Page 53 of Thicker Than Blood

“Traitors, the lot of you,” Amari said, trying to tickle Alcina.

I glanced at Thema, her tears were gone and there was only happiness as she watched her daughters.

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“I should make you sleep on the floor,” Amari said cuddling into me.

“Why?” I asked, trying to get comfortable on her bed.

“To make up for the cage you had me in,” she said pushing her hand into my shorts.

“Are you sure you want to do that with the sounds you make? Alcina will think I’m killing you,” I said kissing her neck. “You should move in with me.”

She pulled her hand out of my shorts with a sigh.

“You’re always plotting something,” she grumbled. “What good is a sleepover if I can’t take advantage of a real penis?”

“That’s why you should move in with me,” I said with a chuckle.

It took me a valiant six days for her to agree to move in with me and for me to deny her my dick. Thema high-fived me on our way out, but I wasn’t done yet.

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“You bought us a house?” Thema said blankly.

“I know you wouldn't live with us if we asked, but I've already missed out on six years of my sister's life, and Amari moved in with me. I thought you would like to live closer to her. There is a great school for Alcina,” I said with a shrug.

“I-this is too much, Stefanos,” she whispered.

“Do you want me to go into detail and tell you exactly what I did to your daughter? How I broke her?”

Her head snapped up with fire blazing in her eyes before she narrowed them on me with pursed lips.

“Give me the damn keys to my new house,” she said holding her hand out.

With a satisfied grin, I pulled them out of my pocket and dropped them into the palm of her hand, leaving her to explore the new house that was a two-minute walk from ours.

My mother didn't accept my future wife and wouldn't accept the rest of the family, but this wasn't a surprise.

Amari slipped her arms around me from behind.

“You can do anything you want to me tonight,” she whispered.

“Anything?” I asked to clarify while turning around as multiple ideas exploded in my mind.

“Anything,” she said firmly with a smile, but it was the happiness in her eyes that took my breath away.

The IUD was out and I knew exactly what I would be doing to her tonight. My arms tightened around her, I could have lost her, never known this happiness or the innocent love from my little sister. Without my father, none of this would have been possible.

“Se agapó,” I whispered to her before pulling back from our embrace to claim her lips.

I love you.

Epilogue

Amari

Eight Months Later

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