Man of the House(125)

I laughed and stood up and then got onto the couch next to him, so tired.

“Shit,” he said, wrapping his arms around me, pulling me close. We just sat like that for a while, breathing together, mostly naked.

I didn’t realize it, but eventually we fell asleep together.

And Alexei slept through the night.





32





Vince





I woke up with a start. “The fuck?”

“Sorry,” Kaley mumbled. “My phone.”

She quickly grabbed it from the floor, looked at the screen, and then answered it.

“Hello?” she said, but she quickly walked out of the room.

I watched her go. “Fuck.” I grunted as the memory of last night came back to me.

We had fallen asleep on the couch together. Neither of us had said a word; we’d just fallen asleep.

I had never done that before. I wasn’t the type to fall asleep while cuddling on the fucking couch. I fucked and then I left, that was my deal, but something about Kaley made me just feel right. Probably had something to do with the incredible way she sucked my cock while making herself come. She was incredible, insatiable, and drove me absolutely wild.

I got up from the couch and knocked on the bedroom door.

“Come in,” she called out.

I went inside. “Morning, mommy,” I said.

She just nodded vaguely at me, holding Alexei. She looked weird, but I was just chalking that up to having slept weird. I grabbed some clothes.

“Showering. Want to join me?”

“Maybe later,” she said, smiling.

That wasn’t the response I’d expected. I’d assumed she was going to make some dig at me or some shit. I just shook my head and got into the shower.

I didn’t have time to try to decipher her moods. I was going on patrol today, and while that was normally pretty easy, it was a much bigger deal in light of what had happened with the Russians.

When I got out of the shower, Kaley was in the living room with Alexei. She was changing him, and I just made a face.

“I’m out of here,” I said. “Stay in this room. Call my cell if you have issues.”

“Okay,” she said vaguely.

“You all right?”

She blinked at me and smiled. “Yeah. Fine. Go do your thing, papa.”

I laughed and left the room.

She seemed distant and a little odd, but what did that matter? She was going through a lot of shit; that was for sure.

I moved through the halls and met Rafa at our little office.

“Morning, boss,” he said.

“Any news?”

“Nothing new,” he said. “Patrol today?”

I nodded. “Strap on, man. We’re going for a ride.”

He grinned. “Sounds fucking good to me.”

We both put on our Kevlar vests, got our rifles ready, and headed toward the garage.



We spent the day checking out my turf. I controlled a decent section of the city, and it was my job to make sure that the people in that area were well protected.

Nothing went down. Whether that was because we had both hit each other and we were all gathering our forces again or if just nothing happened, I wasn’t sure. It was hard to tell if it was the calm before a storm or simply a calm.

But either way, we rolled around the territory, keeping an eye out for anything strange. I’d been a central player in the war so far, and I knew that the Russians would try to hit me back sooner or later. It was just a matter of time.

And I had to be ready when that happened. I did my best to keep any thoughts of Kaley to a minimum, because I couldn’t afford to be distracted.

True, her lips wrapped around my cock kept coming back to my mind. I couldn’t completely forget about that, not when she was so fucking sexy.

At the end of the day, after sunset, our teams switched out. Rafa and I headed back to the compound while a few other guys went out on patrol overnight. We pulled back into the garage and got out of the truck, slinging our guns over our shoulders.

“Today was a good day,” Rafa said.

“Why?”

“I didn’t have to use my AK.”

I laughed. “Good one.”

He grinned. “What are you doing for the rest of the night, boss?”

I shrugged as we walked side by side back into the main house. “I’m not sure.”

“Come drinking,” he said. “I’m going back into the city with a few of the boys.”

I shook my head. Normally I would have been all over that, since I hadn’t been out drinking with the guys ever since Kaley had shown up. But for some reason I just had no interest in getting hammered, or at least in getting hammered without her.

“Another time,” I said.

“Shit. You’re not going soft on me?”

“Fuck off, Rafa,” I said. “See you tomorrow.”