Valiant's POV Drifting off to sleep I silently prayed for God to reunite me with my baby. I missed him, his smell, his smile and his father's eyes. Regal. His name came when I first saw him and he gazed at me after an emergency c-section. He looked like an heir, spitting image of his handsome daddy. I had just found out two of Reece's biggest secrets and the stress of it all sent me into early labor. "Our little prince." I cooed to my son and he stared into my eyes and for a moment I felt his power. The blood of a warrior, mind of a mogul and aura of kingship. I could see his eyes searching while his brain worked to register my face and I'm sure his heart knew me as mother. "Regal?" I asked him. He made a cute face and began rooting with his lips. I placed him on the teat closest to him and he began drawing out from me. "Regal?" He stopped and stared again. "Your name is Regal Vincent Shields. Your father is Reece Dietrich Shields and I am your mother, Valiant Desiree William
Valiant's POV And the arguments continued. This time, I was being rightfully accused about having my feelings mixed up for another man who just so happened to be a very close and trusted friend. Dinner was ate in silence. We cleaned in silence. We battled the silence. I spoke first winning the stand off. "Roman, is everything okay?" "I don't know. You tell me. You and Reece are close. Do you want him? I know he'd never cross the line with you." I stared at the pattern of twisted and coiled fabrics of the carpet on the floor mapping whatever was in my head. "I trust him. He's saved my life more than once. But you...all the guys love you. They protect you." His lamentations were straining to make sense to him and to me. "Roman, it's nothing like that. It's harder for me to be as open with you because I've been intimate with you and now that you know everything I feel dirty somehow." Time to come clean. Almost. "I feel like your touches and your aggression will put me in a more
Author's POV The two of them stood looking at each other in shock. Not expecting to have to met like this. Again, her needing his help. The stare down was intense and neither one of them seemed to have known what to do. It'd been far too long that they'd hugged or kissed but they loved and desired each other all the same as the first time they acknowledged their true feelings. Valiant's eyes went watery and trails of tears raced down her cheeks, stinging the tracks of scratches and hung dangerously on her chin threatening to stain anything on the fall down. Reece's jaws tensed as he took in her bruised and battered state. "Baby. I'm sorry." His words were trapped and barely emitted from his throat as he went down to his knees. He held his hands out to her. "I'm sorry I didn't protect you, I'm sorry I spent all these months being upset with you. I'm sorry I kept the worse secrets. Please come to me." Val sobbed in silence as she looked at her brave prince. She'd seen him down l
Author's POV 3 Weeks Later Leaving Dylan's office was bittersweet for the family including the good doctor. Although Val was doing much better at her wounds healing she was still talking the forced taking hard. Her chance of leaving for the Air Force got pushed until she could have medical clearance and redo her final physical at the Military Entrance Processing Station. Reece had been trying his best to persuade her to stay but her mind was made up as she reminded him of his reason for going off the expected path. However, her situation was different. She was a mother now. She needed to be home. And with what they learned about her situation and that Lettie was behind it, no one wanted her out of their sight. Her Uncle Rmembert could make some calls but at the end of the day his reach was limited as she wanted nothing to do with the Army. **** Getting back to the ranch Reece brought in Royalty and passed him to Madre who was was chatting with one her sister-in-laws. The cou
Reece's POV I listened to her recant the story of how I stole her boyfriend's thunder and her heart for the thousandth time. Never in my life have I stolen anything. I nestled my nose up against her. "Baby?" I asked. I wanted to keep reminiscing and hopefully she'd let me fūck her. "Umm hmm" She whimpered in my ear. "Do you remember our first time together?" Her gasp told me she did and that more than her mind had gone back to that night. Her whole body shivered with memory. "Yeah, I remember. You whisked me away to the big city in your fancy car and begged me to cheat on my boyfriend with you. Very romantic." "I never told you my secret though" She struggled to push me away so that she could look me in my face. "What secret Reece?" Shịt time for me to explain my misdeeds. *Reece's Flashback POV* >Reece: My buddy! How are you today? Did you get the envelope?>Me: How art thee great noble one? *I can imagine him laughing.*>Me: Hi Reecey! Oh man it's been a day! I did get t
Reece's POV I didn't want to make her fall over the cliff yet so I backed off and kept my one digit inside of her. In a come hither movement with my finger, I culled her channel churning her liquid passion until I could hear it. Valiant started up again as I watched her get to her elbows and set her deep brown eyes on me. Lips swollen with my kisses and her constant biting of her I was drawn like a moth to a flame. Those lips and that pink tongue was going to play my dick tonight. I was going to be sure of it but for now, I wanted to see her mouth open allowing my name to escape. "Vee?" "Yeah." Her voice weak with lust. Breathless. "Are you ready to cum for me?" "Yes Reece. Yesssss." Her last word sounded sweeter than syrup and my sweet tooth was craving it all. I pulled my finger out just enough to mate it with another one slowly pumping them until they both dripped with her essence. My mouth found her clit as my teeth lovingly tugged at it. Her's was a bit more prominent t
Valiant's POV I couldn't believe what the love of my life just said to me. I was horrified and mad as hell! All this time, I thought Malcolm had run off on a druggie high and got locked up in another county. I was probably more horrified that the land we were on had his blood on it. Clearly, he hadn't thought this out when executing his plan, that one day me and his kids would come here. "Reece, you didn't. Please tell me you didn't." I watched him slowly ease off of me probably trying not to scare me more than I was. The pain searing my side had begin to decrease and was barely noticeable unless taking a quick deep breath, coughing, sneezing or escaping a sexy killer. "I know how it sounds and I can explain my thought process. First, first...let me tell you that I love you." His hands were extended toward me but palms down like he was shushing me. He looked crazy scared. I could have laughed if I weren't mortified. "Second, my son, our son...I love him too. And your cousin wa
Reece's POV "Because my secret should be our secret. Just us baby girl and when I feel like you've grasped that, I'll let you out." I glared at her for misunderstanding me and my intentions. Why would she regard her abuser? I've been here making right all the wrongs and helping her heal along the way. My mind and heart were not in tandem anymore. She had driven me to near insanity. After all the months we spent in silence because I refused to talk to her to her being taken and battered to now. Now. Now, I've locked her away until she calmed enough. I know she could be rational and would be after calming down. Val wasn't an immature woman although she was just hitting 19 and I wasn't an immature man just turning 23. We have had plenty of logical conversations and had accolades to prove in school and in the real world that we were thinkers, problem solvers. I grit my teeth as I leaned upon the wall that hid her away, I couldn't hear her voice but I figured she must be scared and c