Chasing Fire (The Fire Duet Book 1) by Billie Lustig

Author:Billie Lustig [Lustig, Billie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NRA Publishing
Published: 2021-03-24T18:30:00+00:00

UNKNOWN NUMBER: WHERE YOU AT, AMORÉ? YOU BETTER NOT RUN, BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HIDE. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ;)

Yuk. The bastard actually gave me a winky face.

I meet Kane’s eyes, and the questionable look in his eyes tells me that text didn’t go by unnoticed.

Great.

I ignore him and dial Imogen’s number. She answers after only two rings, like she has been waiting by the phone for the last few days.

Which she probably has.

“Holy shit, Callie. Is that you?” she screeches so loud into my ear, it hurts. I can’t really blame her, though. If I were her, I would be freaking out too.

“Yeah, it’s me,” I sigh.

“Thank the lord, I was worried sick. Where the fuck have you been? Are you home?”

“Not exactly.”

“Girl, tell me you’re not on some kind of fucking spa retreat, because I even went to Ronnie to look for you.” Her voice sounds worried, but it’s laced with attitude.

My heart practically stops, and I take a deep breath.

“You went to Ronnie?”

“Yes.”

“By yourself?”

“Yes,” she answers dryly.

“You went to the fucking home of a mobster and just walked in?”

“Yes.”

“Like into the lion’s den?”

“Yes.”

“Into the dragon’s lair?”

“Goddammit, Callie! Yes! I went to that goddamn restaurant of theirs and asked for an audience with Distucci,” she continues, aggravation obvious in her tone.

“Senior?” I question incredulously, holding in my breath. Fuck, this girl has no brain sometimes. “Please tell me you didn’t piss off the old man?”

“Yes, senior. And no. One of those spaghetti eaters called Ronnie, and he came instead.”

I exhale in relief.

“Are you out of your goddamn mind, Genny? You don’t mess with the mob. I told you that a hundred times,” I reprimand her. I feel Kane’s gaze burning a hole in my cheek, and I quickly glance over before pointing my eyes back at the floor. His eyes are tiny slits, and he looks like he’s dying to know why we are involved with the Italians.

“Well, what the fuck was I supposed to do? You were gone. I thought maybe Ronnie snatched you earlier than he’d agreed, so I went there to demand more time. Don’t school me for shit you would have done while drawing a gun, sister.”

She is not wrong.

I would do that if she was the one who’d been taken.

But she is not. I am.

“They were following you?”

“Hold up. Ronnie said he didn’t have you, so if he doesn’t, then who the fuck does?” she asks, dodging my question. I look at Kane, who is entirely concentrating on my face.

“Where am I?” I mouth to him. His lips form a straight line, and he shakes his head from left to right.

“No,” he states with force, even though no sound comes out of his mouth.

“I can’t tell you.”

“So you were taken?”

“Yes.”

“By who?” she chirps out louder than expected. I can hear her brain trying to figure this out as Kane nods his head, giving me permission to answer her question.

“The Carrillo brothers.”

“Holy motherfucking shit. What the … Since when are we in trouble with the Carrillo brothers?”

“We are not.

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