Deadly Seduction (Deadliest Love Book 2) by Holly Bloom

Author:Holly Bloom [Bloom, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781916588127
Publisher: Dark Bloom Publishing
Published: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

CALLEN

Freddie’s eyes narrow in suspicion, looking from the gun in my hand to our newest furniture addition. “Why is there a dead body in our living room?”

Thankfully, thinking under pressure is what I do best.

“Don’t you think he adds to the aesthetic?” I reply. “The addition of brains gives the room an extra pop.”

“Skip the bullshit, Callen,” Seb growls. “Start talking.”

“What can I say? I’m a hero.” I shrug casually, while Rose keeps her sweet, sassy-talking mouth shut for a change. “I saved Rose from an intruder.”

“Rose!” Seb hurries over and wraps his arm around Little Miss Innocent’s shaking shoulders. She’s giving an Oscar-winning performance with a trembling bottom lip. “Are you okay?”

“I think so,” she stammers. Damn, she’s good. “It all happened so fast…”

“What happened, Callen?” Freddie growls, snatching the gun from my hand and inspecting it. “This isn’t one of ours.”

“It’s his.” I point at the corpse. “He burst in here shouting about revenge for his brother and grabbed Rose in a chokehold. I tackled him to the ground to free her.”

Why not make myself sound like a hero?

“Is that what happened, Rose?” Freddie asks.

I stifle a laugh at the irony. He’s trusting her word over mine. Doesn’t he know it’s the quiet ones you need to watch out for? Rose is a cold-blooded, ruthless killer hiding in plain sight, but I won’t spill her secret yet. First, I’ll find out what game she’s playing and who she is, without Seb or Freddie muscling in. In the meantime, I’ll carry more weapons.

“Yes,” Rose affirms my story. She has to unless she wants to admit that she pulled the trigger herself. “He got inside somehow. Callen…”

“Saved you from the big scary man,” I prompt her. “Didn’t I, Rose?”

Her jaw tenses and she replies coolly, “Yes, you did.”

The others don’t notice. They’re too busy flapping around and wanting to kiss her boo-boos better. Seb puts his fingers under her chin and turns her face to examine the cut on her face from a shard of glass. “You’re hurt.”

“I’m fine,” she dismisses. “It’s just a scratch.”

“He’d have torn her pretty head off if I wasn’t around,” I say to infuriate her more. “She’s lucky I was here.”

“Our location is compromised,” Seb says. Where did Freddie find this chump? The only thing private education taught him was to state the fucking obvious. “If they know where we live, it’s not safe here.”

Freddie nods and turns to me. “You made the mess. Now you need to clear it up.” My smug grin vanishes, and Rose coughs to disguise a laugh behind her hand. She owes me. Cleaning is no fun. “We will meet you at the safe house.”

“A safe house?” Rose squeaks. “You have one of those?”

Buckle up, buttercup. Her friends won’t be able to track her down where we’re going and when I get her alone, she’ll give me the answers I want… or I’ll have to force them out of her.

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