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“Trust me, this was not part of the plan.” I run my hands through my hair. “None of this was part of the plan.”
This is exactly the sort of thing I was afraid of.
I never should have crossed the line with Bianca. I knew better, and I did it anyway, and now the consequences are even greater.
The life of our child is at stake.
“A baby.” Dimitri holsters his own gun, moving to take the armchair beside me. “Fuck, this is…”
He leans back in the chair and runs his hands through his hair, his eyes wide.
“As if she didn’t already have a target on her back. If this gets out…” I can’t finish the thought.
“Alexei, for once can’t you take this for what it is?” Dimitri leans forward to rest his forearms on his knees. “It’s happy news, brat. You’re going to be a father!”
I screw my eyes shut as Ricci’s words ring in my ears.
“I know nothing about being a father.”
“Dad was around for the first two decades of our lives, so you know exactly what it takes. And then when he was gone, you stepped into his role and took care of this family. You took care of Mikhail and Danil. You took care of me. He would’ve been proud.”
Would he?
I shake the thought from my mind. This is exactly what Ricci wanted, to get into my head and have me start to question my family and their loyalty.
“I promised Emilio I would keep Bianca safe, not knock her up and give Gilanto even more ammunition to come after her.”
“Gilanto won’t find out.”
“We can’t trust anyone with this information, Dimitri. The fact that some random doctor knows has me on edge. If only she had told me, I could have brought someone in that I trusted.”
Dimitri shrugs. “We can pay him off.”
“No doubt he will sell the information to the highest bidder.”
“Then we just have to make sure that’s us. We have the resources to protect her, Alexei.”
“What if it’s not enough?” The thought has been plaguing my mind since I saw the ultrasound.
She’s carrying my child, a child that will be brought into a world filled with nothing but darkness, and I don’t know if I’ll be enough to protect them.
“What’s gotten into you?” Dimitri shakes his head. “This isn’t like you at all.”
I run my hands over my face and set them before me on the desk, wincing at the sight of the purple bruises on my knuckles.
I didn’t miss the flash of fear in Bianca’s eyes as I stormed into the doctor's office and she took in my bloody shirt.
She was scared of me.
Good. Perhaps now she’ll actually listen to me.
“She could’ve been taken…”
My chest tightens at the thought of what could’ve happened. Any one of Gilanto’s men could have intercepted her on the way to the doctors, and I wouldn’t have been able to get to her in time.
I would have lost her.
I screw my eyes shut as I try to ignore the images that flash through my mind.
