Double-Crossed by Ali Vali

Author:Ali Vali [Vali, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635554779
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2019-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Reed returned with more shopping bags than she’d ever put in her car at once and found Brinley and Finn asleep on her sofa. The stress of the day before seemed to have caught up with them, and the silence gave her a minute to think. Not killing these people had been the right thing to do, but keeping them here long term wasn’t something she was prepared for.

She put all the stuff Brinley had requested on the counter and in the refrigerator and took the time to unbox all the toys she’d gotten for the kid. With any luck her windows and doors would survive if he had something softer to play with. She left everything on the coffee table and went upstairs to the bedroom to shower and change. She felt like she’d been wearing the same clothes for a week.

The house was still quiet when she put on a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt, so she closed the door to the bathroom and called Sofia. There was no reason to keep her waiting any longer since she had new things to handle.

“Hello.” Sofia spoke softly, and she seemed to be alone since there wasn’t any noise from her end.

“Mrs. Madison, I believe our business is done, and it’s time for us to move on.” Reed stared at her reflection and made a mental note to get a haircut.

“Why didn’t you tell me that bastard was planning to kill me?” The rage was easy to hear, but it was misplaced.

“He’s dead, so what does it matter?” She came close to laughing when Sofia let out a strangled scream. “I read the woman’s texts, or should I say really young woman? She was more than a bedmate—she was an enticement to talk him into killing you. That I didn’t know until they were both dead.”

“You read her texts, or you overheard them talking?”

“Believe me, their conversation was limited and had nothing to do with you.” She heard Finn’s muffled laughter from the other room. He’d found his new stash.

“Why didn’t you take her phone, you idiot?” People like Sofia who’d grown up wanting for nothing were all the same. Their mouth engaged with no thought of consequences, because up to now there had been none.

“Mrs. Madison, you asked for your husband’s death to look like an accident, and that’s what you paid a tremendous amount of money for. A nineteen-year-old with no cell phone makes people suspicious, and suspicion erases the odds it was an accident.”

“A death plot outlined on the phone makes me a suspect, which in no way is what I asked for. But since that’s what happened, go ahead and cut your fee in half.” Sofia barked orders as if she already had her inheritance and could actually carry out the threat.

“The police still think you’re a suspect after they saw who that kid was taking orders from?” The police telling Diego Moretti that Caterina Terzo had tried to goad Victor into killing Sofia

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