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Lifting my head, I study her face. “You’re serious? You would…you would leave him?”
“Eli worships your father, and, while I don’t know much about your friend…”
“Jordan.”
“Right. I don’t know anything about Jordan, but you obviously love him, so that’s all I need to know.”
“Thank you,” I tell her through the hiccups.
“Boss is coming up,” one of the guards informs us.
“Good,” Vanessa says on a heavy exhale. “Maybe we can talk some sense into him.”
“What if…what if it’s too late?” I ask her, clutching her arms.
“It’s not, honey. It’s not too late. I know your father. While he frequently loses his temper, he won’t ever do anything so…drastic without thinking it through,” Vanessa says. “Besides, he’s out of practice since Eli handles all his dirty work. Dante will hesitate. He will.” It sounds like she’s trying to convince herself.
Finally, I hear the ding of the elevator in the hallway. Vanessa and I are still on the floor when one of the guards opens the door for my father.
And he’s not alone.
I crumble in relief, tears still pouring down my face when I see theirs.
Eli, face bloodied, reaches me first. He hauls me off the floor and I wind my arms around his neck, my legs wrap around his waist. “You’re okay?”
“I’m great,” he says just as Jordan comes up behind him. Thank god there’s not a drop of blood on his body that’s still mostly naked. Eli may have lied to my father, but Jordan never did anything to deserve his wrath.
Clutching my face between his hands, Jordan kisses me, slow and deep, as if we have all the time in the world.
“Jesus,” my father huffs. “Don’t make me change my mind. And put some fucking clothes on that boy!” he hollers as his footsteps fade down the hall as he heads for his office.
“Thank you, Daddy!” I pull my lips away from Jordan’s to yell back to him.
“I’m so proud of you,” I hear Vanessa say as she follows him.
“Yeah, yeah. They’re all grown up. I get it, even if I don’t fucking like it. Don’t ever threaten to leave me again, butterfly,” he says to her.
“Don’t be a dummy, and I won’t have to,” she says just before the office door slams shut.
I kiss Eli once they’re gone, only for someone to clear their throat behind us.
“Thanks for the show. Glad nobody died,” Cass remarks, and I actually believe her. “But take your horny asses to your room before I barf all over the floor.”
Laughing, Eli carries me to the stairs, Jordan right behind us.
While I never would’ve imagined feeling safe and happy in Eli’s arms a year ago, now, there’s nowhere else I would rather be. Well, except Jordan’s arms at the same time.
“I can’t wait to try every possible threesome position in the world,” Jordan remarks as if reading my mind.
“We’ve got hours to try a few,” Eli agrees. “But then we have to get ready for a family dinner at seven.”
“Dinner?” I repeat in surprise, pulling back to scan his face. “I was ready to rip my heart out thinking you both were dead and instead we’re just going to go fuck before having dinner with my father?”
“Not just any dinner,” Jordan says as he follows us up the last flight of stairs. “It’s a welcome to the family dinner. Your dad invited your other sister and her husband over too.”
“That’s right,” Eli agrees. “All nine of us together—one big happy fucked-up mafia family.”
“That’s…wow,” I mutter, at a loss for words. “And you’re both staying in my room with me tonight?”
