“He did.”

Uncle Leo curses below his breath earlier than hissing, “That is an absolute shit present, Dante. Which physician are we alleged to imagine right here?”

Three destructive assessments with one physician and a single constructive with one other. Except I by some means grew to become magically fertile in lower than a yr, somebody’s mendacity, and my cash is on the primary physician. Seeing as how I’ve no doubts now that Liam is my son.

“Carry me that first physician, Leo, and we’ll discover out,” Dad orders his brother, his mood slipping a fraction.

“Take into account it carried out.”

Dad heaves a deep sigh earlier than he reaches for a manila folder and holds it out to me. “Rose’s background examine.”

I snatch it from his hand instantly. “There was no want for a background examine.”

Dad huffs, settling again in his seat together with his arms crossed over his chest. “You have to be joking. A lady you fucked virtually a yr in the past claims her son is yours after you discovered her at a human public sale. Did you actually suppose I wouldn’t examine her?”

I chew my tongue, holding again my retort as a result of it ought to have been the very first thing I did, however I can barely suppose logically in the case of Rose. Although his choice rubs me improper in a dozen alternative ways, I do know he means properly and is simply searching for the household.

I thumb by way of the few paperwork inside. It’s the usual gadgets; a credit score examine, felony report, her training information, and her employment historical past. Nothing alarming jumps out at me as I skim the main points. She graduated with a level in artistic writing from the College of London earlier than shifting to Italy, the place she owns a home outdoors of Venice. A number of medical stories of visits to an OB-GYN clinic in Italy are included, together with Liam’s delivery certificates dated a bit over six weeks in the past. My eye twitches on the empty house listed for father. A mistake I’ll must appropriate instantly.

I transfer on to the household information and frown on the lack of awareness. Her dad and mom died in a automobile accident when she was younger. She spent the years afterward residing with a household good friend earlier than going off to school. No siblings or prolonged household to talk of. She’s fully on her personal.

On paper, Rose Bennett is a stunning twenty-four-year-old lady from England…with no familial ties to a Mafia household.

Now I perceive why the temper is so miserable on this rattling home.

I shut the report, toss it again on the desk, and sit again. “This modifications nothing for me.”

“It modifications the whole lot,” Dad argues, figuring out precisely the place my thoughts is.

“The boy is mine, Dad. I do know he’s.” I soften my tone, hoping it should soothe among the anger within the room and speak sense into my previous man. “He has my eyes.”

Shock flashes throughout his face on the information. He leans ahead and rubs his temples like he has a rising headache. “A paternity check will nonetheless must be carried out.”

I resist the urge to roll my eyes. “It’s pointless. However fantastic.”

“So what now?” Dominic asks within the silence that follows.

“There’s the wedding regulation to contemplate,” his father solutions.

“What about it? It simply states the chief of the Excessive Desk must be married and produce an inheritor inside three years—”

“With a member of one other Mafia household,” Raphael reminds our cousin of the small element typically ignored as a result of it’s by no means been a priority.

In response to the regulation, if I had been to marry Rose, I may by no means reclaim my place as a result of she’s not associated to a Mafia household. However I can’t convey myself to care. I can’t flip my again on Rose and our son due to a silly regulation that solely the chief of the Excessive Desk has to observe.

“Are you critical? You’re actually going to implement that silly a part of the regulation?” Dominic asks.

“It’s there to guard the ruling household, son,” Uncle Leo says.

Dominic snorts, throwing his father a heated look. “That regulation is there to maintain management over bloodlines in a world that now not wants it.”

“Sufficient.” Dad slams his fist on the desk, breaking the rising pressure between his brother and nephew.

I meet my dad’s gaze with steely eyes. “Dominic is correct, Dad. The regulation is outdated. I perceive the reasoning behind it, I do, however certainly it’s essential to perceive the will to marry for love.”

“I cherished your delivery mom.”

“I do know you probably did.” I pause. “However not in the identical means that you simply love Alice.”

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