Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 53

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Dinner was full of lively chatter as Egan excitedly told his new Granddad all about the movie he’d watched with his father and uncle. Lorcan was giving the boy what appeared to be his undivided attention, but Genesis knew his thoughts were elsewhere.

Luckily for her, she was seated between Egan and Lorcan at the dinner table. Kiefer was sitting in his usual seat, at the head of the table and while he’d offered it to his father, Lorcan simply winked at her and said he’d rather sit next to the pretty lady than alone at the head. Tadgh and Jerren sat opposite them.

Tadgh’s eyes were suspiciously watching every move his father made and Kiefer’s hand was tight on his cutlery.

Lorcan’s hand however, despite the glowers of his two sons, remained firmly planted on Genesis’ thigh. She felt smug and nervous all at once. There was something deliciously sinful about playing the three of them off each other after all the hell she’d been through. Yet, the man sitting to her right was by far the scariest, manliest man she’d ever met, and she was married to Kiefer O’Reilly who once made a man piss himself simply by walking into a room,

“Granddad, when the bad guy in the movie used his powers to make the good guy fall from the building, I thought the good guy Was going to die.”

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“He didn’t?”

“Nah,” Egan sighed regretfully.

“You wanted the bad guy to win?” Lorcan laughed at Egan’s facial expression as his hand inched up higher on Genesis’s leg.

She moved her hand to stop him going higher and he caught it to pin it under his and laced their fingers together.

“The good guy was cool and he’s the good guy, but the bad guy was way smarter! He was a scientist, and he had all kinds of cool gadgets and things, and he was even stronger. The good guy only got his powers because of aliens, not because he’s smart or

worked hard.”

Lorcan was eying him carefully. “Tell me more, Egan.”

Kiefer who cleared his throat and Genesis shot him a curious

look.

“Egan told us today when we were watching the movie about how his mother told him sometimes the best people in the world do really terrible things because they feel they have no other choice. She apparently taught him not to judge everyone the same way and to examine their situations carefully. He said it made him look at the villains in the movies in a different way. Do you follow the advice you gave your son, Genesis?” Kiefer

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lifted a piece of steak to his lips, “do you examine situations carefully.” His eyes pointedly went to where her lower body was hidden behind the table.

She gave a shrug, “I simply taught my son, not all situations are black and white. For example, where we lived in Canada, it was a lovely place in a nice neighbourhood but fifteen minutes in another direction was full of low income and poverty-stricken people. We’d stopped in at a store for milk one evening on our way home but couldn’t go in because the police were there since someone robbed it. Egan expressed it was bad how someone robbed the store. I merely pointed out while the person who did the robbery could very well be a very evil and horrible person,” she gave a heated glare at Kiefer who lifted his eyebrows in disbelief, “sometimes people are driven to do things which they wouldn’t normally do out of necessity, hurt, fear or simply hunger. Not everything is black and white. Robbing a store simply because you want money and to terrorize surely shouldn’t be judged the same way as robbing a store because you have two children at home and you’re at risk for eviction because you were laid off from your job due to downsizing and the job market is shit and you’re a single parent and it feels like there is nothing left to do in the world to provide for your family. People get pushed in different directions all the time. Everyone has good in them. Everyone has the potential to be bad. You manage your business in life the way you need to if you want to survive.”

Borean squeezed her leg, “spoken like a woman pusheto the:01

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cusp a few times and I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

“Dad, really?” Tadgh gave a glare at his father’s arm.

“What? Gen, am I making you uncomfortable?”

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