EPILOGUE
ROME
Winterbourn, four years later
Getting the work done and going home to my wife, Princess Carlott, and my son, Eughan, was always the best part of the day.
Since I met Carly, I have appreciated and valued the importance of family even more. I was the luckiest to have a family in the States and a family in Triberis Capria.
My company made an obscene amount of money. Being one of the wealthiest men in the world and married to a royal princess was only a bonus, but having a healthy relationship, a wonderful and supportive wife, and a mini-me was such a blessing.
I went inside our home.
The three-story villa was my dream house with complete amenities. The private door to the study was a significant upgrade. And Carly loved it.
My gaze caught the leather couch from my cabin. It meant a lot to us, so Carly delivered it to our home.
We had a charity gala to attend tonight. My son was probably in his play area or in the backyard. He loved puzzles and board games. He also enjoyed the outdoors very much.
Through the glass wall, I saw Eughan kicking the ball in the backyard. As soon as I emerged at the door, he saw me.
“Daddy!” His green eyes widened, running in my direction, leaving the ball behind.
“Hey, buddy.” I scooped him up, carried him, and kissed him on his forehead. I loved this little guy with all my heart. The first time I laid an eye on him, I knew he became our world, our lives.
My heart filled with so much joy on that day. We named him Eughan Sterling Hunter.
And my wife was the best mother. Even if she was a working royal, she never neglected her motherhood. She even breastfed Eughan. Our son was her priority.
In one of her interviews when she was awarded Woman Of The Year, her answer touched my soul.
“Yes, I will resign and give up my title if my husband asks me to focus on my family. My parents and my people will understand my decision, I can still help without my title, but I can’t live without them. They are my world, and I would give up everything for them. My husband knows that.”
“Daddy, I saw a ladybug.” He squealed in excitement. He got the looked from Carly, but I had his hair. When he widened his eyes like that, I remembered the looked on his mother when she was so happy.
“Oh yeah. What was it like?” I sat on the lounge and placed him on my lap-his tiny arm on my shoulder.
“So tiny.” He did it with his fingers, showing me how little it was.
“Did you have fun?”
“Yes.”
“That’s great.” I kissed the top of his head. Like my wife, I would do everything for him to have a great childhood.
“I want a pet.” Those eyes, so innocent and full of life, lit up. What now?
“You want a pet. Why?”
“I wanna play with him.” His little grin just melted my heart. Yeah, this little human was mine and my life.
“Do you realize pets have lives, buddy?”
“Yeah. I will feed him.” He kept saying him. My guess was he wanted a dog.
“You want to play? You can play with your cousins.” They had play time with Prince Thayer and Kennedy’s children every weekend, and I loved the fact that they loved my child like their own.
“But I don’t have someone to play with at home.” Okay, I knew where this conversation ended.
“Does your mommy know about this?”
“About what?” My wife ambled in our direction with a huge smile on her face. She never changed, and that smile and the look in her eyes always took my breath away.
“Storm.” I was already smiling before I even realized it. “You’re home.”
“I came before you, Langston.”
“Oh.”
She kissed my son before she came to cup my face, and I slipped my hand to the back of her neck and kissed her.
Our son covered his face with his hands, making me chuckle.
“It’s done, buddy.” I looked at my wife. “Do you know anything about this?”
“He saw someone at the park. He told his uncle Rune he wants a pet.”
Rune took Eughan to the park during his last visit with my mother.
“It’s a man’s best friend.”
“Who told you that? Your uncle?”
“Yes.” He smiled at his mother and me.
“You’re barely a man, buddy.”
My wife rolled her eyes. “Oh, come on. Everyone wants a pet.”
“So you’re okay with this?” I asked her.
“He’s my son. Of course, I will give him everything. And a dog is a friendly animal.” She turned on her heels. “The makeup artist is here. I’m getting ready.”
“Storm, are you sure about this?”
“Yes, Langston. Give your son a pet.”
I sighed. And this would be the biggest decision I ever had to make. “We’ll see a pet shop tomorrow, okay?”
“Yes.” I hugged him back as he wrapped his arms around my neck to give me a hug so tight.
“I love you, son.”
“Love you, too.”
“Promise me you will sleep early and eat vegetables, okay?”
“Just no pumpkin.” He pouted. “It’s only for Halloween.”
“Deal.” I shook my head in amusement. I didn’t want to know where did he get that idea.
He slipped off my lap and ran inside the house.
I went into the powder room. Carly was already getting ready with these ladies for her hair and makeup.
“Just don’t put too much color on her face.”
“Mr. Langston.” They smiled at me politely.
Carly looked at me in the mirror. “You keep telling them that. They’re good at what they do.”
“No doubt.”
After I showered, I trimmed my beard. I found two tuxes ready in the walk-in closet. I checked the first tux, and it looked the same as the other.
My wife had her own walk-in, twice my closet’s size, since she needed a lot of space for her things. I knew she would love her closet in white and gold motifs, and I was right. Since we transferred to this home, I began collecting bags, shoes, and jewelry for her. She never asked me, but I would love to see that smile on her face every day every time she saw something new added to her collection.
I went to her. She was already wearing her thigh-high stockings. “Storm, those tuxes are the same. Which one should I wear?”
“You’re having a hard time making a decision just for a damn tux? Yet giving away a million dollars, it’s easy as pie.” She turned around in her sexy black lingerie.
My heart pounded. My skin burned as I strolled my eyes from her red lips down to her tits and flat stomach like she had never been given birth and down to her tiny panties.
“Don’t look at me like that?” Her eyes darkened.
“Like what exactly?” I took a step closer to her.
Her breath hitched. “Babe, we’re gonna be late,” she warned me, yet she swallowed in anticipation.
“I am not doing anything. I merely look at my wife.”
She rolled her eyes. “Yeah, like I just met you an hour ago.” She had undone the towel around my waist, letting it fall on the floor, and I was pushing her panties down her knees and already cupping her face.
“Your lipstick, Storm.”
“Like I care.”
I crashed my mouth into hers and kissed her so hard, and she started pumping my already steel-hard cock.
“Wrap your legs around me and pray Eughan won’t barge in that door before I make you come,” I said to her mouth.
“I locked it from the inside.” She obeyed, winding her arms around my neck.
“You learned.”
She smiled into my mouth. “Yeah.”
I rubbed the tip of my cock into her already wet opening and thrust in hard, welcoming me home.
She gasped and groaned.
“Fuck.” I withdrew and slammed back into her sweet hot heat. Her fingers clawed into my scalp. When she did that, it surged the absolute dominance in me.
I pressed us against the wall as I plunged into her mercilessly.
“Um, babe. I want another baby.”
I stilled and eased my head to look at her. “You lured me here to make a baby?”
She glared. “No.”
“Well, perfect timing, isn’t it?” I’d been telling her I wanted another child, but she kept changing the topic, so I stopped months ago. I thought maybe she wasn’t ready for another child.
My cock got harder even more in excitement.
“Are you sure?” Her question was hesitant. “You stopped asking, so I thought you were okay with that.”
“Whatever you want, sweetheart, as long as it won’t put you in any harm, I will give it to you.”
“I love you.”
“I love you more.”
“I love you more than- ”
I kissed her lips to stop her. “This is not a competition. But yeah, we’re making another baby.” I flexed my hips, driving my hard cock deeper inside her.
“I know, but I love you with every breath I take,” she said with every tangled gasp as I pounded into her.
“You are my world, Storm.” I thrust and withdrew, and I did it over and over again until her claw dug in, her teeth sunk into my shoulder to muffle her cry as she clenched and clenched around my cock and shuddered uncontrollably, making me lose my goddamn mind.
Still pumping into her drenched pussy, my knees almost gave in, and my grip on her ass tightened.
I rotated my hips, taking every strength I had left, and slammed in one last time.
I stilled, and I was delirious with pleasure, and I jerked after jerked, jetting off my release inside her.
***
In the black sedan to the charity gala, I couldn’t help but smile. It was almost a holiday, and I planned on making it special for us, like always, since we got married. But this time, I was planning on getting her pregnant and adding another member to our family.
“You’re smiling.”
I put my hand on her thigh. “I am deliriously happy, Storm.”
“So do I, Langston.”
***
CARLY
Dearest Florian,
I’m writing you this letter because of my husband. He admired you a lot, and you are one of the reasons I met him. Thank you.
Two years ago, Rome finally found the notebook you gave me, and he read every page of it, and he said, Florian seemed to know how you could change my life. The last time we met was on Eughan first birthday. We miss you, Florian.
We are far from each other, but you never leave our thoughts.
Your idea of old-fashioned notes helps me to self-reflect. Thank you for giving me this fantastic idea, and I will make sure to pass this on to my daughters.
Rome told me that you like gardening. You may notice a plant delivered to you. That plant only grows in the forest of Burkhese, and I want you to have it in your backyard.
I wish you all the best, Florian.
Yours Truly,
Carlott, HRH, PR