Dirty Crazy Bad: A Reverse Harem Romance (Dirty Crazy Bad Duet Book 1) by Siobhan Davis

Author:Siobhan Davis [Davis, Siobhan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Ashley

I blink profusely, unsure if I heard her correctly. Jase slides his arm around my waist from behind, holding me tight. Briefly, it registers that neither of my parents are in any way surprised by the PDAs between Jase and me. I thought I had been clever to hide my forbidden relationship from them, but it’s obvious they have known all this time. Is there anything they don’t know? My brain is close to shutting down. This is all so overwhelming, and I have barely scratched the surface of the things I need to know.

Clearing my throat, I try to focus on the horrifying new reality. “Do you mean that James Manford is my uncle?” Mom nods as I start fitting the puzzle pieces into place. “Is he a Luminary?”

“Your uncle is the Sloth Luminary, and Julia is his heir.”

“Oh my god,” I splutter as it dawns on me. “She’s my cousin.”

Her head bobs.

Oh fuck. This is…I have no words to describe this fucked-up situation. I’ve been screwing my cousin’s fiancé this whole time, and I never knew it.

I’m in love with the man she will soon call her husband.

I hate Julia Manford with the intensity of a thousand suns, and now I will forever be tied to her through blood and this Luminary shit.

All the times she has spouted “I’m the Manford heir” at me, I have scoffed at her super-inflated sense of self-importance. I thought she was referring to inheriting her father’s media business, but there is clearly a lot more to it than that.

I start laughing because it’s either that or shoot my parents myself. Once I start laughing, I can’t stop. It feels like I’m unraveling from the inside out.

Mom and Dad exchange a worried look.

I’m wiping tears from my eyes a minute later. “No wonder you were forcing me to be friends with her. Now I get why you stepped up when her mom died.”

“Julia is my niece, and I owe James my life.”

“Why?”

“It’s a long story.” She holds up a hand when my face pulls into a grimace. “Which I will tell you after you come back to the cell. We need to clean the scene and get Bree and Jase out of here before someone finds and reports them.”

“Will you be killed?” I look up at Jase as the horrifying thought lands in my brain. Judging by the way he just killed a bunch of people in cold blood without breaking a sweat, I am guessing that is the usual way things get resolved within the Luminary world. Fear for him and Bree surges through my veins.

“It’s against the law to kill a Luminary or a member of a Luminary family,” my dad explains. “Breanna and Jason are the children of the current Lust & Envy Luminary. No one can kill them without signing their own death warrant and that of their loved ones.”

I blow air out of my mouth as relief sweeps through me. But it’s only short-lived. “What form of justice would be handed down?” I ask no one in particular.

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