Page 62 of Killer Love

“You went there to talk to Gio. To get his help,” he continues, his voice growing louder. “Not to take his wife and kidnap his child.”

“The child is mine.”

Nikolai falls silent and looks at me, the sheer force of it nearly knocking me off my toes. He spins around and puts several angry paces between us.

Nina steps forward, her eyes full of shock. “This boy is my grandchild?” she asks.

“Yes,” Luka answers.

“Are you sure?”

“Just look at him, Ma.”

She moves slowly closer to me, her eyes fixed on Lucian the whole time. I shift my arm and he raises his head with curiosity as Nina studies his face.

“My god…” she whispers, blinking once.

“Gio found out,” Luka explains. “Then, he killed Rosalie and went after Sofia. I stopped him.”

“You stopped him?” Nikolai spits. “And I suppose he let you leave peacefully with them after that?”

“Not exactly.”

Nikolai grits his teeth, flexing his jaw in anger as he shifts back and forth on his feet. He looks behind us at Fox. “And who the hell are you?”

Fox hesitates and scratches once at the scar on his cheek. “I helped.”

Luka takes a deep breath. “Pops—”

Nikolai holds up his hand. “Luka, I don’t—”

“There’s more.”

He freezes and his jaw sags. “There’s more?”

Nina lays a hand on my shoulder. “Come with me, Sofia,” she says. “Let’s get you some clean clothes.”

“Nina—”

“Niko,” she counters, firing a hard look at her husband. “She’s been through enough.”

He backs down, staring at me for a quick second before nodding.

Nina looks up at Luka, hinting at him to release my hand, and we reluctantly let go of each other.

“It’s okay,” she says to me, smiling softly at Lucian. “Come on.”

We make it halfway down the hall before the shouting begins.

Chapter 20

Luka

“I need you to tell me, Luka…” my father says, his lips barely moving. “What the hell is wrong with you?”

I don’t answer. Doing so would only admit guilt in his eyes. I refuse to feel guilty about any of this.

He turns toward the windows. Yuri flinches. “Did you know about this?”

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