Page 6 of Nikki Sinatra: For Her Lover

Half an hour before midnight the security gate opened and Teddy drove his Corvette all the way up to his horseshoe driveway.

When he didn’t see Nikki’s car parked outside he was disappointed.

He had been hopeful she would get in before dark: which was always his preference.

Whenever she was out at night it bothered him, even when he knew exactly where she was: which he rarely knew.

Nikki was one of those don’t fence me in kind of girls.

She didn’t like him or anybody else keeping tabs on her.

Because he was the same way, he understood it.

But that didn’t mean he liked it.

Especially because she didn’t use to be that kind of girl.

He sat in his car a few moments longer as he looked up at their suburban home in their upscale gated community.

To their neighbors they were hardworking, upwardly-mobile professional-type people who always waved and were always courteous, but who also never once participated in any of the various HOA activities they often held.

Not that they didn’t want to participate. They just couldn’t find the time. Both of them worked constantly putting out fires and making sure shipments arrived on time. Pop’s syndicate was a billion-dollar business that required billion-dollar time.

But they both knew their lifestyle wasn’t sustainable. Teddy was already suffering from burnout and Nikki was on her way. And they had a child to raise! They talked about it and made plans to do something about it. But nothing permanent had ever been done.

He got out of his car and made his way to his front door.

In his jeans and button-down, tucked-in shirt, and with his muscular physique turning ladies’ heads no matter what he wore, he knew his life could have been so much easier if he hadn’t decided to have a family.

Now he worried incessantly about Nikki and their baby girl Kimmie.

And the fact that he pulled Nikki into the syndicate with him, believing he could protect her better if they worked together than apart, seemed like a bad joke to him now.

She was in far more danger being his underboss than she would have ever been as his wife only, and that guilt rode hard with him too.

Because there was no getting out of it now.

Small mobs existed for the power, but mainly for the money.

The massive syndicates like Mick Sinatra’s crime family began with power and money as the goals too.

But all of that was achieved long ago. Now they existed mainly to stay alive.

They ever decided to get out, it would be viewed as total surrender and weakness.

They would become target number one for every plot and scheme their enemies could cook up to torment them for the rest of their lives.

It would be payback time on an international scale.

They would settle every beef they ever had with Teddy T and Nikki and Mick Sinatra too.

When Teddy made it to the front door, he entered the code but stood there, his hand on the doorknob.

Sometimes, like this time, he wondered what it would be like to just walk away.

Just stop the world and get off. Never to be heard from again.

All the burdens he bore of running the most powerful syndicate in the world would be off his shoulders.

He would be free again. Men did it all the time.

They abandoned their families as if they were commodities traders, and unpacked all those burdens and started over.

But Teddy abandoning Nikki? Abandoning his baby?

He ran his hand across his tired face. There was no way.

It was just guilt, he decided, that even put those thoughts into his head.

Because he should have seen it coming. When his father stepped back from the day-to-day running of his syndicate and made Teddy the boss, it was Teddy who wanted Nikki by his side.

His father was apprehensive, but ultimately gave in to his request. It seemed perfectly logical to Teddy back then.

He knew she would have his back, and he would have hers.

And by her working with him side by side, he felt he could protect her even more so.

But at what cost? He didn’t count up the cost! Now it was too late.

Once in, always in.

There was no getting out.

And that was the cost Teddy should have considered more thoroughly. As he turned the knob and entered his home, that was the cost he wasn’t sure if he considered at all.

When he entered his home, he headed straight for the bar, made himself a drink, and guzzled it down with one long swallow. It had been another long, exhausting day. He had to put out more fires than firemen did.

Once he allowed the whiskey to give him that kick he was looking for, he went down the hall and entered the nursery.

The baby was in her bed fast asleep, looking like an angel he thought, and he didn’t disturb her.

But it was uncanny to him how every single day she was beginning to look more and more like Nikki.

From her flawless brown skin to her huge eyes, they could be twins.

Although he looked like his father and girls considered both of them to be great-looking guys, they would make horrible-looking girls.

He was pleased to know that his precious Kimmie wasn’t taking after him.

Her nanny was asleep in her separate bed as well.

The nanny before her was a pretty young woman who came on to Teddy the first week of her employment, as if she just knew, like a lot of women thought, that she could easily steal him from the likes of Nikki.

Teddy pulled her aside, cussed her ass out as if he was cussing a sailor, and fired her on the spot.

And although this new nanny, a dark-skinned beauty in Teddy’s view, was even prettier than her predecessor, she was a devout Christian young lady who had no interest in taking anybody’s man.

She was there to do the job she was hired to do, and she did it extremely well.

He, Nikki, and Kimmie who loved her, could not have been more pleased.

But the fact that she was there that time of night only reminded him that Nikki wasn’t at home and Nanny therefore had to stay overnight.

Which she understood would be required often given that Teddy nor Nikki worked traditional 9-to-5 jobs.

But it also meant that he wasn’t going to get any real sleep at all until Nikki was safe and sound and in his bed.

He left the nursery and made his way to his winding staircase. His feet felt as if he was dragging a ton of lead on top of them as he climbed those stairs. But as he made it higher and higher up, he suddenly could hear the shower running. Which had to mean Nikki was home after all?

Despite the lead feeling, he took those remaining stairs two at a time and hurried across the landing into their bedroom.

When he saw through the bathroom door that it was indeed Nikki in the shower, his heart soared.

He flung his shirt over his head and tossed it aside, stepped out of his shoes and then his jeans and briefs and kicked them aside, and made his way into their ensuite bathroom.

He could see Nikki’s voluptuous outline through the shower glass. From her huge breasts to her flat stomach to her gorgeously curvaceousness, he began fondling his dick just watching her.

But when he walked over and opened the door of the shower stall, and Nikki jumped and seemed so startled by his presence, he frowned. That was so not like nerves of steel Nikki at all. “What’s wrong?”

The effects of that car chase, and especially who was chasing her, still had her badly shaken. But she knew she couldn’t let Teddy know anything about that. She picked up the soap she had just dropped. “Nothing’s wrong. You surprised me. I didn’t realize you had made it home.”

But Teddy knew the difference from being surprised to nearly jumping out of your skin. “I just got in,” he said. “You look rattled, Nikki. What happened out there?”

“I told you nothing happened. You surprised me that’s all.”

Then she looked down at his enormous penis. It felt like a diversionary tactic to him, her looking down at his manhood, as if she didn’t want him to question her any further. But because he was looking down at her body, too, and was getting more and more aroused as he looked, it worked.

Nikki had the ability to turn him on just by showing up, and if she showed up naked then he was through.

He was done. He had to have her then and there and without delay.

There was a time when he would have never thought in a million years that he could be attracted to full-figured gals at all.

Just the opposite in fact. Until he met Nikki.

Now her body was the only one he craved.

He stepped into that shower, placed his hands on her hips, and walked with her until her back was against the shower wall.

Then he began kissing her with that hard, penetrating kiss she loved.

She began moving her hands through his hair as they kissed.

She knew she was diverting him away from all that anxiety and stress she was experiencing.

But she also knew she needed a release from it too.

Only Teddy’s big, powerful body had the ability to release it.

That was why she kissed him as hard as he was kissing her. That was why her passion matched his.

And Teddy loved it. That was one thing he loved most about Nikki. She gave as good as she got and she didn’t hold back on him. It was the two of them together riding hard and the both loved the ride.

And riding hard was exactly what happened when Teddy lifted her up, she wrapped her legs around his waist, and he entered her with a thrust so hard and so in tune with their passion that it caused Nikki to cry out. But it was a cry of joy because he was doing her exactly the way she wanted:

Hard .

It was so hard that both of them were breathing loudly with every thrust.

It was so hard that Nikki thought she was going to cum within seconds of his entry.

But Teddy had a way of making her wait. He knew where to go inside of her and when it looked like they both were going to break, he broke it off and moved from that spot. It was the perfect match to Nikki. Teddy knew what he was doing.

For the longest time the slapping sounds of their wet bodies and running water was all that could be heard in the entirety of the master suite.

And it was hard, unrelenting, uncompromising body slaps so loud they felt like body blows.

But it was that sense of urgency, that need of release, that both of them needed most. Nice and easy wasn’t the need that night.

And neither one of them wanted it to be.

But when they finally came, Teddy came first. Which usually never happened.

He never wanted to cum before his woman!

And although Nikki came right behind him, it still was curious to Teddy.

He even looked at Nikki as they were cumming.

Her eyes were closed and she was crying out passionately as the feelings his penis gave to her overtook her.

But he could see something else on her face too.

He couldn’t look long because his cum was too electrifying, but for that second before he was overcome, too, he saw something there.

When he had poured all he had into her, he waited for her to open her eyes. When she finally did, and she gave him that hooded, sexy look, he could still see that something was wrong. Something wasn’t right with Nikki. And it worried him.

She could tell he saw that her anxiety was still high. That was why she pulled him closer to her and wrapped her arms around him. He held her too.

But he knew his woman. He leaned his forehead against her forehead and looked into her eyes. “What’s wrong, babe?” he asked her.

If it was only that simple! If she could just open up and tell him all about it and that would be that.

But that could also be the final nail in their hanging by a thread marriage coffin.

That was why she gave him that I don’t know what you’re talking about look she always gave when she didn’t want to talk about it. “Nothing’s wrong.”

“Yeah and that’s bullshit, Nikki.”

Nikki leaned her forehead away from his as a sadness appeared in her eyes that let him know he was on to something. But instead of arguing with him the way she usually did, she pushed him away from her, forcing his dick to slide out of her, and she got out of the shower.

Although she didn’t say anything, her decision not to argue with him said it all to Teddy. He got out of the shower too.