Assassin's Heart by Ella Sheridan

Author:Ella Sheridan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery & suspense romantic thriller page turner, Contemporary romance emotional steamy dark, Gritty passionate intense assassin hit man tattoo, Brothers alpha male stalker secrets betrayal sexy, Revenge seduction erotic women’s romance fiction, Criminals & outlaws organized crime mafia romance, Death for hire red ledger for women political love
Publisher: Ella Sheridan
Published: 2019-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Remi —

We were fast, and we were fucking lethal. But as much as I had wanted to wipe every last man in this place off the face of the earth, Leah’s brother had not been marked for death.

He was dead anyway.

I’d seen the look in Leah’s eyes, the blank look survivors have when everything has just been too much and you can’t really register any more. She’d clung to Brooke as hard as Brooke was clinging to her, the only sure thing in a tsunami of events she couldn’t control. It would hit her later, but for now her focus was on the only thing that mattered: her daughter.

I shouldn’t wish I was included, that I was the one holding them both in my arms, keeping the outside world at bay. This wasn’t about me, for fuck’s sake.

I stood from where I knelt beside Ross’s cooling body. I’d retrieved his phone, making sure that nothing else on him or in his pockets pointed to Brooke or her kidnapping. The police would eventually figure out who he and his dead associates were, though probably not why they were all here, in this abandoned warehouse, with bullets in their bodies. The people who were important knew, and that was all that mattered. For now at least.

The back door to the warehouse banged open, and Eli stepped through, dragging the last body in from outside. Levi followed with a five-gallon container of gasoline. Cleanup duty. I walked toward them.

“Leah’s in the SUV,” Eli said, his voice strained as he pulled two hundred pounds of deadweight to the middle of the room.

I stripped off my gloves and added them to the center pile. “I’m taking them home.”

“Home?” Levi set the container on the concrete. Straightening, he pierced me with a look. “Do we need to talk about this, brother?”

About my woman? About what would happen next? “No.” I turned away. “Nothing to talk about.” We all knew this was temporary. Even after what I’d said to Leah this morning, even after calling her lev sheli—a name that told my brothers everything they needed to know about my feelings for her—this had never been anything more than a temporary situation. Leah had her daughter back. She’d watched us cold-bloodedly kill a dozen men. There was no room for a morally questionable assassin in that family unit.

Levi let me go. Outside, I hurried toward the SUV, frustration boiling inside at my inability to see through the darkly tinted glass to the woman I loved. Though it had been no more than twenty minutes since she had walked out of the warehouse, when I opened the driver’s side door, it was to the sight of Leah dozing in the front seat. Adrenaline drop. Brooke lay in her lap, her little girl features grubby from fear and crying, sound asleep.

Leah stirred when I closed my door.

“It’s all right,” I told her, reaching to turn the key in the ignition. “Go back to sleep. I’ll wake you when we get back to the house.

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