Daddy's Hit List by Mae Malone & A.N. Stauber

Author:Mae Malone & A.N. Stauber [Malone, Mae & Stauber, A.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

As soon as Noel said father, we got ready and drove back to the city. There she is, Ani. The girl I’ve been so fucking jealous of. She’s his daughter. Damn, I’m an idiot. My gaze travels toward the police officer she runs for outside of her school. He’s crouched low, a smile on his face and arms spread wide. When Ani reaches him, he scoops her up and squeezes her into a welcoming hug.

She’s familiar with him, and the way Noel keeps bringing up his mother and brother along with sweet little Ani, has me wondering if this is the brother.

I scrub a hand over my face. Leave it to me to bring home a single dad whose sibling is involved in law enforcement. I’m normally one to think before I act. Yet Noel makes it impossible. Impulse control comes naturally for me at this point, after years of intense composure. Yet, I didn’t stop to think of the ripple effect my actions could cause.

Stupid, reckless, beginner move.

You’d think I learned my lesson. But no. Here I am debating on kidnapping a little girl. As if holding up my little baker and his daughter in my cabin in the woods is a perfectly normal and acceptable response toward him witnessing a murder.

“Where is her mother?” I ask, my grip on his wrist keeping him planted inside the car with me.

Noel’s gaze stays on her as his brother sets her on the sidewalk, and they begin to walk away. His green eyes sparkle, a tight smile in place, and one shoulder hitches in an indifferent shrug. “We were high school sweethearts, until one day we weren’t. She chose drugs over us.”

I run my finger along the back of his hand, soothing the heartbreak I can feel through his stern tone. “She’s missing out.”

“She is.” He forces a slight smile, then turns to me. “Are you sure we will be safe? With you?”

I don’t let myself be offended by the question. He isn’t asking me if I’m able to protect them, because he knows I can. He’s asking because he knows deep down he shouldn’t be able to trust me. I’m a mafia hitman. Yet, the tie between us is something neither of us can deny.

It’s beyond the physical attraction, or how good he feels in my arms. It’s the tension in the air when our hands touch, the crackle of energy that comes whenever we make eye contact. It’s the way that, even though we don’t know each other, I yearn to make him happy, to give him anything and everything in the world that he could ever need or want.

It’s me standing here, trusting him enough to know that he’ll grab Ani and come home.

We discussed as much. After he revealed his true relationship with Ani, we came up with a plan. He’ll go in and pick her up from their home when his brother leaves. He says it’ll be easier to convince just his mother that his new boyfriend bought a weekend trip in the Adirondacks for him and Ani.

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