Breaking my Wife by Zoey Parker

Author:Zoey Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mafia romance, new adult contemporary romance, hitman romance, interracial bad boy romance, wedding and pregnancy romance, marriage mistake romance, secret baby romance, dark romance, romantic suspense
Publisher: Sopris Page Press
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cara

CARA WAS RAW. IT FELT like someone had scraped out her insides. Like when she was a kid, and her mom would help her carve a pumpkin. They’d take a grapefruit spoon with serrated edges and gut the insides, pulling out the strings and the seeds. Cara felt like a pumpkin.

Devin had lied to her. Had been lying to her. It could have been different if he’d lied to her once, but he’d lied to her a thousand times. Every second they had spent together was a fabrication. Cara could have left the moment Devin untied her. No one wanted money from her. No one was chasing after her. She could have been in another country by now, far away from the police and suspicion.

Instead, she was being investigated for her husband’s murder, and she had murdered someone else, too. That thought nearly made her sick. Bile rose up in her throat, and she had to fight to swallow it back down. She’d killed someone. A man she had never met. She’d pressed a gun to his head because of Devin. Because of his lies and deceit. She didn’t know whether to scream or cry.

While she spiraled, bits and pieces of a conversation broke through her foggy mind.

“—it was inexcusable. You knew the rules and yet—”

“—I tried to do what I thought was best. I never intended for things to become so messy—”

“—clearly you are a liability, and we can no longer trust you to act in accordance with our wishes and in the best interest of the family—”

The words floated in Cara’s brain like chunks of potato in a stew. Occasionally one would rise to the surface and make itself known, but then it would dip back into the broth. She couldn’t differentiate between who was speaking or understand what was being said. She simply sat in her chair in a stunned silence as wave after wave of disbelief and anger and betrayal washed over her.

Then, the noise in the room reached a fever pitch, and Cara felt like she’d been awoken from a dream.

“You can’t be serious!” Devin shouted, rising from his chair.

“This is what you wanted,” Cristoff said, leaning back, trying to look casual, but Cara could see the tension in his shoulders. “You were ready to retire before this job, and now you can. You’re done.”

“Let her go, too,” Devin said, pointing to Cara, but not looking at her.

“No one is holding her hostage.” Cristoff offered a cool smile to Devin and winked at Cara. She didn’t know why, but a chill ran down her spine.

Devin turned to her, his eyes pleading. “Come with me.”

Cara looked away from him, staring instead at the wood-paneled walls of Cristoff’s office. She didn’t want to stay in this small room with a man who seemed to take so much pleasure in other’s pain. But she also couldn’t leave with Devin. She couldn’t let him think for even a second that what he had done to her was okay.

If the detectives managed to pin Danny’s murder on her, her life was over.

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