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“Nope,” Shepherd answers.

“Then who would be his heir?"

Shepherd leans in, bringing his lips to my ear. “Remember when I said I wanted to put my baby inside you?”

My whole body flushes, nipples tightening and pressing against my shirt as heat coils in my belly.

“You c-can’t be ser-rious,” I stammer out.

“Never been more serious in our lives,” Saint replies.

I shake my head, wiggling my way out from between them. “No.” I shake my head, stepping away. “Not happening.”

“Why not?” Maverick asks, brows furrowing.

“You want to knock me up?” I ask, gaping at the three of them.

“Yes,” They all say in unison.

“We give him an heir, he leaves us alone.”

“You’re all fucking crazy.” I shake my head. “After everything you just said your father put you through to prepare you to take over, you expect me to let my son go through that? I’d rather die.”

“We would never allow that,” Maverick growls. “We don’t see the bratva life the way our father does.”

“Then why agree to it!?”

“Because we want you to have our babies...” Shepherd says slowly as if he’s confused why I would be confused.

“Oh my god.” I scrub at my face. “My head hurts.”

“I can get you something for that,” Saint offers.

“No.” I hold my hand up. “Stop.” I let out a heavy sigh. “Anything else you need to tell me while my brain tries to fucking process all of this? Like maybe the reason why you kidnapped me in the first place?”

“Oh, right,” Shepherd chuckles. “Almost forgot about that.”

“That makes one of us.” I glare at him.

“Someone is after you,” Maverick explains.

“So you mentioned before. Mind telling me who?” My brows furrow.

“His name is Rafe Rossi, the son of the leader of the Italian Mafia. A few years ago, he took his father’s place and now runs the businesses for him in the US while his father went back to Italy. Our families had a ceasefire for years now. But I guess now that Rafe is in charge, he felt the need to go back on his word,” Maverick snarls. “No fucking idea why as we’ve left them the fuck alone. But we think they are trying to use you to get to us.”

“Why me? I didn’t even know you until a few weeks ago.” At least that's what I thought until today. “What would make him think I’d be a good tool to use against you?”

“Uhh, because we’re obsessed with you. Keep up, Little Bunny. It’s not like we’ve been very discreet about it.”

“You haven’t?” My brows furrow.

“Okay, maybe with you,” Shepherd corrects himself with a grin.

“The point is,” Saint says. “We’ve caught Rafe’s men sniffing around where they don’t belong. And despite trying our best to get them to talk, no one fucking has,” he grumbles.

“Until we can find out what Rafe wants with you, we brought you here. It’s the safest place for you. None of his men will be able to get within a mile of this place without us finding and killing them.”

How oblivious have I become?. Not only have I had no idea these three have been stalking me for years, but I guess other men have been too?