Page 37 of Wicked Throne

My hand found its way under the sweater she was wearing. Her taught stomach flexing and revealing she had a few abs there as well. My fingers kept on wandering right up to her left breast, and I flicked at it just a bit through the silk of her bra. Another little gasp escaped her lip.

My cellphone began to ring somewhere off in the distance.

"You should get that," she replied still looking into my eyes.

I growled. "I don't want to."

"It could be an emergency."

I frowned and finally forced my way to the phone that was sitting outside of the kitchen on a table. It was my father-in-law calling.

"Good evening, sir," I replied.

"Hi, Thierry. Look three of my warehouses have been broken into. You need to get on this. We have no idea who it was but get down there. Sending coordinates to you now."

"Me, sir?"

"Thierry, soon you're going to be completely in charge of my empire. Time to get ready."

He hung up and I stood there looking at my phone.

I heard a cough behind me and knew my wife was waiting to ask who it was.

"That was your father," I stated.

"Oh really?"

"Somethings happened at the warehouses."

Turning to meet her, I found that she had folded her arms. It was causing her breast to push up forward...it should have been a sin to be this damn gorgeous. That was the perfect word for Diamond though.

Perfect sin.

"I've gotta go," I came and tilted her head up.

Her eyes had turned to a frown. "I know where the warehouses are. I should go. This is my father's business."

"But he didn't call you, did he?"

"He gave away my birthright," she looked like she was ten seconds from stamping her foot and pouting. Instead, she sobered up and moved away from me. "Well go on then....I'll just be a good housewife and wait for the food to come."

Wincing, I reached for the keys. "I'll let you know what happened and I'll be back right away."

Diamond shouted and headed back into the kitchen. "Fuck you!"

Getting into the car, and driving away it occurred to me that she hadn't planned to leave so she would more than likely be there when I got back. That made me happier than I wanted to admit. There was a need to take her up to that lonely ass bedroom and fuck her senseless.

I hadn't been with anyone since I put that fucking ring on her finger.

The one she never wore.

We would be talking about that too.

After the fucking of course.

Rolling up to the scene, I came face to face with all the men that John Knowles had working in this area. They immediately sized me up. I knew immediately what they were thinking, I'd only met a handful of them and already knew that the gangsters that John employed didn't like the fact that I was white and had been handed this business for practically nothing. My marriage to Diamond meant nothing to them.

I had been working on a way to change their minds, and with time I would. That was another reason I hadn't let Diamond come. There would be no sharing of power. Not now. Not ever. The Knowles- Scarpetta alliance was going to be under one person and that was me.