Page 62 of Knot So Broken

Her words are firm but I shake my head anyways.

“But you might when you know the truth.”

My strength isn’t enough to keep her close to me as she pushes off my chest. She looks down at me before looking at both Jax and Theo.

“What does he mean? What truth? What do you need to tell me?”

Her voice shakes but her face remains hard. Theo sighs as he grabs a blanket from the far end of the nest. He drapes it around

Kennedy’s shoulders to hide some of her nakedness. She doesn’t seem to notice though as she remains stock still.

“I’m sorry, Kennedy. You need to know that we had every intention of telling you the truth. It just didn’t have the chance to come up. I would have liked to have told you in a much different setting,” he says, glaring down at me for a moment before returning a soft look to Kennedy, “but I guess it's now or never.”

She nods once, allowing him to continue. She is eerily still and it scares me. Terrifies me even.

“Have you ever heard of the Duran Mafia?”

She nods again but only once. Her eyes squint slightly.

“The boss’s name is Victor Duran. Victor is my father.”

The entire room is quiet for a moment. I watch Kennedy intently as I try to find any kind of reaction in her, but I can’t. She's giving nothing away.

My stomach feels like it drops completely as she slides off my lap, now that my knot isn’t swollen inside of her. I kind of wish it still was. Only so she can’t run away from me again.

She wraps her blanket around her further, completely hiding her body from us while we all sit here like a bunch of naked idiots.

I’m sure I could come up with something more appropriate to call what the three of us are but I can’t think clearly. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Dread clouds my senses and all I can seem to think is that we are about to lose her.

“Okay, so what does that mean then?” she says after a moment that felt like it went for hours.

“That means, in a few years, my father will be handing the reins over to me and I will become the Don of the Duran Mafia.”

Kennedy’s eyes widen comically and if I didn’t feel like I was going to throw up, I might have laughed.

“Y...you are going to be the D...Don of the Mafia?” she stutters as she stares at him.

Theo looks sad as he nods before looking down at his hands.

“Ah, yeah.”

“Wow. Okay.”

We all stay silent as we allow for Kennedy to process the full news.

When I first found out about the darker side of Jax and Theo’s lives, I have to admit that I was a bit shocked too. It’s not everyday your best friends tell you that they are a part of the Mafia.

Yet now that I am all in with them and what this life offers, I wouldn’t change it for anything. I have found my family with these men. And now I have found my girl.

I watch as Kennedy processes the information. It's clearly a lot for her to deal with. It would be a lot to deal with for anyone. I hate that we have put so much on her shoulders in such a short amount of time. She deserves better than all of this.

After a while she sighs and nods, “Okay. Okay, this is a lot to process but okay.”

“Okay?” Theo asks.

“Okay.” She nods as though she is just resolved to her fate. I don’t know how I feel about that. I wanted more from her. Maybe some kind of yelling or crying. Even just her giving us the cold shoulder for a bit. But acceptance? It makes my skin itchy.

“Do you have any questions?”

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