Black Listed(81)
“What happened?”
“Cole was downtown at a meeting when I went into labor. It all happened so fast. One minute my water broke, and the next the baby was coming.”
“There wasn’t time to get her to the hospital,” Cole added, dabbing at his wife’s tears with a tissue. “Gracie and Roman worked together to deliver the baby.”
“Oh wow. When she called me, she didn’t say a thing.” Which was very strange for a woman who never stopped talking. “Where is she now?”
“I’m not sure,” Cole said. “She and Roman followed the ambulance to the hospital, but I haven’t seen them.”
Kate walked in with Jaxon by her side and a present in her hands. “Hmm. Maybe they’ve finally pulled their heads out of their asses.” She laughed as she came over to see the baby. “She’s so small. And she looks just like Cole.”
Jaxon swept his thumb down Kate’s cheek. “Someday.”
Kate nodded, a small grin on her face. “Someday.”
Jaxon crossed the room and thumped Cole on the back. “Congratulations, Cole. You’ve got yourself a beautiful family.”
“That I do,” Cole said, shaking Jaxon’s hand.
“Rachel and Logan are on their way up,” Kate said. “She panicked because she hadn’t gotten you a gift yet, so they stopped in the gift shop.”
“That’s ridiculous,” Danielle said. “I don’t need anything other than my family and friends. That’s all I ever wanted.”
Kate’s eyes widened as she looked at the door. “That is the biggest teddy bear I’ve ever seen.”
Lisa turned her head to see Logan march in holding a four-foot brown teddy bear. Rachel was by his side.
“Cute, right?” Rachel said. She took a step to the right. “And look who we ran into on the elevator.”
Sawyer.
In a business suit, her husband strode straight for her and hauled her into his arms.
She buried her nose in the crook of his neck, inhaling his scent. He’d only been gone a week, but she’d missed every moment they were apart. “I thought you weren’t flying home until the weekend.”
He kissed her soundly on the lips. “I finished signing all the paperwork this morning and thought I’d surprise you.”
“So it’s official?” Rachel asked.
He took Lisa’s hand and faced their friends. “I’m no longer CEO of Hayes Industries. I’ll still remain on the board, but I think our new CEO will do better in the role than I ever could, because unlike me, he wanted the job. And I turned over Paradise Lost, including the club, to the guys.”
Hunter, Oz, and Rowan had all moved into the hotel that housed Paradise Found. From what they’d told her, they had plans to make the club’s focus on ménage, rather than BDSM. But not one of the guys had any business experience. “Do you really think they’ll be able to handle running a sex club?”
“I’m going to send two of my slaves to help them,” Cole volunteered, sharing a secret look with his wife.
They were up to something.
“Does this mean we’re getting a nursery at Benediction?” Logan asked, pointing at the baby.
“No,” Danielle said. “Cole’s hired a nanny to stay with Rosa at the new house whenever Mommy and Daddy need some playtime. Which I’m sorry to say won’t be for at least six weeks.”
Her friends continued talking about Benediction as Sawyer bent to whisper in her ear. “You look incredible with a baby in your arms. We haven’t been careful lately, but are you ready to start trying?”
She turned to him. “I can’t think of anything I’d like more than a mini Sawyer running around.”
“Good. Because I want at least three.”
“Three?” She smiled up at him. “That’s doable.”
“Good. How about we get working on that right now?”
“Now?” she asked as he took Rosa from her arms and handed her to Rachel.
He took her hand and yanked her toward the door while all her friends laughed knowingly. “We’ll be back,” he said to them with a wave over his shoulder.
They sped past the nurse’s station and down the hall until they came to a door marked Custodial. He turned the handle and tugged her inside, pulling a string to turn on the dim lightbulb. His lips crashed into hers, the force of it slamming her backward into shelves of supplies.
A week without him had seemed like a lifetime. The damned sadist had made her promise not to make herself climax while he was gone, and then he tormented her by sending a video of him masturbating, his big hand wrapped around that gorgeous cock of his and her name falling from his lips as rope after rope of come spurted from the tip onto his stomach.