Page 68 of The Wrong Husband

"Mom needs to leave me the fuck alone." I was packing up to leave for the day when Duncan had come into my office to shoot the shit.

"Wanna get a drink?" he asked.

I looked at my watch. "I can't. Emilia is cooking."

Duncan chuckled. "The old ball and chain, yeah?"

I laughed. "I guess. She's been learning to make the perfect paella. Why don't you come over?"

"Me?"

"Yeah. We're just having some neighbors to taste test Em's paella."

Duncan ran a hand through his hair. "I was gone for a couple months and you became domesticated."

"Did I?"

"Well… the little Missus is making paella and we're having some friends over…that's domestic."

I stood still for a moment. A part of me wanted to blow Emilia off and go for a drink, prove to Duncan I wasn't pussy whipped but a bigger part of me just didn't give a shit.

"I'm fine with that," I grinned. "You're welcome to come over."

"I love paella," Duncan said, surprising me.

Chapter 22

Emilia

"Damn it," Moana muttered when Duncan stepped into our home.

The loft had become considerably larger. It had taken a couple of weeks to combine my loft with the one next door but now we had a bedroom, a study, and a large bathroom. I had bitched and moaned but when we took our first bath in the clawfoot tub, I decided to let Damian off the hook for messing up our lives for two weeks where we had to use Moana's bathroom because I refused to go to Damian's blasted Four Seasons fancy-schmancy apartment.

"Duncan," I greeted him with just a little bit of apprehension because he still scared the bejesus out of me. "This is my friend Moana."

Duncan grinned. "Moana, how are you?"

"Good."

"It's been a while."

"It has. Moana suits you much better than Candy."

I looked from Duncan to Moana. "You both know each other?"

Damian sighed. "Please tell me she isn't—"

"She is," Duncan cut in. "But I knew her as Candy."

"She is what?" I asked and was interrupted by Tech's laughter. "What am I missing?"

"Duncan likes to only be with—"

"Women I can pay for sex," Duncan interrupted his brother.

I looked at Moana in horror. "No!"

Moana shrugged.