Blood Debt: A Dark Cartel Romance (Diamante de Sangre Book 2)(El Mundo de Sangre Book 5) by Lana Sky

Author:Lana Sky [Sky, Lana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lana Sky
Published: 2023-02-18T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Keeping Franco isolated from the coming shitstorm regarding his parents has been my sole goal, but now that the time has come to implement that wish, I’m dreading it. God, I want nothing more than to shelter him, always. Protect him from the harsh reality his parents plunged him into. I hate that he’s caught in the middle of their mess.

Above all, I hate that his safety resides on the whims of a man like Jaguar.

Speaking of the devil, he’s been unusually tame regarding this whole ordeal. He supposedly had Franco admitted into a private boarding school on short notice, and he arranged for his bags to be packed in brand-new luggage decorated in the cartoon character of his choosing. We’re flown to the location of the school in utter luxury, and presented with a private tour by the dean.

Franco is sullen at first. Only after we visit a state-of-the-art sports stadium, and a private game room does he perk up. I stall until the last possible moment before leaving him. He is then peppered with kisses as I promise to call him every night on the cell phone Jaguar gifted him.

Upon leaving, I am resigned to returning to Texas and finding myself once again in a frying pan. Instead, I’m brought to the California house by a silent, watchful Horatio.

“He is not to be disturbed,” he tells me before I leave the SUV alone.

Fair enough. Sensing that Jaguar is in his office on the lower level, I keep to the upper floors instead. My heart pangs as I pass Franco’s empty room, but I continue forward, into the safer, secluded bedroom I first woke up in.

I haven’t forgotten Jaguar’s twisted promise—or the retribution he wants to exact against me as a result of my transgressions against him over the past few days.

Why make it easy for him by waiting patiently for the slaughter? My thoughts turn to hiding in the pool and provoking him to come after me.

Curiosity makes me turn on my heel and enter the master bedroom instead. Jaguar isn’t there waiting for me, but he didn’t intend to completely leave me to my own devices, it seems.

On the bed, in tattered condition, is a small paperback. Hamlet. Knowing Jaguar, this isn’t his way of conferring a bit of light reading to me while I wait.

It’s a warning. Though I’m vaguely familiar with Hamlet’s story, I’ve never read it. My curiosity eats away at the part of me that knows I should be afraid. Instead, my fingers twitch, aching to delve into the pages and learn what his message to me is.

Caution holds me back. He must be watching me from his office, I think. Although the television is again out of view, and I cannot see him myself, I am sure of it.

A smart woman would hide her fear by feigning ignorance of his presence. I can’t. With a sigh, I strip the beautiful, modest dress I wore to see Franco and leave it on the floor.

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