Dangerous Command: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Adler Brothers Book 3) by Audrey Rush

Author:Audrey Rush [Rush, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Maddie

In the living room, we stared at each other for a long time.

“Not just his protection,” he said, “but yours too, Mads. Think about it.”

That nickname sent a chill down my spine. It made us seem so close. But I had to stay firm.

“I am thinking about it,” I said. “And he doesn’t need violence in his life. You have to figure your shit out.”

That is, if he wanted to stick around. I shook my head at myself. Why did I want him around? There were so many reasons to kick him out, and yet I loved seeing how he was with Mack. How he was with me.

My phone rattled, bringing me out of my thoughts. I blinked, then glanced at Derek. He nodded, telling me to answer it. I went to the hallway.

“Hello?” I asked.

“So I wasn’t wrong, then,” a familiar woman’s voice said. “It was you.”

Tina. “Yeah,” I said. “It’s me. How’d you get my number, anyway?”

“I have my ways,” she said, her voice as sly as ever. “Tim just got home.”

Whoa. They were living together now? “You got hitched to your high school sweetheart then, huh?”

“Yeah,” she gave a laugh. “A lot has happened since you left.”

I suppressed the heartache. When you had a stepdad like mine, you learned quickly that you couldn’t keep anyone close, even if they were your only friends, like Tina and Tim had once been.

“What’s going on, anyway?” I asked.

“When I told Tim what happened, with you showing up with that guy, we agreed that something was up. We wanted to make sure you were okay, that you weren’t being coerced into something.”

Heat gathered in my face as I peered down the hallway at Derek, the phone still clutched to my ear. He hadn’t forced me to do this, but Tina knew how I desperately wanted to get out of that life. And showing up on her doorstep after a decade of silence, asking about Miles Muro, a famous crime boss, didn’t exactly signal that I was staying away.

“You were worried about me?” I asked.

“I mean, if he’s asking about Muro out in the open and demanding you go everywhere together, he’s probably in the mob, right?” her voice cracked. She cleared her throat, then continued: “Maybe he’s even the head boss. Is he taking over Midnight Miles Corporation? Are you alright? What’s going on, anyway?”

When I decided to leave Brackston, I left everyone behind, including her. Our relationship hadn’t been great for years by the time I ran away, but she had never left my mind. She was one of the few things I wished I could have kept in my life, but at the time, she wanted to work for my stepdad, and I had to get away.

And since I ran away, things had changed. My hair color. My name. Anything to help me forget who I was when I had lived in Brackston.

“We’re trying to figure out this thing with Muro,” I said. “But what about you? How are you and Tim?”

“We’re fine.

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