own. He doesn’t have to ask me. My small smile signifies how I’ll be ready to kill Fausto and Ophelia Kelly.
Chapter 62
Leith
In the past, I was wrapped up in giving my wee wean and wife the best and went too far. My Mia sees me as a walking piggy bank. A year ago, her bragging rights would have proven that I was successful apart from my clan. That just made me a particularly numpty nugget. Now, I’ve learned the error of my ways. I’ll meet my wife in the middle and raise our bairn to have a good head on her shoulders.
But tonight, we live like the kings we were meant to be. Like the MacKenzies before we depended on the McFarlands, which was over a hunner years ago. I paid for a grand event, glittery smoke and mirrors, which’ll be hosted at Mam’s and Chevelle’s favorite restaurant. I’d rented out an entire room, and my clan will eat like David I, the greatest king of Scots.
In a teal bespoke suit, I glance at Chevelle through the dresser mirror. She’s surrounded by all the bonny shite meant to adorn her body. A pink silk dress falls along the curves of her lower back and arse. From the reflection in the mirror, I see diamonds straight from Tiffany’s sparkle in her ears. She drops a dangly necklace that skims along the swell of her breasts, reaching behind her to clasp it.
“I remember the first time you stood there staring at me, Leith.” Chevelle lets me take the necklace from her hands. “You were so crazy.”
While latching it, I ask, “Och, I’m sane now?”
“You are, Leith. You are so crazy. But we were twenty. We had driven past here on our way to my old apartment. You had me believe that we were sneaking into an open house.”
“Dinna remind me of it.”
“The open house or my old apartment?” She giggles.
I give her the look. Through the mirror's reflection, Chevelle’s a breathtakingly beautiful sight. My fingertips trail over her shoulders, placing kisses on every inch of her exposed skin. As my hands glide over her curves, her breathing increases. I sink my teeth into the pulse at her neck.
“Ouch!” Chevelle hisses.
I lick the area where I just applied hurt, and she melts into my erection. “The apartment, hen. Dropping ye off and returning to MIT—that had me off my feckin’ heid.”
Chevelle’s hands press onto mine as I squeeze at her breasts. She kisses my knuckles, saying, “Well, you atoned for it, Leith. You bought this tiny-ass house.”
“I thought ye favored this home over the other one?”
She smiles. “Eh, in comparison to the monstrosity that’s now in ashes, yes. Besides, it was only tiny when I was lost in my thoughts while you were in Massachusetts.”
Plastering my hips against her arse, I nip at her neck. “Now that we’re not wanted for arson, I might let ye help me pick out our next home.”
“Really?” Chevelle wiggles away from my hold then turns around. Huge, shocked brown eyes lock onto mine. “That would be amazing, you bossy bastard.”
“Hah.”
“Anyway, back to you looking in the mirror at me. We had snuck into the closed open house, made love on what I thought was a model bed. You were looking at me. I wish I knew what you were thinking.”
“I mind,” I reply.
Her tiny hands swat at my chest. “Leith, that was a long time ago.”
With a smirk, I add, “I walked over to ya, placed my arms around ye like so.”
I can hear her heart pounding in her chest. Those luscious lips part while my precious wife waits for me to continue. “Hen, I dropped my lips on yer bare shoulder. Ye were complaining.”
“Someone had to be nervous about the realtor returning from lunch,” she breathes. “Didn’t cross my mind that you’d bought the place, and there was no open house.”
“Though the two of us needed ye to get outta yer heid, hen, I enjoyed that moment. I told ye to give me a few so that I could feck ye again.”
The reflection of her beams back at me. “Woah, you do remember.”
“How could I not, Chevelle? I mind all there is about ye.”
“So, then,” she sucks on air, as if breathless, “what did you think?”
“About how I wanted to make you smile all the time. Thinking ye were a drug, and how I’d be a fool to leave ye and return to college. Thinking I better marry this girl soon, control her, keep her, make