All Chapters of The Price of Peace: Book 3 In The No More Regrets Series: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Keisha’s POV As the end of the day wraps up, I am so ready to go home. Hopefully Kole went and got my baby. I am tired and pooped. These fucking pants are tight as shit. I feel like my butt is sweating.I sigh as I grab my suit jacket and pull it on. I have a few more pou dss to lose and my stomach will be back to the way it was before.I close my laptop and put it in my bag, grab my cell phone, and start making my way down to the parking garage. I’m leaving a few minutes early. Usually I try to work till like 5:30, but today, I’m just tired, and plus I’m salaried. It’s not even five yet, but a lot of people are already heading out the door.As I continue to walk to my car, I hear some people really loud talking. And when I say loud, I mean loud.“That fucking bitch,” one of them says. “She thinks she’s hot shit because she’s running a group of men. Like, who is she to fucking write me up?”Another guy says, “Well, she is the boss here.”“Man, fuck that. I don’t know whose cock she s

Isla’s POV After my little impromptu meeting with the mayor and his crazy ass, I decided I might work with him. A little bit. Not a lot of bit. I don’t trust him. He’s creepy in that polished, smiling for the camera way, and the fact that he only seems to want Maya because she was, in his words, “the best sex of his life” is wild when that woman is also the mother of his child. That alone tells me everything I need to know about his priorities.I did my homework on him. During my at home work time I pulled up everything I could find on him. Public records, old photos, charity galas, tagged posts, the whole nine. He was seen out with Maya a full year before he ever met his wife. Then suddenly he marries this nepo baby with money and political connections, a girl ten years younger than him, no kids, pristine image. Meanwhile Maya who is still younger than him, just not that young is pushed to the side like she was a phase.It’s messy. Calculated. And it makes my skin crawl.He’s not gi

Maya’s POV, After hanging up the phone with Shane, I shake my head. As a parent, just like Shane, just like Isla, I know exactly how this looks. Chasing someone who doesn’t want you anymore, using whatever tactics you can just to get them to interact with you. I’ve been there.When I first had my child, I moved just like that. I went to the mayor’s office over and over, trying to talk to him, trying to force a conversation. I threatened to tell the world about the baby. And every time, he threw more money at me, more “opportunities,” more hush offers. I was young. I was dumb. I took it.When Gabby was born, it got worse. I showed up everywhere he went, baby in hand. He wouldn’t even look at her. Not once. I had to accept that he didn’t want her. He didn’t want me either.He married another woman. He met her long after we started dating, after I was already pregnant. Six months. That’s all it took for him to marry her. Meanwhile, we had been dealing with each other for almost two yea

CrandonTempest’s lips are still on mine, warm and insistent, her arms looped around my neck as if she never plans to let go. We’re standing in the middle of my bedroom floor, bodies pressed together, moving in a slow rhythm that has my brain short-circuiting.I cup her face and deepen the kiss, completely lost in it, until that little voice in the back of my head cuts through the haze.Why is she doing this? Slow down.I break the kiss, breathing hard.“Tempest.”She looks up at me, eyes soft. “Yes?”“I think… we should slow it down.”A small smile spreads across her face. “You’re right.”“You okay?”She exhales. “Yeah. I just… couldn’t let tonight go by without giving you a goodnight kiss.”I smile and lean down, giving her another lingering kiss. Before I can pull her closer again, she presses her hand lightly against my chest.“You’re amazing, Crandon,” she says. “And I don’t know if women tell you that enough. I know a lot of them at the office are interested in you. They’re just

Crandon’s POVAs my mother and Tempest come out of the kitchen with the final touches, everybody settles in, plates in front of them, forks ready like we’ve been waiting our whole lives for this meal.My mother looks at Tempest like she’s known her for ten years and says,“So this beautiful young lady was telling me she’s from California, and I was telling her how much I love California and how we should all go.”I pause mid-reach for the cabbage and look at my mother.Here she go.We just started dating yesterday and she’s already planning family vacations.I start picking at the little food on my plate anyway because I’m hungry and I know better than to argue with Stella Morgan on an empty stomach.She claps her hands.“Stop. We haven’t said grace yet, and you know better.”Silas laughs. Chase laughs. Pam shakes her head. Tiffany is still talking David’s ear clean off.We bow our heads.My mother gives a quick prayer,“Lord, thank you for this food we are about to receive. Amen.”“A