Blood and Secrets 2_The Calvetti Crime Family by Rose Harper

Author:Rose Harper [Harper, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rose Publishing
Published: 2018-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

11

MATEO

They find someone to wear down the edges with them, instead of doing it all alone …

Who is this soft, caring individual standing in front of me? The woman who just hours earlier yearned for a fight to the death. In so little time, she’s completely changed, and that confuses me even more. Makes me visualize things I should not be picturing in my mind.

“Why are you being nice? The last time we were alone you wanted to fight,” I say, because I just have to know. I know the reason I’m vulnerable right now. I’ve just lost one of the only people who’s ever meant anything to me. But what’s her motive? What’s her reason for changing tunes so fast?

“You are under my protection.”

Her protection? So, what … we were mortal enemies before?

Nothing that comes out of her mouth makes a damn bit of sense. Instead, it’s twisted with rhymes and mystery.

“Your protection? Carina, you wanted to kill me earlier. That doesn’t just go away in a few hours, and if I can be quite frank, it gives me fucking whiplash.”

Sighing, she steps away from me, and I already miss the heat from her body. Silently, I watch her slowly walk around my room, keeping her back to me as she drops a bomb I never saw coming.

“I don’t mean to be this way, Mateo. I’m just … uh, I’m trying to delve through so many emotions that have been cut off to me for a long time. When dealing with me, for a time, you’ll feel like this. I’m sorry, but it’s the best I can do.”

“If I’m to do that, then you need to work with me, too. If I don’t understand something you’re trying to portray, you can’t turn into mega-bitch and want to slit my throat.”

“I make no promises,” she replies with a half-laugh.

“Okay, then, now back to the protection thing. What did you mean by that?”

She sighs, and I can practically see her mind double time to think of what she needs to say and how she should explain herself. It almost has me stopping her to tell her to start from the beginning so she can process it better, but before I can, she replies, “My one mission given by my father before you all took … ended—”

“Before I ordered his death,” I insert, turning toward her hunched figure.

“Yes, before you ordered his death,” she says, and if I’m not hearing things—which I don’t think I am—there’s a lightness to her voice that wasn’t there before. As if she’s relieved of the fact we killed her father and mother in cold blood. What the hell did those sick, twisted sons of bitches do to her? “My mission was to kill.”

Of course, her mission was to kill. That’s all she’s been trained to do since she was ten. Why is she treating this revelation as if it’s news to me?

“Yes, I know. You are Reap; that’s what you were trained to do.”

“No,” she scolds, turning toward me with watery eyes.

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