Page 37 of Crowned By the Mafia Billionaires

I take a breath. “You’re free.”

She tilts her head and looks at me. “What does that mean? I’m free?”

I blow out a breath. I’m so tense, my shoulders hurt from it. “It means that you are safe, and you can now make your own decisions. You can live the life you want.”

She looks between Knox and me. “So you’re both just letting me go?”

My whole body tenses. “That’s not what I said.”

She nods. “It kind of is.”

I stand and walk around the desk, and Audrey gets to her feet too. I stop a few feet away from her. I want to touch her, but I know if I do, I’m going to beg her to choose us. Instead, I ask her. “What do you want, Audrey?”

She looks between us. “What do you two want?”

I almost laugh. “You know what we want.”

Her forehead creases. “Do I? I mean, from where I’m standing, you’re telling me I can leave.”

I shake my head. “I never said that. I just want you to know that the choice is yours.”

She points at the door. “So if I wanted to leave, you would just let me?”

Knox and I both shout at the same time, “No!”

We look at each other, and I shake my head. “I mean, yes. Of course, we would let you go, but we would probably follow you. We would spend the rest of our days trying to convince you to come back.” I suck in a breath and count to five. “Baby, you spent too long having someone else tell you what you could and couldn’t do. I won’t do that to you.”

Audrey looks down at the floor for a second, and when she raises her head again, something in her expression has changed. “So I get to choose.”

“Yes.”

She takes a step toward me and holds her hand out to Knox. He grabs it and comes with her. “I choose you. Both of you.”

I pull her to me and hold on to her like I never want to let her go. I kiss her, showing her just how much it means that she chose us. As soon as I let her go, Knox draws her into his arms and does the same.

When they break the kiss, she’s breathless and looks between Knox and me. “So what happens now?”

I look at Knox, and he grins.

Audrey looks between us suspiciously. “What?”

I smile down at her. “Now we build the life you chose.”

EPILOGUE

AUDREY

I stare at my computer screen and try really hard to ignore the shadow that passes by my office door. I roll my eyes because I know in three more seconds, another shadow is going to pass by. These two men are driving me crazy.

I look down at the marketing plan on my screen and try to focus, but then Bennett’s head appears around the doorway. When I look at him, he smiles.

I glare, and he slowly walks away.

I look back at my computer and try to focus on work, but not even a minute goes by before Knox is slowly walking by my office door again.

I reach for the intercom on my desk and push the button. “Bennett and Knox. Get in here.”

Both men walk in mere seconds later. I stare at them. “You were standing outside my door?”