Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 83

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Genesis came out of the bathroom to find Tadgh staring at his phone with annoyance. He looked up as she stepped into the office. He grimaced at her apparel with a sneer.

“What?”

“My men need bullets.” His gaze roved over her. “I said comfy sweats, but I didn’t think they’d bring you men’s clothing. You’re floating in those.”

She waved her arms, “this is not near as sexy as my cashmere sweater and jeans.”

“Well, the jeans were trashed but you could switch out oversized hoodie for the cashmere sweater and I’ll be happy and won’t comment on how it doesn’t match. Please?” he lifted his

eyebrows pleadingly. “It was so soft.”

“No,” she giggled “but will it make you feel better to know they didn’t bring me a bra and the other one was so gross.”

His gaze narrowed at her chest, “no bra?”

“No bra.”

“They’re forgiven.”

“I’m starving.” She commented as his tongue ran along his lips his eyes not lifting above her neck. “Tadgh!”

His eyes flicked upwards, “what? I’m dreaming of eating you up for dinner.”

She giggled. “I’m really hungry though, Tadgh. I need food.”

“Fine. I’ll feed you but I want you to feed me later.”

“What do you mean?”

He boldly reached out and tugged her towards him, his hand snaking under her top to stroke her ribcage. “I want to feast on you.”

“We will see.” She didn’t slap his hands away. “Feed me first. You mentioned food and song.”

“Let’s go.” He took her hand and started walking through the office and out of the building. Once they were outside, he draped his arm over her shoulder and hugged her to his side. Escorting her through the yard towards an outbuilding on the edge of the property, he smiled. “Are you nervous?”

“What makes you ask this?”

“You’re quiet and you keep looking at me sideways,” he smiled down at her as they entered the building.

“I never hated you. Not even a little bit. You,” he took his own shaky breath, “lit up the room the minute you stepped into it. I could feel your energy from the next room. When we were all in the house together, I knew where you were every single second of every single minute of every single day. I could smell you. I could hear you. I could feel you. It was as if you were right there, but I couldn’t touch you. It felt like torture and all the while you were the one being tortured.”

“You really never hated me.”

“I never hated you. I wasn’t even angry at you. I was mad at me. I was mad at Kiefer. I was jealous as fuck. All I ever felt was love for you and frustration you couldn’t see me.”

She swallowed nervously, “what if I did?”

“What? What if you did what?”

“What if I did see you?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, what if, the reason I kept things super light and never really talked or engaged with you was because I did see you.”

“I’m going to need you to elaborate,” he unwrapped his sandwich.

Genesis didn’t miss the way his fingers trembled on the plastic wrap. She took a breath as her own fingers dug to find the edge of the sticky wrap. “You and Kiefer look a lot alike, but I could tell you apart the minute we met. You were louder and more boisterous, but Kiefer was intense and quiet, and he had me in a quiet corner of the pub, but I saw you the first night Tadgh. You were always around. The thing is, the fun, wild guy I’d met the first night, disappeared after and I always wondered what I did to piss you off and I thought,” she pressed her lips together before exhaling noisily, “I thought maybe you knew.”

“I knew what?”