waiting will be there.” She’s so fucking cute with her little lisp.

“I’m honored, Princess, but this humble servant has another battle to wage away from the castle today. I will gladly accept your invitation another time.”

She giggles and holds my cheeks in her tiny damp hands. “You are swilly, Wncle Cyrus.”

“As silly as you are beautiful, my lady.” I give her nose a quick pinch, then stand, slipping back into my mask of indifference. Tor emerges from the cabana as Tabitha toddles off and jumps off the edge into the shallow end of the pool.

“You’re a grumpy fuck, but you can’t deny you love these kids.” He nods toward the pool.

It’s true, but somehow, I don’t know, admitting just how much I care about my nieces and nephews terrifies me. I never cared one piece of lint about anyone else’s kids before Tor’s and letting down my grouchy façade is a slippery slope I’m not ready to face.

Well, I wasn’t, anyway.

Truth, since I saw that girl last night, I’m consumed with thoughts of getting my hands on her, caging her curvy little body between my arms and pumping her so full of dick she’ll be dripping with me for a week. I want to tug her hair and take her raw dog hard from behind. I want to see her mouth stretched wide around me, gagging with her eyes looking up at me pleading for air.

And I want her to beg me to pump a baby inside her.

Fuck, the thought sends a throbbing into my balls as Sophia and Chance come wandering into the back yard waving my way then heading toward the pool to talk with the kids. I need to get myself under control but Jesus, I don’t know how. That girl, I’d ruin everything I have for her. I want to buy her gifts, I want to cook her dinner, I want to show her off. I want to heal every wound she has inside and out. Cup her chin and tell her what a good and beautiful girl she is and that she will never be alone again.

As soon as the game was over in the wee hours this morning, I charged out of there like a lunatic, took the stairs ten flights down so I could sit in my car, fisting my dick in a beat off session that in the end, gave me zero relief.

My thoughts were plagued with questions. Where was she, what was she doing? Is she rubbing that hot little pussy thinking of me?

I know that’s damn unlikely. I’m an ugly motherfucker and I don’t have anything to offer a girl like that. I’m fucking forty this year and she’s brushing up maybe on twenty if I’m lucky. But that doesn’t stop me thinking about hiring every PI on the planet and spending every penny to my name trying to find her.

“Cyrus, don’t you dare deny that you love my kids.” Tor is staring at me with a look of thunder on his face, and I realize I’ve been staring into space for God knows how long.

“I’m not denying anything,” I mutter, as Sophia skips towards the house and Chance walks over landing a hard slap on my back.

“What’s up motherfuckers?” Chance nods at Tor, his hand moving to rest on my shoulder with a friendly squeeze.

He’s like a brother to me and Tor now. We didn’t like him at first, because he was fucking our sister, but the guy grows on you.

I answer him with a grunt as Tor and Chance start talking about the restaurant and as consumed as I am with the girl from last night, I have other things in my life that need my attention.

We watch the kids and talk about work and whatever other bullshit brothers talk about. The sun warms the top of my head as I finish my coffee and Natalie brings out a platter of pancakes.

“Kids!” Tor yells in a ‘come here’ gesture with his hand. “Time to eat.”

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