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“Yeah, but a few nights a week is different to every night for the rest of our lives. Come on, we will both need space.”

How could he not understand that living together, we would need space from each other?

Sure, he could handle sharing a bed with me a few days a week. How would he handle me when I was on my period, or when I’m in one of my moods.

“We’ll just do what we do now. But my other room is in your house instead of my parents.”

I was focused on minimizing all the ways he could end up resenting me.

CHAPTER 25

Vince

“Surprised you didn’t bring Maddy, seriously, we had bets you would break the tradition.” Rome dealt another round of cards

I shrugged. I had every intention of bringing her. Until she walked into the lounge room dressed like that for him.

The jealousy was back just thinking about it.

“Okay, what happened?” Rome was still staring at me. The man noticed too much.

“She’s at a dinner with a client.” It bothered me how much I didn’t know about her family’s business.

“And?”

“And what?”

“So, nothing else happened?” Rome shared a look at Bastion and Luca, who were both far too interested in our conversation.

“No. She handed me the signed contract, and she left.”

“Now we’re getting closer to something,” Bastion grinned, taking a joint off Rome, and swiping my lighter.

“Where the hell is Nikolai? Since when did he start being hours late for anything?”

“What was the contract for?” Bastion asked, lighting the joint.

“The official merger and an agreement giving us permission to have sex outside of our marriage.”

Bastion looked at me shocked, “You didn’t sign it, right?”

I glared at my cards. I had signed it, unknowingly. But I sure as fuck wasn’t saying that.

“Oh fuck, you did. You signed a contractwillinglyto let other men fuck your wife.” he looked at Luca, then Rome. “Our grandfather has permanently fucked him up.” He waved his hand at me. “Is he even fixable?”

I stopped myself from scoffing. While glaring at my cards. Another bad hand.

“So, why did you sign it?” Luca glanced at me before pushing more chips into the middle.

Nikolai walked in hours late. “Sorry, got held up with Marcel. Are you all ready to leave?” he looked from the table to us. “Fuck it.” Taking his tie off, he gestured for Bastion to hand him the weed. “What did I miss?”

“Overdue therapy session for Vincent, after he signed a contract to let other men fuck his wife.” Bastion rolled another joint.

Nikolai scoffed loudly. Great, now I was going to get judgement from him too.

“For fuck’s sake Bastion. I signed it without knowing, and she had it added without telling me.” Tossing my cards back in the middle.

“Why would she add it?” Nik asked.