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“Session saved,” Cain said

“Send it to Ethan, then call my father”

“Session sent Calling Declan Callahan”

I listened to it ring twice before he answered, “Hi Melon; yourabout you”

“Daddy…” I spun around in , “You’re in trouble”

“Story of my life,” he snickered “What have I done now?”

“Gabriel?”

He didn’t reply

“Sweetheart?” My mother came on the line

“Did Dad just palm me off to you—?”

“Forget about that How’s Gabriel? Does Donatella like him?”

These people had no shame “Well, she sent six men to kill him”

“You ladies are dead-set on being alone, aren’t you?”

I stopped spinning at that and sat up “Mother, there better not be any randoed—”

“I’d kill hiround