One Empire Night (Lost Kings MC #9.5)

  Together, Hope and I work the living room. Making sure to check in with everyone. She even talks me into going downstairs for a tour of Sparky’s latest crop—decked out in red Christmas balls. When the tour’s over, Hope convinces Sparky and Stash to join us upstairs for dinner.

  “Enjoy it now,” I say before dinner. “We’re going away for New Year’s.”

  “Oh, really?”

  “Yup. I’m thinking somewhere warm where you can prance around in bikinis for me all week.”

  “Mmm. I like the sound of that,” she says, reaching up to kiss my cheek.

  After dinner, I pull Hope’s chair closer to me and curl my arm around her shoulders. “Did you have a good Christmas?”

  She glances around the table at our extended Lost Kings family and smiles.

  “The best one yet.”