Page 112 of Redemption

KILIAN

One Year Later

“Iwish we could be there,” Bella tells me over my shoulder as I wave at a boat in the distance.

“He wishes we were there too. But he knows we can’t be,” I tell her as I turn around and wrap her in my arms.

“At least we will get to see them soon.”

I nod as I kiss her forehead. “We will. But for now, I get you all to myself. Just you and me on this yacht for the next week. I don’t know if I want Bastian and Cam to come visit us when we get home. I would rather spend more time with you on this yacht. Naked. And maybe tied to a chair.”

She pushes me away. “We tried that. It didn’t work well.”

I pull her back to me and run my fingers along the inside of her thigh. “If I remember correctly, you were screaming my name as I fucked you with my tongue.”

She runs her nails down my bare chest and I squeeze her ass. “Yeah, but then it took you ten minutes to untie me from that chair when all you wanted to do was fuck me.”

She has a point. “Well, I have no problem turning you around and tying you to this rail and fucking you from behind while we cruise the Mediterranean.”

“Even if others can see?”

“Fuck the staff. They’ve seen it enough as it is.”

She giggles as she pulls me in for a kiss.

After I went to her house in Cefalù to claim her that day, we spent a few hours telling each other every single truth we could think of that might hurt us later. She cried a lot and my heart nearly broke but we made it through.

When Aria was done with practice, we both walked to the field to pick her up. She ran when she saw me and jumped into my arms. I nearly lost it when she said, “I missed you, Daddy.”

I’ve spent the last year growing our relationship. Being the father I never thought I would be. And it isn’t hard when you have the smartest child in the world.

Dante came through for us in the end. I may have threatened him but it didn’t even matter. I made him promise to forget about Bella and forget about Aria. I told him if he so much as tried to touch them, I would slaughter every single member of his family and every man that works for him. He nodded and told me not to sell to his business partners. I accepted his offer and we shook on it.

Neither of us has heard from him since. But rumors throughout The Partners is that Mirabella Renzetti was killed in a tragic accident.

Only a handful of people know we are married. Her name legally changed to Bella Bancroft. We got married in her backyard with Aria by our side the day after I showed up at her house. Bastian and Cam flying out to be our witnesses.

I found a small island up for sale a few miles from the shores of Sicily and had our dream house built. Aria was scared she wouldn’t be able to play football anymore. But one of us takes her to school every day by boat. She thinks she is a rock star now and I am a little bit worried about her when she gets to be a teenager.

I took over my father’s seat at the table with The Partners. A job I never thought I needed until it was mine. Arrington, Hajar, and Kozlov all agreeing it was where I belonged, next to them.

Bella pulls on my hand and I look down at her as she starts to strip out of her clothes. “What are you doing, doll?”

She gives me that seductive smile as she shimmies out of her bikini. “It’s sunset and the water is warm. We are docked here for the night. And I would really like you to fuck me against the side of this boat.”

Her words send heat straight to my dick. “What am I going to do with this deviant mouth of yours?” I run my fingers over her lips.

“I’m sure you have something you can put in it,” she teases before backing away from me and jumping off the boat.

I chuckle as I strip my own shorts and dive in after her. I will never get enough of her.

THE END

for now…

TWO YEARS LATER

I sit in silence at the table next to the other three men that run The Partners with me. Dean Arrington’s son asked for a meeting and we obliged. The man has been trying to regain his rank with us ever since the slipup with the weapons. But when I found out he was the one who took my daughter from Bastian’s house in Mallorca, I nearly killed him. He spent two weeks in the hospital recovering from his injuries. His father wasn’t happy with me but never said a word. The rest of The Partners agreed with his punishment.

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