Page 58 of Cartel Viper (The Cartel Brotherhood #2)

“Maddy, no more spankings tonight. Partly because your ass can’t take much more, but also because I don’t want you to think of anything else we do as being a punishment.”

She nods and reaches back to pat my outer thigh.

“Thank you.”

When I’m finished with her hair, I put the brush on the bedside table and draw back the covers.

“Do you want vanilla or kinky?”

She glances at my cock as I climb in next to her. It’s coming back to life. The longer she stares at it, the faster it revives itself.

“Either. Both. I don’t know.” She grins at me, and I can’t help but chuckle.

“All right, chica . Hands over your head. Cross your wrists.”

Yes, Daddy.”

I slip out of bed and go to my closet. I grab four ties of various shades of gray.

It takes me no time to bind her wrists together.

Then I press her left leg up, bending it at the knee and hip.

I use the second tie to wrap around her shin and thigh.

I repeat that on the other side. She’s spread and open to me.

I take the last tie and make it a blindfold.

I feather my fingers over her nipples and down her belly, skimming them along her pussy lips, then her clit.

I have a view of every part of her I want to be inside.

I see how she’s still full of my cum, and that’s perhaps the most erotic and arousing thing I’ve ever witnessed.

Every moment with her, every time we’re together, surpasses the last. Each time, I think it must be the best it could ever be.

Yet, it’s not. There’s always something more to come.

In this case, it’ll be her in the next couple of minutes.

I kiss the inside of her right thigh, moving up to the juncture with her hip.

I kiss across the small landing strip she has above her pussy.

Then over her belly to her tits. I kiss underneath and around and over and on her nipples.

I kiss the dip in each collarbone, flicking my tongue when I move back down to her belly button.

Then I ease onto the bed and settle between her legs.

“If having you blindfolded wasn’t part of the allure, I’d want you to see just how spectacular you look to me. Your cunt is still full of my cum. It belongs to me. I can fuck it whenever I want.”

“Yes, Daddy.”

“You can fuck my cock whenever you want.”

“I plan to.” She says it with such seriousness I can’t help but chuckle.

“You don’t even have to ask, little one. Just take me out.”

“If you say so.”

She waggles her eyebrows above the top of the tie, and her lips twitch with a smile.

I stroke myself until I’m completely hard again.

Then I nudge the tip into her pussy, coating it before rubbing it over her clit, swirling my cum on it.

I sink into her, and her neck arches as her shoulders press into the mattress, lifting her tits to me.

I accept the invitation and lean forward, sucking on each.

I don’t thrust so much as coat my cock in my cum and her cream.

When I know it’s fully covered, I withdraw.

I use the combination as lube, lifting her hips, so I can press my cock into her ass.

She relaxes, allowing me into her. She’s so fucking tight I have to move slowly, so I don’t hurt either of us.

I know she’s doing her best to continue to relax.

I ease my way past the tight ring of muscle, stretching her.

“Do you know how hot you’d look with a jeweled plug?”

“I’d probably look hotter to you than to me, but if you say so, Daddy.”

“Oh, I’m positive it’s one of the things that will be on my Christmas list.”

“Are you really going to make us wait that long?”

“Well, no. I’ll probably come up with something else I want by the time Christmas rolls around. How are you doing, little one?”

“I’m fine for now.”

“Does this hurt?”

“Javi, I want more. ‘For now’ means I’m being patient, but I ache to feel you move inside of me. Making me wait is its own type of torture.”

“I won’t deny you anything else tonight, little one.”

I rock my hips before I withdraw, then thrust. We move together as we both bask in this intimacy.

“You’re so incredibly tight, chiquita .”

“You’re so big, Daddy. I feel so full.”

“You belong entirely to me now. I’ve had every part of you.”

“You will always. Forever.”

Our gazes lock, and while part of this might be dirty talk, I know we mean this all the way to our marrow.

She nods, and I think she’s telling me the answer to my offer earlier.

This really is our bed now. That excites me as much as the physical feeling of being inside her.

I continue to thrust until she writhes beneath me.

“Daddy, please more. Something…anything…just more.”

I push up onto my right hand while my left thumb works her clit. I rub over and over until she can barely stand it.

“May I come, Daddy, please?”

“Yes, little one.”

Watching her is exquisite. The flush that rises from her tits, up her neck, and into her cheeks.

How tight her nipples are. The way she squeezes her eyes shut and opens her mouth in a silent scream that ends in a moan.

She gasps before her eyes open, and she does her best to lift her hips, offering me all of her.

It only takes four more thrusts before I fill her ass with my cum.

I’m careful as I lower myself, so we lie chest to chest. Our kiss is just as earth-shattering as our orgasms were.

We both pour all our feelings into it. Ones that have developed over the years but lay dormant for so long.

All the repressed and unfulfilled dreams we each had that now have the potential to come true.

I’m careful as I ease out of her. I free her from the ties and help her move her legs to get the circulation back in them and to loosen her joints.

This shower is quick, just to freshen up.

Then we’re climbing into bed together. She nestles against my side, her cheek on my chest as her fingers run through the smattering of hair on my chest.

“I know you can’t tell me much, but can you tell me anything that’s going to happen next?”

It’s a fair question, and one I need to answer even if it’s only a fraction of the truth.

“Even though Drew is gone now, that won’t end things. It’ll embolden them even further when they believe honor requires them to retaliate, even though all we did was defend ourselves against their attacks.”

“What do you think they’ll do?”

I remain silent. She tilts her head back to look up at me before she nods.

She knows I can’t answer that question as much as I’d like to.

Anything I tell her they might do will hint at how we strike back.

That would make her complicit to the crimes.

She’s already entrenched in this life now, even before we reconnected. But I won’t make it worse.

Just the opposite. I want her as far removed as I can possibly get her after today. I refuse to see her in danger like this ever again. I don’t think my heart can take it.

“Will you have to go away for a few days?”

“Most likely. If it’s more than three, I want you to stay with Mamá .”

She pushes up her elbow, digging into the mattress as she supports herself. We stare at each other before she closes her eyes.

“ Chica , I know you’d rather go to Laura or even to your parents.”

“I made my choice, Javi.” She opens her eyes. “And I don’t regret it. I never will. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.”

“If anything happens, I need you to promise you’ll come to me and my family first. Only go to Laura if you have no other choice.”

“I know, Javi. You are my first choice. Laura understands. But I don’t know your mom as well as I know my sister, so I think it’s understandable why she would be my second choice. But I trust everyone in your family as much as I do you.”

“I’m sorry you’re in this position. If it’s too much?—”

“No!”

The word flies from her mouth. I doubt she intended it to be so loud, but her adamance is clear.

“Do not give me a way to back out of this, Javi. If I wanted out, I would’ve left already.

I would’ve bolted today. It wouldn’t have been easy, but there were chances for me to go.

You would’ve taken me if I asked, but I didn’t.

I agreed to go to Laura and Maks’s because you believed it was the right thing to do.

If and when you tell me to go to my sister’s, then I will. But I’m not asking during a crisis.”

I brush hair back from her forehead as I roll onto my side and prop myself up on my elbow. My hand rests on her waist.

“There will be times where the hostilities between the Kutsenkos and my family reach a boiling point. But what goes on between the men is never meant to affect the women. It would be stupid to believe it doesn’t.

I hate knowing it may strain or test your relationship with Laura.

And I hate knowing it means your parents are caught having to divide their loyalty. Do you believe they would stand by us?”

“Absolutely. I don’t doubt that at all. Can we tell them anything that happened with Drew?”

“You can tell them as much or as little of your relationship with him as you want. They’re not blind to who Laura’s in-laws are.

And you know your family has its own history.

But you should decide how soon you want to tell them.

Your dad is not a man without skills. If you tell him before my family resolves things with the O’Sheehans, he will rightfully demand to be part of it. ”

She stares at me for a long moment before she nods.

“I understand. I don’t want any more people I love to be in danger. But I won’t turn down the offer of one more person to look out for you. Just how involved was Maks’s family?”

Again, I fall silent. I believe Misha’s ignorance about Maddy’s involvement in the O’Sheehans operations.

But he still accepted the risk that went with associating with the O’Sheehans when she could be so nearby.

Yet again, I also have to question Maks’s judgment in allowing Maddy to be with Drew since I’m certain he knew Drew’s reputation with women.

I’m struggling, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe he figured the douche had turned over a new leaf, especially since Maddy was with him for four years.

However, as her big brother, he should’ve kept a better eye on her relationship. He might have trusted her, but he never should’ve trusted Drew. I’m hard-pressed to forgive him for that. I don’t know that I ever will.

“ Chiquita , there’s a tenuous balance among the families.

We know we can fuck with one another, and we can fuck each other over.

But we never directly target each other now that so many of us have wives and children.

There’s no guarantee what may or may not happen if things erupt, but the goal is no longer to kill each other.

Mame, maybe. Kill, no. There are a lot of unwritten, unspoken rules.

But no one wants to leave the women of the Four Families as widows.

I sure as fuck don’t want to be responsible for that. ”

Her eyes water as she nods, and I know she’s thinking about the story I shared earlier. She wouldn’t want her sister to be in the same position as my mom. And I sure as fuck don’t want Maddy to ever be alone like that. There’s so much more to my mom’s story I haven’t shared.

Being without a husband with young children put her at risk.

When my grandmother became a widow, Mamá and my tía and tíos were already adults.

The risk wasn’t the same for her as it was for Mamá .

After my father died, my mother became one of the most desirable women in the Latin American underworld—probably in the entire underworld—not just because she’s a stunning woman, but because of her family connections and the wealth my father left us that was independent of his cartel dealings.

As a Diaz and a Cardenas, she was connected to two of the most powerful families.

My father’s family runs Medellín, one of the major Colombian cities, and controls all the poppy fields in the country. My mother’s family, los Diaz , have been what they are today for generations. The ruling family of Latin America.

More than once, there were kidnapping attempts.

Men tried to pressure her into marriage, even threatening my brothers and me.

Street gangs targeted my brothers and me.

But if leaders of major cartels couldn’t bend my mother’s will, then piddly street gangs stood no chance.

Between that and how gangs targeted Joaquin, Jorge, and me, we had no choice but to leave our home in Colombia.

Once our abuela was no longer with us, there was little reason for us to stay.

There are things about our life in Colombia that I miss, but not much.

I don’t need to miss anything with all my family being here.

I know Galina Kutsenko faced much the same danger as Mamá did, and that’s part of the reason she and her sons fled to America with her sister and her family, along with her brother-in-law and his family.

The difference was they thought they could escape the bratva by coming here.

Escaping the Cartel was never an option.

“Javi?”

My focus settles on Maddy again. “I’m sorry, little one. My mind wandered, thinking about making sure I can keep you safe.”

She inches closer to me and offers me a soft peck on my lips. “Nothing will be solved tonight, Daddy, so we can deal with everything in the morning.”