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An ease that I would disrupt if he kept pushing.
“No, Elias. I’m promising you that if you speak of Amethyst that way, I’ll forget you’re my brother,” I said.
“This is worse than I fucking thought,” he replied, shaking his head. “You love her.”
“I…”
“Don’t try to deny it, Davit,” he responded.
“It doesn’t matter what I feel. Just like it doesn’t matter what she feels. All that matters is the baby.”
“So why are you practically having a nervous breakdown?” Elias said.
“I’m not. And she—”
“She what, Davit?”
“She thought I was going to take the baby,” I said.
“It’s a good idea,” he said. “I didn’t suggest it because I know how fucking sensitive you are, but…”
I gaped at him, disbelief freezing me in place. “You think I could do that?”
“You? Fuck no,” he said. “But it would make things a hell of a lot less complicated.”
“No, it wouldn’t. Because he would suffer,” I said.
“You don’t think I know that? In case you forgot, I lost my mother too, brother. I’m just thinking practically. In a perfect world, the kid wouldn’t exist,” he said.
“Elias…” I said, my voice edged with warning.
“Don’t be so fucking sensitive. This isn’t what either of you wanted or planned. But shit seldom is. He’s here now, and that means you two are stuck with each other. Because as annoying as this bi—Amethyst,” he quickly corrected, “is, she is my nephew’s mother. So she’s a part of the family now.”
“But she thought I was going to take him. I didn’t even ask what she thought I was going to do with her,” I said.
“You said she was smart. That seems like the obvious conclusion, doesn’t it?”
“Why do you say that?” I asked.
“You hunted her down and dragged her across the world. One could reasonably conclude—”
“That I would deprive my child of his mother?”
“Davit, you infiltrated her life, killed her ex-boyfriend, blackmailed her… Held a gun to her head.”
“Those were…”
“Those were what? Some kind of mating ritual?”
“I…”
“You’re good with computers, but shit with people. You need to tell her how it’s going to be.”
“How is it going to be?” I asked.
“Obviously, you and she are going to be together and raise the baby.”
“Yes, obviously,” I said.
“But, Davit, you forget that she’s soft, a regular taxpaying civilian. She doesn’t know anything of our world and our ways. And, though she apparently understands how important family is to you, she doesn’t know that that now includes her, for better or worse.”
“So what should I do?” I asked.
“Obviously, you should tell her that, you dumb fuck,” Elias said.
“Why do you keep insulting me?”
“I’m talking to you about your lady problems when our father is about to get out of prison, and the entire European underworld is on the verge of war. Why am I insulting you, you ask?”
I laughed. “Fair point. I’ll take your words under advisement. Now, what are we going to do about Father?”
