Page 129 of Mafia Billionaire's Surprise Baby

“If I have nine months of this left, I’m going to turn into a stick,” I mutter.

“What was that?”

Oh. Fuck.

I keep forgetting that I’m not only not alone, but I’m alone with someone who has an Irish accent. Someone with an Irish accent, who hired a group of someone’s to take me down. Someone that I was fairly surprised to see, as the last I checked… he was dead.

However, I’m hardly one to speak about people being dead or alive so….

“Now. What was that about nine months?”

My heart is in my chest, and I can’t believe that I said that out loud. I can’t believe it because even for me, it doesn’t seem true.

Nine months.

Then there will be another whole person to hang out with. Another person to worry about. Someone else that I will need to keep track of…

And I managed to get myself kidnapped.

On a fucking boat.

By the Irish.

I’m going to be sick again.

“Nothin’ to say to that, then?”

I manage to screw my eyes open. Sighing, I shut them again. My heart sinks, but I know exactly what I saw.

It’s him.

I lick my lips and manage to whisper, “Aren’t you dead?”

The voice chuckles. “No, unfortunately. I’m not dead, even a little bit.”

“Fuck.”

“Aye well. That’s the way of it then.”

We didn’t kill him. The leader of the Irish gang. Kieran MacAntyre. Because he’s alive and kicking, and apparently gave me a barf bucket.

I roll over, grabbing the plastic. There’s nothing left in my stomach, but I cough up everything I have anyway.

Kieran is back from the dead. And since Elio killed him the first time…

It’s going to be a hell of a lot harder to make it stick now.

* * *

I’m sick for hours. Kieran sits there the whole time, making the occasional snarky comment, barking orders either in Gaelic or heavily accented English to his crew. He’s weirdly patient, which, considering that he’s kind of a raving sociopath, is interesting.

And by interesting, I mean it’s terrifying.

No one is this patient unless they want something. He needs me, obviously, but if Caterina’s time with him is any indication, he doesn’t want me for my jokes.

He wants to get revenge on Elio.

Kieran was, apparently, Caterina’s original arranged husband. Prior to the deal that my dad made with her dad, she was supposed to marry Kieran. Obviously, she didn’t do that, but still.