Venomous King (Venom #2)

39. Epilogue

Issy

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”

Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Fifteen years later

I 'm sitting with my sister and Rachel in our family room, having wine and gossiping about our kids, when I hear all the shouting

"What the fuck is that?" Rachel jumps to her feet and races out of the room, but Mia and I glance at each other and crack up laughing

We both have an idea of what is happening, and as amusing as it is, neither one of us is in a rush to see the dramatics that are happening in my house

My daughter and husbands are constantly up to something, and frankly, it's exhausting

I take another sip of my wine as the shouting gets even louder, and after quirking an eyebrow at me, Mia does the same.

Since Julia became a teenager a few years ago, this house has become a war zone, with her fathers firmly banding together to keep the male species away from her, and my beautiful princess determined to put both of them in early graves with her antics

I did warn them that karma was going to be a bitch to both of them, and I was proven right

Especially Diego, with his controlling tendencies; now he has a daughter that no one can control

His little 'cherub' is a menace, and he's fully responsible for that, well, him, Kai, and my grandmother Stella

I take no responsibility for any of it.

"Where is he, Julia?" Kai shouts, as my daughter walks nonchalantly into the room, ignoring her father's furious glare, and how his body vibrates with rage

My eyes drink her in from her bare toes to her ripped black jeans, and higher to the open white button-down shirt she's wearing, with a small black crop top that shows off her toned stomach, and dips much lower than I would prefer, to display her tattoo of intertwined thorns and roses, that enhances her surgical scar over her heart, and makes it look like a piece of beautiful art.

Julia's so tiny and fierce, her five-foot-two frame belying how strong she really is

She's been a fighter since she was in my tummy, and nothing stops her

Not even all the previous issues with her heart, or her hearing loss, could keep her down for long

I thank the heavens every day for that spirit that allowed her to beat all the odds stacked against her

Her long, dark hair trails down her shoulders and back, almost identical to mine at that age, reminding me that she's still so young, and has her whole life before her, all thanks to her new heart

Her features are mine, minus her eyes, but her attitude is all Diego, Kai, and Stella's combined

I observe as she gives her hair a flip in annoyance, and rolls her bright green eyes at her father. Brat.

A shot is heard outside in the backyard, and it has me jumping to my feet and racing for the window

My sister follows suit, and joins me as we watch a blur of color racing towards the back hedges, as Diego chases after it with one of the security team, with a gun firmly in his grip, and Rachel, in bare feet, pursues all of them, shouting.

"Jesus fuck, is he really shooting at people?" Mia inquires, amusement in her voice.

I turn my head to stare at my daughter with an eyebrow raised questioningly, and with little expectation that she'll answer me

She's too stubborn and willful, a trait she has inherited from Diego, much to my amusement that now he has to deal with her

"Who is it this time, Julia?"

"This time? You mean this has happened more than once?" My sister questions with a chuckle

"Shit, and I thought raising twin heathens was bad."

"Julia, answer me, I asked you a question." I watch as Kai gets more and more frustrated with our daughter

His attractive face is flushed, his crystal blue eyes narrowed on Julia, and his nostrils flaring

He's still so handsome, even after all these years, he still reminds me of a fallen angel

I watch with amusement as he drags his fingers through his short blonde locks, that are now sprinkled with gray, and yanks on the strands

Fuck, I miss his longer hair, and the way I loved running my fingers through the silky strands.

"Daddy, you're overreacting." Julia glances at me, with a look that implies I should help her

"He's no one important, just a random," she mumbles, and I shake my head at her

It seems my daughter never learns, and has a need to constantly create anarchy

Geez, I wonder which parent she gets that from?

" Random? Overreacting? Jesus, Julia, Papi is currently shooting at him

Do you know what will happen to him if he catches him? Have you forgotten your father is the head of one of the most brutal cartels in the world?"

She shrugs her slim shoulder, and a mischievous smile graces her pink lips

"If Papi (Daddy) manages to catch him, then he deserves what happens to him

He should have run faster."

Kai throws his arms in the air in exasperation

"Isabella, talk some sense into your daughter, please

Diego is going to go on a killing spree if she keeps sneaking boys into this house." I roll my eyes at his request, because he knows damn well there is no talking to her

I count down in my head how many more weeks of summer are left, before she has to return to college

Three? Four? Fuck, too many.

"Little niece, think smarter

Don't bring them here, go to a hotel, or pretend to stay with friends," Mia says none too quietly, further encouraging Julia's behavior

I'm doomed with all of them, and live in a perpetual state of chaos in this house

How I miss the days when she was little and still respected all of us

Now, she's rebellious and, well, I guess, a Stratford

Uncontrollable, and sure of her destiny.

Kai points his finger at Mia menacingly

"You stay out of this

Your boys are worse

If I'm not mistaken, and I know I'm not, ‘cause it was on the fucking news, those two psychos set fire to their school gym not even two weeks ago, and got away with it when Stella donated a whole new stadium to the college." Mia shrugs, but a Cheshire Cat smile graces her lips

"What can I say? They take after their fathers."

Speaking of fathers, I hear them all coming into the room, the sound of their boisterous conversation preceding them

Theo's the first through the door, and his eyes immediately track where Mia is in the space before relaxing

The second one through the door is Finn, followed by Mateo, and then Carter, who's got a furious look across his features

"Kai, we didn't manage to catch the other one

He made it down the street, and Theo, the fucker, wouldn't let me shoot at him."

"Two of them? Julia, lord, what were you thinking?" I move away from the window and approach my daughter, with my hands planted firmly on my hips

"She was thinking she's her mother's daughter," Finn mutters sarcastically, and gets a scathing glare from both Mia and me.

"You can't go around shooting teenagers, Carter! What the hell is the matter with you? You're the reason Alexander and Caesar think they can get away with everything they do," Theo argues, but Carter gives him the finger

"Pretty sure Stella's the reason they're invincible," Mateo coughs into his hand.

"Let's get back on track here

This is about my kid, not your demented fiends of sons," Kai asserts

"Julia, do you want Papi (Daddy) and me to put you on lockdown, in the compound in Colombia? ‘Cause we will, young lady, if you don't stop this shit!"

The little brat looks her father straight in the eyes and smirks; a look that is a mirror image of Diego when he's being an asshole, and I know whatever is going to come out of her mouth next will be terrifying

"Go ahead and try

I'll either get Gammy to come get me, or I'll spend all my time seducing and sleeping with the guards

You'll have accomplished nothing, Daddy."

"What was that about seducing guards, Cherub ?" Oh shit, here we go

Diego storms through the door, his salt and pepper hair disheveled, his forehead dotted with sweat, and his olive green eyes glaring at his daughter

Fuck, he looks sexy as fuck when he's furious, my dark villain

Poor Rachel saunters in after him, looking equally messy, but with a large, happy smile on her features

I guess she managed to save whoever was running

She's the equivalent of Mother Teresa, if the saint walked around with a Japanese fighting sword, and threatened my husbands with bodily harm on a regular basis.

"Leave my goddaughter alone, Hades , or I'll break your kneecaps." Rachel pushes past him and hugs Julia, while whispering in her ear, and Julia releases a giggle

I really wish she wouldn't encourage her, she's just as bad as Mia.

" Lovebug , why don't you repeat what you were just saying for your Papi (Daddy) ? You know the part about if we locked you in the compound in Columbia, Gammy would either get you out, or you'd corrupt, and sleep with, the guards." Ugh, Kai, why do you have to stir up the snake's nest? I shake my head at his antics

He knows full well what he's doing with provoking Diego to lose his thin control of his temper

Someone, or multiple someones, always end up dead when that happens.

Diego gets right up into Julia's face and stares down at her, his jaw clenched, and his hands fisted at his sides

Dammit , his temper is riding him hard, and that's only going to push Julia's buttons more

She gets a kick out of riling him up and watching him explode, little psycho

"I'll murder every single one of them with my bare hands, Cherub

You'll have every one of their deaths on your conscience."

I quickly slip my body between them in an attempt to defuse the situation, not that it will help

These two are unpredictable, and destructive forces of nature

Julia once set fire to Diego's Mercedes, when he grounded her for sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night without the guards

I am pretty sure she's also behind Kai's office being set ablaze, when he told her she couldn't go to spring break senior year, although I can't prove it

The little devil covered her tracks

I'm living the fucking dream here, with my family that is trying to slowly make me insane

It's no wonder I've started drinking in the middle of the day

Assholes, the lot of them.

"Yup, that's our cue to go," Theo announces, grabbing onto Mia's hand and pulling her from the room, as the rest of them follow with nervous glances backward

I almost want to beg them to take me with them, so I can get some peace and quiet, but their house is no better with their demon-spawn twins, and their angelic tween daughter, Cleo

"Bye, beautiful warrior princess, make sure you give your daddies hell!" Mia yells from the hallway, and then she's dragged away

Carter stops at the door, his thick arms folded across his chest as he meets my eyes, and then Diego's

"I'm around to help, just holler, I wanted to try my new rocket launcher anyway." Then he's gone

Jesus fucking Christ, all of them are too much! I'm surrounded by unhinged psychos with too much money, power, and time on their hands.

Julia, the little minx, squares her delicate little shoulders, and stares at Diego from below her lashes

She gets up on her toes, leans forward, and plants a kiss on his stubbled cheek

"I don't have a conscience, Papi (Daddy)

I'm your daughter, remember, but nice try." She taps her fingers against her father's chest before turning around, kissing Kai on the cheek, and heading for the doorway

"Where are you going, Julia? We are not done discussing this behavior

You're almost twenty years old, you can't just do whatever the hell you want anymore," Kai shouts.

"You forget yourself, Daddy

I'm a Stratford, so I can always do whatever I want." She walks out the door without a glance backward, and I swear I feel my knees trembling, and about to give out

She's going to burn this world to the ground, I can feel it

The world thought Stella Stratford was ruthless and dangerous, but it hasn't seen anything yet

Her great-granddaughter is built in her image, but so much worse

Diego reaches out and grabs me, hauling me into his arms.

"She gets that from Stella

I should have killed the old dragon before she could corrupt her," he sighs, kissing my hair as his hand slides up my abdomen towards my breast

"Hmm, yes, Stella was the only one responsible for making her that way

You and Kai had nothing to do with it," I moan.

"Hi, yeah, I'm still here." Rachel waves

"I'm going to head out now

I would rather not be present for your kinky shit, and I already see this heading in that direction

See ya." She doesn't even give me a chance to dispute her words, or say goodbye, before she rushes from the room.

"If I knew that was all it took to make her leave, I would have fucked you in front of her years ago," Diego cackles against my neck, his lips trailing down its length and causing goosebumps to rise

I smack his chest, but end up moaning when he bites down on my collarbone, and then laves the spot with his tongue.

“Seriously, you two, we need to take this shit seriously! Julia is getting more daring and disrespectful by the day

I'm worried about her

One of these days, she's going to put herself in a position that none of us, not even the mighty Stella, can get her out of." Kai throws himself into the dark, umber velvet wing chair by the fireplace with a huff.

"Look, asshole

My daughter..

our daughter is perfect

Yeah, she's a little willful, but she's just testing boundaries right now, because she knows that we will always have her back." Diego pulls me to the companion chair and sits down, before yanking me onto his lap

"She's healthy and happy

I refuse to dampen or cage her spirit

She still wakes up with nightmares from that shit with the Sanchezes

If she wants to act out, fuck, we let her, but I draw the line at those fuckers sneaking into our house for a booty call."

"Pretty sure it's Julia setting up the booty call," I murmur as his large tattooed hands start exploring my thighs, and dragging up my flimsy sundress

"Did you manage to shoot that guy?" Kai questions as his hand reaches across the chair, and dips inside the bodice of my dress to palm my breast.

"Just grazed the fucker in the shoulder, thanks to Rachel

He'll live until the next time I catch him." Diego's fingers slip to the top of my thighs until they meet my pussy, and he groans

"No panties, Issy? You've been walking around all day with nothing underneath?" A moan slips from my lips as his thumb starts making circles on my clit, applying pressure that causes me to spread my legs wider, so he can touch me further

Kai's fingers yank down my bralette, until my breast is exposed to the room, as he plucks my nipple, pulling and twisting it between his two thick fingers

"Do you think they are all gone?" I whimper as Diego's finger slips between my slick pussy lips to my tight hole, and thrusts inside.

"Do you really care who sees us, other than Julia?" Kai questions and moves from his seat, until he's on his knees between mine and Diego's spread legs

He leans forward and licks at my pussy lips, as Diego pushes another finger inside of my cunt

"Such a pretty pussy, baby

How about you let pretty boy and I fill it up?" Diego moans against my neck as he thrusts his hard dick against my asscheeks

Kai uses both hands to spread me open, before leaning down and licking me from clit to puckered hole, then leaning up and taking my mouth

I groan as I taste myself on his lips.

"Mmm, I would rather you each fill one of my holes," I moan into Kai's mouth, and Diego pulls me away until I kiss him, and he gets to taste both Kai and me on my lips.

" Boy Scout , go lock the door so we can make our wife's request come true." Kai rises, and his cock tents his gray pants as he moves to the door, closes and locks it

He's already stripping out of his clothes as he returns to us, and Diego is ripping my dress over my head

Kai grabs my forearm and pulls me up, using his strong arms to force my legs to wrap around his waist and my soaked pussy to rub against his cock

I slide myself up and down, using my grip on his strong, wide shoulders to help

Each time my throbbing clit bumps against his stiff crown, I see stars

"That's it, little rose, make yourself cum, baby." I can hear Diego stripping behind us, his all-black clothing hitting the ground in my peripheral vision.

After a few strokes, I impale myself on Kai's cock, taking him to the hilt inside of me, and the pain mixed with the pleasure has my breath stuttering

"Jesus fuck, that's beautiful, Princesa , but I think we need to fill your ass, baby, so it's perfect." Diego approaches us and forces my face to the side, so he can kiss me hard and deep while Kai takes over, thrusting with his tight grip underneath my ass, forcing me to take his cock in hard strokes that have the sound of skin slapping against skin filling the air around us.

Diego pulls away from my lips, grabs the straps of my bralette, and with one yank, the material gives way, and pools between mine and Kai's bodies

He raises his palm to my mouth

"Spit, baby, or I'm going in dry." I hawk up spit into his hand, and he moves it between my asscheeks, spreading the wetness before probing his finger at my puckered hole, as I clench around Kai's cock

He slips the first finger in, stretches me slowly, slips another in almost immediately, and fucks my ass with them

"Fuck, fuck, oh my god," I moan over and over, as he matches Kai's rhythm in my asshole.

I hear him spit, and feel it slip between the crack of my ass, before his fingers pull out of my hole, and he lines up his cock

Kai slows his thrusts to a shallow, unhurried stroke, and Diego pushes the tip of his dick through the ringed muscle of my asshole

It burns and hurts for just a moment, and then he propels me forward until he's buried in my ass, and Kai's buried in my pussy

"Fuck, so tight, Isabella, your pussy is strangling my cock." They both thrust opposite of each other, so one of them is always filling me and making me lose my mind, while the other is pulling back

I'm so close already

The sensation of being overly full with their large, hard cocks, mixed with the bite of pain, and how much I always want the two of them, causes my body temperature to rise

My breathing picks up, causing my chest to feel too tight, as electricity races across all of my limbs and zaps up my spine.

"So close," I moan as I push against both their cocks, needing more, and trying to force them not to be so gentle with me

The power behind Diego's thrusts increases, until he's fucking me so hard my asscheeks are starting to sting, from his hard pelvis slapping into them

Kai, in turn, also slams into me, using his grip below my thighs to open me up further for Diego's cock, while forcing me down on his own

Diego leans forward and bites my shoulder hard, his teeth breaking the skin

I scream as Kai forces his tongue into my mouth, and I detonate

The orgasm takes over with blinding heat, and my whole body tightens, as my stomach clenches tightly, and my release gushes out of me

"That's it, my broken doll, cum like a whore on our cocks," Diego growls into my shoulder, as I feel him fill my ass with his cum

Kai drives into my pussy two more times and then finds his own release, filling my cunt with a deep moan

I try desperately to get air into my lungs as I come down from the orgasm

My whole body shakes, and I'm pretty sure my vision is fucked, because I'm seeing little bursts of light all around me.

Diego pulls out of my ass with a groan, and I feel his cum slipping from me

Kai stumbles back into the chair, his cock still impaling my pussy, as he tries to catch his own breath

"Fuck, that never gets old

I'll never get enough of you, Princesa

" Diego plops himself in the chair next to Kai and smirks.

"I think she should have to lick us clean, starting with your cock

What do you think, cunt?" Kai questions, and he pulls me off of his cock and deposits me on my feet, and I sway for a second before catching myself on his knee

My eyes shift between them

Both of them are still hard, and covered in my juices and their cum

My mouth waters at the thought of taking them both in my throat, and I lower myself to my hands and knees

"Crawl to me, Princesa , let me see your ass sway."

I crawl over to Diego's spread legs, and run my hands up his calves to his thick thighs, before trailing my fingers along his neatly trimmed dark hair, and the snake tattoo along his length that I love so much, and back down to rub his testicles

I use my other hand to circle his base, my fingers not reaching all the way around as I stroke him, tightening my grip until he groans

"Suck me, baby

Lick me clean like the good girl you are." My thighs clench, and I have to rub them together, to handle the throbbing that is already starting between my legs again

Fuck, I love being their whore, I think, as I use my tongue to lick his cock from root to tip, and then suck on the crown, hollowing my cheeks before taking him to the back of my throat

I pull back and lick the ridge of his crown, before using my tongue to lash at the slit and suck on the thick vein standing at attention.

Once I'm done cleaning off every trace of me from his cock, I kiss the tip and crawl over to Kai, making sure to spread my legs obscenely, so Diego gets a good view of my dripping pussy and asshole

"Fuck," he growls, and out of the corner of my eye, I watch him fist himself and begin fucking his hand.

I reach Kai and repeat what I did to Diego, allowing my lips to slide across the skin next to his groin, and nipping him before taking one of his testicles in my mouth and sucking, and then doing the same to the other one

I wrap my fingers around his base and angle his cock at my mouth, before taking him to the back of my throat until I gag

I pull back, using my tongue to lick along his hard length, before sucking on his tip, and again taking him to the back of my throat

Kai threads his fingers in my dark strands, pulling on them and making the momentary bite of pain feel amazing, and I feel my pussy slicken even more

"Swallow, Isabella, be my pretty slut

Your mouth feels so good, and I'm going to cum down your throat." He takes over, controlling my head, and holds my face immobile, while forcing me to take his dick over and over again, until I'm barely getting any air in, and my head starts to spin

He pulls me off, and grabs the base of his dick and cums all over my face

I get the warm fluid on my lips, cheeks, nose, and even on my lashes

I should be pissed he's made a mess of me, but I'm too turned on to care.

"Fucking beautiful mess, well done, pretty boy, " Diego groans before cumming into his hand.

I use my fingers to gather Kai's cum and slip them inside my mouth, before opening my lips wide so he can see his sperm, and swallow

I crawl back over to Diego, and he reaches his cum-covered hand out to me, and I lick it clean like a cat consuming cream

When they are both clean, and I've swallowed their cum, I lie on the soft rug at their feet, utterly sated and exhausted.

A thought comes back to me, and I lean up on one of my elbows and stare at Diego

"Did you give Carter a rocket launcher for his birthday, Diego?" The guilty look across his features tells me all I need to know

All three of us crack up laughing, at the prospect of that unhinged psychopath going around setting things ablaze

It's a good thing Stella has the president on speed dial; she's going to need her help to keep him out of jail.

An image pops in my head, of the look on Carter’s face all those years ago, when I stabbed the fucker in the shoulder from behind with a steak knife, while he was gazing obsessively at my sister while our kids were in the pool.

“What the fuck, Issy?”

He whipped around and questioned with a scowl and frightened eyes, as he reached up and pulled the blade from his flesh

It gave me great satisfaction, watching as the blood soaked the back of his blue shirt.

“That was payback for when you sold me out to Diego, and ruined my first wedding, asshole

Did you think I had forgotten? Snitches get stitches, bitch.”

“Jesus, all of you Stratford women are bloodthirsty and feral.”

He moves away from the lounge chair with wide eyes, and I meet my sister’s gaze from across the pool

She gives me a wink, having watched me stab her mate, and not having the slightest thing to say about it

In fairness, I did warn her that one day soon, I would stab the bastard for what he did.

I lie back down and stare up at my ceiling in contentment

This is my world

My family is filled with insanity, morally gray male characters, and strong women who give them a run for their money, but also so much love

We've come full circle now, and the Stratford dynasty will live on in our children, mine and Mia's

Will they be happier than we were at the beginning? Only time will tell

All I know is that I have found my forever, with my venomous king and my fallen angel, and that was worth all of the heartbreak and suffering we endured to get here.

I am the queen of serpents, but also a Stratford princess, a mother, sister, granddaughter, and a wife

I wouldn't change a single second of any of it for all the billions of dollars in the Stratford coffers

This kind of true happiness can't be bought; it has to be fought for, and I've won mine with my blood and tears.

Long may the Stratfords reign.

The End.