Total pages in book: 41
Estimated words: 39687 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 198(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 39687 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 198(@200wpm)___ 159(@250wpm)___ 132(@300wpm)
The doctor screamed out, the pain echoing around the room.
Laura sobbed and he rushed toward her side, pulling her into his arms.
“They were going to hurt my baby. They killed Rosa. I tried to run. I tried to hide.”
“I’ve got you. I’ve got you.” He held his wife close and stared at the doctor, who was screaming in agony.
There was no need to question the man.
His father had sent his private doctor in order to hurt his baby daughter. He had told his father there would be more children, and he wanted to keep every single girl and boy. There weren’t going to be any accidents or abortions.
It would seem he had a visit to make to his father.
Only last week, he’d reduced the number of men walking the grounds because their soldiers had been needed elsewhere. He now knew his father had intended to kill his unborn child, and had manipulated him in order to make Laura vulnerable.
He would never make that mistake again. With Laura in his arms, he called for backup. His soldiers, his men, were quick to respond.
“Don’t leave me,” Laura said, holding onto him. “Please.”
“My men are here, and I promise you, nothing will happen to you. You’ll be safe and protected always, but I’ve got to go and deal with something.”
“Really? Right now? Our baby was about to be killed. I know that injection, he was going to harm her.”
“I know, and I will deal with him. I promise you.” He held her face. He could have lost her today. “But right now, I need to make sure this can’t happen again, and while he’s breathing, he will.”
“He?”
He stared into her eyes so she had no doubt as to whom he was referring. There was only one person he needed to take care of.
“But, it’s against the rules.”
“I don’t care.” He stroked the tears away from her cheeks. “I will be back, and when I do, we will need to talk.”
He kissed her lips, needing the closeness with her. There was no way he would have been able to handle her being gone. This marriage, it had started out as a forced one, bringing them together through an arrangement, but now, he couldn’t be without her. Didn’t want to be.
Marcus made sure his best man stayed by his wife’s side.
“If anything happens to her, I will make you wish for death long before I deliver it. I’ll kill every single person you hold dear and make you watch as I bathe in their blood.”
His solider knew the dire consequences of what would happen, and Marcus, with only two men, traveled to his father’s house.
No one suspected a thing, and Marcus was brimming with the need to do violence. To see his father die before his eyes.
When he climbed out of the car, his men stayed at the door as he entered the home he’d despised since he was a child.
There was no one in Antonio Giovanni’s office, other than the man himself. His mother was probably passed out somewhere from drink or drugs.
Stepping into his father’s office, Marcus stared at the man he’d protected most of his life. The man with the title of capo, and the person he should protect.
“Ah, Marcus, you’re here. I want to talk to you about a new space we’ve just acquired. It has all the necessary building regs to be a bar, but I’m thinking something bigger.”
“You sent a doctor to my house today to end my daughter’s life,” Marcus said. He’d already put the silencer on the gun, and as he stared at the man before him, he wanted to watch him beg for life.
There was no way he was going to get any enjoyment out of this.
“You need to understand, son, you must have a son. You think I didn’t take care of matters myself? Women make you weak, and when I heard your mother was having a girl first, I knew there were means to secure your future. I was thinking of you. One day, you will thank me.”
“You stopped Mom from having more children?”
“I killed the first one. A daughter means nothing to me. It makes everyone look weak, having to find a suitable husband, drawing together power, when you don’t need it. Women are nothing more than to be used, and I have no use for them. You should thank me. Now with the brat out of the way, I will provide you two additional weeks. You will fuck her until you breed a son. Nothing more.”
“I shot the bastard’s knees before he could get close to my wife.”
Antonio looked up, shocked. “You stopped it?”
“Of course I stopped it. My wife will be giving birth to my daughter. There is no way you will be taking either of them from me.”
Antonio burst out laughing. “Well, this is certainly something I didn’t take into consideration, isn’t it? You falling for your fucking wife! Tell me, Marcus, you think your feelings will make you strong, is that it? You look at her, and you can’t see yourself being with another woman. They make you weak. They’re a cunt to take pleasure in, and the right one is to give you the brat you want, not anything more.”