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The little bitch has put me in the most uncomfortable situation ever. I cannot even begin to point out all the things that her petty meddling have done to me and will be costing my clan. If I weren’t firm on protecting Olivia, she would have been dead, and for fucking what?
A fucking bakery?
“You have to think,” her tone turns sharp again, “Ruth has her bakery in the Braga territory.”
“Bratva,” I correct her, and she hisses at me.
“That’s not the point,” she shrieks. “The point is, they are capable of getting her to do whatever they want her to do,” she throws her hands in the air, “You said it yourself that your world is dangerous, right?”
She has a point, but I hate it.
“You are too naïve,” I mumble, cussing under my breath because she is getting me to rethink what I would have done out of impulse.
“This is not about being naïve. I know her,” she clips.
“You think so? Did you know she’d be capable of killing anyone?”
“Let me talk to her…”
“No,” I stand, “No, fucking, no,” I shake my head at that, “You are not going anywhere near that…”
“Ronan,” she is behind me now, and she does the one thing I wasn’t expecting. She circles her arms around me from behind and drops the side of her face on my back. The action wrings me dry of any more strength to keep arguing with her. “Just let me talk to her, I’m sure we can get more answers. It can’t just be her alone, and we need the person behind the wheel.”
I sigh.
She has always had a way of making me see things more clearly. I am way too impulsive when she’s not around to ground me. It’s like my brain blacks out from the fury I cannot seem to be able to hold back.
Now that I think about it, I wonder what she will think of me when she finds out about the things I’ve done on impulse all these years without her in the picture.
“Fine,” I breathe. “But I’m coming with you,” I pin.
I feel her nod against my back. “Thank you,” she presses a kiss on my back. “Thank you for listening.”
I nod, then gradually turn to her, and she presses her face on my chest.
I wrap my arms around her, not wanting to tell her yet that I was given an ultimatum for this.
I will let her try this first.
Chapter Seventeen
RONAN
Day 6
I’m running out of time.
I put out my cigarette, not that the damn thing can do much to help tamp the edginess weaving around my spine, but it was a distraction during the drive down here.
I stare at the door of the elevator at the Ferreri estate, hating that I’m doing this for the reasons I’m doing it.
Coming down here because Cesare lost his daughter and I want to solicit for the woman I care about and want to protect with everything inside of me, isn’t something I had ever imagined.
I step away from the elevator door and pull my phone from the back pocket of my jeans to dial Liam’s number.
“Liam,” I husk into the phone, then clear my throat.
“If you can make calls, it must mean that you are not with Cesare yet,” I hear some liquid pouring into a glass or something in the background, then a voice of a lady saying something in a foreign language that I can’t make out.
