Children of Vice by McAvoy J.J.;

Author:McAvoy, J.J.; [McAvoy, J. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Mafia Romance, Romance, Suspense, Thrillers, Vigilante_Justice
ISBN: 4825674
Google: JAo-DgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B06XN63RGF
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2017-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

IVY

Sitting on the bathroom counter, I looked at my hands…thin gold band that sat next to the diamond…I was married just like that. Reaching for the letter in my purse, the one from his mother, I smiled. She had horrible handwriting…just like me.

“Melody wrote God only knows how many letters to her kids before she died,” Nari said softly as she came into the bathroom. “I got one the day I gave birth. It was my only ever letter from her.” She thought back, leaning against the sink next to me. “She really knows how to gut people and empower them at the same time.”

“You really look up to her.”

“Yea,” she said as if it were obvious. “She changed everything. Before, the Callahan women were just pretty accessories on their husbands’ arms. The daughters like prizes to close families. That seems so…it’s all medieval, but that was the tradition.”

“And in the post-Melody era?”

She giggled at that. “We’re still accessories, but we are…like one of those gadgets in a James Bond film. On the outside we look like a lipstick, but really we’re a bomb. We have the ability to do things they can’t and because of that a lot more women are now a part of everything or at least from what I hear.”

She wasn’t being coy. She really didn’t know much.

“Huh.” I didn’t really know how to reply.

“I’m going to tell you something and I was going to wait until it wasn’t your day but might as well lump all the shit together—”

“What is it?”

She sighed, opening her purse to pull out her phone and show me a medical report…Klarissa Moretti’s medical report.

“She’s pregnant,” she said as if I couldn’t read.

Looking away, I tried to think, but my mind went blank.

“I can—”

Jumping off the sink counter, I walked out of the bathroom, trying to figure out where to go.

“Ma’am.” Greyson, the hulk, stepped in front of my face. “Are you all right?”

When I didn’t answer he reached for his phone, but I shook my head.

“Stop.” My voice was barely over a whisper as the wheels began to turn in my mind. “When Ethan isn’t around you have to listen to me, right?”

“Yes, ma’am.” He nodded, putting the phone back in his pocket.

“He’s not here. So take me to Klarissa Moretti’s room.”

“Ma’am—”

“Now.”

He looked over his shoulder and around us, but no one else was there, with the exception of the guards. Nodding, he led me, not to the elevator, but to the stairs.

“Ethan knows, doesn’t he…about her,” I said as we walked down the white staircase, which led to her level of the hospital. But I answered my own question. “Of course he knows. If Nari knows, he has to know.”

He said nothing as they walked down only one floor. The guards in the staircase moved for us as we went down. Opening the door to her floor, I followed him, noticing for the first time how late it was since all the lights in the rooms were dimmed. There was only a nurse on the whole floor.

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