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Don’t make me regret sending it
What if I said this photo makes me want to have your babies
Don’t tease me
I’m serious. And I’ve said no kids before thirty
I’ll send more
I grinned.
Please do
In that moment, I knew that I would risk anything and everything to keep Kellan in my life.
CHAPTER THIRTY: KELLAN
After talking to Mila the morning of Nick’s funeral, I tried explaining to tell her how the last two days had been a fucking soap opera of finding out that Nick’s murder was because Ava was actually the heir to a Greek mafia family. But then the afternoon merged from a soap opera to a thriller.
I thought after Nick’s funeral, I would be able to ask Mila to meet me in New York. But then a fucking madman kidnapped Dare’s daughter, Piper, from the cemetery. After a trade off where Ava took Piper’s place, we ended up in Philly to rescue her from the man who had killed her birth parents and wanted her family necklace because it held the key to a safety deposit box worth millions.
After he got Ava safely out, Dare hurried her to a waiting SUV. I hung back from the others who were ready to go to the airport and get back to Boston.
“Kellan? Hurry the fuck up,” Callum said.
“I think I'm going to stay.”
He froze. “Excuse me?”
“Yeah, I want to see what Leo is up to,” I replied as I caught up to him.
Crossing his arms over his chest, Callum countered, “I’m sure the fact that Mila Korolova lives here has nothing to do with it.”
Fuck. Of course, he would realize my motive. “While I would like to check in on her, I’ll be staying with Leo.”
With a shake of his head, Callum said, “I heard through the grapevine that Dima is paralyzed from the airport shootout.”
“He is at the moment.” At Callum’s frown, I said, “It’s too early to tell if he’ll truly never walk again.”
“You’d only know that if you’d spoken to Mila.”
“You’re right. I have.”
Callum swept a hand over his face. “Do you have a fucking death wish?”
“Not particularly.”
“You’d have to if you want to pursue this woman.
“You know as well as I do that you can’t help who you fall in love with.”
“Love?” He shook his head. “You barely know her.”
“And you didn’t know Caterina when you put her in a wedding dress and slid a ring on her finger.”
With a menacing look, Callum jabbed his finger at me. “Don’t you dare bring me kidnapping Caterina into this!”
“I was alluding to the danger that faces us with the women we love. I mean, kidnapping her was dangerous. You ended up shot. Not to mention what we faced when we stormed the Neretti’swarehouse to get her back after her father kidnapped her. We could’ve been killed.”
