“I know it will,” she replied.

Zero hesitation.

Just, I know it will.

That was his wife. The mother of two of his sons.

His dream woman.

He tipped his head back and he didn’t need to do more. She gave him her mouth.

He twisted further to take her to her back on their bed.

Then she gave him everything else.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

That Hasn’t Changed

Carissa

I SAT ON a barstool at the Chaos Compound, wondering how I was remaining seated seeing as I was so exhausted I could barely think, when Tack strolled in.

As usual, his eyes went right to Tyra, who had commandeered Lanie and Hop’s baby boy, Nash, and was bouncing him, cuddling him and cooing to him.

“Jesus, woman, every baby that gets within ten feet a’ you you claim. Do I gotta knock you up again?” Tack asked her.

She gave him eyes that were easy to read.

Tack read them. I knew this when he looked to the ceiling and muttered, “Fuck me. This rate, I’ll live in a kid-free zone when I’m eighty.”

“Like you don’t love it,” Tyra returned.

Tack took his eyes from the ceiling and gave them to his wife.

He, too, was easy to read.

He loved it. But he loved more giving her what she wanted.

I started to feel warm just watching them together as Tack looked to the bar and asked, “What the fuck?”

“Carissa cleared out the day-olds at LeLane’s bakery,” Lanie said, a half-eaten cream puff suspended three inches from her mouth. “And everyone knows day-olds at LeLane’s are better than fresh everywhere else.”

This was true.

As much as my Chaos friends said I didn’t need to do anything for payback, I still needed to do something for payback.

And today was moving in day so I really needed to do something for payback.

Tack and Tyra’s renters were out a few days early so the boys were going to get my stuff out of the storage unit and my apartment.

Tomorrow would be filled with me unpacking, cleaning my old place and doing the chores I didn’t do when Travis was around but now needed to do because I hadn’t done them in a week.

And then Travis and I would finally be in a nice place. The kind of place you’d want to give your baby.

I couldn’t wait.

I still wanted nothing more than to curl up somewhere and take a nap.