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All trouble.
Darragh got several calls from his brothers with congratulations along with the warnings. We have to face the music in Astoria.
I have to face the trouble I’ve caused by leaving. By staging my kidnapping.
Darragh struts inside, and I hand him the baby.
After a kiss, he holds J.P., as we’ve been calling him, against his shoulder and starts the burping process.
“Did Sophie eat breakfast?” I ask.
“If a bowl of sausage stuffing counts as breakfast.” He lays a soft kiss on my lips.
We also have to come clean to Sophie that we’re a couple.
Signed divorce papers from Ginny came in the mail the day I gave birth. We’re free to get married. To be a family.
We also got word that Balor hacked my trust fund.
He and Eoghan are working on hiding it for me, but I insisted on them sending me a portion. I refuse to be helpless anymore.
“Such irony,” I coo. “I got knocked up by one O’Rourke, but I’ll be marrying another one.”
“Good thing there are seven of us. Men anyway.” He kisses my forehead. “Wait. Is that your way of agreeing to marry me?”
“I guess I am.” I look up into his green eyes. “I love you, Darragh. The moment you looked at me, I knew. Even though I tried to fight it.”
“You sure did.” Darragh smiles and kisses me again.
“And you’re sure you love me?” I ask him.
Darragh scoffs a laugh.
“The only person I love more is Sophie, and this little one.” He presses a kiss to J.P.’s forehead. “But without you, there’s no him and without you, there’s no me. There’s no life inside me without you by my side.”
“Darragh,” I choke out. “I still want to hear the words. No man has ever said them to me,” I whisper.
He doesn’t bother to ask if Cormac did, he knows his brother.
“I love you, Anastasia Koslov.” He bounces our son on his knee. “And all the trouble you come with. Bring it on. You’re worth it, Mama.”
As he bends to kiss me again, doors slamming out on the street prick both our ears. The quick slap of fiberglass is a sound we both know.
And fear…
“Daddy!” Sophie calls out from downstairs, alarm in her voice.
“Yeah, Soph?” Darragh spins around to leave the nursery.
“Daddy, look out the window!”
I move to the sill and push the curtain away.
My heart stops, seeing several black Escalades idling on the street. “Darragh!”
He joins me at the window. “Oh, shit.”
“Please tell me that’s your family surprising us.” My sister knows I’m alive and where I am, but I haven’t been able to speak to her.
