Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 35

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Kiefer eyed his brother who came into the kitchen and immediately poured himself some ice water and downed it. A smirk played on Kiefer’s lips. He had a ton of questions he wanted to ask but his son was sitting a few feet away waiting on the cook to prepare his meal. Egan was excited to play a game on his father’s phone, a joy apparently his mother rarely let him engage in.

“Is she getting up?”

“Don’t know. Didn’t ask.”

“What did you talk about?”

Tadgh shot a glance at Egan and then raised an eyebrow, “you want me to say it here?”

“Summarize as if Granny was in the room.”

Tadgh shrugged as he finished a second glass of water and then moved to pour coffee. “I let her know when she’s ready to start her game of war, it’ll be two against one and I fight dirty.”

“You can’t proceed until I do first, Tadgh. We agreed.”

“It’s not your decision, Kiefer. It’s hers. She decides who she Wants to be with. Not you. Not me. She does. You can try to

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manipulate the situation so it favors you but we both know if I’m not running interference here and helping along, you are fighting a hard and upwards battle you may lose.” Tadgh stepped further away from the child and kept his voice purposefully low.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“She hates you, Kiefer and while the line between love and hate is so thin it’s nearly invisible, she has more reason to hate you

than

anyone. I wasn’t her husband back then. I wasn’t assigned as her protection. I wasn’t even meant to be around her because you were worried, I’d make a move. Your insecurity and jealousy drove a wedge between us all and caused me to be absent when I should have been watching her. You didn’t want to share her. You didn’t want to share your connection with me. It’s great you’ve seen the light now, but you’ve lost her. It’s up to you to win her back. Me,” he gave a single shake of his head, “I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”

“She doesn’t hate me,” Kiefer hated the way his heart clenched as he refused to admit what he knew was the truth. She did hate him and rightly so.

“You failed her Kiefer. You failed her desperately. We all did but nobody more than you.”

“Rub it in a bit more. You’ve missed a bit of my open wounds there with your salt.”

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“I’m not trying to hurt you, Kiefer. I’m telling you to get your fucking battle armor on because this is not a war we want to lose.”

“Dad,” Egan’s voice interrupted the quiet conversation they were hissing back and forth several feet away. “Your phone is ringing. It says, Dad is calling.”

He reached his hand out and took the phone. “Dad.”

“You got them home?”

His father’s thick, deep voice resonated around the room. He noted Egan leaned into him as if afraid of the man’s voice over the phone line. Get used to it kid. The old man still scared him, and Kiefer was pushing forty.

“They are home. Egan is here waiting on his breakfast. Gen is resting.”

“She’s likely plotting escape routes and ways to fuck you over so she can run with the boy, not that I blame her.”.

The censure of his father’s tone cut him and Tadgh’s sigh and squeeze to his shoulder was hardly reassuring.

“I’m aware I fucked up.” He motioned for Tadgh to watch Egan while he moved to another room knowing damn well his father’s

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