Page 196 of Mafia Billionaire's Surprise Baby

I hear the gun go off. I wait for it to shatter my world.

Nothing happens.

Cautiously, I lift my head.

The guys on the ATVs aren’t shooting at us.

They’re shooting at the guards, racing down the trail at us.

Who the hell…?

One of the riders pulls his helmet off. He looks straight at us.

My ears ring.

My eyes feel like they can’t focus on anything. There’s something surreal about this.

Because the man in front of me, beautiful and bloody, his eyes staring into mine.

That man is Sal De Luca.

He came for me.

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The guards were never expecting us.

That much is absolutely clear.

We wipe them out in about ten seconds. I hate to admit it, but Liam’s plan isn’t a terrible one.

And it fucking worked.

What none of us expected, however, is to see two women hop out of an extremely beat up Ford F-150.

One of whom is the woman that I love more than anything in the world.

Gia.

She looks terrifyingly thin.

God. Has she been eating? What the fuck has the Irish fuck been trying to feed her? I’m about to round on him to yell at him, but I can’t tear my gaze away from her.

I hear Liam dismount his ATV, and Elio follows.

“Gia,” Elio calls. “Are you hurt?”

She snaps back in Italian. She says she’s okay. She’s not hurt. She’s fine and she would appreciate not being treated like a child.

All I can do is watch her perfect lips wrap around each word.

I want to run to her so badly. I want to gather her in my arms. I want to kiss her and make sure that she never, ever has to worry about anything ever again.

The whole world feels frozen around us.

Until gunshots once again break out, and we hear shouting coming up the road.