Chapter 154: To Getting A Nanny
(ARLO)
(One and a Half Months Later...)
Juggling being a new father and running a syndicate hasn’t been easy. I had no idea how much more exhausting it would be to do the two. Reign doesn’t sleep a lot through the night, which means that I barely sleep too. Miles takes three nights a week with the baby, and I take four. I don’t get enough rest.
Sasha also gave me the ports. That has added so much pressure on me. Running the ports isn’t as easy as it sounds. Thankfully, I have Miles by my side to help me. Millions of dollars now flow in my operation in form of alcohol, smuggling firearms and tobacco. It is stressful as hell, and on most days, I feel like I am sleepwalking.
One evening, Miles and zi are about to have dinner. I have Reign rocking on a swing beside the table. He is snoozing away. Miles pours us wine and I light two candles on the table.
"I didn’t have the energy to cook, so I ordered lasagna from the restaurant. I hope you don’t mind." I say as I blow out a match. "I got it from the new restaurant near the mall."
"It is food, that is all that matters." Miles sips his wine and nods his approval.
I groan as I sit. My back feels like that if an eighty-year-old. "Did you know Sasha yelled at me today?" I scoot my chair closer to the table.
"Excuse me?" Miles bristles instantly. "Why?" his eyes flash with anger.
"Because someone from Terra Nova accused me of trafficking people. Lies have spread all over the town, I’m even surprised that you haven’t heard. You know that syndicate has always hated the Sovereign Ring Syndicate. They had many run-ins with my father over the years." I scowl. "Of all the disgusting things to ever exist, that is the last thing that I would do." I’m not exactly an upstanding citizen, but I don’t think that I would ever smuggle people.
Miles narrows his gaze. "Sid Sasha believed the lies? He believed that my omega would be involved in such heinous acts?"