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Katya & Stasia reunited

“You’re our fucking brother. I don’t care if you live on the North Pole. You call, we come. Da gave us those instructions years ago. When he was running things, he always kept a team ready to fly to California, or Seattle, wherever the hell you 2 spoiled brats lived.”
Spoiled because we wanted careers helping people. All while my brothers shouldered the responsibility of protecting my father’s crime legacy.

“I need Lachlan,” I admit quietly. “You guys win. I can’t do this alone.”
“That means your ass comes home,” Eoghan sounds very dictatorial, especially since there’re two brothers who outrank him. Sort of. “You took in Stasia. You put yourself at risk. We can’t protect you on a different coast.”
“Fine.” What the fuck did I just agree to?

Darragh’s in trouble
Needs help from his brothers

Darragh calls his brothers on a secure phone

“Get into the safe room and close the door behind you. Lock yourselves in. Now.”
I dreaded the day I would have to send Sophie in there alone. It sickened me when I had the thing designed, calming myself with bullshit lies: I’ll never need it.
Then I go and steal a Bratva princess from my brother. A pregnant one, who just gave birth to the Astoria Brotherhood heir.

Russian mercenaries

“Darragh,” I choke out. “I still want to hear the words. No man has ever said them to me,” I whisper.
He doesn’t bother to ask if Cormac did, he knows his brother.
“I love you, Anastasia Koslov.” He bounces our son on his knee. “And all the trouble you come with. Bring it on. You’re worth it, Mama.”

“Such irony,” I coo. “I got knocked up by one O’Rourke, but I’ll be marrying another one.”
“Good thing there are seven of us. Men anyway.” He kisses my forehead. “Wait. Is that your way of agreeing to marry me?”
“I guess I am.” I look up into his green eyes. “I love you, Darragh. The moment you looked at me, I knew. Even though I tried to fight it.”

Ana & Darragh 💍

“You’re gorgeous…You look amazing holding my son.”
I put Darragh’s name on the birth certificate as the father, sealing our bond with this baby, half Irish, half Russian.
All trouble.
Darragh got several calls from his brothers with congratulations along with the warnings. We have to face the music in Astoria.
Ana

Ana- “I wonder if my father’s Bratva will kiss the ring of a pakhan named James Patrick O’Rourke.”
Darragh- I don’t mention that I will never let that happen. I will never give my son to either my family or the Bratva.

Baby named after Darragh’s grandfather