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Chapter 4

**Selina

**

Giovanni opened the door for me and helped me out of the car. I walked next to him as he draped an arm around my shoulder in a protective manner. We were never sexually attracted, or involved with each other. I looked up to him as an uncle.

Nothing more.

He turned to me before unlocking the door with a concerned expression. “You know you can always stay the night. I worry about you and that little boy being out there alone. It's not safe out there.”

I shrugged my shoulders and sighed. “I guess I can stay, but only if Rose is okay with it.”

He chuckled and shook his head. “Bullshit, she loves you and that sweet boy of yours.”

I stepped in and was met with Rose giving me a bone crushing hug. “Kaden is already sleeping. You’re staying the night, right?”

I gave her a light smile with a nod and took my coat off and hung it on the rack. Walking up the stairs, I stopped at the door and walked in. Kaden was sleeping lightly snoring in the bed. Pressing my lips to his dark curls that clung to his forehead, I whispered. “Goodnight, my sweet baby boy.”

Closing the door as quietly as I could without waking him, I turned around and rolled my eyes. One of Giovanni’s men I had to work with stood there leaning on the wall. He kicked of the wall and licked his lips. “How about a dance, bambina?”

I crossed my arms over my chest and took a step forward. “I told you never to speak about my job under this roof. Not. Fucking. Happening.”

“Who’s the father?” He was seriously pissing me off tonight.

“Nobody you need to worry about. He left me, so it doesn’t matter what his name is. It’s in the past.” I whispered the last part closed my eyes.

I opened my eyes and they became blurry just thinking about him. I turned away only to be pulled back by the wrist.

He widened his eyes in fear. “Shit! Don’t cry, Gio and Luca would kick my ass for upsetting you.”

“It’s fine,” He released my wrist and stood there like he wanted to tell me something. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

He shook his head and sighed muttering. “Nothing, I…sorry about making you upset.”

He walked away without saying another word leaving me confused.

Why did Frankie act like he was going to say something only to stop himself and leave?

Why did he look at me like that?

What was he going to say?

I shook away the unanswered question.

I’ve had so many men ask me out, I would always shoot them down declining their offer. I always told them my heart belonged to someone else and that wasn’t a lie.

My heart would always belong to Kade.

I hated that I was still in love with him.

He broke me completely the night he walked out of my life.

I wanted to hate him, but my heart wouldn’t let me.

It betrayed me.

My lip quivered and I let out a whimper at how I was so stupid to think Kade had ever cared about me. Back then, I was a naïve lovesick girl.

Not. Anymore.

There’s only one I hold to me close now and that’s my little Kaden. The only good thing that keeps me breathing. Keeps me living.

The next morning, I woke up and yawned glancing over and Kaden was already gone. Rose must have gotten him and taken him down to eat breakfast. I stood up and put on the silk robe. Walking down the steps, I could hear voices making me freeze. Frankie was talking to my son.

“I’ve got a friend named Kade and your name is Kaden. That’s so cool. Maybe you could meet him at your party?”

My heartbeat quickened at hearing his name and panicked. I ran down there and narrowed my eyes at him. “Get the fuck away from my son!”

If this Kade is who I think it is, he is never going to meet him. One look at Kaden and he’d know he was his. I never thought I would ever see him again and now I’m faced with the possibility that this man might be him. I picked up my son and ran out of the room.

I knocked on Giovanni’s office and was greeted with Luca kissing the top of Kaden’s head. “What’s wrong, sweetheart?”

“I need to ask you something. Who is Kade and how does Frankie know him?”

Giovanni looked up from his phone and Luca froze in his spot. “Selina, Frankie was stationed with Kade in the military. They just recently arrived and…”

“How long ago was this?” Rose came in and I handed her my son for her to take with her. I didn’t want him to hear anymore than he already had.

Luca placed his hands on my shoulders and looked me right in the eyes sympathetically. “It was a week ago.”

“What?” A week ago was when I gave that man a private dance and received that wad of money. I remember how he whispered out my name.

Not Honey.

Selina.

“Sweetheart, he’s going to be at the birthday party.” No, this cannot be happening to me right now. My heart can’t take anymore heartbreak than it’s already endured because of him.

I grabbed the bottle of whiskey off Giovanni’s desk and took the lid off and drank from the bottle. I needed something to take the edge off from everything. “Call the party off.”

They glanced at me widening their eyes in the process. This was too much for me to handle right now. I didn’t move all this way to have everything come crashing down on me.


**Kade

**

I stepped out of the shadows careful not to be seen by them. This was something I’ve learned being a master throughout the years of being in the military. Over time, I thought I could forget her. The more I tried to erase her, the harder my steel rod got. I spent many nights getting off to the memories of her branded forever in my mind.

I watched her as she and Giovanni exited the vehicle. My mouth hung open when they were met with his secretary and a small child at the door. The boy didn’t look older than four or five years old. For some reason, his features seemed familiar to me.

What the fuck!

She has a son?!

No, she must’ve moved on and met someone else.

Giovanni placed a protective arm around her shoulder as they stepped inside and closed the door. I was seething with rage just thinking about another man touching what was mine. I know I have no right to be jealous, because I was the one who walked away.

I left her in the dust without so much of a goodbye.

No letter.

No phone call.

Not even a fucking text.

Never leaving her a clue to where I was.

I was just a ghost of her past.

Now that I’m back, I was claiming what was mine.

Her.

I went to take a step forward, but Frankie pulled me back. “Don’t, I’ll go find out some information from her. You’re angry right now.”

Clenching my jaw, I grabbed him by the collar. “If you do anything…”

He rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Trust me when I say she isn’t what gets my dick hard.”

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“I’m not into women.” My mouth hung open and realization hit me. He was attracted to men.

I watched him cock his head to the side and tap his temple. “Getting it now brother, I’m gay.”

He walked away and I was growing more impatient the longer he was in there. I wonder if Giovanni or Luca knew about his secret he’d just revealed to me.

How had I never caught on that he preferred men?

I looked up to see he was making his way out of the estate and walking this way. He stopped standing in the shadows with me. “She wouldn’t tell me who the father was, just that he left her. She didn’t suspect a thing.”

“Did she say anything about me?”

“No, sorry man. She did say her heart belonged to someone though.”

I whipped around to face him angrily. “Who?”

I fought the urge to run in there and demand to know why Giovanni hasn’t told me she was involved with another man. I walked in the opposite direction of the estate and got in my vehicle with Frankie driving away. If I didn’t put some distance between me and her, I would lose my shit with Selina.

I didn't want to hurt her.

I pulled up to Frankie’s and shut the engine off. “Ok. Now tell me, who he is?”

“I don’t know. She didn’t say a name.” He looked up from his phone confused

“No, not that. The one you’ve been texting with nonstop.” I grinned as we got out of the vehicle.

“It’s just sex, nothing more. He knows that.”

Sure it is.

My little Selina.

You’re still mine.

Tomorrow, I’ll show you just that.

“It’s that male stripper Gio hired, isn’t it?”

He smirked.

But that’s all I got.

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