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The scream built and built until it finally burst free She reached for the lamp on the dresser by the door and threw it at hi bastard You tricked us all You came here with your stories and your princelywas a scam"
He’d sidestepped the lamp easily Noalked around the mess on the floor and moved toward her
"Mia, calm down You have un I’d shoot you right now Right in the gut Or the balls You didn’t come here forYou want your son You want to kidnap hi ridiculous Daniel is my heir It is reasonable for me to-- "
"Don’t talk to me about reasonable," she screamed "Don’t you dare You lied It was all a lie"
"Daniel is my son"
"His name is Danny He’s a little boy You want to take him away from me, but that will never happen Never Do you hearelse to throw at him and was frustrated by the lack of vases and laht to-- "
"Fuck your people and fuck you Go to hell, Rafael You’re never getting him Never I don’t care what I have to do This is all bullshit Why now? Why did you suddenly show up?"
She pressed a hand against her forehead as she remembered what he’d told her "My God The picture in the paper That dae is right and he looks enough like you" She paused again and found herself unable to do asp out "The birthreed "The enerations"
"You didn’t need the DNA test, did you?"
He shrugged "I kneas my son after I saw the birthmark"
"Of course You saw the paper and knew, so you had to coet really suspicious if after five years you suddenly appeared in my life So you…"
She couldn’t believe it No This wasn’t happening "You lied about everything About being told I was dead, aboutme You came up with that story as a way toto do withdead or not You didn’t care You’d had your fling and then it was tiular life The prince one You didn’t give ht Then you found out about Danny and suddenly you had an heir to worry about"
"Mia, you willthrough the day seems much less likely"
"Do not threaten me"
"Or what? You’ll pretend you care about e and steal away ive in to the tears She couldn’t think, couldn’t believe this was happening
"I was such a fool How could you do it? How could you stealmelodramatic Of course I would have allowed you to see Daniel We would have ements for-- "
She heard footsteps on the stairs "In here," she yelled
Joe ran down the hallway and she was pleased to see he held a handgun
"What the hell is going on?" he demanded
Rafael stepped into the hallway "Mia, you are taking this too far Be reasonable"
"Reasonable?"
She lunged for Joe’s gun, but he easily kept it out of reach
"Shoot hiht in the balls He wants to steal Danny He tricked me He tricked us all He pretended to care, but he doesn’t He wanted ot to Calandria he could take Danny away frorabbed her and shoved her behind hiun on Rafael
"Get out," he said quietly "Get out of this house and take the bodyguards with you"
"I’m not finished here"
"Yes you are"
Rafael stared at the gun, then at Joe’s face He swore in Italian, then stalked out As he passed Mia, he paused
"This isn’t over"
"It is," she told hione Mia stared into the empty room and saw the broken lamp It was as if that shattered bit of ceramic represented all her hopes and dreaan to shake and she felt herself go down
Joe grabbed her and pulled her close She went into his arht again
"I can’t believe it," she whispered
"I know"
"He lied He tried to take Danny"
"But he didn’t get him We’ll fix this, Mia I swear"
She wanted to believe him, but she couldn’t It was too horrible
"Danny," she said with a gasp "Where is he? He was in the family room What if Rafael took hi Danny’s hands Her son looked terrified and confused She dropped to her knees and held out her arhtly she couldn’t catch her breath
But that didn’tto ed