Page 71 of Echoes From Within
With a plan in place, we all get on our bikes and head back to UNITY.
“Hurry it up, will you,” Doc grumps. “I want to check on our babies.”
With Sophia’s arms wrapped tightly around my body, I smile. My family is riding behind me, my president beside me, my woman on the back of my bike as we all head to check on my children.
My body still screams with so much fucking anger towards those men and what they put my woman through, but I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.
And so, doing as Doc ordered, I hurry it up so that he can check on our babies.
Epilogue
Sophia
It turns out that it was one of the cooks who placed the camera in my office. She was offered ten thousand dollars to do so and I guess money was an acceptable payment for betrayal.
I don’t know what happened to her but I was told that I didn’t need to worry about it. I know Travis and his brothers get their hands dirty sometimes, and I honestly don’t care as long as I’m not part of it. So, I don’t worry about it.
However, seeing my baby for the first time nearly did me in. I couldn’t breathe because of how full I finally felt. All that emptiness I felt vanished when I walked into Allie’s room one evening at UNITY and saw Travis sitting in a chair with both girls in his arms, all three of them fast asleep.
The pain of losing them brings me to my knees daily. I don’t know what I would do without these three in my life.
Travis and I were approved to foster Allie less than a week after we submitted the papers. Now, we’re working on adopting her.
“Do you still want me even after you found your real daughter?” Allie had asked us one night.
“You are our real daughter,” I told her fiercely. “We love you so very much and want you to stay with us forever.”
Needless to say, I cried myself to sleep that night because Allie had that small doubt for weeks before telling us. So, we make sure she knows exactly how much she’s loved every second of every day.
As for me and Travis, well I’m angry at him. I know he’s trying to protect me. He told me that he didn’t want to touch my body with all of the anger still coursing through him. He leaves every night before I fall asleep and returns hours later with freshly bruised knuckles. He won’t touch me intimately, but he crawls into bed behind me and pulls me flush against his body.
He holds me so tightly, almost as if he’s afraid I’ll fly away if he doesn’t.
Tonight, however, I know he’s not going to the chamber to get out some of that anger because I may have told a little white lie.
Allie and baby Hope are staying with their Aunt Bitsy and Uncle Viper tonight so Travis and I can have this time without interruptions.
I think I’m going to go to Obsidian Oases tonight. I asked Bitsy and Viper to watch the girls. I’ll see you when I get home.
I hit send and wait. It doesn’t take my jealous man long to respond. My phone rings and I couldn’t stop my grin if I wanted to.
“Hello?” I answer sweetly.
“I don’t fucking think so,” Travis growls into the phone.
“It’s fine,” I say. “You usually don’t get home until close to morning so I should be back by then. Anyway, the cab will be here in fifteen minutes so I have to go. I love you. See you when I get home.”
“Don’t even fuc…”
I hang up the phone and laugh.
When he calls back, I simply ignore his call. I can see his face now and I just know he’s heading to his bike as we speak.
So, I get ready. It’s not going to take him long to get here.
I crawl onto our bed, lean against the headboard, and pull out my vibrator. It doesn’t take long for me to become achy. I’m so sexually frustrated that all I need to think about to get wet is Travis’ nose.
Setting the vibrations on low, I simply play around until I hear the front door slam open before it slams closed. His boots slam against the floor as he makes his way through the house.