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But that didn’t make them a match for a Belladonna.
Especially a hungry, angry Belladonna who was looking forward to lunch.
I didn’t run away. Instead, I grabbed the door handle and used it to help propel me as I jumped into the van with the three thugs who were trying to kidnap me.
“What’s up, gentleman?” I asked, already moving toward one of them to slash their throats open.
The next second, I registered the golden blonde hair of my target, and I paused, the blade a whisper away from his throat.
Dominic’s bright blue eyes met mine. He grinned as if he’d missed me, even though I’d just come very close to severing an artery that he was probably quite attached to.
Rocky almost knocked me over, and I put my arm around her to pet her, realizing that the dog changed the game.
I might consider killing my exes. But I would never shoot the dog.
“What are you doing?” I asked harshly. “Did you really try to kidnap me?”
“For old time’s sake, little bird,” Dominic said defensively.
“You cannot kidnap someone in a nostalgic way!” I told him. “There’s nothing romantic about kidnapping!”
“It can be a little bit romantic,” Xander disagreed behind me, and the sound of his voice sent a surge of emotion rising through my chest.
These men were psychos.
I missed them.
I didn’t put the knife away. A little stabby stab was still on the table depending on how they acted.
“You’ve been back with the Belladonnas for a month,” Aiden said. When I turned to find him, I drew my gun. His dark eyes locked on mine, and he didn’t even seem to notice the weapon. “Are you ready to come home?”
“Are you ready to kill me for murdering your father?”
Aiden frowned. “Your second chance at completing the mission was always the deal. Whatwasn’t the deal was you sneaking out of my house to do it and not saying goodbye.”
“You loved your father.”
“Yes. And yes, I’m mourning him. In my own way. But… it doesn’t change the kind of man he was.”
Xander stepped forward as if he couldn’t resist touching me and took my hand. “And it doesn’t change what you are to us.”
“I don’t understand how we make this work,” I said. “We're certainly all criminals, we’re all on the wrong side of the law, but I’ve been trying to make the world a better place. In my own way.”
“With our money and connections we could expand in a new direction,” Aiden said. “You don’t have to just kill bad guys for the Belladonnas.”
I felt an unexpected smile to them cross my lips. I was pretty good at reading people, and Aiden meant what he was saying. “You want to kill some criminals with me?”
“I love you so much, I would want to watch Little Women with you. Forget killing some people.” Xander said, and I laughed.
Dominic caught me around the waist, and this time, I didn’t take it as an attack. I let him pull me against his broad chest, and I relaxed into his warmth. I’d missed the way he touched me.
I beamed at them.
“All right, but you’re going to have to meet the girls. They’re the closest thing I have to a family.” I paused. “I mean, they are my family.”
“They’re not your only family,” Dominic said, his hands cupping my stomach, as if he was trying to feel for the baby inside.
EPILOGUE
