Fuck, life is good. When you wake up every morning and those are the first words you think, you know it’s going to be a good damn day. Or, at least that’s what you expect. Some days it doesn’t work out that way. Still, waking up next to Dani, her taste still on my lips, my arms full of her, and her ‘I love you, Zander’ being the first thing I hear, has a way of filling a man with hope. I’ve got that every morning for a solid month, and it’s been the fucking best month of my life. I’ve had it good with Dani before, but now we have less walls between us. She’s even starting to show me more affection around the club. She’s slowly coming out of her shell. She’s still very careful what she lets slide in front of Dragon and Nicole, but I know eventually we’ll get there.

I’m not a hopeful man. I’m a man who shoots straight from the hip, doesn’t expect much, but is satisfied with the way life is. At least, I was until Dani. Having her, makes everything better, and it makes it seem like anything is possible. She fills an emptiness that’s been inside of me since losing Melly.

“What are you doing today, sweetheart?”

“More wedding stuff, I guess. Yuck.”

“Not a fan of weddings?”

“Hell no,” she says, kissing on the side of my neck. I don’t know if it’s because Dani discovered sex recently, or if it’s just the way the two of us are going to be with each other, but we fuck so often, my balls are staying sore, and I don’t even give a damn. Apparently, neither does Junior, because he’s already standing at attention.

“Does this mean, you’re going to make me live in sin the rest of my life?” I ask, as my hand slides in between her ass cheeks. She pushes against my hand, showing me that she wants more and fuck, I’m ready to give it to her. I’ve slowly been getting her used to being fucked in the ass. First with my fingers and most recently I made her wear a plug in her ass all day. She was so fucking horny and wet by the end of the day, I wasn’t sure my cock would survive.

“By living in sin, does that mean you’re going to fuck me every day?” she asks, her tongue sliding along my nipple, her ass thrusting back against my hand.

“Fuck yeah.”

“Then yes, please,” she says, sucking my nipple into her mouth with a hungry moan.

I’m ready to get her on her hands and knees and fuck her hard and long, when a knock at the door makes me freeze. Dani continues teasing my nipples while her hand moves down to stroke my cock.

“Yeah?” I holler out, grunting as Dani moves those lips down my stomach.

“Hey, man? We need to talk,” Freak calls out, right as Dani takes my cock into her mouth.

I lean up on my arms to watch her mouth slide down on my shaft and her eyes stay on mine the entire time. So fucking hot. God, I’m a lucky S.O.B.

“Yeah, man, I’ll catch up with you later,” I tell Freak. Dani lets go of my cock slowly and this time sucks one of my balls in her mouth, using her tongue to caress it.

“Man, it’s kind of important. I got that information on that Michael you asked about. You won’t believe who this motherfucker is.”

Dani freezes and her eyes lock with mine and three things hit me at once. One, the sheer look of terror on my woman’s face. Two, the way it slowly merges into anger and even through the hate in her eyes, I see something worse. Betrayal. She thinks I betrayed her. I feel her fist slam down on my balls. I grab my crotch in reaction, cussing like a motherfucker, as the pain slams into me. It’s one thing to get hit in the balls. It’s another fucking thing to get hit in them when you are close to shooting your load. Son of a bitch! My boys may never recover.

“You promised! You fucking promised me!” she yells, sliding off the bed, and going to the drawer she cleaned out for her clothes. She’s pulling on some cut off blue jeans, her boobs completely bare, and if I didn’t feel like my jewels are permanently out of commission, it would have been sexier than hell, except for the tears.

“Hellcat, I had to find him. I needed to make sure I kept you safe. I can’t do that by burying my head in the sand.”

“Trust me, you said. I’ve claimed you, you said. I’ll never hurt you, you said! You’re a motherfucking, son of a bitching, cock sucking liar!”

“Now wait just a fucking minute here,” I growl, jumping up. I’m fumbling with my pants putting them on and wince at the sting of pain my boys feel as I move them around. Fuck, couldn’t I have picked a quiet, meek woman who didn’t give me shit? “I am none of those things, damn it!”

“I can vouch that he doesn’t suck cock,” Freak says, as Dani pulls the door open while pulling her t-shirt down. Damn it! She needed to put on a mother-fucking bra!

She grabs the papers from Freak and turns to look at me.

“You promised that you wouldn’t do this!”

“It had to be done! We have to deal with this shit.”

“No! We don’t. We don’t have to deal with the fallout here. I do!”

“You’re mine, that makes us a team, and we’ll deal with shit together, Dani! Stop trying to do all this shit on your own. You’ve been doing that for way too fucking long, and we’ve seen the cluster-fuck that happens when you do!”

Fuck. I shouldn’t have said that. I know it was wrong. I knew it the minute I said it, and I know it even more when she blanches like I slapped the hell out of her.

“You have no fucking idea what you’ve done, Zander. I do. I’ve lived it. It’s not us that will have to deal with the fallout, it’s me. I’ll be the one he will come after. Me and all the ones I love.”

“You said you loved me that means the bastard will come after me and I want him to, I got this, Hellcat. Have faith in me.”

“I did. You betrayed it,” she says, and her voice is full of pain now, the anger gone.

“Hellcat, let’s talk about this.”

“The time to talk would have been before you betrayed me,” she says, pushing Freak out of the way, and leaving the room.

Freak looks up at me and he has a look on his face I do not like.

“What?” I bark, my heart hurting, my balls sore and my head spinning. I didn’t want Dani to find out like this. I needed time to break this to her. Fuck.

“She might have a point,” he says, sitting in a chair, and looking at me with a look of blame, which pisses me off.

“You telling me if this was Nikki, you wouldn’t have done the same?”

“I don’t know. What I do know is I would have talked to my woman about it.”

“Dani doesn’t act rational, if I’d told her, she would have made me promise not to.”

“That seemed to work out well for her the last time.”

“Fuck you, motherfucker. I know you, you would have done the exact same thing that I did. Now, quit acting like you know every fucking thing, and tell me what the hell I need to know. I need that info, then I need to go get my woman and calm her ass down, all because you couldn’t shut the fuck up and let me get my dick sucked.” I’m pissed. I’m more than pissed, but even though I’m directing the anger at Freak, it’s me I’m pissed at. I should have thought this through more. Dani trusted me, and this had to gut her. I should have handled this shit better.

“How the fuck was I to know you were in here getting your Johnson sucked. Fuck, how was I to even know she was the bitch this was about. You just said it was personal. I did this as a favor for your fucking ass.”

He’s right, and I should man up. I’m not about to though, too much shit to deal with right now, and Freak is at the bottom of that list.

“Tell me what I need to know,” I growl, sitting on the bed and rubbing my poor, abused balls. I’m going to make Dani kiss them better. Well, after her ass calms down. Right now, I’m not letting her anywhere near them.

“It’s not good, man. Your Michael is Michael Kavanagh.”

“So?” I ask, totally clueless.

“The shipping god? Tycoon? High rolling mofo who has the U.S. exporting and importing wrapped up?”

Fuck.

“So, what’s his connection with Dani?” I ask, needing to know.

“No, idea. He was married to a Melinda Marinetti, sole heir to the Marinetti dynasty. Reports say that Melinda was hounded by mental breakdowns and it was a rocky marriage. She died in a house fire five years ago. Police believe it was suicide.”

“So where does Dani come in the picture?”

“No idea, unless she was this man’s mistress or something. Rumors are he has a lot of those.”

That doesn’t ring true with the story that Dani was telling me. I’m going to have to talk to her and hopefully after I calm her down, she will see this is really the best way to deal with the situation.

“Re-print that shit off. I’ll drop by and get it after I see to my woman.”

“Does Dragon know you’ve claimed her?”

“No, but he will. Dani just needs to get it in her head first.”

“Don’t put it off too long.”

I nod, because he’s right. I should confess everything to Drag and come clean. I can’t yet though. Especially since Dani may never want to speak to me again.

“First, I need to calm down my woman,” I answer honestly.

“Good luck with that.”

“I’m going to need it,” I tell him leaving the room, and preparing for war. A war I will win, because Dani is not getting away from me.