Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 44

Pretty Fish Tales-2

“He touched her butt twice, Egan and before I could put him in his place, your mom dumped the sangria over his head, and she kneed him in the balls.”

Egan clutched his belly as he laughed, “oh Mom! That’s funny! Did he cry? I remember once when the hockey puck hit me in the penis, and I cried. Did he?”

“I don’t know if he cried.” She watched as Egan raced towards the turtles with a scream of glee.

“He certainly died,” Kiefer whispered in her ear. “I’d had enough of his shit by then. You asked me to let it go but once you kicked him in the nuts and he still came back later with a drink as an apology, I was done with his stupidity.”

“You killed him?”

“Nope. Jerren and Tadgh did. I didn’t want to get blood on my hands while we were on our honeymoon. Felt like an omen but the boys were bored out of their skulls from providing security from a distance in a small, tiny town. It gave them something to do. The guy was a creep, and he was a stalking you. It was weird.”

“It was weird, but he didn’t need to die.” They got close to Egan again and she pursed her lips, “I didn’t know you asked for him to be killed.”

“You didn’t need to know,” he gave a sigh, “there were many things I protected you from Gen. All the outside forces which were trying to get you because you were mine. Yet, I stupidly, spent so much time looking at the enemies from beyond our walls, I wasn’t even considering the dangers within. There was a dinner we were at once where the man I was meeting with felt strongly we’d shortchanged him on a job and what he wanted to even it

up was my wife. I asked Tadgh to get you out of there and Jerren and I made sure he never made such a stupid request again.”

“I remember the dinner. I knew he’d done something to piss you off. It the night Tadgh listened to country music the whole ride home.”

“Take it up with him for being an ass. I have my own huge pile of excrement to dig myself from. He can dig himself out of his own.”

She shook her head, “Kiefer, you can’t really believe I’m going to forgive you,”

“All I have is hope, Gen. It’s all I have.”

“You thought I murdered our child.”

“I know and I cannot apologize enough for doubting you.”

“You let them hurt me.”

“We both know if I’d known what was going on back then, Genesis, they wouldn’t have lasted a night.”

“Kiefer,”

“No, Genesis, You keep telling me I should have seen what was going on and I agree. I should have seen it, I should have heard it. I should have paid more attention. However, and I can’t say this enough, they came into the house, and I would crawl into bed with you at the end of the day and you would say nothing. I would hold you in my arms and ask you how your day vas, and you would say it was good. I asked you what you did, and you said you read in the library or went shopping. You never complained. I feel sick to know I didn’t see you were physically hurt when we made love, Genesis but damn, I wish you’d trusted me enough to say something. Why didn’t you trust me, Gen?”