Coup De Grace

But I didn’t have to worry about that now.

I had five full days with my little beauty, until I had to see that doctor in Dallas with her, and I was going to love her so hard.

Michael put his arms around me and hugged me to his chest, pressing his lips against my cheek.

“I’m going to go home and change my clothes,” he rumbled softly. “And bring up your bag so we can get little miss priss dressed. Anything you need while I’m out?”

I shook my head. “No. Not unless you want to grab me a number one from Whataburger.”

He leaned back and gave me a grin.

“I think I can handle that,” he teased.

Kissing me once more, he moved his lips to our little girl and brushed his lips over her hair.

“The two best things that ever happened to me,” he whispered, then left the room without another word.

Picking up my phone, I started to take a few hundred pictures of my little beauty when a knock sounded at the door.

I looked up, and smiled.

Because at the door was Wolfgang, or Wolf as I liked to call him, and baby Nathan.

Although Baby Nathan wasn’t so much a baby anymore. He was a toddler who was full of mischief and love for all things furry.

“Wolf,” I said softly, smiling at him once he breached the doorway. “Come in, come in.”

Wolf smiled. “I’d have waited to come see you, but I have to be at work in a couple of hours, and I didn’t know if I’d get to see you before you got out. How are you doing?”

He smiled as he looked down at the baby in my lap.

“He did good,” he rasped, a deep seated hurt evident in his voice.

His own child would’ve been six months just a few weeks ago.

“Would you like to hold her, Wolf?” I asked softly.

He swallowed, and looked into my eyes. “Yeah, if that’s okay.”

I held out my hands for Nathan, and he handed him to me.

Nathan immediately wrapped his chubby arms around my neck.

“Take her,” I said softly.

Wolf did, reaching forward and scooping Carolina up with nimble, practiced hands.

“She’s beautiful,” he rumbled, cradling Carolina to his chest.

“She is,” I agreed, turning away from the devastated look that came over Wolf’s face. “How ‘ya doing, Nathan?”

Nathan offered me a slobbery smile as he played with my hair.

“Fish,” he babbled.

“Fish?” I asked him.

“That’s his new favorite word,” Wolf explained. “That and ‘cup’. Seems he only says what he wants.”

I smiled.

I remembered that with Nico’s twins as well.

“How’s work going for you?” I asked softly.

Wolf spoke without looking up from Carolina.

“A lot longer than I realized it’d be,” he muttered. “I find that I miss the hell out of Nathan while I’m there.”

I smiled.

That tended to happen when you had children.

I’d witnessed it with all of the SWAT team, as of late.

They all wanted to get home to their kids and wives.

The parties had gone from all nighters to ‘we need to leave by eight p.m. to get the kids in bed’ kind of parties.

Although, it was nice to see all these reformed bad-boys turned family men.

That’s the way it was supposed to be.

“How do you like the new mayor of Uncertain?” I asked. “Michael said they got a Sheriff and Mayor in the same day. He said it’s been kind of crazy.”

Wolf nodded. “It’s been a clusterfuck. It’s going to take some doing to get things settled.”

I wasn’t surprised.

Texas was a true Republican state, and to have two Democrat officials in high positions in the city was really getting on a lot of the city’s nerves. I was still surprised that it’d happened in the first place.

“Cup?” Nathan asked, tapping my face.

I looked to him and smiled. “I don’t have your cup, big guy.”

Nathan frowned, and my eyes were drawn to the barely noticeable scar on his forehead.

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