Tempting Mafia Ch 17

Posted by Admind, ? Views, Released on February 26, 2025

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Entering the house she’d barely escaped with her life seven years ago felt like being led to the gallows. With every step into the brightly lit interior, despite the fact it was nearing midnight, her stomach was rolling with the need to vomit. Her eyes flicked to the bench and then the stairs where she last saw Kiefer with Laoise on his lap while their hips mimicked the intimate. movements of sex, despite their clothing on.

Her heart hammered with the pain and the need to curl into a ball and scream into the ether almost took her over, but she put one foot in front of the other. At the far end of the hall, the steps which led down to the wine cellar where she’d been shoved down while the two women and their little posse chased her down to kick her while she lay there mocked her. She could almost hear Laoise’s high–pitched voice squealing about making sure the green card wife didn’t have any biological reason to stay connected to her man..

Unable to stop herself she turned and immediately gravitated. towards the nearest container which happened to be a large potted plant and vomited profusely.

“Fuck.”

Tadgh’s voice cut through the buzzing in Genesis‘ ears and the feel of him pulling her hair off her face while ordering someone. to bring some bottled water right away had her wanting to smack his hand away. However, as she clutched the oversized

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pot in her hands, blackness pushing into her vision wanting to suck her down into it, she was unable to stop him from rubbing her back and whispering to her to let it all out.

Vaguely she heard Kiefer order Jerren to take the sleeping Egan. up to the spare room immediately next to Kiefer’s room and then he was also at his knees next to her.

“Gen, I’m sorry. Shh.” His voice was he rubbed her low back while Tadgh rubbed her upper back was soothing.

“Fuck you. Did you do it on purpose?” she was gulping for air.

“What baby? What do you think I did?”

“The lights on in the wine cellar? The door wide open?” she croaked as the pain permeated her chest, spreading like wildfire as the memory of being helpless to save her unborn son filled. her. “Were you looking for a reaction? You got it. Now stop fucking touching me.” She shoved both of them away from her and felt frustration when they both immediately put their hands. on her again. “I’m not weak!” she spat furiously.

“No baby, nobody would ever call you weak,” Tadgh whispered. softly.

The fact he was calling her baby in front of Kiefer barely registered in her brain given she had more complex things to deal with, such as finding a way to escape from this hellhole and taking her son with her. It would help if he wanted to leave willingly. She’d have to play the long game.

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Kneeling there, she forced her breath to even out aware Kiefer was silent as she stared unseeingly at a green leaf of the plant she’d just defiled. Was he annoyed at his brother for getting to her first? Was he pissed off she ruined his plant? Why was he so quiet? Shooting him a sideways glance, she noted how pale he was as if in shock. A single tear drop rolled down his cheek as he looked worriedly at her.

Sneering, she

is your problem? You’re not the one dragged back kicking and

is your problemaugh bubble up from her chest. “What

screaming into a house where the occupants murdered your child and then put the torture chamber on display for her the minute she entered.” Shoving him backwards, she didn’t register he’d fallen completely backwards on his bottom.

Tadgh moved to whisper at Kiefer, and she managed to shakily get on her feet and stumble backwards away from them. She looked up the stairs where she knew Jerren took Egan and began climbing them, each step an agonizing reminder of how much she was hurting. The pain was visceral as if her entire body was on fire, but she forced herself to keep going. She was going to find her son and wrap her arms around him and find healing in the living breathing sounds of the little snores she knew would be coming from his sleepy form.

She entered the room to find Jerren removing Egan’s shoes from his

feel.

“I can do it.” Her voice was already damaged from all the screaming she’d done at the mall. Now it felt a hundred times worse with the acrid taste of bile coating her throat. “I need our overnight bags for his pjs.”

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“You could let him sleep in his t–shirt and underwear, tonight, Genesis. No need to disturb him to get changed.”

“You don’t know my kid, Jerren but he sleeps like the dead. I could throw a party in here right now and he wouldn’t notice. The person Astra and I took him to, the one who said he was gifted spiritually. told us he sleeps deeply because it’s recharging his connections to the spirit world.”

“That’s weird.”

“Call it what you want but the fact of the matter is, he’s given us some information which nobody else would know. I rarely talk about my adoptive parents. I have one photograph of them and the hard copy of it was left behind when I left here. The other is on my phone, backed up to the cloud. He described the outfit my dad was wearing at his funeral. Nobody has a photo of that, but it’s burned in my brain.” She tugged Egan’s jeans off him, “can you please go get our bags? I need to get him changed and I really want to brush my teeth.”

“Genesis, I know you’re angry but

“Don’t.” She refused to turn and look at him. “Don’t you dare defend anyone in this house because you are as complicit as the rest of

them.”

She heard his footsteps slowly walking away and she stood staring down at her sleeping son. Egan was so beautiful with the flash of red. hair, the sprinkling of freckles and his little cheeks which were still chubby, not completely losing all their baby fat

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as of yet. He was smart, smarter than most of the kids in his class which only made him stand out a bit more to the others, but his personality was usually a friendly one and he made jokes all the time. which kept his classmates laughing, much to his teacher’s annoyance. He was the class clown, well liked and he made good friends in his class. The guilt from tearing him from them sat heavy in her chest. She wondered if she’d stayed in Calgary, would Kiefer have found her? She knew the answer but the self–condemnation for usurping her son’s life out of her own terror was real. She wiped a bitter tear off her cheek and then stroked his soft little cheek and whispered

softly.

“I will die to keep you safe, Egan. Mommy loves you so much,” she bent down and pressed a kiss to his temple as her throat clogged with tears which wanted to pour from her soul.

“He is safe here,” Kiefer’s voice spoke from the doorway..

She ignored him and began moving again to undress the child. She realized there was a streak of barbecue sauce at his neck and gave a laugh. She moved to the attached bathroom and found a facecloth and towel. Wetting the washcloth, she brought it back to quickly wipe Egan down and noted the overnight bag was placed on the end. of the bed and Kiefer was rifling through it. She took the pajamas he held out from his outstretched fingers and slipped the boy into him..

“He’s really out,” Kiefer gave a chuckle as the boy flopped like a ragdoll in his mother’s grip. “I’d give a mint to be able to sleep so sound.”

Genesis didn’t reply, simple continued her tasks of putting her

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son to bed and then moved to adjust some pillows on the side of the bed to ensure he didn’t fall from it. She was going to sleep on one side of him but sometimes he rolled away from her.

“Where is my bag?” she finally broke her silence. “I asked for it to be brought here.”

“It’s in your room. This is his room.”

She quickly tucked a pillow beside Egan before moving to throw the towels into the bathroom and then storming in the direction of Kiefer’s bedroom. She felt him trailing her, but she forced herself not to respond to the lazy way he stalked her from room to room. Finding her bag on the end of the bed in Kiefer’s bedroom, she grabbed it, went into the ensuite bathroom, and closed the door with a quiet click. Perhaps if he thought she was giving in already to sleep there, he would give her enough space. she could get back down the hall to Egan.

She made quick work of brushing her teeth and getting into at pair of flannel pjs and then yanked the door open to find Kiefer sitting sadly on the end of the bed with his hands folded between his knees, his eyes focused on the bathroom door she came. through. His eyes met hers and she immediately looked away and wordlessly she walked out of the room.

“Gen. No.” his voice called after her. “We need to talk.”

She was in the other bedroom and in the bed with Egan before Kiefer even caught up to her and she wrapped her arms around and under the boy and gave a blissful sigh of contentment as Egan snuggled tight into her. In his sleep he was clinging to her,

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and she felt the tears leak from the corners of her eyes as his little hands clutched her waist and gripped her shirt.

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“I love you, my little man.” She whispered into his hair as she waited, with her eyes squeezed shut, for Kiefer to try to pull her from the bed. The sound of Kiefer leaving the room made her sigh with relief and she pressed her lips shut and struggled to keep the sobs from billowing up.

She was almost asleep when she heard the footsteps coming back. Now what? Aghast, she opened her eyes when she felt movement on the other side of Egan, Kiefer moving the pillows aside and climbing into the bed with them.

“What the fuck are you doing?”

“Gen, as much as I love the new feisty side of you, there is only room for one person who swears so much in this house, and I claim the right to be the one who gets to drop fuck bombs all the time. Stop swearing. I told you years ago there is only one place I want to hear filth from your lips and since our son is tucked between us, now isn’t the time.”

Memories of Kiefer telling her to talk dirty to him in their bed flitted to the surface and she batted it away furiously. “Leave.”

“No. We will no longer be leaving you unattended Genesis. If I’m not right here, Tadgh will be. We discussed this at length, and we failed you. Each of us with our own jealousy messed up and we realize we’re better for you together than separate. Moving forward, he will be your personal guard.”