BOUND by Akeroyd Serena

Author:Akeroyd, Serena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Good work, Juan.”

His second-in-command shrugged. “It is my fault she escaped. I'm just relieved I can come to you with this good news.”

Martinez hid a smile. Juan had taken Eva's escape hard. Harder than even he himself had. For his own part, though he disliked her tactics, he was more amused at her antics than pissed off.

She'd pay for her misbehavior, he'd see to that, but he could only applaud her for a job well done in escaping their notice for so long.

“Hernandez and Montoya confirm that it is Eva.”

“You worked quickly.”

“The instant I saw the article, I suspected it was her.”

“Small town's BIG mouth. The Neuview New View is stirring up a storm in Tornado Alley. I'm not sure how you suspected anything from that headline.”

Juan shrugged. “She was a cat, Eva.”

“She was?”

He nodded. “Yes, jefe. For the most part, she stayed silent, but she had a strangeness about her. She was cat enough to toy with her mouse, and for all she enjoyed her work as a loba, she had a thread of honor too. I know she went to Matteo a lot with supposed misdoings in the upper ranks.”

Martinez tilted his head to the side at that. “How do you know that?”

Juan sighed and crossed his legs at the ankle. “If you remember, I was on Matteo's watch for a while. She went to him a lot. I never heard what they discussed, but Matteo disliked her. She was a tattletale, he said. Whenever she visited him, they both departed angrily. Eva, because he hadn't listened to her, and Matteo, because she had the balls to stand up to him. She wouldn't be cowed—like a cat.”

Martinez tapped his fingers on his desk. “Matteo knew about Rico's mistreatment of the putas.”

Juan hesitated. “I think a lot of the gang knew, jefe. Rico was...” He hissed. “Rico was a mean bastard. It was no hardship ending his life. He was capable of some sick shit, not only to the putas but to the men, as well.

“A lot of us knew that Eva had gone to Matteo to talk about Rico's cruelty, but when he did nothing, I won't lie, we were frightened.”

Martinez absorbed that, feeling his displeasure with his brother increase. He cracked his knuckles before getting to his feet and striding over to the window. Looking out onto the world that was his unfortunate playground, he asked, “Why didn't you come to me?”

“Everything was to go through Matteo, jefe. If he'd have found out we'd gone to you first, he'd have set Rico onto us. Not many could beat him in a fight, but even if it was possible, Matteo would have set someone else on us.”

When a man started to see why a traitor felt the need to put his brother behind jail, things were fucked up. Rubbing a hand through his hair, he contemplated the city in the distance and murmured, “I had no idea things were so bad.”

Juan grunted. “Many were relieved when Matteo was arrested.

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