Dirty Souls (Sins Duet Book 2) by Karina Halle

Author:Karina Halle [Halle, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Metal Blonde Books
Published: 2017-03-20T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Javier

“What did you do to her!?” Luisa shrieks, bursting through the door into his office.

He flinches at the sight of her, his grip on the glass of tequila tightening.

It’s only 10 am but this is needed.

Oh, it’s needed.

“Please lower your voice,” Javier says quietly, trying to look calm. In control. As always.

But Luisa knows him too well. She saw him flinch. She knows he’s drinking too early.

She knows he fucked up.

And he did fuck up, he knows he did too. Did a thing he didn’t think he would do, at least not at this point in the game. But he did it right out of the gate.

After he first met Ellie, when he later learned that her scarred leg was because of his ex-boss, Travis Raines, a monster that poured acid on her leg as a child, he wanted nothing more than brutal revenge for what he did to her.

Brutal revenge, coupled with the total takeover of his cartel.

In the end he got both. Even Ellie got her revenge on him, though it came at the cost of her own mother.

Travis was a sick man with a lot of power, one of the worst combinations possible. A rich gringo with no soul who thought he could waltz into Mexico and take from the Mexicans.

And he did. His cartel flourished until Javier took it over.

Never in a million years did Javier think he could ever relate to him.

And yet here he is, numbing it with alcohol, wishing he could be anywhere but here, listening to his wife.

She’s adept at making him feel bad.

“I didn’t do anything to get yourself worked up about.”

“I heard her scream, Javier. All the way from the basement. That scream…” she presses her palms at her ears, pinches her eyes shut. “I can still hear it.”

Javier takes a slow sip of his drink before he says, “She’ll recover.”

“She’s twenty years old,” Luisa says. “She’s far from home, taken by a fucking madman, the father of her lover.”

Javier eyes her sharply. “You know I am not a madman. I am doing what I’ve always done.”

“Sometimes you have to change, Javi,” she says, leaning against the desk, pleading with her eyes. “Sometimes you have to adapt. What works for some people…she’s a child. I know you want to toughen up Vicente but you have to change your tactics. She’s not a rival. She’s not a snitch. She’s done nothing to you.”

Javier’s jaw grows tense.

Luisa is right. She’s also right about him being a madman.

It’s something he’s prided himself on, pretending to take no pleasure in the suffering of others. At some point that was true. Over the years, when the bitterness took over his heart, that stopped being valid.

But he’s rarely tortured out of anger. If his ways are mad, they are done with reverence.

What he did to Violet was sloppy.

It was an impulse he didn’t mean to let loose.

She pushed all the wrong buttons.

She wasn’t afraid enough.

But she is afraid now, he tells himself. And that’s what counts.

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