Dante’s POVI’d survived bullets, blood, betrayal.But nothing prepared me for the moment Lucia went into labor.It started with a sharp gasp in the middle of the night. Her fingers clutched my wrist, nails digging in like claws, and her breath came in ragged, uneven waves. I was up in a second… shirtless, gun on the nightstand forgotten, pulse pounding like I was walking into a firefight.“It’s time,” she whispered, and I swear the ground shifted beneath me.Time.I’d planned wars with less urgency than I moved that night. One call to the doctor. Another to secure the hospital route. I was calm. Efficient. A fucking machine.Until she screamed in the car.That’s when I lost it.By the time we got to the delivery room, my shirt was inside out, I’d put my suit jacket on backward, and my hands…those hands that never trembled even with a trigger under them, were shaking.She was a hurricane on that bed. Sweat running down her face. Hair plastered to her neck. Her legs trembling, fists cl
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