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

𝕊𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕪-𝕆𝕟𝕖

Xerxes, Riley, the twins, and the dogs were all sitting in their living room watching an old movie called the Corpse Bride. Riley's choice, of course, but he had to admit it was interesting when a knock came to their front door following a text.

Dad: Open the fucking door!

X sighed, hitting the button from his phone to unlock the front door looking over to his wife, who was very much into what she was looking at.

"Dad is at the front door about to come in. You may want to put on a shirt," X said. Riley was sitting there in a sports bra and some booty shorts.

"He's coming in our house, and it isn't like he never saw me in a sports bra and shorts before Adriel. Dad will be fine," She smiled, never looking away from the television. Finally, Luca made his appearance in the room with them. He stood there looking at the TV then at them.

"I don't think my grands should be looking at that mess."

"Dad, they aren't even a year old yet. They don't know what the fuck they are looking at," Xerxes laughed point at the empty chair on the side of him with a smirk. "Was it something you wanted it?" X asked.

"Yeah, I need to speak with my Don and Donna about a situation that is arising. I know I said I left no stone unturned when I was Don, but apparently, I lied-- One of my enemies had a family, and his son wasn't too much older than you when your sister, brother, and Carmella kill him without my permission. I allowed his wife to live and raise her children, and now his son has an up-and-coming mafia sending threats to ours," Luca said, handing him something with a police seal on it.

"What the fuck? This muthafucker trying to say we are the cause of the upraise in the unsolved murders?"

"This came across your Grandfather Sebastian's desk this morning. I'm not giving you orders, but you need to take care of this now. If he's anything like his father, the little fucker will be persistent. He owns a club call Malik named after his father downtown and always there every weekend."

"So, I guess we're going clubbing tonight then?" Xerxes said, looking over to his wife with a smirk. Riley smiled big. This will be the first time in months she would be able to drink, smoke, and kind of enjoy herself without being pregnant.

"The club it is--"

"And one more thing, I think you two should move into the main house... Me, your mother, will take this one, and the rest will move in the remaining open homes. Besides your siblings, of course, Luke, Maddy, Ty, Veah, and Mel will stay in the main house with you and including most of the Brooks children, Leon and My'esha. Plus, you know their will all have their own wings, and the whole house will be to your liking all new furniture," Luca said as Riley and Xerxes stared at him.

"A-are you sure?"

"Son, it's just a fucking house. Yes, I'm sure-- Oh, I forgot all the old heads would be living with you as well. I had to put up with my Grandmother, so you will have to deal with both of your Grandmothers and Grandfather because I am not. Raising Kamaria is enough that child is trying to make me turn grey. Shit, I had to dye my hair the other day. Hell, I feel like letting you and Riley finish raising her--"

"HELL NO! Kamaria is too much. It's hard to babysit her ass. I rather take AJ," Riley said, laughing.

"Now he you cannot have. Liebe would kill me if I handed off her baby."

"Dad, don't play. You know Kamaria and Axel are your babies and would kill us if we tried to take them... enough of that is there anything else we need to know about-- Wait, you never gave us a name," Xerxes said, looking at his father playing with one of the dogs.