Tempting The Mafia Twins
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Estering the room where Gorean was hooked up to oxygen and an IV and a dew of machinery, Genesis felt her heart clenching. A thick bandage wrapped around hashoulder. and a yellow suberance was exposed all around the mark white of the bandage
The sound of Tad’s camera clicking made her look her shoulder.
“What are you doing
*Hexxt time be smacke me in the head, I’m showing him her human.”
“He’s too big for the fucking bed,” Kiefer laughed. “They benthinks to make him feet. Haga foolor” Roofer libed the blanker and showed Tagh. Both men started laughing when Kier protended to tickle Laren’s tour.
what in wrong with you twor
“He’s incapacitated but not dying. Heise,” Kiefer laughed.
“You both.” She walked to Lorcan and pad his brow, and he didn’t even borge.
Kiefer liked the medicationing off the IV pole and tacted reading “Oh, they’re giving him the good stuff.”
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Would you wep shaboard at hindignant in Lor’s behalf.
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“To You know, when I was a kid, I fell off my bibe and broke my ankle. For week, the facer clamy i cam. He would walk up to me while I stuck on my stupid chair waching the other ladeplay and he’d take my bowl of ice cream and wallway laughing I couldn’t get up and catch him. I was forced to wait until the housekeeper could bring
Tadph nodded, “I broke my art, he drew on my cast a giant pet when I was deeping. I was fourteen and all the guys were asking who put a dick on any capt. “He and Kerchanged smirking look “Heshould get him back”
“You should not. Gene argard with them. “Love him alone.”
“You’re simply scared he’s going to spank you harder. I can’t believe he woke up in the middle of his agery.”
“Hell look at these of him Kiefer, Clearly, they didn’t know how mach drags to gres the gun, “Tadch pramed. “When Tollins wrote about orca, be man describing Dad to a T.”
“Your father won’t live when Tollion was.”
“The man had premonitions. Like Egan with dead people. Tale could see the future. Hea Bud and aburbin.”
Consideren at the way the two men were behaving morale boys, this how they behaved when they were
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Tadgh rubbed her shoulder, “he’s going to be fine, Genesis. He’s a tough son of a bitch. We know he’s going to be fine.”
“You’ll stay with him and if anything changes you promise to call.”
“I promise. You need to go home and get rest. Egan isn’t going to see him in his dreams. We promise.” Tadgh kissed her cheek. “He’s going to be in this exact position for the next forty–eight hours. It’ll be the least amount of shit we take, right Kiefer?”
“Yup. Come on, my love,” he pulled her away from the edge of the bed. “You need to sleep. We’ll go home, rest up and then come back tomorrow. I promise.”
She pressed one more kiss to Lorcan’s lips and then let Kiefer lead her out of the hospital room.
“Jerren was putting your dad up in one of the rooms at our house. I asked him to keep him away from Egan until you give the go ahead for them to meet.”
“It’s fine. He fought to rescue me tonight. It’s not like I can hold. a grudge against a man who risked his own life to save mine. He literally was in an armed standoff.” The hospital corridors were quiet, and their footsteps echoed in the night. She noted several men were stationed at various places around the hospital. “I’m bone tired, but my mind is running on overdrive.”
“Confession?” he leaned his head sideways. “Mine too. Tadgh and I always get goofy when we’re scared shitless. Neither of us
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like seeing Dad like he is. He’s the same with us. It’s why he acts a fool like stealing my ice cream when I’m hurt. None of us process fear or affection the right way.” He winked at her as he dropped his arm over her shoulder, and they stepped out into the early morning light. “Suns coming up.”
“New day,” she inhaled sharply. “I could use a new day. Yesterday was pretty shitty.”
“It sure was,” he lifted her fingers and kissed her knuckles as het waited for one of their guards to hold the back door open of the car for them. “It was definitely one I never want to repeat again. in this life or my next.
She leaned into him as they got into the back seat, his arm wrapped protectively around her shoulder. “I was really scared,” she admitted into the space between them. “All I could think of was something went wrong with you guys at the house, and you weren’t reachable.”
“Everything went smoother than butter, but we all shut our phones to silent until we were heading to our destinations. I was taking Laoise to the warehouses but Nazar, Dad and Jerren were taking Oleg to one of our other buildings. We were split up. Tadgh was cleaning up shit at the old house with a crew there. All of us left our phones on silent knowing we kept a good team at the house. Nobody should know the location of our home yet, Genesis. If it wasn’t for the flight attendant telling Oleg how Nazar was in New York, then they wouldn’t have gone looking. for him. The minute Oleg saw his men were being grabbed, het was making a call to his father to locate Nazar because it was a trap. Yegor must have dispatched his meres in seconds and they
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ran a backtrace of where Nazar spent the day, and it was with you at our new place. Even the feds don’t know I bought this place this week, Gen. It was nothing but pure dumb luck on the mercenary’s part.”
“I was lucky,” she took a breath. “I couldn’t sleep. Egan kicked me out of his room because I was tossing and turning so much,” she smiled at Kiefer’s laugh. “Then when I went to own bed, I was rolling around so much and I was uneasy. I couldn’t explain it, but I was uneasy. I went to check on Egan. His room faces the front of the house. I was standing there looking at him and light came through. I looked out and didn’t recognize the car. I immediately knew we were in trouble. I got to Monica’s room and started going through Jerren’s drawers. Found a couple of guns and some clips. My plan was to get us to the safe room, but I was compromised right before I could get in. I couldn’t engage in a firefight with the door open. I locked them in. It killed met to lock them in and not be there with Egan. I knew the panic. room was only installed this week. I don’t know how it works only that we need a code to get out. I was scared if there was any other way to get Egan out, they were going to find a way to do it. Even if they got me, I knew it wasn’t going to be enough. I was worried they’d shoot the walls down or something and I didn’t want to risk him being taken. I knew Allan could find me if I could get ahead of them.”
“You were amazing,” he said quietly. “The dungeon room at the warehouse is actually a metal box built into the ground. You need the code to open the door and even if you dropped a grenade on it, it won’t open. It is what we intend to put at the house but the one there right now is one the previous owners installed. They were a billionaire couple with one kid. Too many
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kidnapping threats so they put it reinforced walls like a vault. It’s pretty safe.”
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“All I know Kiefer is I was scared, and I wanted those fuckers as far away from my son as I could get them.”
“I’m proud of you for being so level–headed.” He threaded. his fingers through her hair, “also, the way you took care of the business of Yegor and Laoise was pretty spectacular. If we hadn’t been in such a hurry to go to Dad, I would have let you play with her longer.”
“Nazar told me how he kept the man who killed Mak alive almost a year. I’m wishing now I’d not killed her.”
“Gen.” Kiefer tugged her hair with a laugh. “Dark.”
She shrugged. “I know but I’ve dreamed so many fantasies. of what to do to get my revenge on her. I liked looking her in the eyes while I thought of Roan.” She yawned loudly. “I’m exhausted.”
“Close your eyes, love. I’ll put you to bed when we get home.”
She closed her eyes as he played with her hair and each blink of her eyes were longer than the last. Soon she was fast asleep against his shoulder, snoring softly.
Her last thought before she fell into a very deep sleep was Kiefer tucking her into her own bed with a kiss to her temple. She was home.
