A Very Merry Hitman (Holiday With a Hitman Book 2) by Katie Reus

Author:Katie Reus [Reus, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KR Press, LLC
Published: 2024-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Sweet, but twisted. Does that make me a candy cane?

Sitting in Elliana and Theo’s living room, Aileen looked between all the people she loved—arguing about her safety.

As if she wasn’t sitting there at all. As if she was a lovely piece of furniture taking up space.

“This is not up for discussion, Dante. She will stay with us until we figure things out. And she will not be going to that gala tonight,” her mom snapped after Dante dared to say that she would be safe with him.

“Do I get a say in this?” Aileen asked, her tone dry. Last night her parents had tried to tell her she wasn’t going to the gala tonight (and so had Dante) but there could be a benefit to her going. One she needed to talk to them about.

When five pairs of eyes turned her way, she kept her focus on her mom—the real bulldozer. “Because I like the idea of staying at Dante’s. Nessa can stay with us too.”

Her mom gritted her teeth, but her dad placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, squeezed.

“Maybe Nessa stays with us?” her dad asked in that quiet way of his. “She has a room there already and we’d planned on a couple Christmas activities.” Then he motioned to Aileen that it would get her mom off her back if she agreed.

Her mom looked over her shoulder at him. “What was that?”

“Nothing, love.” Then he kissed the top of her head.

“Fine, Nessa can stay with you. I can’t imagine she has an issue with that. And she doesn’t have any more practices until after the New Year, so nothing will seem off to her,” Aileen said. Because she didn’t want her daughter privy to any of this mess. “Now let’s please hear what Elliana has to say.” She gave her sister-in-law a beseeching look, hoping she’d get things back on track.

As always, Elliana took over smoothly. “I can’t get a clear image of that second Santa from any nearby cameras—because there weren’t many. And the cops have found nothing on him so far. Theo and I have been scanning Aileen’s photos and pictures—and her ASMR videos online. Nothing is pinging. A couple emails from weirdos, a few trolling comments, but all really generic and from around the globe. None of the trolling comments are local. And the commenters leave the same crap on other creators so it doesn’t feel targeted. Even that recent nasty email you got,” she added, looking at Aileen.

Well that made Aileen feel a lot better even if she was annoyed by the weird emails.

Elli continued. “But I have run the phone records of Adam Jackson’s old gang partner, Leo Myers. He has two phones that I know of and one of them has received a lot of calls from a burner. That could just be drug-related stuff, but I’m keeping an eye on it. As far as the Duponts, they truly do seem to be in town for the holidays. I haven’t found anything odd in their browsing histories, their phone records, their financials, nothing.

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