“You know damn well I didn’t mean that little girl comment when you were riding my dick not weeks before, Morina. I just licked your pussy from my fingers last night.” He slid his hand right up to it.
I shouldn’t have even been contemplating sleeping with him. That was the problem with morning grogginess though. Some part of the human conscious was still sleeping and the animalistic, basic need side of you was ready to fulfill all desires.
I rolled my hips on him, and his eyes flared. Caramel and chocolate turned to lava and fire.
“Uncle Bastian!” Ivy screamed when she rounded the couch and saw us both awake but still under the covers. “Breakfast time and then we get to go fly on carpets and ride fast boats and Uncle Cade said there’s a pirate ship battle we’ll get to see!”
At the mention of his name, his hand flew from my ass and his eyes turned right back to honey while he watched his niece vibrating with excitement. I scooted off him while being kind enough to leave the bunched up sheet on his lap. I straightened my night top as I hopped off the couch. “I’m just going to go freshen up and shower. You guys eat without me.”
The shower was where I got myself back together. I let the water run over me and reminded myself I needed to get back on a board after I finished reading that file. Supposedly, I had meetings and galas to attend soon according to the papers. We’d have to put on our married game faces and falling down a rabbit hole of lust with Bastian wouldn’t be good for either of us.
He was right.
I couldn’t risk us indulging emotions, especially when the city needed me to iron out the company’s future.
This was a good first step.
I would be seen out and about with Bastian and his family. That would mean something.
“Hey, do I need to wear something better than this?” I asked as I came back out to the kitchen, suddenly concerned about being photographed.
“Why would you ask that?” Bastian growled.
Cade studied me though. “That’ll do just fine.”
“What are you talking about?” Bastian swung his gaze at his brother.
“They’re going to judge her with you.” Cade shrugged and handed me a plate of eggs and bacon.
“Thank you.” I eyed the perfectly cooked bacon that had just enough grease to make my mouth water. “This looks amazing.”
“It’s just eggs and bacon.” Cade chuckled. “My mom would have scorned us if she saw what Bastian had in his fridge to feed you, honestly.”
“Shut up.” Bastian grabbed a plate without saying thank you to his brother.
“Mom would be mad. You and I both know it.”
Bastian and Cade, two men I swear could have melted the hearts of all the women in the world, stared each other down. The story of their family was one I wondered about. Curiosity was a bitch I needed to keep in line though. It wouldn’t serve me well.
Ivy leaned over and whispered, “Daddy says Bastian doesn’t like talking about his mommy because she’s not here anymore. Bastian doesn’t have a daddy either.” She ran her hand down my face as if soothing me could soothe Bastian too.
I glanced at him, but his eyes were trained on his little niece.
“I like talking about her,bambina. Don’t say that, huh? I loved her very much. I just don’t talk about her because she’s gone now.”
“He means she’s dead, Morina,” she informed me as if I didn’t know.
I shoved more eggs in my mouth so that I didn’t have to be a part of this conversation.
“And I guess when people die, Bastian doesn’t talk about them anymore.” Ivy frowned at her uncle. “We aren’t supposed to talk about them, right, Uncle Bastian?”
Cade smirked and folded his arms. “Yeah, Bastian, please explain that to us. I’d like to know too.”
Bastian’s jaw worked up and down and up and down. Before he answered, he grabbed a water bottle from the fridge and chugged a few sips. He slammed it down harder onto the granite countertop than necessary. “Ivy, my mother was a really nice lady. She loved my daddy and us more than life itself. When your daddy would come over, she’d make cannoli and we’d sit with her and laugh and laugh. She was very nice. But she and passed away. We have to move on.”
“But she’s your momma.” Ivy sounded so confused that I put my arm around her and glared at Bastian who in turn glared at me.
“And I have family here now that she’d want me to enjoy, huh? Let’s eat.” His command held no room for argument.