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“I’m fine,” I murmured to Aiden, ignoring our mother.
She was just too dumb and self-absorbed to see that Cassio King wanted Áine all along. Not me. It was plain as day.
Of course, I never voiced that because I had no proof, but I’d bet all the money that I currently didn’t have that I was a diversion.
My mother put an indefinite block on all my accounts. So not only was I pregnant, I was also broke. I could say something to Aiden, but things were already tense.
I had to fight my own battles. Especially with that witch.
What fucking bullshit!
My heart tightened and tears burned the back of my eyes. These hormones were a killer. Everything made me cry. Good news. Bad news. No news.
“Margaret, are you listening?” she repeated, screeching loud, like a goddamn witch. A headache slowly formed behind my eyelids.
I shrugged. “No, I stopped listening at the part where you said the groom is dead.”
“This whole marriage bullshit has to come to a stop,” Aiden growled, glaring at our mother.
“Callahan demands it,” she spat out, a little too gleefully. “What? You think she has a choice?” she snickered. “I didn’t have a choice and neither does she. She will be dragged to that island, even if I have to drag her myself.”
Ignoring her, I shifted, readying to get up.
“Let me clean this up,” I rasped.
“Don’t worry about it,” he cut me off, then helped me to my feet. “I got it.”
“But–”
“Leave it to me, Margaret.” He ran a gentle hand over my hair, but anger raged in his eyes. Blue electric flames. “Go to your room and get some rest.”
For the first time in years, I listened without any come back.
I should have known it’d alarmed my oldest brother.
ChapterNine
LUCA
Margaret was fast asleep, the window cracked, letting in a breeze.
The sheer curtain rustled back and forth. The glow of the moon threw shadows over her face and my chest ached at the sight.
She was so fucking beautiful. Even when she scowled. But like this, with a serene expression and her lips slightly parted, her dark eyelashes resting against her pale cheeks, she was breathtaking.
She slept on her side, facing the window. One smooth thigh was outside of the covers and her pregnant belly stuck out. My fingers itched to touch it. I readWhat to Expect When Expectingfrom cover to cover, and I knew it would be around the sixth month that she’d feel the baby move.
Fuck, this was a clusterfuck.
Cassio fucked her over when he used her as a way to get Jack Callahan in the spot he wanted him so he could take Áine. And I, well, I just fucked her. I wanted to entrap her so she’d be mine.
Except, she couldn’t stand me and the whole plan somehow backfired.
The security at her mother’s place was just as lousy as it was twenty-three years ago. But then her mother purposely did that so she could have her lovers sneaking in and out without being noticed.
None of the Callahans knew I had security of my own on top of theirs. Breaking past their barriers was a piece of cake. Her brothers spent more time in their places in the city; otherwise they would have noticed there were two monitoring systems here.
But their loss was my gain.
