Gifts
Tempting The Mafia Twins
Going Home
She was a nervous wreck.
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“Are you sure he’s ready to go home?” she asked Kiefer for what felt like the hundredth time. “I think you’re wrong. He’s not meant to be going home.”
“Stop talking about me like I’m not here,” Lorcan growled.
“Well, you’re the one being a pushy bastard and demanding to leave and your sons are terrified of you.”
“Kiefer, you and Tadgh are terrified of me?”
“Fucking right we are,” Kiefer smirked at his father. “Did you not see how we took off out of here last night with Egan? Cowards, the pair of us.” He rubbed his face, “I’ve had this broken before by you. I like my pretty face. Can’t have it messed up again.”
“Idiot,” Genesis grumbled under her breath as the physician. came back into the room. “This is a bad idea, isn’t it?”
“The worst idea,” the man agreed and then passed her a booklet. “I wrote down, in as much detail as I could, with the input of the nurse, exactly what you’ll need to be doing.” He shot a look at Lorcan, “you should be allowing me to send a nurse home with
you.”
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arguing with me before we even leave the room, I’m going to get them to shoot you with a blow dart, knock you out and make you get the rest you need.” She snapped angrily.
“Why are you so cranky?”
“Because I think this is stupidly dangerous! You pulled a stitch getting out of the bed earlier and you were bleeding. The only thing you’re taking for pain is acetaminophen. Christ, you run a damn pharmaceutical company and you’re in agony and yet you need to somehow prove you’re some big strong man who can’t get appropriate rest lest you come off as weak. It pisses me off.”
“Genesis,” Lorcan gave her a hard look. “You need to tread lightly.”
“Why? Its not like you can spank me.” She ignored the way the doctor shuffled in discomfort. “You can’t even hold me right, let alone give me a damn punishment.”
The growl which tore from Lorcan’s chest made Kiefer’s spine. straighten and the doctor immediately leave the room.
“Princess, you’re one more statement off a bruised backside.”
“You’d have to catch me first and right now, your ass is barely capable of getting out of bed without tearing your flesh open. Get your ass in the wheelchair, Lorcan.”
“Genesis.”
“Lorcan, keep arguing with me and you can hire one of the
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nurses to come home with you to take care of you and I’ll call Nazar and ask him to take me to Russia to meet my family until you’re healed. I’m not going to spend the next several weeks worried and scared to death about your health while you fight. me tooth and nail. It’s mean and selfish.”
“You’re calling me selfish,” he marched to stand over her, glowering down.
“If you’re going to refuse to cooperate with your treatment, argue with the protocol and put extra pressure on me to try to ensure my family is healthy, then yeah, you’re selfish.”
The way his hand which earlier was stuck with an IV and now held only a small bandage at the elbow, snaked out, grabbed her by the back of the neck and shoved her against the wall should have scared her but instead she glowered back at him.
“You are about to see how strong I am, Genesis O’Reilly.”
“Really, because from where I stand, I can see the sweat on your upper lip from the pain in the other shoulder and I know it would take me nothing more than a little smack to the arm to make
you pass out.” She leaned her head to the side despite the way he squeezed the back of her neck, “Kiefer get the chair. He’s looking a little pale and if he passes out and hits the floor, we’ll owe the hospital for damages to the floor.”
“Woman,” Lorcan stepped closer to her, his eyes glittering. “You’re lucky you’re so damn gorgeous otherwise I think we’d have a real problem.”
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she smacked him away. “You will take good care of him.”
“No. I won’t.”
“You won’t?”
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“I am not taking care of a man who won’t listen to the simplest of directions. It was a ten–minute fight over him not walking to the car. I can see he’s in pain. He was looking grey and sweaty and yet he and Kiefer were talking about going to a wake tonight. I’m not taking care of him if he’s not listening to the most basic of instruction.”
“Genesis,” Lorcan’s voice called from outside as he came up the
stairs to the front door.
She turned away from Tadgh and then walked to the kitchen. After giving the housekeepers, a copy of the diet restrictions, the nurse and doctor suggested for him to assist with helping restore his blood stores she went in search of Egan.
She found Egan in the back yard with Monica sitting with their feet in the water of the pool.
“Mom, you’re really red.” Egan said as he caught sight of his mother stomping in his direction. He raised his eyebrows in surprise as she tore her t–shirt over her head and kicked her jeans off. When she was down to her bra and panties she dove into the water and Egan gave a loud laugh. He looked at his father, “Dad, did you see? Mom is swimming in her underwear.”
“Mom needs to cool off I think.” Kiefer called out.
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“Granddad!” Egan called out as he took sight of Lorcan coming out. “You’re home. I thought you’d be in the hospital a long. time. Can I see your bullet hole?”
“No, you creepy, little turd.” Lorcan flung himself down on a nearby lounger and waved Egan over. He hugged him to his side. “Tell me about the science project you were working on this morning. Your father said you and Tadgh were looking at things. in a microscope.”
“We were! Tadgh let me squish some bugs from the garden and look at their guts.” Egan sat on the edge of Lorcan’s lounger. “You’re very sweaty. Are you going for a swim?”
“I can’t get my wound wet.”
Genesis openly eavesdropped on the conversation between boy and grandfather as she floated on her back in the water trying to get her anger under control. She heard the splash of Monica joining her and she sighed as the woman paddled towards her.
“What’s going on, Gen?” Monica questioned quietly.
“None of them are taking it seriously,” she stared at the sky. “It’s like it’s all a big joke to them. The doctor voiced his very real concerns, everything from infections and fevers to embolisms and thrombosis. Pain not being managed appropriately can affect his clarity and his focus and he thinks it’s bullshit. All the information the doctor shared, he brushed aside, and Kiefer backed him a thousand percent. In the last week, I’ve lost my best friend, a bunch of our men from the Iron Force Gang and
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almost lost him and nobody is taking it seriously.”
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“I thought it was strange he was coming home so soon. Jerren said you could see through him the other night.”
“Less than an inch lower and it would have hit organs and yet it’s a joke.” As if punctuating her words, the group of men laughed loudly at something Egan said.
“How can I help?”
“I think I need to have a rest. Would you mind keeping an eye on Egan for a couple of hours? I want to go to my room and rest.
“Of course. I’ll be here.”
“Thanks.” She swam to the edge of the pool and hoisted herself out of the water and grabbing her clothes which sat on the pool deck, she made her way back into the house, making a beeline to
her bedroom.
Locking the door behind her, she made her way to the shower and let all the emotions she’d been struggling to contain over the last few days finally come to a head.
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