Sadies Game (Ashby Crime Family Romance Book 7) by KB Winters

Author:KB Winters [Winters, KB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBoyfriends Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Sadie

“Kat, how is the wedding planning going?” Maisie stopped at the entrance of the dining room, looking as glamorous as the fat cat casino dwellers she spent her days and nights with. She was a far cry from the mouthy college girl Virgil had brought home. She was part of the family now. “I feel like I haven’t seen you in ages.”

Kat pulled her attention away from Terry, long enough to answer her sister-in-law with a smile. “It’s going well. I’ve gotten a lot done, but we still need to plan the whole bachelorette party and all that fun stuff.”

“Sounds good.” Maisie crossed the dining room and greeted Virgil with a kiss. “I’m so happy it’s Sunday dinner because I’m starved!”

“Pregnant starved?” I asked with a smile. The truth is, I was delaying the inevitable. After a night of drinking too much and fucking just enough, I’d decided sometime in the middle of the night that it was time to tell my family, my kids, about the priests.

Maisie sighed, but the corners of her red lips curled up. “Possibly. It’s too early to say.”

That was good news. Welcome news that should take the sting off what I had to say tonight. “I look forward to knowing more.”

“Me, too,” Virgil growled and pulled her in for a kiss.

Jasper chose that moment to enter the dining room, Calvin and Ava Rose a few steps behind him. The little girl smiled and reached out to Jasper, who instantly melted and took her in his arms.

“Hey, baby girl. You’re looking very pretty today.”

Ava Rose giggled and pressed a wet kiss to his face. Nothing soothed the soul like the unconditional love of a child.

A truth I hoped would hold up when this Sunday dinner was over. I nursed a glass of forty-year-old scotch as we waited for Emmett and Vanessa since I was still recovering from last night’s indulgence.

Or maybe I was just stalling.

“Sorry we’re late,” Emmett grunted five minutes later. “Nessa wasn’t feeling well.”

“Another baby?” The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them, and I realized that this table and the people gathered around it were my future. My legacy. Every last one of them.

I couldn’t do it.

I couldn’t tell them about stalking, about hunting, and about ultimately killing those alleged men of the cloth who were nothing more than lesser predators than myself.

That particular confession would have to wait.

“Ma, you have something you wanted to say?” If I’d had more alcohol in my system, Jasper’s prodding would have pissed me off. But now, I was totally fucking Zen.

“Yes. In fact, I do.”

All eyes on both sides of the table turned to me, expressions ranging from expectant to bored, except Calvin, who had anger and exhaustion painted on his face like a mask. His resentment and sadness were like a uniform these days, and I knew what I said next would make it worse.

Much, much worse.

“Well,” Calvin growled, “don’t keep us all in suspense.” He reached for the wine glass and paused, choosing the water instead.

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