Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 45

The Wrong Way and The Right Way-1

Genesis stared at Kiefer as if he’d suddenly sprouted an additional head.

“Are you kidding me right now?”

“What?”

“You’re going to try to pin this shit on me? Kiefer, you knew your sister was an asshole. You knew Laoise was an even bigger one. I begged you on my hands and knees to stay with me. I cried when you touched me, and it caused me pain. It is not my fault you are a selfish bastard too absorbed in your own shit you couldn’t see what was blatantly in front of your face.” She pointed her finger in his face, “for someone who thinks I’m going to somehow forgive him for his hand in the most horrific moments of my life, you’re really going around it all wrong. You need to dig your head out of your arse, Kiefer O’Reilly and really examine yourself and the shit you’re spouting. I will not allow you to gaslight me into believing any of this is my fault. I did nothing wrong. I did what was necessary to protect my son and my life. Fuck you.” She whispered the last part aware Egan was still nearby.

“What is going on here?” Tadgh interrupted moving closer to them from where he’d been off in the distance with Jerren and few security agents. “Genesis looks ready to rip off your cock and force feed it to you, Kiefer, with her son only a few feet away. What have you said now, brother?”

“Tadgh, mind your business,” Kiefer shot back.

“He’s trying to pin his lack of attention and overall stupidity from seven years ago on me. Idiot,” she crossed her arms over her chest enraged.

“It was not your fault at all Genesis. It was entirely our fault. We fucked up,” Tadgh shot Kiefer an angry glare. “Whatever you’re saying to her to try to assuage your guilt, stop. I didn’t protect her the way I should have before because I deferred to you because you were her husband. I won’t make the same mistake. Go spend time with your son, Kiefer since you’re the one who insisted we wait for you to be able to be with him if you can’t be appropriate with his mother.”

Kiefer sighed, “Gen, I’m sorry. You know.”

Genesis took the paper cup of black coffee and moved to the little counter holding the milk and sugar and fixed her coffee up before taking a seat at a small two-seater bistro table the corner of the room. Tadgh’s words felt like a balm to her soul after the things Kiefer said to her. She was still furious with Tadgh as well and insisted to herself he was merely a pawn in her escape game, but she allowed herself to accept his quietly delivered words as the comfort they were meant to portray.

He took the seat opposite her and stretched his long legs out under the table, his foot near hers. “Are you okay?”

“No. None of this is okay, Tadgh. Why couldn’t he have let me be?”

“Genesis,” Tadgh sighed loudly shaking a sugar packet before ripping it open to dump in his coffee, “if it was only you, if Egan wasn’t involved, I think he would have let you go. In Burbank, when he came back from his drive and found out you were gone, he was going to take you back to the hotel. Realizing how fucked up everything was, how much we hurt you as a family, he actually said to me and Jerren to simply put a man on you to ensure you were safe but to let you go live your life. Then he got the report back from hospital and realized you’d been carrying twins, and it was highly likely you were hiding another child from him, well it changed everything. The minute he knew there was another baby, he was a man possessed.”