Sold To the Grizzly Don (Alcee and Bruno) novel Chapter 193

Sold! To the Grizzly Don

Chapter 193

Antero looked around the little table and stared at the four other children seated there with narrowed eyes.

“I know one of you did it.”

Aya at two years old was smiling happily as she pretended her face covered in chocolate was not the reason her big brother was pissed off. Although it was also entirely possible she simply didn’t care. She was known to be selfish about her own wants given she was in the throws of the

terrible twos.

Antero however, never ever wanting to blame his sister for anything despite the obvious face full of chocolate, was glaring at the tea party guests which included Susana’s one year old twins and a three–year–old little girl Genevra and Karolos adopted when they’d visited an orphanage eighteen months ago in Greece. Genevra found herself unable to leave the little girl who looked remarkably like her behind. Despite being pregnant herself, Genevra wanted the little girl to go home with them and so she did. She was now living her best life as Genevra’s mini–me with a stoic expression to match her father’s. It was this stoicism which seemed to be putting Antero in his rotten mood. Her younger brother was currently being fed his lunch along with Amal’s little boy in the kitchen and so she was fixated on Antero. She’d been snooping in his room while the younger ones were distracted with the treats.

“Whose idea was it to break into my bedroom and steal my snacks?” Antero leaned over the table and grunted angrily.

All the kids blinked at him, but the three–year–old Raquel looked at Antero and gave a crooked smile.

“I’m going to marry you.”

Antero pulled his head back, “you’re a baby. I’m going to marry a grown up, not a baby.”

“What are you doing?” Six–year–old Dolores came into the room wearing her mother’s shoes. “My dad said to tell you lunch is almost ready.”

“You’re not a grown up,” Antero grimaced at the girl Tito adopted when he married her mother two years ago. “You look stupid in those shoes.”

“You’re just jealous you can’t wear shoes like this.”

“No, I’m not.”

“Yes you are.”

Raquel got up and pushed Dolores, “he’s my boyfriend! Don’t be mean to him.”

“I’m not your boyfriend. You’re a baby!”

“I’m going to marry Antero,” Dolores pushed Raquel away, “my dad is his dad’s best friend. It’s the way it works.”

“I’m telling my daddy!” Raquel ran from the room with tears on her cheeks.

Antero glowered at Dolores, “don’t be mean to her. She’s only a baby. Grown ups take care of babies, not push them. You’re not a grown up.” He drew himself taller, puffing his seven–year–old chest up high.

“They also don’t interrogate children,” Torq called out from the doorway. “What is this I heard from the housekeeper you were threatening to cut off fingers?”

“I didn’t mean it.” Antero looked at his father with a sigh. “They broke into my room and ate all my chocolate. I only wanted them to confess.”

“Well, how about, we take an inventory of what is missing, and we’ll take a trip the candy store later to refill your stash and get Aya her own.”

“Mom said she can’t get her own stash yet because she doesn’t know how to listen to her body about being full. Dad, she’s worse than Avalanche, I think she’d eat a table if it was possible.”

“She’s a big growing girl,” Torq smiled at his hazel–eyed daughter and scooped her up from her chair, “Your face is full of chocolate. Let’s get you cleaned up.” He looked down as Susana’s twin boys tugged his pant legs, “you want up?” They nodded and he scooped them too.

“Torg, tell Antero he can’t marry Raquel and he’s going to marry me.” Dolores dogged his footsteps as they made their way to the dining hall of the estate they now lived on.

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Chapter 193

“I can’t do that, Dolores. Someday, when Antero is a man, he will decide who he wants to marry on his own.”

“But I love him, and I don’t want Raquel to steal him.”

Torq met Alcee’s confused gaze as she watched him entering the room with three kids in his arms, an anxious six–year–old tugging at his sleeve and Antero who was rolling his eyes but smirking.

Antero looked at his mother, “they all want to marry me because I’m handsome.”

“Do I even want to know?”

Karolos came into the room with his daughter in his arms. “I’m being asked to arrange a wedding.” He was barely able to keep his laugh

usually very reserved, was hanging dramatically backwards in a huge display of heartbreak.

out of his voice as his daughter, who

Alcee looked at Genevra, “okay, now I see

Telationship.”

Genevra threw a pea off her son’s plate at Alcee, “funny.”

“Don’t start a food fight,” Brunella picked the pea up off the floor. “Last time it took us three hours to clean up and all my good cooking went to waste.”

“We still ate most of it.”

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