Total pages in book: 85
Estimated words: 82517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 413(@200wpm)___ 330(@250wpm)___ 275(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82517 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 413(@200wpm)___ 330(@250wpm)___ 275(@300wpm)
“Don’t be. I am here. I am with you, every step of the fucking way. I promise you. I will earn your forgiveness. I will never give you another moment to doubt me.”
She stared into his eyes, and she knew he spoke the truth. Roman hadn’t run away. He’d stayed by her side. He had proven time and time again that he was here to stay. To help raise the kids, to bring them into this world, and to build a life and family with her.
Alex … loved him.
“I already forgive you.”
Her father had told her that no man would stick around this long if he didn’t love her, and Alex knew. She felt it.
He started to move inside her.
Roman began slowly, but as he pressed inside her, his strokes sped up, driving into her, pistoning deep and fucking her hard, and she gave him back, rocking her hips to meet his, feeling his cock pulse. When he couldn’t hold back anymore, she held on to him as he pushed in deep and came, spilling his seed within her.
They hadn’t used a condom, but Alex didn’t care.
“No more divorce papers?” he asked.
“Roman, I already stopped sending them. You only burned that one. I don’t make a habit of wasting paper.”
He chuckled. “I’m so fucking lucky to have gotten you.”
Tears filled her eyes, and she cupped his cheek, knowing that she had also gotten lucky in getting him as well.
Epilogue
Nine months later
Roman took his wife’s hand and locked their fingers together. She was a little uncomfortable going to a formal event his father had invited him to. It was a family event where all the capos and their families were going to be. At first, Lucas Greco had only invited him, Alex, and Liam. Roman refused. He had a big extended family. Fifteen children who needed an extension added.
He took his role as father seriously.
Alex wasn’t just nervous about their children going to a Greco gathering where all their original fathers were going to be, but also the fact she was eight months pregnant.
Her stomach was … huge, but Roman couldn’t get enough of it. He loved spending hours late at night, rubbing creams into her stomach. Millie had told him it would help to soothe Alex and the baby. He didn’t care if it worked. Any excuse to touch his wife was a blessing as far as he was concerned.
The whole family was excited.
At first, Little Stuart was worried. They had been sitting around the table, and Stuart had refused to eat. When Roman asked why, Stuart then blurted out the question, “Are you going to get rid of us now that you have a real baby on the way?”
It had broken his heart and he knew it had shattered Alex’s.
Roman had dealt with it. “Is that what you all think? That with a new baby on the way, you’re all going to be removed, or kicked out, or ignored?” All their heads had bowed at the table, including Kyle’s.
“Well, then I guess I have sucked as a dad, because as far as I am concerned, you are getting a brother and sister. I know you don’t call me Dad, and you see me as Roman, and Mr. Greco, or Alex’s husband, but I see you as my sons and my daughters. Nothing is going to change. I love you all, and a baby is not going to change that.”
That night, as he helped to put the kids to bed, they all said the same thing. “Night, Dad.”
He’d nearly fallen to his knees, he’d been so fucking happy. A grown-ass man, and he finally had what he didn’t realize he wanted, a family.
Arriving at his father’s house, their minibus looked out of place. He and Alex argued about what to call it. She said it was a family car. He called it a minibus. Either way, it was a car that got them all from A to B.
After climbing out of the car, he rounded to Alex’s side and helped her out. Then, one by one, he helped the kids out of the car. There were a lot of them.
The sun was high in the sky, and he heard the soft melody of music. This was a ruse. His father wanted to deal with a couple of the capos and had used a family gathering to achieve that. Antonio, Marlo, and Cash all approached.
The kids called them all uncles, and he knew his friends liked that.
“Dude, this is a picture,” Antonio said, pulling out his cell phone.
Roman didn’t care. His kids and his wife all gathered around to have their photo taken. He wasn’t ashamed of his family. He loved them all.
“Time to go and see Grandpa,” Roman said.
Alex grabbed his hand, and he knew she was nervous. The kids didn’t know who their real dads were, and this was a risk, but it was one he was willing to take. There was no way he’d go to a family gathering and not take their kids. They were a family, and his dad had to realize that.