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CHAPTER 34
ASH
THURSDAY - PREPPING FOR WAR
Iwoke with a smile and a feeling of lightness I hadn’t felt in a long time. Last night had been bloody amazing.
It was early in the morning now, and I was lying in bed with Gracie. Despite the events that lay ahead in the next couple of days, I felt happier than I’d ever been.
I kissed the top of Gracie’s head. She slumbered by my side, looking so peaceful, and I determined to ensure that she always felt that way. As soon as this war was over, I wouldn’t let anything disrupt her peace ever again.
The next couple of days would be hard for us, and I longed to get them over with. However, I revelled in the quiet contentment of this moment.
I closed my eyes and let my mind wander back to last night’s events, replaying them like my own private porn show.
When I got home, I couldn’t believe the beautiful sight before me as I entered our bedroom. Gracie was dressed in a piece of black lace that barely covered her ass, with a matching thong underneath.
I hadn’t imagined she could get any sexier until that moment. She literally took my breath away each time I saw her and constantly surprised me, too.
Her lingerie had been gorgeous, and I loved seeing her wearing it. I’d get her to wear it again soon, but right then, I needed to see her naked.
When I demanded she strip, she slowly shimmied the lace up and over her head and dropped it on the floor; oh my god, I had nearly come right then.
Sitting in the bathtub while she stroked the washcloth over me had been sheer torture but of such an exquisite kind. The kind of torture any man would gladly endure.
But a guy could only take so much. I chuckled as I remembered how adorable she had looked coughing and spluttering water with her hair plastered all over her face. That was my Little Miss Hot Mess!
Oh, and that sexy massage! The little minx had certainly got me all hot and bothered with that. I’d never had any sort of massage before, but I was certainly looking forward to my next. I grinned, my cock hardening at the memory.
What a night! I was looking forward to many more nights like that in the future.
We really were great together. I would never get enough of Gracie.
I sighed. I would love nothing more than to spend the rest of the day and night in bed with her.
However, there was a lot to do today if we were going to successfully bring down the Malia Boys and Broxy’s alliance and end things without any real casualties on our side. That would be difficult, but if all went according to plan, we might just pull it off.
I didn’t have the time to indulge my all-day fantasies, so a quickie would just need to suffice. I smiled wickedly and ducked down under the covers to wake up my gorgeous girlfriend in the best possible way.
An hour or so later, we were both showered and dressed, and I’d let Gracie know the basics of our plans for each location.
She had wanted to come to the lab location with me to, “keep you out of trouble,” she said. My heart swelled when she said that. I loved that she cared so much that she wanted to be there and put herself into another dangerous situation to look after me. But hell no!
While, on the one hand, I wanted to have her with me and was unhappy about leaving her care to anyone else, on the other hand, I knew that on this occasion, it was necessary. Taking her with me would be far too dangerous, even if it was possible. I wouldn’t be able to focus on anything but looking after her, and that could prove fatal for both of us.
Also, she didn’t know how to shoot, something I intended on remedying at a later time, and as guns were definitely going to be used, she could end up shot. I couldn’t bear to lose her, so I eventually managed to convince her to remain at the Estate with the other women and lock herself in the panic room with them if the need arose. I prayed it wouldn’t, but it was always best to be cautious.
Being cautious had been drummed into us by our dad. That was why I still bristled a bit at Miki giving up some of our family secrets to Glowacki. He was a friend and ally, yes, but nevertheless, it worried me. Still, it was done now, and that was that.
Gracie, Dimitri, and my aunts met Glowacki’s younger sons and his daughter at lunch. The Glowacki family had arrived in the early hours of the morning under the cover of darkness through our secret back entrance that only our family, and now Glowacki’s family, knew about.
Daniel was twenty-three, like Sonia, and next in line after Dariusz. He was another geek like Marko and ran the IT side of things for his dad the way Marko did for us. So, naturally, they were good friends. He was coming with us to the C on this occasion, though.
Sebastian was Glowacki’s youngest son. He was only seventeen and was remaining here with the women. He hadn’t been happy about that at first, but Glowacki had given him a gun and instructed him to protect the women and his sister, and that seemed to have appeased him.
Magdalena was the baby of the family and Glowacki’s only daughter. He absolutely doted on her. She was a pretty girl who had inherited her long auburn hair from her deceased mother and her piercing blue eyes from her dad. She was also highly intelligent, as could be witnessed whenever she talked about something that had piqued her interest.
She looked at Aunt Marta with awe. I could understand why. Aunt Marta was a beautiful woman, slim, around Gracie’s height, with a sweet personality. Her long white-blond hair and sparkling green eyes gave her an other-worldly air.