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I blink at her. I don’t feel a shred of remorse. She tried to kill me and my unborn children. She was going to pin the blame on Hayden and I can’t even begin to imagine the pain my husbands would have forced him to endure if she had succeeded.
Shane stands and wipes the spatters of Erin’s blood from his hand while Conor takes the gun from him.
“Fuck!” I hear Hayden whisper behind me.
“You’re definitely one of the family now, kid,” Mikey laughs. “Now we’ve beat you up and made you an accessory to murder.”
I turn and glare at him. “Mikey!”
“I’m just playing, Red.” He arches an eyebrow at me.
I turn my attention back to Shane who is staring at Erin’s lifeless body. I wrap my arms around him. “Are you okay?”
He slides his arms around my waist again, squeezing me tightly as he buries his face in my hair. “Yes, but I’ll feel a hell of a lot better once we get you upstairs and checked out properly, so let’s move.”
“What about me?” Hayden asks as he wipes the blood from his nose.
All four of my husbands look at me. “It’s your call,” Liam says with a sigh.
“Come upstairs and we’ll get you cleaned up. And then we can talk,” I say and Hayden nods, giving me a small grateful smile.
“She just saved your fucking life,” Liam snarls at him and Hayden flinches making Mikey chuckle.
“I’ll call someone to clean this up,” Conor says as he takes his cell out of his pocket and dials a number. He walks ahead, barking instructions to someone as I walk between Liam and Shane, each of them with an arm wrapped around my waist while Mikey walks with Hayden to the elevator.
Chapter 50
Jessie
Mikey takes Hayden to the bathroom to fetch the first aid kit and help him get cleaned up while Shane, Conor, Liam and I sit at the kitchen island.
“What the fuck are we going to do about that kid?” Shane asks with a sigh as he looks at the doorway. “He has seen and knows far too much.”
“I agree,” Liam says.
“You can’t kill him,” I warn them.
Shane rubs a hand over his jaw. “I know.”
“So what then?” Conor asks.
“Can you let me handle it?” I whisper.
The three of them look at me. They are used to making the decisions like this and ordinarily I have no problem with that, but like it or not, Hayden is my family.
Liam lets out a long slow breath and Conor shrugs his shoulders as they wait for Shane’s answer. He will always be the head of our family unit.
“Do what you think is best, Jessie,” Shane finally agrees and I throw my arms around his neck and kiss him on the lips.
“Thank you,” I whisper.
“Hey, we agreed too,” Conor says with a laugh and so I pull him and Liam to me too and wrap my arms around all three of them as far as I possibly can.
Hayden is cleaned up and has some butterfly bandages on the cut above his eye. He is wearing one of the twins’ t-shirts and it dwarfs him but at least it’s not covered in blood. He sits opposite me at the kitchen table while my husbands hover nearby but they at least give us the illusion of privacy.
“I’m so sorry, Jessie,” he says again.
“I know,” I reply, placing my hand over his because I do believe that. “You’re a good person, Hayden. You don’t belong in this world.”
