COLEA week later, I was on a flight leading to Aurora Springs. I had just finished having a conversation with Denise some minutes ago. I had told her a week ago to make sure to get my daughter's things ready for me before I got there.Purity and I had talked a while too. We had become really close over the days. I hoped it was enough to get her to come with me.Denise had a new apartment and Aubrey's business all to herself, I was not bringing her to New York, it was not a fucking family reunion.Sort of was, but not the entire family, because I knew Aubrey took her friend as a sister, and Purity as an Auntie.Oh fuck, Purity… Well, Sofia could be her Auntie for the meantime, I decided.I was looking out the window, filled with nerves as I wondered the best way I could make her come with me without having to involve Aubrey. She would most likely tell her daughter not to come with me… in fact, not most likely, I knew she would do it as she had told me she would, by herself.I had a di
AUBREYI was restless the whole day. He had threatened to bring my daughter home yesterday, but it was already a new day and they were not here yet.I could not reach him either, because I did not have a phone to do that."Calm down, Aubrey, you need to calm down a bit. Mr Frost is fine, if he was not, I would be able to tell from his Personal Assistant. That one never fails to keep me updated." She assured me as I paced around, deep in thought."Ray?"She nodded, still cutting the carrots before her. "Mmhmm. He likes me, I guess. But I would never settle for a man like him, I need someone as established as Mr Frost, but not from this kind of environment. I want a clean business man who I would be able to sleep peacefully by his side, that is if I am ever let out of this place." She was smiling as she said it, and it almost made me swallow what I wanted to say, but I said it anyways,"Unfortunately, there is no leaving the Syndicate once you are in, one way or the other." I reminded h
COLE"99%. This means she's your daughter, boss." Ray told me, like I did not have the paper in my hands already. I kept reading the results over and over, stunned by the fact that this girl indeed belonged to me. She was my blood, and I was not impotent."Why the hell did she not tell me? Why would she let my offspring suffer for years?" I asked, still not looking up from the paper. He cleared his throat."Uh, Sir… I think it would be because you asked her to not show her face to you ever again. She probably thought of the worst scenario if she told you.."He trailed off when he saw how hard I was looking at him. "You seem so defensive of her." I accused, dropping the paper on my work table and crossing my arms over my chest.He pinked, then began to itch the back of his papers before awkwardly grabbing the documents in front of him and moving backwards."I'll just take my leave now, boss. Congratulations on the discovery."And with that, he was out before I could accuse him even mo
AUBREY He was looking at me like that again, that expression that always suggested that he did not know whether to wring my neck or do something really inappropriate to me. I just hoped I was reading him wrong, because any of those two things would cause very serious complications for us and we did not really want that, right? Also, I kind of doubted that he would want me like… that. He just stared at me like that for a couple of seconds, and then he casually strolled past me. I stood there, confused about what was going on until I heard the sound of the lock behind me and i jolted in shock, turning around now. He was facing me already, his face set as hard as stone. I swallowed trying to look away from his face, as it did something strange to me… I mean, why did the inside of my thighs just get so warm? "You still owe me a punishment. Actually, not just one punishment. You deserve a ton of them for trying to kill me. Normally, traitors like you get death in return, but since yo
COLE"Ow!" She whimpered after the first heavy clap to her ass and my jaw locked at once as I struggled not to think about it. I did not even know what I was doing with her right now. All the women who had ever betrayed me were slid off to cruel men in the brotherhood, or forced to strip for anyone of my underground clubs or even entertain the drunk gamblers at any of my casinos.So why the hell was I not doing the same to her?The thought stirred even more anger in me, because it triggered answers I did not want to know about.I landed the second and third smacks to her round, soft ass and her ass cheeks wiggled afterwards, while she tried to sneak her hand backwards to rub off the pain. I caught her hands and held them still behind her back, which caused her to let out a small, tortured cry.It was best to keep quiet whilst I did this, because we both knew that this was too fucking inappropriate. Well, she probably thought I did this to other girls as well. Why did I want to correc
AUBREYI avoided Cole at all costs, which was hard because whilst all Purity wanted was to be close to him, all I wanted was to stay far away from him. As far away from him as possible.So, because of this, I was away from my daughter whom I had missed so much when all I wanted was to be close to her.Today, though, Cole was not home. He had gone on a three day business trip and would be back the next day.I used the opportunity to bond with my child, she helped me with cooking just like we did at home. She had gotten so much better at recalling the stuff I used in preparing my meals, and I just felt like the proudest mother."Mommy, why aren't you adding any garlic or onions?" Purity, ever the most observant little girl questioned.I shrugged. "It's banned around here. Something… happened."She looked like she wanted to ask more questions, but then she must have seen the plea in my eyes which caused her to bury the question. I was grateful for this smart, little girl.I wished I coul
AUBREYPurity now waited for her dad to eat dinner with him, which meant I had to wait too, somewhere else, so I could tuck my baby in bed.I cooked for dinner now, taking extra care to avoid putting anything that would trigger his allergic reactions.Tonight, Cole had not returned from work and it was almost 10pm. I begged Purity over and over to just eat and go to bed because I had tried calling him with Sofia's phone but the call was not going through.According to her, Cole had promised to have dinner with her tonight, and he even reminded her about it before leaving for work in the morning."He must have forgotten, baby, maybe he would not be coming back tonight. He probably has a thing or two to attend to." I tried to reason with her, but she just lay on the couch, her eyes wide open as she looked at me.I would check every two minutes to see if she had started to even doze off a bit but I would meet her father's gray eyes staring back at me from her small figure on the couch.I
AUBREYI spent all night thinking about his offer, I recalled that I had not shivered when I had kissed him. That was a good sign, right? I tried to assure myself that this was just for a while, it was simply for a short amount of time until he was tired of me and then I would be disposed. Right?By the time I closed my eyes to surrender to sleep, it was almost morning and I ended up waking up later than I had wanted.Purity sat with Cole at breakfast by the time I walked downstairs after brushing my teeth and putting my hair in a messy bun. I was still in a pyjama set, a plain blue shirt and matching silk trousers.Cole's gaze on me suggested I was wearing something even more revealing, though. These days, I had started getting overly shy when he was around. I knew it was dangerous, I knew it was even more dangerous to accept his deal, but at this point…"Mommy? Come and join us!" She offered but I was quick to shake my head in refusal."Thank you baby, but I would just join Sofia—