Duty (Andino + Haven Book 1) by Bethany-Kris

Author:Bethany-Kris [Bethany-Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
Published: 2018-10-07T18:30:00+00:00

ELEVEN

November …

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December …

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The truth always came out eventually. That was thing about secrets and lies. No matter how strong a web of lies was woven, it only took one thread to unravel for the rest to come crashing down. And secrets? Well, one could only keep those hidden for so long before someone stumbled upon something they shouldn’t.

Or in Andino’s case … his boss finding out who he’d been working with behind the man’s back. Yeah, maybe he should have known better, but for now, he was going to blame it on life getting in the way, and making him fucking stupid.

“Cross Donati?”

Andino was a little busy staring at the bareness of the grand entry in the Marcello mansion to really care about how loudly his boss was yelling at him. Bare, he thought, because here it was the twenty-sixth of December, and not a decoration hung from the walls. No green garland twisting up the bannister of the grand staircase, and no Christmas tree in the middle of the hall tall enough to touch the ceiling.

Every year that he could remember, this mansion became a winter wonderland at Christmastime. It never failed. Sure, his grandmother, Cecelia, had stepped back over the years to allow her sons’ wives to do the majority of the work and planning for their decorating and parties this time of year, but still.

It was never not done.

It was never bare of decorations.

Andino found it a little distracting.

“Cross fucking Donati,” Dante snarled.

He glanced at his uncle, but he didn’t know what Dante wanted him to say. Likely nothing, considering the way the man was staring at him. Sometimes, being silent was better, especially when all your shit finally caught up to you.

Or, that’s what his father always told him.

Speaking of who …

“You were told not to work with Cross,” Gio said.

Andino shrugged. “Dante needed his guns run, didn’t he? What did you all want me to do?”

“Find someone else!”

Dante’s shout echoed.

It all felt like vibrations bouncing off Andino’s form. He was numb to this—to their anger, and disappointment. Unfeeling about their fucking feelings. It was business at the end of the day, and Andino only cared about making sure business was done.

Nothing more, and nothing less.

“And when were you going to tell us that you had Cross running our guns?” his other uncle, Lucian, asked.

Beside him, John shifted from foot to foot, clearly uncomfortable. He was finally back and settled after chasing his sister all across the fucking United States, but he was trying to lay low, and keep himself out of trouble. Not that Andino blamed his cousin, really. Still, where one of the two went in this family, the other one was sure to follow.

Or, it seemed that way.

“Andino made a choice,” John said, “and given the circumstances, it wasn’t the wrong choice, necessarily, but—”

“It was the wrong choice,” Dante barked, “and nobody asked you, Johnathan.”

John stiffened, but quieted.

Andino, on the other hand, was just about done with this whole fucking thing.

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