HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION (An Erotic Billionaire Romance) novel Chapter 85

Meadow’s POV:

After his mother had so rudely interrupted us, Alaric chased her out. He kissed me on my mouth, but the moment was already far gone. “Fuck,” he cursed. “I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t know she was coming.”

I swallowed the uncomfortable lump in my throat. “Um… it’s fine. I can just….”

“I’ll ask her to leave,” he murmured as something flashed in his eyes. “I know you don’t feel comfortable around her.”

My heart swelled, and for a second, I was tongue–tied. I didn’t know how to respond to Alaric saying he was going to send his mother away on account of my comfort.

“Not exactly…” A nervous laugh escaped me. “But Alaric, she’s your mother. And honestly, if I’m going to stay married to you, I’m going to have to get used to her being around.”

And not just his mother. Clarissa.

I was going to have to get used to my aunt being his ex and probably seeing her more often now.

“Fine, then,” he grunted. “You want to go shower while I head down? Or do you want me to shower with you?”

Before I could respond, he stood up with my thighs still wrapped around his waist. Alaric was still inside me and I could feel him growing all over again.

I let out an airy laugh. “Alaric, seriously. If you get hard inside of me, I’m not sure I’ll be able to go again.”

“Of course you would,” he replied without hesitation. He carried me to his bathroom and there, he let me down, groaning low in his throat as he pulled out of me. An involuntary whimper left my mouth and Alaric delivered a spank to my ass.

Before he left, he told me to stay upstairs if I wasn’t comfortable with going down and seeing his mother, but…

Of course, I didn’t stay upstairs.

“I don’t appreciate you barging into my room, Mutti,” I heard Alaric say as I descended the stairs a few minutes later

“Well, I sent you a text to let you know that I was on my way, but you never responded-”

“Because I was with my wife.” Alaric’s tone was ice cold–a huge contrast to how he sounded when we were together only a few minutes ago. “And what the hell are you doing here this early? Even Mel isn’t here yet.”

“The housekeeper?” I heard Ingrid scoff. “Please, you take it too easy on her. It’s probably why she feels the need to come to work whenever she wants. You know how things were when you were younger.”

I could feel the atmosphere shift.

I knew that Alaric cared about Mel on a maternal level, and maybe he even considered her as a mother more than he did his own, so Ingrid saying this had to upset him.

Hell, it upset me too.

“What are you doing here, Mutti?”

I held my breath, holding on to the bannister as I waited for her response.

“Scheiße,” she cursed just as I heard the coffeemaker beep. “Coffee first, okay? It’s been a rough morning.

Which reminds me, you need to fire your assistant. He is so incompetent.”

Tyler. Tyler was Alaric’s assistant. I wondered if Juniper had already told Tyler that I was married to his boss.

A few seconds passed before Alaric spoke.

“So, you came all the way to my home, interrupting a private morning with my wife, to talk to me about my incompetent assistant? Also, I thought I asked you to stop making my assistants do your bidding.”

Alaric’s voice sounded calm, but I could sense the underlying tension and agitation. I took a deep breath. I didn’t like Ingrid, but I wasn’t going to hide in the shadows when she was around.

I stepped toward the kitchen, and right as I turned the corner, Ingrid was speaking. “Well, you have all the time in the world to be with your… little companion, and I needed your assistant to get Clarissa’s things from the airport.”

“She lives with you now?” Alaric asked, irritation flashing in his eyes.

Ingrid shrugged. “Well, yes. Someone has got to keep me company. And if my boys won’t do it, then I know someone who’s more willing.”

Someone being… My aunt Yvonne. Or Clarissa. Or whatever the fuck her name was. I still thought of the way she had spoken to me in the bathroom that day. Lied to me that she had only been with Alaric once and somehow missed telling me that Alaric used to be the love of her freaking life.

She held out on me on purpose. And now she was getting close to his mother.

I didn’t like that. I really didn’t.

“Sorry to break it to you, Mutti, but your sons have their own…” His phone buzzed and he pulled it out of his pocket. I didn’t see the name flashing on the screen but it seemed to be someone important, because Alaric cursed.

“Need to take this,” he murmured, planting a kiss to my temple before he walked past me.

I held my breath, and when he was out of sight, I let it out.

I didn’t want to fall for him.

Not now. But with the way things were going, I knew it was already out of my control.

When I turned back to look at Ingrid, her red lips were pulled into a deep scowl as her blue

over me from top to bottom.

And then she asked-

“How long have you and my son been trying for a child?”