Next in Line (Monarch of the Kohler Mafia) Book 5 of the Köhler Series

𝕋𝕨𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕪-𝕠𝕟𝕖|𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

"Xerxes, I know the fuck you and Riley are not still in the bed," His mom said, walking into his room like she was she lived there.

"Ma, really?" Xerxes had to cover his face as she opened the fucking curtains letting the bright ass sunshine into his bedroom. Riley rolled over, mumbling a series of cursing words as she pulled the covers over her head, making his mother shake her head.

"Yes, really X. Your graduation is in four hours, and here you and Riley are, sleep. Everyone is at the house waiting for you to eat."

"Why couldn't they start eating without us?" He said it was a variable question, but his mother didn't take it kindly.

"BOY! GET YOUR ASS OUT THE FUCKING BED! QUESTIONING ME! WHO THE FUCK YOU THINK YOU ARE? GET UP NOW! YOU TOO RILEY––"

"Ma, we naked," Xerxes said, making Adele tilt her head to the side before walking up to the bed pulling the sheets back, which made Riley jump up. "Jeez, woman," Riley said, covering up her body.

"I give two shits about you and Riley being fucking naked. I change both you're your shitty ass until you were two and a half. Then I help you dress yourselves until you were fuck seven. Don't give me that fucking bullshit about you being fucking naked. NOW GET YOUR FUCKING ASS UP AND GET READY! I'm not leaving until you do."

Riley got up, but it wasn't because of his mother. Morning sickness had gotten her something that he thought would have died down by now. Xerxes sighed, grabbing his sweats while his mother glared at him. The bad thing is he didn't even do anything but overslept. His mom and dad know he has never been a morning person.

"Mama, do you have to stare?"

"Xerxes, just go get dressed. Please?"

"Are you mad at me?" He asked her as he pulled up his pants, walking over to his mother, hugging her.

"I'm not mad at you, baby, but I do need to talk to you. Either before your graduation or after. Go shower and no fucking."

Xerxes laughed because she started to sound like his grandmothers and grandfather Sebastian, always yelling, telling his parents and the others no fucking as they left a room.

"Yes, ma'am."

"I'm mean it X I will come in that bitch and pull you apart. You know I didn't give a fuck." He knew. That why he nodded, going straight to the shower, which Riley was already in. As he stepped in, Xerxes noticed she was crying.

"Baby, what's wrong?" He asked as she turned, looking up at him with a sad face. Making him pull her to him.

"I'm getting fat."

"What?"

Emotions... The last time she said some crazy shit like that, he almost got his fucking head blown off. So he had to think before speaking this time.

"Ri, you're not getting fat. Why would you say some shit like that? That is our baby growing in here."

"But look at me. I'm barely four months, and you can already see it," Riley said, rubbing her hand over her belly making X place his on top of hers.

"I love it, and I love you. It changes nothing. Okay––" X said, waiting for her response as she laid her head on his chest.

"Riley?"

"Okay, a-and I love you too," Riley said. Xerxes smiled, kissing the top of her head as he grabbed a rag and started to wash her, and when he finished, he washed himself. After that, there went and got dressed, meeting his mother downstairs, and went to the main house to eat breakfast.