Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 47

Reality Check-1

Kiefer was watching for Tadgh and Genesis to come back to walk through the aquarium, his knee bouncing impatiently as he and Egan watched the penguins from a bench.

“Dad, can I get closer?”

Kiefer decided if his son was going to call him Dad, he’d give him the keys to the Maserati and let him drive it. “Sure, but stay behind the yellow line there,” he pointed to the spot where they were supposed to remain back.

From the minute he’d laid eyes on Egan for the first time when they’d entered the restaurant, he’d felt his heart crack open, splinter into a million shards and then magically heal itself with whatever it was children impart in their parents. All the pain he’d ever felt in his life was nothing compared to missing all the firsts he’d missed thus far but the notion he was never going to miss anything else was soothing his agony.

He smiled as Egan looked over his shoulder,

“Dad, look, look! Aren’t they cool?”

“They sure are, Egan.” He couldn’t take his eyes off the dimple in the boy’s chin. The one little thing he got from Genesis, and it was the thing Kiefer was focused on every time he looked at him. He knew his ego was bigger than most other men simply

because he’d been told day in and day out all of his life, he was a good-looking man. He took good care of his body, working out vigorously, mostly because he needed to be strong to do the job he did. His kid looking just like him was an ego boost of the highest order because Egan was a good-looking lad.

What the kid showed in looks though, his personality was all Genesis. Egan’s sweet innocence and the way he blurted out all his thoughts without filter was exactly Genesis to a tee. When he’d first met her, the very first words she ever spoke to him after she’d tripped over the cobbled sidewalk and into his arms was “holy fuck you’re gorgeous for a ginger.” He’d almost gotten on bended knee right there.

He didn’t know how to woo her of course. He simply did what he did best and ran roughshod, dictated what was going to happen, how it was going to happen and when it was happening. By the end of the first night, she was sleeping in his bed, and he vowed to never let her go.

He’d be the first to admit, he was an emotionally stunted asshole. From the time he was born, his father and grandfather drilled into him boys don’t cry, never show fear to anyone, especially an enemy and love was a weakness their opposition would exploit in a moment. Tadgh was given the same speeches but not to the extent he was exposed to their views on being a man. He was the heir, the up-and-coming boss, Weak was not an option.

Looking at Egan he vowed he wouldn’t let his family bully Egan into being his emotional duplicate.

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