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“It’s family drama, Mia You’re not stupid You know about Gabriel I’ve told you about him before”

She began to pace the library, and she looked at hiure out exactly what the Dentons are, what you do” She stopped, and turned to hiht? You’re bigger than he is in the sches”

“The extent of e do, you don’t need to worry about You’re safe”

“You kill people?” she asked It was strange, but she wasn’t afraid Staring at Dae security detail, it all made a lot of sense Not to mention the security that she’d seen at the apartment “Please, Dalass Haven’t I proven that?”

“I’ve known you a week, and the stuff you’re asking, people have died for less” He stepped up to her, and she didn’t back away Dah “I want you to trust me I know that is a lot to take in, but I will tell you everything when you’re ready You’re not ready right now When you’re withhis hands on you I need you to help me with Martha, and I know that is a lot to ask—”

She held her hands up “I’ anywhere You don’t scare me, Damian I just … I like to know the truth” She pushed solanced around the library Just a short week she had known Da care of Martha It had been one of the easiest weeks of her life There had been no fear of Ivan or his goons stopping by for a visit, or watching as he held Reese, terrified that he was going to take her son away from her

A couple of times in the past month Ivan would turn up, and he’d pick Reese up, and start walking toward the door She would panic and beg hih, and re for the ly, and her submission would be so much the sweeter for it

“Moued like that They have theirhappens that tends to ruin it,” Dauments, and many makeups”

She smiled “Sounds kind of crazy”

“They love each other I alorried that they didn’t, but the reason they continue to stay together is because there really isn’t anyone else for either of them They are both in love with the other”

Mia thought about Ruby and Oliver “It must be nice to love someone so much it wouldn’t matter what they did, you want to stick around to be with them Is it weird that one day I hope to have that?” She s that with you It’s crazy to think I could have anything like that”

“One day, Mia, you will have that I promise you” He then kissed her head, and she had noticed that he did that a lot, and she really enjoyed it when he did

Chapter Seven

Gabriel entered his family’s apartment, and was surprised to see how clean it was Ever since he’d talked with Da to talk to Wyatt and Owen Both of his brothers had been distant of late, and it had coe If the Dentons were under attack, sout told him he did have to look close to home

He had no intention of taking out the Dentons They were his fa to him It would be easy to tell them all to fuck off, and to hurt them from the inside, but he wanted to be part of their fa, and his mother had told him that he was someone special and to never turn out like his father Now he didn’t knohat to think