DIABLO INSIDE by Amarie Avant

Author:Amarie Avant [Avant, Amarie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Forty

El Santo

“Kill me,” Angelica’s supplications float across her trembling lips. An acrid scent assaults my nose as I settle next to her on the ground. At the sound of scurrying, my jaw flexes.

“Kill—”

Fisting my knife against my forearm, it stops at her throat. “Por favor, Angelica.”

The begging stops. In the momentary silence, I slam my head back onto the concrete.

“I know who you are,” she cries. “You have to murder me. Get it over with, I’m begging you.”

“I made a promise to you, gordita. Murdering you goes against my convictions.” I turn toward her, her side profile coming into form in the darkness. I slide out a pack of Reece’s Pieces, having learned the peanut butter sweets are her favorites.

“My LeAnna was a gordita like you.” I gesture to Angelica to take them.

She scoffs.

“Angelica,” I grit.

Her fleshy face shakes in denial. “Look at me! It’s not like I’ll wilt away. These rats, El Santo! They’re eating me. You’re stuck between fantasy and reality. You hate LeAnna. You love her! You crave saving her from what? You?”

I straddle Angelica in seconds. Her teeth are no match to the thickness of my leather glove. Forcing my fingers into her mouth, I widen her out. “You don’t want comida, but you’ll take a fucking bite outta me?”

She chokes as my thumbs ram down her throat. Sliding her head around, Angelica screams. “Doooo it! Doooo it!”

I yank my Glock from the back of my jeans and batter her temple. No more temptation. Angelica’s double chin becomes more pronounced as her face falls into her bosom. I sit back on her plump legs, breathing heavily.

“What are you doing, Dario?”

I never took a woman unless I had invested time into confirming she was an ángel. Though the gordita has the name, it’s clearly not a sign of her worth. Don’t let me get started on LeAnna. Dominic’s influence ruined her.

“I let the butterflies dictate how to respond to her.” I shake my head. “Angelica’s right. I should’ve murdered LeAnna before Dom set his sights on her. Now, LeAnna’s in my fucking head.”

The others never got into my head. I got into theirs. I remember my time on the force as a forensic computer analyst. It’s the reason I’ve been able to intercept all of LeAnna’s messages with Dominic, have inside intel at her home. It’s the reason my old friends on the force stay one step behind me.

Carrington was a hotshot detective from the LAPD and started in the department a little while before my crash. I trained him on our internal database. Little did I know, once the paralysis wore off in my legs, he’d teach me a thing or two—unknowingly—things like how to follow the unit when they searched for me. I’ve had access to his notes, leads. But this, I glance around, was something I had not prepared meticulously for.

Angelica’s right. LeAnna did this. Fucked over my momentum. Love. Hate. It’s unfathomable how two divergent emotions have me shook.

“Alright, gordita.” I nod my head at the unconscious woman.

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