Page 161 of Plunge into Obsession

It was no secret that Luis had a proclivity for selling people—women,specifically.

When he’d reigned over the cartel, he’d sent men out to seduce vulnerable girls and get them hooked on whatever drugs they had available. Made the women dependent on the drugs and infatuated with the men who had gotten them hooked in the first place.

A dangerous combination, and it got the women to do whatever shit the cartel wanted, like working at a brothel to pay off money borrowed to feed their drug habits.

And that money they borrowed?

The interest rate was so fucking high, there was no way for those women to ever work enough to pay off.

I shut that down when I took over, cutting off a lot of business for men who were working for or with the cartel.

There was a price on my fucking head because of that.

I glanced at the computer screen in front of me.

It had long ago gone black, and there was no chance for me to go back to work now.

I could seek out Bianca, but fuck, I didn’t want to look into her baby-blue eyes and tell her I didn’t fucking have the answer she wanted—or, worse, when I did have the answer, I doubted it would be the kind she was hoping for.

I had sent Raphael to Mexico, to the brothel Luis liked to frequent and sometimes provided girls for.

I had cleaned up the brothel as much as I could, considering it was operated right out of Michoacán—in my territory.

Most of the women there were working there freely, though I was sure some women who returned to the brothel to work even after their debts were cleared did so because they didn’t know how to go back to normal life after all the shit they’d gone through.

Movement caught my attention at the office door. Bianca stood there, looking unsure.

Fuck.

She was my wife. The last thing I wanted her to be was unsure, but she was probably reacting to me.

I hadn’t touched her since that day at the swimming pool.

I didn’t know how she had been feeling about this entire thing.

I smiled, erasing all the stress and worry from my face when I spoke. “What is it,mi corazón?”

She relaxed slightly at her nickname coming from my lips.

I pushed the chair back and patted my lap.

She didn’t wait.

She rushed over and climbed on so quickly that she almost fell right off.

I let out a small chuckle and wrapped my arm around the small of her back.

She was getting to the two-month mark in her pregnancy, and I was utterly fascinated by the small, subtle changes in her body.

I couldn’t fucking wait to see her belly swell with our child.

She wrapped her arms around my neck to hold herself steady, wiggling a bit on my lap to get herself comfortable.

She stilled when her ass rubbed against my hard dick.

She turned to me.

I smiled wickedly at her, grabbing her hips and pushing myself against her.

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