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“You’d kill me?” Antonio challenges.
“I’d kill anyone if it came down to it for her,” Gilly says without missing a beat. My eyes fill with tears. My brother releases his hold on Gilly, but neither of them move. I do. I wrap myself around Gilly’s arm.
“Maybe he should have come to you first, but I needed–”
“Him to pick you,” my brother finishes for me. “I’d say welcome to the family, but you’re already family.” he smirks. The tension bleeds out of the room.
“You jerk.” I shove at my brother’s chest. He actually takes a step back.
“Ribelle.” Gilly tucks me into his side so I can’t go for my brother again.
“Rebel? It’s actually a good name for her.” My brother keeps on smirking.
“He didn’t give it to me. He just said it in Italian.” Which actually makes it sound really hot. Not that I’m going to tell my brother that.
“That the name your little bandits call you?” Now the smirk drops from my brother's face.
“Little bandits? Really?” He did not just call us that. “I’ll have you know we blew up Falco’s whole warehouse.”
“As I’ve heard. You really are going to have your hands full, Gilly.” My brother walks around behind his desk to sit down.
“Don’t,” Gilly says to me before I can say what Gilly will have his hands full of. I bite the inside of my cheek to keep my mouth shut. Gilly drops a kiss on the top of my head, and I find myself relaxing.
“You think I didn’t know about this?” My brother motions toward us.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Angelica huffs from the doorway. “You’re keeping secrets from me.”
“Come here.” He pushes his chair back.
“Don’t boss me around,” she says but goes to him.
“They needed to play their game without us interfering.” He pulls her into his lap.
“So everything is okay?” Bianca's soft voice drifts through the office. She stands tentatively outside. Butcher walks over and grabs her hand, pulling her into the room.
“Game?” Seriously?
My brother shrugs. “Angelica has been wanting to plan a party anyhow. So I played along withyourgame.” He gives me a pointed look. “As you said. He picked you.”
“As he should.” Angelica cuts in.
“Yes,” my brother says in agreement with his wife. “But your other little games are another story.”
“That warehouse needed to go. I might not have gone about it in the smoothest of ways, but I don’t regret it. I got the job done.”
“You did, but your action was impulsive, foolhardy. Now you have a target on you, and we’re going to have to deal with it.” Antonio glowers. “Harshly.”
Gilly shifts to stand behind me, wrapping his arm around me, my back pressing into his chest. My brother lets out a long sigh, knowing where I get my impulsiveness from.
Him.
21
GILLY
“We can’t spend all day in bed.” Carina kisses my chest, her soft lips like whispers against my skin.
“We can.” I run my fingers through her hair, then roll over, pinning her beneath me.
