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Luke: Forget those idiots and come over! We will celebrate!
Joy: Don’t you dare! I need that ass tattoo!
Hope: If Matteo shows up with Alec’s name tattooed on his butt, don’t be surprised.
Zoe: What?
Joy: And Jacob’s.
Zoe: I am so lost right now.
Hope: Oh no, you are just in Loverly Cave.
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Epilogue
Two Years Later…
Zoe
“Never have I ever thought I’d find my husband in the bed with another woman!” I lean against the doorframe to our room.
“What can I say, I couldn’t say no to all these ladies.” Matteo grins, waggling his eyebrows.
“Papa, dis too.” Mellie shakes yet another naked Barbie and throws it on the bed, and my crazy husband hoards them all.
There must be close to twenty dolls between them.
“What is this?” I point to the harem. “I thought you were putting her to sleep.”
“I was. I am. But Mellie felt bad about all of her dollies sleeping alone and we brought them in.”
“Uh-huh.” I nod slowly. “I wonder who she learned that line from.”
Matteo puffs out his chest. “From the best of the best, right, Watermelon?” He kisses her forehead, stroking her blonde curls away from her little face and tucks her under our covers. “And who’s the best of the best?”
“Papa!” she exclaims loudly, throwing her little arms up.
“That’s my girl.” He kisses her again.
“And is there a reason your girl and the rest of the naked harem are not in her room?”
“Mellie loves our bed better, don’t you?” he asks her, and she nods her head eagerly while smiling sheepishly because she knows I don’t allow this normally. But whenever Matteo doesn’t have to be at the bar, he lets her do whatever she pleases.
“Now, give Mommy the puppy eyes I taught you, so she doesn’t kick us out,” he whispers to her, and Mellie—like the good student of his she is—sits up, sticking her lower lip out in the cutest pout ever as she claps her little hands together in a pleading manner.
“Peesee, Mommy.”
I shake my head with a silent laughter and stroll toward them.
“Well, how can I say no to this cutie?” I kiss her nose and she giggles. “I’ll just make your daddy pay for it later,” I say, throwing him a look.
He just licks his lips and mouths, “Punish me, Beastie.”
This man…I swear.
There is never a dull moment with him. Not from the day I met him or any single day since.