Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 19

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With her thoughts all over the place as she walked towards the car where their bags were packed to the hilt, Genesis felt like her entire body was ice cold. Is this what it felt like to be going into shock? She was barely going through the motions as she opened the back door of the car to collect Egan’s backpack and his smaller suitcase from where it sat beside his car seat. Did she need to get his car seat as well?

Two of Kiefer’s men began unloading the trunk and she heard arguing between them and Astra. She was busy unbuckling the booster seat when her friend spoke from behind her.

“I’m not coming,” Astra cleared her voice, “I can’t do this.”

“What?” she turned to look at her best friend who was standing holding her overnight bag which she’d ripped from one of the guards in her hand and was putting it into the back seat of the car where Egan’s bags were sat. “What do you mean?”

“Gen, I love you and I would do almost anything but this,” she waved at the men holding court with Egan, “this isn’t something I can get behind. You’re walking right back into6:46 the lion’s den and you’re going to get killed and I can’t watch

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this happen. This is suicide. He is going to kill you, and I can’t

watch it.”

“Astra! What do you want me to do? I tried to run. I followed our plans to the letter and,” she swallowed back the tears at the way her friend was regarding her. After all they’d been through the last seven years and Astra was going to abandon her. “I only need to find another way to get free.”

“But you won’t. He saw you and Egan and now you’re back with him. You were in that bathroom a long time. Did he get into your pants already?”

“Absolutely not. Is this what you think of me? Do you not know how hard I needed to work to get away from him?”

“You gave in too fast.”

“I was fighting with him. Telling him how he and his blasted family nearly destroyed me. I let him have it over the fact it his fault, his, my son is dead, and my other son is growing up without a brother and you’re standing here accusing me of fucking him in a bathroom stall?”

“You fucked him the first day you saw him last time.”

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stupid. I am not the same girl anymore. They destroyed the person she was.”

“Did they ever,” Astra whispered bitterly.

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“You used to be fun, Genesis. We wanted to travel the world and build our business together and instead, you got mixed up with the Irish mob and walked away from me without a backwards glance and you’re going to do it again.”

“How many times are we going to have this argument, Astra. I didn’t walk away from you. Our business was online. You could have built it from anywhere. My husband’s businesses were in Boston. You wanted to go to Atlanta. I tried to negotiate with you. I tried to rationalize with you. You hated him from the first day we met him. You argued with me from the minute I met him. Every conversation we shared from the day I met him was you begging me to leave him and then suddenly you were gone. You ghosted me. I didn’t leave you. You left me. You changed your number, and you left me. The only reason we connected again was purely coincidental when we were both in Miami when I was pregnant and hiding. However, before this, you left me because I fell in love with him.”

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“Because he was dangerous, and I knew you would be in

trouble. I was right,” she motioned to an armed man standing

a few feet away watching them argue. “You need to get away from him before you wind up dead.”

Her eyes moved to where Egan was excitedly exploring every inch of an SUV, an Escalade, with tinted windows and ginormous wheels with shiny rims.

“He’s going to take Egan from me. He has a full damn army here, Astra. Look around. He won’t let me take him. What am I supposed to? Leave my son behind?”

Astra made a face and Genesis gasped. Surely her best friend, the woman who helped her raise Egan and was there when he was born was not thinking she should simply leave her son behind and run away?

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