I prayed for my little one’s security.

I prayed for Callum to rescue us.

I prayed for forgiveness for permitting my little one to be put at risk.

At Carmine’s harsh kick, I groaned as my breath was sucked from my physique. Ache, like I had by no means identified, ricocheted via me. As darkness threatened to comb me beneath. I fought to maintain my eyes open. I knew as soon as I used to be unconscious, there could be no saving my unborn little one.

Simply after I thought I couldn’t maintain on a second longer, an explosion detonated from the far wall. Time appeared to crawl to a standstill as particles rained down. Smoke crammed the air as Carmine deserted me to attract his gun out of his jacket. He and my father moved ahead to cover behind a couple of bins.

As my imaginative and prescient clouded, I desperately peered into the smoke. On the emergence of males, my coronary heart surged. It was Callum and his brothers.

I used to be secure.

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Caterina

My eyelids fluttered for a number of moments earlier than I may lastly open them. As I stared up on the tilled ceiling, I spotted I wasn’t inside the confines of my four-poster mattress at residence. I used to be in a hospital.

A deep voice startled me. “Kitten, are you awake?”

After I turned my head on the pillow, I met Callum’s involved stare. Anguish lined his good-looking face. His darkish hair was unkempt like he’d been working his fingers via it. “Hey, my love,” he croaked in a pained voice.

As I furrowed my brows, I desperately tried processing why I’d be within the hospital. Foggy wisps of recollections swirled in my thoughts. A half-naked girl on Callum’s lap. Working out of a membership into the road. Being hit on the pinnacle. Waking up tied to a chair.

When Carmine’s merciless, sneering face appeared in my thoughts, a shudder ran via my physique. “Oh God,” I murmured.

Callum leaned ahead to take my hand in his. “It’s okay. You’re okay.”

I’m okay. Thank God. However reduction was quick lived since my agony hadn’t simply been about me. A sob choked off in my throat. “The infant?”

A beaming smile lit up Callum’s good-looking face. “She’s fantastic.”

“S-She?” My breath hitched in my chest. “It’s a lady?”

With a nod, Callum replied, “To make sure the being pregnant was nonetheless viable, they did a number of testing. One of many exams revealed the gender.”

“So quickly?” I questioned incredulously.

“Aye. They’ve one now that detects at six weeks. One thing about on the lookout for male chromosomes within the DNA to point out up, and when it does or doesn’t, you realize what it’s.” He kissed my fingers earlier than staring up at me with such adoration that my chest tightened. “Apparently, our daughter already takes after her mom with how robust she is.”

Tears spilled over my cheeks. “She’s undoubtedly cussed like me.”

He grinned. “Extraordinarily. I’m certain the 2 of you’ll torture me endlessly.”

I hiccuped amusing. “Are you disillusioned it’s not a boy to hold on the title?”

Callum frowned. “Fuck no.”

“However you want an inheritor,” I protested.

“And I’m having one.”

“She will be able to’t take over the household.”

A depraved gleam burned in Callum’s child blues. “Who’s to say we received’t give her a brother or two? Contemplating how fertile we appear to be, I don’t suppose it will likely be an issue.”

I rolled my eyes. “Should you suppose you’re going to maintain me knocked up till you get a son, you’re loopy.”

“I’ve bought two extra probabilities, proper?”

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