Caterina leaned over Julianna to kiss me. “Yes, we’re your spoiled and adored girls.” She tenderly ran her fingers through Julianna’s silky black curls. “I’m so thankful our daughter has you as a father.”

Her words shot straight to my heart. When I’d imagined loving a child, I’d never fathomed just how deep that love would be. I’d known the love of my brothers, my precious Maeve, and my rock of a mother. By the grace of God, I’d come to know the adoring love of my wife who amazed me each and every day with her capacity to love a miserable bastard like me.

But something long dormant and deep within me came alive the moment I locked eyes with my daughter. She lit a fire within me that I never imagined existed. In my world where we faced our mortality each and every day, she was a piece of my immortality. Through her, I would continue to live on long after I was gone.

Just like her mother, Julianna was everything good and pure that I wasn’t. Until I’d married Caterina, I hadn’t given a fuck about the men I killed or the crimes I committed. But something about her pure soul made me regret it…but not enough to stop the life I’d been born into.

Cocking my brows at Caterina, I countered, “I’m a cold-hearted killer.”

“Yes, you are.” She gave me a pointed stare. “But when it comes down to it, you have a loving and giving heart.”

“Whatever heart I have, it belongs to you and Julianna.”

She smiled up at me. “And we happily take it.”

Pulling her into my arms, I brought my lips to Caterina’s–my beautiful wife, my fiery Kitten, and the sweet wine that made the poison of the underworld worth living.

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