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Big Dick looked aroundat the guys who were mingling.They had helped Larissa and him move their stuff to the new place.He didn’t want Larissa moving anything she didn’t need to.
Harlow was sitting in one of the chairs in the sitting room.His sister looked ready to explode.As for Larissa, he was glad she was pregnant, as it had stopped her wearing those fucking jeans and ugly-ass sweaters.She was in dresses, as well as tights, which he could handle.Her body was too damn good to squeeze into fucking jeans.
“You did good,” Smokey said.
“You think so?”
“Larissa is happy.She’s ...talking to me again, and this place, I can see her and you enjoying it here.”
Big Dick sighed.“I don’t think she is going to be happy with me staying here.”
“Look, man, she loves you,” Smokey said.“That is what you’ve got to hold onto.You hurt her.The whole situation has hurt her.You knew Larissa was different and yet you didn’t stop.”
He turned to look at his President.“I couldn’t stop.Fuck me, I don’t know how she did it, but she got under my skin, even long before she kissed me at Ryan’s Place.”He took a deep breath.“You know, I wonder what I would have done if you or Brick, or Hunter had taken the lead that night.”
Smokey frowned.“What night?”
“The night Larissa kissed me when I walked into that bar.”
“Ah,” Smokey said, laughing.“Ava told me that if Larissa had kissed me, she would have found it hilarious.”
This made Big Dick frown.“How the fuck would she have found it hilarious?”
“Because I would have freaked the fuck out.Larissa is like a daughter.I have been looking out for her for a long time.It’s why I was so pissed at you.Not once did I think to look to you.I didn’t think you would be stupid enough to put your hands on Jonah’s daughter.”
Big Dick sighed.“I didn’t think I wanted to.”He turned to look at Larissa.She had a hand on her stomach and was laughing at something Harlow said.She looked so damn adorable and sexy.He had expected her to put up a fight about this place.She hadn’t, and he knew he had made the right decision.He had consulted with Jonah first before even looking for a place.Jonah was more than happy, but he also made him swear to take care of his daughter.Big Dick vowed to him he was never going to hurt her, and that he would protect her with his life.Larissa belonged to him, and he would do everything to make her happy.“It’s funny, huh, how life turns out.”
“Speaking of how life turns out.Can you and I have a word?”Smokey asked.
He saw how serious his Prez got, and nodded, making a beeline for outside.No one was out on the porch, not that he expected them to be, because he, himself, was freezing his balls off.
“What’s up?”he asked.
“It’s about Jonah.”
Big Dick tensed up, because he didn’t know why Smokey was coming to him.“What about him?”
“I don’t know if you realize how many times he’s been going out of town.”
“Larissa said it happens from time to time.”
“Not like this.Jonah doesn’t want Larissa to know, but it’s about her mother.”
“Her mother?”he asked and couldn’t help but look inside the house.She rarely talked about her mother, apart from being concerned about being a bad one because she didn’t know if she would be a good mother or not.
Smokey nodded.
“Jonah got a call from her several months ago,” Smokey said.
“Why hasn’t he told her?”He didn’t like this.
“She’s sick.She’d not going to make it, and because Larissa didn’t know her mother, Jonah doesn’t want to hurt her now.There’s no point.”
This made Big Dick frown.“You bastard.”
Smokey’s brows went up.
