Two Years Later… “Is Daddy breaking the rules?” I moan as Aleksei kisses my neck. I’m standing in our bathroom trying to get ready before the priest gets here and our little ones wake up from their nap. “Are they both down?” he asks, nipping at the tender place beneath my ear. I lean, giving him more room to work his lips against me. Aleksei has been in his office this morning for a few hours. He doesn’t like to leave my side for long, even if it’s only to another room in the house. “Da,” I confirm. My eyes fall closed. “You know we still have a little longer until I’m cleared,” I remind him, and myself, too. I want him. My body craves him like a drug. He growls against my skin, but we both know he won’t take me. My Aleksei would die before he’d let anything hurt me, but I really do fee