Page 94 of Blinded By Hate

Junior.

Hayden doesn’t answer me. Instead he moves and gets comfortable on the bed before pulling me on top of him so I’m sitting on his lap.

“We met at this fight that Kayden took me to a few months after we broke up. It was a special kind of club for very important and wealthy people. I met Rowan and after that he just started showing up more until he asked me to move to New York.”

“And Natalia and Chris followed you?”

Hayden shakes his head. “Not really. Chris got an offer for football so they were moving to New York anyways. I just followed Rowan.”

“Are you guys close?”

“Yea.” Hayden nods his head. “He is great. I definitely want you to meet him,” Hayden says as he runs his hand down my hip and rests it there. “He told me a lot about our dad and how he wasn’t the best person.”

Hayden told me his mother was a drug addict and he doesn’t care about her or the memories that include her.

He always wondered how his dad was.

“Why’s that?”

“Because he was a bad guy. He was affiliated with the mafia.”

The mafia.

I always knew that the mafia was a thing but I didn’t think they were still active or that I would ever know if they were actually real or not.

“The mafia is real?” I ask, looking up at Hayden.

He nods his head. “Yea.” He is silent for a few beats before he says, “I’m working for the Italian one.”

He’s working for the Italian one.

He is in the Italian mafia.

Hayden, the guy who is currently holding onto me and running his hand up and down my hip, is a part of a group that kills and tortures people and God knows what else.

I don’t know how to react because for some reason I just can’t believe him.

All I can think about is Junior.

How will this affect him?

Junior is the only concern that comes to mind.

“Say something,” Hayden whispers and kisses my forehead. “I hate when you’re quiet.”

I shake my head lightly. “I don’t know what to say. That’s a lot to process, Hayden.”

“I know, I just need to know what you’re thinking.”

Junior.

Junior.

Junior.

Junior.

That’s all I can think about but I can’t say it to Hayden.

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