Decoy by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms [Timms, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, sexy, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, crime, crime thriller, heist, thriller, kidnapping, vigilante
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2022-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Andreas

LEO SAT OPPOSITE ME, rolling the unlit cigarette between his fingers, waiting for me to respond.

“Under arrest?” I asked, and he nodded.

“That’s the best I can offer,” he replied. “That doesn’t involve sticking you in the back of a van and taking you away right now.”

I winced. I knew I had been taking a risk coming out here, but this was a bigger one than I had been prepared for. I couldn’t go to prison, not now – there was too much on the line, too many pieces in the air to even think about it.

“So why aren’t you doing that?” I asked.

“Because we need you to help us stop Nikita,” Leo explained. “Mauro’s led me to believe that you’re trustworthy, at least as far as your rivalry with the Serbians is concerned. And I need you to prove that to me, right now.”

“Doing what?” I asked, shaking my head. I had no idea what he was going to ask of me. But I had to be willing to play along with them. It was strange to think of Mauro working with these people, making it so they knew everything about me, but I had to accept it was the truth. There was no way they could have made this up.

“Okay, let me tell you what we have on the Nikita situation,” he told me, leaning back in his seat. He glanced around us, making sure that nobody was listening in, before he continued.

“He’s planning to marry Nadia tomorrow,” he explained, and I had to clench my fist under the table to keep from reacting. I already knew that, but it didn’t make it any easier to hear it coming out of his mouth. Nikita really thought that he could just take Nadia from me, as though it was that easy? He had another fucking thing coming.

“But, in truth, he’s going to use it to start an all-out war with you and your cohorts,” Leo continued. “Now, that’s the last thing we want. It’s hard enough to keep you both out of trouble without more reason for you to fight than ever.”

“I don’t get it,” I replied, shaking my head. “We’re - how is him getting married to Nadia going to lead to a war?”

“Because he’s not going to let her make it out of their reception,” he replied. “They’re going to have their first dance, and he’s going to have someone pick her off before she can so much as cut the cake.”

My eyes widened and my stomach dropped.

“What the fuck are you talking about?” I demanded. The thought of Nadia in some beautiful gown, being taken out by some bastard on her wedding day stuck in my brain at once, lodging itself inside in that dangerous, frightening way that only losing someone you loved could.

“He’s setting it up to make it look as though you’re the one who killed her,” Leo explained. “He’s going to be weeping over her body and then he’s going to declare war on you and your people.

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