Page 24 of Spider (Hades Abyss MC #1)
One Month Later
Luciana
My hands twisted in my skirt and I danced from foot to foot.
Today was the big day. I didn’t know how Spider had pulled it off, but he’d told me about a little girl who needed a new home.
We weren’t going through an adoption agency, and I’d decided I didn’t want to know the details.
I wasn’t going to question the wonderful gift we were receiving.
Teller pulled to a stop in front of the house and got out of the club SUV.
He smiled and gave me a wink as he opened the back door and pulled out a little girl dressed all in pink.
Carefully, he brought her around the front of the vehicle and handed Spider a folder and a bag, then gave the little girl to me.
I gazed down at the beautiful little girl in my arms and loved her instantly.
“Spider,” I said softly.
He wrapped an arm around my waist. “She’s ours, Luciana. Her mother signed away her rights, and Surge is working on getting everything in order. Her name is Marianna, and she’s a year old.”
I reached and down and stroked Marianna’s baby soft cheek.
Spider smiled at our new daughter. “She has a few developmental delays. I didn’t think you’d care. The mother didn’t want her, claimed she was too much trouble. Honestly, I think the mom was doing drugs when she was pregnant, but I had a pediatrician check her out and she seems healthy.”
I rubbed her cheek again, marveling at how perfect she was. “She’s beautiful, and the most precious thing I’ve ever seen.”
“Marianna,” Spider said, “Meet your new momma. I have a feeling you’re going to be one spoiled little girl.”
“Let me know if you need a babysitter.” Teller grinned. “Kids love me.”
Spider wrapped his arm around my waist and led me inside the house. Marianna clung to me, and I was loving every moment of it. She was perfect. And ours.
“I love you, Marianna,” I murmured.
She grinned and reached up to pull my hair.
Spider nodded toward the hallway and I carried Marianna as we went to her bedroom.
Spider had painted it lavender and quickly put together a baby bed and changing table.
We’d decorated with butterflies and flowers.
She gazed around her room, as if she was taking everything in, then babbled a bit.
“She’s really ours?” I asked, almost afraid someone would come snatch her out of my arms.
“Yes, Luciana. She’s ours. No one will ever take her from us.” He looked around the room. “She may need to remain in the crib longer than most kids. I’m not sure what she is and isn’t capable of right now, but we’ll figure it out.”
“Thank you,” I said softly, leaning up to kiss him.
The little girl, my new daughter, had dark hair just like me, but her eyes were a lighter color.
Somewhere between blue and gray. Her skin wasn’t as dusky as mine, and I wondered about her heritage.
Not that it mattered to me, but I wanted to be able to tell her one day about where she came from.
Maybe just leave out the druggie mother.
“You have a home. A husband. And now a daughter. What else does my sexy wife want or need?” he asked.
“Nothing. I have everything I could ever want or need right here.”
Spider kissed me, long and slow, until Marianna giggled and started to squirm.
I set her down and let her explore her new room.
Spider tugged me into the hall and put a baby gate across the doorway to Marianna’s room.
Making sure we were just out of sight of our new daughter, he pressed me against the wall, grinding his cock against me.
“When she goes to sleep, I’m going to show you just how hot you are as a mom. Seeing her in your arms made me wish I could give you a dozen more.”
I nipped his lower lips, then kissed him quickly. “I don’t think we have room for a dozen. Besides, I have a feeling that Marianna will keep us busy enough.”
Spider kissed me a while longer, until our daughter caught our attention.
She reached through the bars of the baby gate and babbled at us.
Spider reached over and picked her up, holding her close to his chest. My eyes misted with tears at how sweet they looked together.
My big, gruff biker and the adorable little girl in pink.
I pulled his phone from his pocket, unlocked it, and snapped a picture of the two of them together. Spider reached out and brought me over to his side, then took a selfie with me and Marianna. Our first family picture.
“I love you,” I told him.
“Love you too, baby girl. I thought I had everything I needed. Then you walked into my life and I learned exactly what I’d been missing.
I don’t want to live a second without you, or without Marianna.
This club has always been my family, but now I have a wife and daughter as well.
You tore down the walls around my heart, and showed me what it was to fall in love. ”
“Spider.” I pressed my lips together, afraid I’d burst into tears if I said anything else.
I tried to compose myself, then blew out a breath.
“You are the most incredible man I’ve ever met.
I was scared at first, thinking you were like the others.
Then you proved me wrong, and I saw your big heart and experienced kindness from a man for the first time in my life.
I’m so glad that Casper gave me to you because you’re the best thing that ever happened to me. I love you. Always and forever.”
We shared another kiss, then spent the rest of the day getting to know our daughter. I didn’t care if other people didn’t see her as perfect. Marianna was beautiful and sweet, and she was mine. That’s all that mattered.
I thought I’d lost everything, had no reason to keep living, and then Spider had given me the world. My big, tough biker with the heart of gold and the squishiness of a teddy bear, at least when it came to me and his daughter. The only man I would ever want or need. And he was mine.