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Ava and Linda sat at the table talking. They were waiting on Zane and Jax that had got a last-minute call. Not the women minded. It gave them time to plan a strategy on how to get away on a girls’ day on the town without having a small army of men surrounding them.

Just before Linda’s and Jax’s big blow up, the women and Gabriel had tried to have a relaxing day, shopping, going to a museum and having lunch. Each of their partner had sent a group of five men to protect them.

It meant they ended up with fifteen burly, scary-looking men staring at anyone around them. It had been anything but a relaxing day. Being pregnant, Ava feared the amount of scary-looking men would go up, not down. But this time, they were prepared for the argument. Zane and Jax walked in and they both looked closed off. Ava knew the look well. Something was happening which Zane didn’t like, but he felt forced to do it. Linda looked at her and they made a silent agreement that it wasn’t the time to talk about a day on the town. 

“What’s happening?” Ava asked after they had been served their dinner. 

“The fucking Wright brothers are asking for a meeting,” Zane said in a angry voice.

“Okay, why does it upset you?” she asked. She knew the Wright brothers lead a fairly sizable organisation of their own. They had never posed a threat to Zane or tried to expand to a point they could be considered poaching the Velky territory. 

“I’m not upset, I’m irritated,” he told her. Ava exchanged a look with Linda. 

“Sure,” Ava said. “So why are you irritated? I thought they were behaving?”

“They are. They don’t dare to do anything else,” Jax said. 

“Then why are the to of you so… irritated?” Linda asked. 

“Because we can’t figure out how to arrange it,” Zane huffed.

“You usually have these meeting at the club,” Ava painted out. 

“Brilliant, I wish we had thought of that,” Jax said. 

“Hey,” Linda warned him.

“Sorry, Ava,” he said.

“It’s okay, I still don’t see the problem.”

“What will we do with you?” Zane said.

“With me? I’ll stay here i guess,” Ava said, guessing Zane didn’t want her near the meeting with someone from the outside. Both men made a face that made her realise that wasn’t the solution they wanted. “No?”

“No. what if the meeting is a rouse? What if they plan to attack the mansion while distracting us?” Jax asked. 

“Do you think that is a possibility?” Linda asked. 

“No, not really. But you never know,” Zane told them. 

“Okay, so I will go to Gabriel’s for the evening if you are worried,” Ava said.

“I’ll even go with her,” Linda offered. Again, both men made faces. 

“Now you are just being ridiculous, the both of you,” Linda told them.

“You know Ryder has turned that place into a fort. It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s an automatic gun that folds down from the roof,” Ava said to Zane. The corner of his mouth actually twitched. 

“Probably,” he agreed. “But I don’t like it. Ryder will have to be with us.”

“Sure, but we have other men,” she said. 

“I don’t like it,” Jax told them. 

“Seriously? Like it’s not bad enough that Zane has gone into caveman mode. You have to go there too?” Linda sighed.

“Okay, so if I can’t be here, and I can’t be at Gabriel’s, do you want the men to drive me around in a car?” Ava asked. She was getting more confused by the minute. 

“Fuck no!” Zane exclaimed. “Have you seen how people drive?”

“So what? She is just supposed to stop existing for a couple of hours?” Linda asked. Ava giggled. She was truly grateful to have Linda in her life. 

“Well no,” Jax said. He sounded grumpy.

“Then what?” Ava asked.

“You will come with us,” Zane told her. It sounded like he hated saying it and Ava now understood the look on his face when he had walked into the room. He felt like the only option he had was to bring her to the meeting, but he hated the idea of placing her in that situation.

“Okay,” she said. 

“Okay?” he asked.

“Yeah. I can see on the two of you that you have thought it through, and this is the best option. I trust both of you, so okay. Anything I will need to know?” she answered. 

“Under no conditions are they to know that you are pregnant,” Zane told her. Ava nodded. She understood the importance of not showing any weakness, it was a lesson she had learned that the hard way. “We’ll talk about it later,” Zane said. 

“Sure,” she agreed. The dinner continued, but the mood continued to be dampened. After dinner, Zane and Ava withdrew to their room. When the door closed behind them, Zane dropped the mask he wore everywhere outside their room and Ava could clearly see the stress and worry on his face. Ava took his hand and made him sit down in an armchair and curled up in his lap.

His arms closed around her and pulled her closed as he leaned his head on her shoulder. “What do you need from me?” she asked as she raked her fingers through his hair. He sighed and Ava could see the tension in his shoulders slowly release.

“I need to be safe,” he told her. Her heart ached from the honesty in his voice. 

“We will make sure I’m as safe as I can be. You know I always feel safe when I’m with you. I know this decision is a hard for you, but I always feel better when I’m with you than when you leave me at home,” she told him. 

“The two of you are the most important thing to me. I won’t survive losing you,” he said and placed his hand on her stomach. Ava melted. This man could be so sweet and tender and yet he took on the responsibility of not only keeping her safe, but everyone in the organisation. She knew what a heavy burden he had on his shoulders. 

“I will get one of my power dresses on and you and me and Jax will walk into that meeting and show them just how powerful the Valky family are. Before the night is over, they will be humbled and we can go back to having our fake vacation,” she told him. She could feel his smile against her neck. 

“One of the dresses with bare backs?” he asked. Ava laughed.

“Most of my dresses seem to have bare backs fore som reason,” she told him. He chuckled against her. 

“You, my angel, age good for my soul and for my virality,” he said and lifted himself up so she could feel his erection. 

“Feeling better, are we?” she asked.

“You always lift my… spirit, angel,” he told her. He gripped the pendant in her collar and pulled her down to kiss her. His hand shifted from holding the pendant to wrapping around her throat. The kiss got hotter and deeper. “On your knees, angel,” Zane told her and pushed her downward. 

“Yes, sir,” she said, gliding off his lap, down to the floor and settling between his legs. Ava kept looking into his eyes as she undid his pants. Zane smiled as he lifted himself to let her pull them down. Ava licked her lips at the sight of the cock springing free. She bent forward and played with the piercing in the tip with her tongue. Zane groaned, closed his eyes, and tilted his head back. Ava licked down the length of the cock and her hand played with his balls. 

“Fuck, angel, I need your mouth,” Zane grunted. Ava dragged her teeth playfully over the base of his cock, making him jerk. “Fuck. Play nice or I will have to punish you,” he warned her. Ava smiled and nibbled at him again. “You are in so much trouble, angel,” he told her. 

“Have I been bad, sir?” she asked. Then she placed the head of his cock into her mouth and swirled her tongue over it.”

“You are in so fucking much trouble. Now suck my cock,” he hissed and took a firm grip of her hair. He used his grip to set the pace of Ava’s work. She let the head of the cock just nudge the opening of her throat before backing off. Zane didn’t force her to take more and her hand worked the rest of the cock with a steady stroke. “That’s it, angel, just like that,” Zane murmured.

Ava could feel the buildup in Zane’s body. When she knew he was close, she adjusted her angle and pushed all of his cock int her mouth, all the way down to the root. “Fuck,” Zane swore and his hips pumped up and down as if on their own accord. “Take it, angel,” he grunted as his grip in her hair tightened and he erupted into her throat.

When Zane had come down and Ava had thoroughly cleaned him, he picked her up and sat her on his lap again. “Time for your punishment, angel,” Zane whispered to her and Ava felt her already wet panties getting soaked.