We get out of the car and I wrap my arm around Heather to keep her close to me. Killian comes up on the other side of her, and guards surround us. I watch Carter as the guard informs us that they will be patting us down.
Heather breaks free from me and immediately goes to my brother.
“Focus on me.”
Carter swallows hard and nods. He places his hands on the side of the vehicle and turns his head to her, and stares at her with a clenched jaw. His breaths are heavy as the guard pats him down. He steps away when he doesn’t find anything and pats the rest of us down before nodding to the front door.
“You may go.” He says, his accent thick, making me wonder if this Raven guy is Irish as well. I chuckle to Killian.
“We definitely aren’t related to anybody Irish.”
He shakes his head, agreeing with me.
“Nope. Italian through and through.”
We all walk up the six steps to the door, and Carter rings the doorbell before stepping back.
Heather squeals excitedly when a brunette opens the door.
“You’re pregnant! Oh my God, you’re pregnant!”
The woman throws her arms around Heather, and I quickly assume she’s her friend, Bianca.
“Raven was concerned about you bringing three men with you. He’s overprotective. His brothers are here, but I promise they are mostly good guys. Nothing to worry about. I said you’d be safe and you will be.”
She takes Heather by the hand as she giggles excitedly.
“Triplets? Hot triplets? Not so shabby, Bestie.”
We walk inside, and Killian speaks low to me.
“Obviously she knows I’m the hot one.”
Rolling my eyes at him, I laugh and state the obvious.
“We are identical, dick. We all look the same.”
When Bianca said brothers, I imagined one or two, but when we walk into a massive living room, I quickly count five of them. I think two of them are twins, but the others are obviously brothers.
Bianca points out each of them.
“This is Bones. He’s the head of the family.”
She moves to the rest of them.
“Reaper, Kage, Psycho and Raven.”
Strange names.
My mind keeps going over the ‘head of the family,’ comment. Did my beautiful Tesoro bring us into a mafia family’s home? Killian is the head of our family, and although we aren’t a mafia family, we do run a criminal enterprise.
The man she introduced as Bones stands up and stretches out his hand, “Bones Bonetti.”
Killian reaches out his hand, “Killian Bonetti,” and Bones immediately retracts his. The tension in the room shoots up as I watch the expression on this stranger's face turn from somewhat friendly to anger as he demands answers.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
KILLIAN
