Broken Brutal Hearts: A Crooked Paradise Novel by Eva Chance

Author:Eva Chance [Chance, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2022-08-19T18:30:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Anthea

My head jerked around. I glared at Darius. “What the hell are you talking about? If you really think you can convince me that—”

“Shut up and listen for a second!” he barked, and then shook his head with a pained grimace. “I’m sorry. I’m fucking sorry. I just can’t believe— That fucking cunt.”

The last few words came out in a snarl, and they obviously weren’t directed at me. I hesitated, my arm going limp, and Darius let go of me after all. His fury had sounded totally real.

“What do you mean?” I asked, not liking how small my voice came out sounding but too shellshocked to bolster it.

Felix had shoved himself off the sofa. He stalked over, his mouth twisted. “Holly lied. We never talked about you like that. I sure as hell never thought about you like that. Fuck, I’m not exactly Mr. Commitment, but I’ve never treated any woman I’ve been with or considered being with that horribly.”

Lucan had walked closer too, pulling their semi-circle tighter around me. His face had gone totally white, his expression as somber as a funeral.

“We’d talked a little bit about the fact that we were all interested in you,” he clarified in his usual factual way. “But never outside our rooms, and never joking about it or making bets or anything creepy like that. All we did was come to the conclusion that we were all attracted to you, and we all wanted to be with you if you were interested, so if you made a move with any of us, then we’d let you pick. At least, that’s how it was supposed to work.”

He shot a brief glance at Felix, who shrugged and offered a hesitant smirk. “You can’t tell a ladies man not to go for it when the vibe is right.”

I did remember Lucan saying something about their agreement at the time. My forehead furrowed, a pit opening up in my stomach. “But—why would Holly lie? Why didn’t you talk to me after and ask why I’d left?”

“I have no idea why that bitch stuck her nose where it didn’t belong and hurled around more shit than a monkey,” Darius said, “but she lied to us too. She said she caught you in Dad’s office, looking through his files, taking pictures of documents. Spying on the business. That you’d left because she told you to get out—she couldn’t let you stay, and she didn’t want to find out what we’d do to you if we found out how you’d backstabbed us.”

My jaw went slack. “Are you kidding me? Of course I wouldn’t have been sneaking around. Why would I be spying on the Hell Kickers? You were our allies. That doesn’t even make sense.”

Darius threw his hands in the air. “I don’t know. Maybe your dad was rethinking the alliance. Maybe your brother had other ideas with his eyes on the inheritance and put you up to it. She sounded convincing, and you had left, and we didn’t have any reason to think Holly would make up some crazy story.

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