Authors: Serenity King
Through the Fire (25 page)
“Yes, sweetheart, we’re pregnant,” he
whispered bending down to brush his lips
against hers.
“We’re having a baby,” she cried excitedly
reaching for Brandon’s hand. “But I was told
that I couldn’t conceive.”
“I know. We’ve been given another
chance.”
They both watched the technician squirt
gel onto Dominique’s stomach and slide the
wand across her abdomen.
“Here we are, ladies and gents,” she said
after a few moments during which Brandon felt
a terrified certainty that it was all somehow a
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huge
mistake.
“There’s
your
baby…hmm…babies.”
Brandon and Dominique watched in awe
as the technician talked them through each step
she took.
“I’d say by the size of the fetuses that
you’re very early on, about seven to eight
weeks. Is that about right, Mrs. Cameron?” the
technician asked.
“Goodness, I have no idea. I don’t even
remember not getting my period. I feel like
such
a
dunce,”
Dominique
groaned,
embarrassed.
“Is everything okay with the baby?”
Brandon asked the question they’d both been
avoiding.
“Everything appears to be just fine with
the babies, Mr. Cameron. There’s nothing on
this sonogram to indicate otherwise,” she said,
taking a towel and wiping the gel from
Dominique’s stomach. Then she pulled the
gown back down over her belly.
Brandon
tightened
his
hold
on
Dominique’s hand. He sighed in relief at the
technician’s words.
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“I’ll get this report over to your doctor.
Congratulations!” she said, and left, pushing
the machine along with her.
After the technician left, Brandon and
Dominique held each other and wept.
“I love you, Mrs. Cameron,” he
whispered.
“I love you too, Mr. Cameron,” she
whispered back. “It’s going to be okay this time
Brandon. It feels right.”
“Yes it does. Now I just need to get those
rings back on your finger. How about we do
another ceremony for our families?” Brandon
suggested.
“Oh Brandon, that’s a great idea. Let’s do
it right away,” Dominique cried excited.
“Hopefully the ADA will have dropped the
charges against my client or the jury will find
him innocent.”
“Your part in that case is finished
Dominique. The ADA had no other choice but
to drop the charges once it was leaked that he
was on the take along with half of the other
attorneys. It’s one big disaster and an
embarrassment for the state. Heads are getting
ready to roll, I can tell you that much. Federal
has jurisdiction now,” Brandon informed her.
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“Oh wow! I have a feeling this is going to
be around for a long time,” Dominique said.
“Did they find out what happened with the
building?”
“Not yet. There’s something else. “We
discovered your father had a part in you being
put on this case. I won’t go into all of that now.
That and the building is another investigation.
But you know what? I don’t care, because as
soon as we get this wedding over with, we’re
out of here for a month,” Brandon said.
“Oh really? And just where, pray tell, are
we going?” she asked.
“I don’t know yet. Wherever we go it will
have lovely beaches and lots of sun,” Brandon
said.
“Deal. Now kiss me,” she demanded.
“My pleasure,” he said, claiming her lips
in a passionate kiss.
“Ah, Brandon did that technician say
babies?” she asked with a lift of her brow.
Brandon thought for a moment. “I don’t
think she did…did she?” He pondered her
question.
They stared at each other for a moment
before they both looked towards the closed
curtain and simultaneously called out.
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“NURSE!”
EPILOGUE
Dominique and Brandon renewed their
vows in the backyard of Brandon’s parents’
home two weeks after Dominique was
discharged from the hospital.
Dominique’s father did not attend. He
was in the hospital with congestive heart
failure. Dominique had gone to see him several
times before the wedding. She’d never told him
that she and Brandon were renewing their
vows. He didn’t seem to care. He still had no
remorse for anything he’d done. When the time
came, he’d be sent home with a private nurse.
The family was finished with him—his
immediate family, anyway.
Dominique and Brandon now sat on a
private beach in the Bahamas enjoying the sun,
the water, and each other. Brandon made sure
Dominique got plenty of rest and waited on her
hand and foot.
They’d been through the fire and
survived. They might have been singed a few
times…but not burned.
“You okay, baby?” she heard her husband
ask. He did that a lot.
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“No, I’m not,” she answered.
Brandon jumped up from his sitting
position. “What’s wrong?”
“I need my husband to make love to me,”
she said slyly.
“Dammit, woman, you just gave me a few
more gray hairs!” he barked with false anger.
“What can I say? I’m addicted to my
husband,” she sassed.
Brandon leaned forward, gently pushed
Dominique back and climbed on top of her.
“I can fix that,” he said reaching between
them to remove her bikini bottom and tossing
it aside. Then he removed his swimming trunks
and tossed them next to her bottoms. Using his
knees, he parted her legs, aligned his erection
with her opening and gently pushed inside her.
“Umm,” Dominique moaned.
“I know, baby. You feel so good,”
Brandon groaned increasing his tempo. Taking
her lips in a scorching kiss, Brandon lifted her
hips for her to receive more of him but he was
still careful. Because of her condition, he didn’t
want to get rough with her. He continued to
kiss her. Tracing kisses all over her face, hair,
mouth, neck, and shoulders, then back to pull
her tongue into his mouth. His orgasm was
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near. He gyrated against her in a circular
motion, back and forth, as gently as he could
under the circumstances.
The obstetrician hadn’t told them not to
make love. In fact, she’d explicitly said that they
could. But she had informed them that as
Dominique’s pregnancy progressed she would
probably need a stitch in her uterus to keep her
from delivering too soon, and that she’d
probably be on bed rest early on to be safe.
Brandon intended to spoil her and wait
on her hand and foot.
He
groaned
in
pleasure.
When
Dominique’s vaginal walls clenched his cock, he
knew she was near her release. Good. He was
ready, too. His lips left her mouth, captured her
hardened nipple between his teeth, and pulled
it into his mouth. Dominique cried out her
release, triggering his own climax. She milked
him for all that he was worth, and he loved it.
Crying out, he fell against her in pure bliss.
“Dominique?”
“Y-Yes?”
“We made it, baby. Through everything
we made it.” He smiled against her breast.
“We did. Thank you for hanging in there
with me. I love you, Brandon.”
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“I love you, too. Very much.”
* * *
New Mexico
“Why the hell do we keep doing this
shit?” Sinjin asked his men and comrades.
“I don’t know, Grim…justice. Maybe,”
Red answered.
Sinjin sneered. “Justice. We’ll see. Cysco,
I think I see movement on your side,” Sinjin
said into his mouthpiece.
“Gotcha, Grim,” Cysco acknowledged.
Sinjin looked through his night goggles.
He could see into the guarded house where the
girls were being kept. “Damn. Seems like they
bring more girls in by the day. We have to move
on this soon. We need to get the girls out. That
son-of-a-bitch, Martinez, is going down. If it
has to be by my hand, so be it,” Sinjin barked.
He couldn’t stand men who hurt women and
children, and for this asshole to be human-
trafficking young girls was Martinez’s death
sentence. He had to die. Prison wasn’t enough.
“Grim, they’re moving some of the girls.
Shit, one of them is fighting one of the men.
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They’re getting ready to drug her. I can see one
of them with the syringe in his hand,” his other
watchman, Ten, informed him.
“Watch my back—I’m going in,” Sinjin
whispered. Sinjin made his way through the tall
trees, past the security system—
child’s play
, he
thought scornfully—and into the house. “I’m
in.”
“On your six, Grim,” Red said.
Sinjin ducked just in time. Damn, he
needed to keep his senses about him. He
couldn’t let emotion blind him from doing his
job.
“Grim, they took the drugged one to the
room in the back on the right,” Red informed
him. He could hear his men loud and clear, as if
they were standing right beside him. Sinjin
quickly made his way down the hall, disarmed
the man guarding the door with ease, then
dragged him inside the room. He quickly
looked over at the bed and saw that the young
lady, whoever she was, was knocked out. The
room was semi-dark so he couldn’t tell
anything else from where he was standing.
Sinjin dropped the disarmed guard to the
ground and slid him under the bed, kicking him
in the head for extra measure. “Fucking creep,”
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he murmured. Then quickly, he went over to
the bed to lift the young lady and get her to
safety. This one was a beaut. If he didn’t know
any better he’d think that he knew her. She
looked very familiar. However, with all the
gook on her face and the wig, he couldn’t be
sure. He did know for certain that this was not
one of Martinez’s girls. In fact, she was dressed
for battle, in black from head to toe. No wonder
they wanted her.
Who are you darlin’ and why
is such a beautiful woman out here alone?
She still wasn’t moving, and that
concerned him. Just to be safe, Sinjin checked
for a pulse at the vein in her neck. As he did so,
he knocked the wig off of her head and froze.
“
Asia
? Fuck! I will kill that motherfucker
with my bare hands,” Sinjin barked into his
mouthpiece.
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SERENITY
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SERENITY KING
Serenity King has been reading romances ever
since she was sixteen years old and her auntie
first placed a Harlequin in her hands. Now
King
writes
interracial/multicultural
contemporary romance and erotica that feature
her fierce devotion to resilient women and
strong passion for family-oriented Alpha men
who live, love, and fight for their women.
She currently lives in the New York area with
her husband and children.
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