Deadly Games by Mary Stone & Bella Cross

Author:Mary Stone & Bella Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

15

It felt better to get home and change into comfortable boxers and a camisole, but once Kylie sat down on the couch and looked around, she decided the rest of the day would be for moping. Not relaxing. Not binge-watching her favorite television shows. Not cleaning or catching up on errands. Not any of the things she wanted to do whenever she was working.

Moping. The end.

Her mostly empty apartment was so lonely and depressing, since she was surrounded by all these “rejects”—the things she hadn’t needed or wanted enough to take them on the nights she stayed with Linc. It was a perfect place for the activity.

She felt a little like a reject now too. She knew she’d only feel worse if she allowed herself to dwell on it.

But dwell, she did.

Grabbing her laptop, she opened it up and started to google everything she could possibly think of regarding William Adam Hatfield. When she’d exhausted herself by looking at every picture of him and his new family on the internet, she threw herself back against the couch, half-hating him, half-mourning his lack of presence in her life.

What was it that lady at Cityside Garbage had said? Something about the owner of the company being arrested? Her father had been in thick with the family, and they’d been criminals. He’d wanted Kylie to get away. In fact, he’d seemed desperate to get her out of his office. Maybe that had something to do with his odd behavior. Maybe that’s why he’d wanted to get her mother away, all those years ago. Maybe he was protecting them.

Scratching her head, Kylie thought back to the man’s name. Joey Gallo? She typed it in, along with Cityside Garbage.

Hundreds of results poured forth. The first one was an article from The New York Times. Cityside Garbage Services Top Man Nabbed for Extortion, Possible Mafia Ties.

Kylie’s eyes widened. Mafia?

Kylie clicked on the article, but it told her that she needed a subscription. She found another one, down farther, for another New York newspaper that was similar and clicked on it. It was a later article, mentioning that the case had never been brought to trial, and Gallo had been released because of some no-show witnesses. At the end of the article, it said, Gallo is suspected of having ties to one of the city’s most notorious crime families, the Colombo syndicate.

As she read, that spidey sense inside her, the one she always got when something was wrong, started to buzz. The Colombo crime family?

Gallo’s arrest had happened just about the time that her father had switched to the new job in Manhattan. Around that same time, he’d told Kylie’s mother that he wanted to succeed in life and provide for the baby and seemed ambitious enough to go after it. Had his ambition gotten him involved in the mafia? Was he still involved now? Was that the reason he’d left her mother with no explanation whatsoever?

She googled the Colombo crime family and got millions of results. They were one of the five families, the most powerful mafia syndicate in the city.

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