Total pages in book: 100
Estimated words: 123922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 123922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
“You told me you haven’t had sex in six months. You said the girl who came from your room three months ago fell asleep before any fucking could happen. You lying jackass!” Nico said as he jumped on Kane’s back.
I jumped back and laughed when Ryder socked Kane in the stomach. “You told me you didn’t like Aideen in that way. You fucking bullshitter.”
Alec then tripped him up and laughed as Kane fell and took Nico down with him. “And you told me that you didn’t like her at all. You fucking liar!”
I snorted as each of the brothers called Kane out on his pile of lies by piling on top of him.
They only got off him when he tapped his hand on the floor in submission to their attack. He stayed on the floor, groaned in pain, and yelped like a little girl when Alec kicked his leg.
“That’s not necessary!” he snapped but made no move to get up off the floor.
Alec stuck his middle finger up. “You lied to us so you deserve all the hits you get and you’ll take them like a man or we’ll beat the shit out of you.”
I shook my head.
Brothers.
“You won’t hurt him,” I intervened, “because he is still ill, remember?”
Kane got up to his feet and moved over to me where he stood behind me. “Yeah, I have diabetes, you bastards.”
“He is smiling, Ado,” Nico growled. “He is just using his diabetes as an excuse to get out of an ass whooping for lying to us.”
I gasped and turned, “You wouldn’t!”
Kane held up his hands as he looked down at me. “Of course, I wouldn’t. You think I’d make a joke out of my diabetes? Aideen, it’s not something you play around with. It’s very serious.”
Exactly.
“You’re right, sorry.” I turned around and glared at the brothers. “Diabetes isn’t a joke.”
“Yeah,” Kane said from behind me.
Alec growled, “He is sticking his finger up at us right now.”
Kane placed his hands on my shoulders. “They’re lying; you can’t trust them, Aideen.”
I groaned, “I haven’t even had me child yet and already I’m separatin’ the good child from the bad ones.”
Nico gasped, “If one of us is the good one, it’s me or Damien—Kane is a bastard.”
“Hey!” I snapped. “No name callin’.”
Branna burst into laughter. “And so it begins.”
I groaned and placed my face in my hands and ignored everyone when they started laughing at me. Kane wrapped his arms around my chest from behind and pressed his head into mine. The bastard was laughing too.
I was fighting off a smile when he turned me in his arms and leaned down pressing his forehead against mine. “This means we have to start liking each other... at least enough not to kill the other person anyway.”
I snorted, “You better get very good at not pissin’ me off then.”
Kane snorted and pulled me into his chest. He slid his arms down to my arms and rested his head on mine. I put my arms around his and hugged him back, which was weird as hell. I never hugged Kane.
Ever.
That was kind of sad considering I had sex with him, yet I’d never hugged him.
“Have you ever seen them so civil?” I heard Keela murmur to everyone.
“Nope,” Ryder replied back. “Twenty euros it only lasts till morning.”
“Hey,” I said and pulled back from Kane and turned to face my family, “don’t jinx this. This is a rare event.”
Everyone chuckled.
“Okay, so you and Kane are havin’ a baby. Do your brothers know?” Bronagh asked me.
My good mood was instantly squashed. I surprisingly didn’t think of telling my family about the baby... and I wished Bronagh had never brought them up.
I shook my head and groaned out loud, “I don’t want to think about tellin’ them.”
Branna widened her eyes. “Your brothers don’t know... Does your da know?”
I winced. “No... I was hopin’ I wouldn’t have to tell any of them either.”
Kane came to my side and frowned. “Why not? You’re twenty-eight.”
I said nothing so Branna filled him in for me. “Being pregnant isn’t the problem; it’s who her baby daddy is that will be the problem.”
“Why would they have a problem with me? They don’t even know me,” Kane asked, his tone confused.
Keela snorted and said, “That’s not exactly true.”
All the brothers looked at Keela and in unison they said, “Explain.”
Keela looked at me for permission and I shrugged my shoulders. “Go ahead, they’ll find out sooner or later.”
“A year or so after Nico and Bronagh started datin’, at one of Nico’s fights in some club in town, Aideen’s eldest brother beat the shite out of Ryder for accidentally knocking a drink out of his hand. You three proceeded to beat the shite out of him and his brothers which had to be broken up by her da, who tagged along to watch the fight. Her family is really into UFC.”
Kane snapped his head my way. “Your older brothers are James, Harley, and Dante Collins?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Yep.”
All the brothers glared at their girlfriends.
“Why did you never mention that?” Nico snapped at Bronagh.
Bronagh shrugged. “After they almost bested you four that night, you told us never to talk about them or even mention the fight again, so we didn’t. What good would it have done to know we were friends with the sister of the brothers you hate?”
Kane put his face in his hands and groaned.
I placed a hand on his shoulder. “It won’t be that bad.”
“Yeah, it will,” Nico sighed and shook his head. “If your brothers don’t kill him for getting you pregnant, your dad will.”
“Are you okay?” Kane asked me the next morning as I sat in the passenger seat of his car.
Was I okay?
I was on my way to tell my father and brothers that I was pregnant and that the baby’s father belonged to a group of brothers they hated with a passion.
Why would I be okay with any of that?
I gently shook my head. “I was up all night thinkin’ about this and I’m pretty sure I’m currently havin’ a silent panic attack. Outside I’m calm, but inside I’m freakin’ the fuck out.”