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I can’t help my grin. I pick her up, causing Sergi to growl, but I ignore him; I’m doing okay, and she’s not that heavy.
I coo, “My little darling, you’re the big sister, the big cousin. All these babies are going to look up to you as they grow. You’re going to be everything to them, just like you’re our everything. We don’t have favorites because we love all of you dearly, but you, my sweet girl, will always have a special place in our hearts, because you are the glue that holds our family together. You brought your mama and papa together again. So, we may nothave our favorites, but you will always be our glue.” She smiles wide at that and hugs me tight.
I look around the room. The men are smiling, while the women have tears in their eyes.
Sergi walks over to me and wraps his arms around us. He kisses my forehead and rasps, “I love you,dragotsennyy.”
I am so grateful I gave him another chance.
epilogue
Sergi – One Year Later
I’m shuttingmy computer down, about to leave the office, when Juan enters. I groan loud, causing him to chuckle.
“Please tell me there’s no one in the basement to torture or any training, Papa.” My dad is training me to take over for him in New York. “The twins are at Mom and Dad’s tonight, which means fourteen uninterrupted hours with my wife.”
He’s full-blown laughing now. I shake my head at him, and walk toward the door. It was a hard decision, but after a lot of talks with Dimitri, Al, Damian, and my wife, I’ve decided to take over Juan’s role as his rightful heir, which means shadowing him and learning his role as Don. His men were also happy about the transition; they celebrated for about a week with parties and shit. Juan also owns a chain of restaurants and clubs, but lucky for me, so do the Volkovs, so no training needed there. We decided to combine the businesses, because as far as I’m concerned, we’re family. The businesses are now booming even more than before. Al was worried because it now means he’s second to his Don and Pahkan, but once I said I would runthings from here, he calmed down. He’s worried about fucking up, but since Phoebe has been back and the babies were born, he’s mellowed a lot. You wouldn’t even think he has ADD.
Juan follows me out, smacking my back, and sighs as we enter the elevator. He presses the ground floor while I press the parking lot.
He states, “I wanted to tell you in person that Valerie will no longer be a problem. Because of who she has to me and has been for over thirty years now, and my love for her, I couldn’t kill her, son. I know I said I would, but I just couldn’t, so instead, I sent her to the island where we send our…prisoners. Damian has access to the island. It was the only thing I could think of doing without breaking my own heart completely.”
I look at him and sigh, running a hand through my hair, feeling so fucking guilty, even though I know it’s not my fault. This past year, her behavior escalated; she needed psychiatric help. She’s shown up wherever I’m many times to talk to me, asking me to call her Mama, even though she’s not Russian. Then she’d throw things when I politely told her to leave despite wanting to put a bullet in her head. She even tried to burn my mother’s grave, ranting and raving about keeping her son from her. She also broke into our home and attacked my wife, because she had it in her head that Avery was brainwashing me. And there were the times she tried to intimidate my wife when out in public. She’d show up at the park and get in her face, and my bodyguards would have to get in between them and call me. Juan ended up getting in between her and my gun last week at the twins’ 1stbirthday party when she tried to kidnap Natalia. I ended put it away because I didn’t want to shoot my father. I then restrained Avery, who rushed by me and went after Valerie with a knife. Al had to restrain a pregnant, cursing Phoebe, who was not happy being impregnated so quickly after having their first. The most shocking one, though, was Sofia, who despite thelarge, pregnant belly, punched the woman in the nose, breaking it. Damian didn’t know whether to spank her ass or kiss her for getting in harm’s way. I shake my head. The only reason we didn’t kill her was because of Juan and his love for his wife. I mean, come on, he chose her over his son.
I look at him and say, “I’m sorry, Dad.”
He softens his eyes; I don’t call him Dad often.
Juan pats me on the back. “It’s okay, son. Now, you go home to your wife and make some more of those gorgeous grandbabies. I’m going to harass the Volkovs to see the other two; I can guarantee Peter is already there.”
I chuckle, knowing he’s probably right, and watch him rush through the lobby to get to his grandbabies as the elevator door closes again, and I head down to the underground garage.
Avery and Peter have gotten close, but Tony Gibson is and will always be her dad, and Peter accepts that. He spends a lot of time with our twins and a lot of time with his daughter to the point he even travels to Seattle with us. We normally go one weekend a month, so he gets to see the place his daughter called home. He drives her to work and picks her up just so he can have that extra time. She’s now six months into her residency, and she loves it. She’s even become friends with Lucy, who I, apparently, went to school with. I honestly can’t remember her, which caused her freak out. I shake my head. I honestly don’t know whether to love my wife’s forgiving heart or despise it. Lucy still gives me bedrooms eyes whenever she sees me, and has propositioned me several times now, and I don’t know how to tell Avs. The only saving grace is she’s never been near the kids.
I head to my Corvette, smiling at the thought of a night with my wife.
Twenty minutes later, I’m rushing inside our home. “Avs, baby, you better be naked.”
I don’t hear her, and I furrow my brows and head to the third floor. I texted her to let her know I was leaving, so where the fuck is she? When I walk into our room, I have to quickly duck from the book she throws at me.
“What the fuck, Avery?” She glares at me and picks up another book, chucking it. Fuck, it just misses my head. I rush toward her before she can throw anymore. “Enough,dragotsennyy. What the fuck has gotten into you?”
She sneers, “Don’t you fucking precious me Sergi Popov Volkov Garcia.”
Oh fuck. My eyes widen; what did I do? I think back but nothing pops up, but I must have done something because not only did she swear, which she hardly ever does unless I’ve really pissed her off, but she used my full legal name. A legal name I wasn’t aware of until Dimitri sat me down in his office a few months ago, and explained what my mama did. She wanted me to have all three of the last names of the people who made me, me.
Fuck, the look in Avery’s eyes makes me want to take a few rounds in the underground fighting ring rather than face her…or fuck her hard. My cock hardens.Shit, not the time buddy.“Baby, I don’t know what I did but?—”
She doesn’t let me finish, instead she pokes her finger into my chest.
“You—you did this!”
I raise my brows and lift my hands in surrender. “Did what? What did I do?”
She shoves me hard, but I don’t move. I have to bite my bottom lip to stop the smirk at her frustrated look.
She shouts, “You knocked me up with twins again, you asshole! Your magic sperm beat out my contraceptive patch!”
