Eleusis (Stacked Deck Book 9) by Emilia Finn

Author:Emilia Finn [Finn, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beelieve Publishing, Pty Ltd
Published: 2020-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

William

Don’t Skip Too Much

I walk through the Rollin On Gym with a smile on my face and what some might describe as a skip to my step, though of course, since I made a promise last night to shut my mouth, I deny that skip every single time.

My sister was on me at breakfast this morning:

“Why are you smiling so much? It’s weird.”

“What did you do? You never smile like that unless you just stole something good.”

“William, don’t make me get mad at you. Do we need bail money?”

But each time she asked, I merely shook off her questioning, and started paying more attention to Giselle, the Great Dane monstrosity.

Coffee consumed, sister-welfare-check complete, I left their place with a belly full of eggs and coffee, my “secret” intact, and now here I am with a flutter in my stomach that wars with the eggs, competing to be noticed.

“Hey, Mom?”

I stop in the hallway when her voice slides through my ear and into my soul.

“What are your plans for today’s class?” she continues on a soft murmur that works to be heard over the loud cacophony of fighters slamming on each other just twenty feet away.

“I was going to work on takedowns,” Olivia’s mother answers with none of the tension in her voice that her daughter carries.

In the hall, only a few feet from a training room entrance, I plaster my back to the wall, kick one leg up to add some kind of legitimacy to my stance if someone were to walk by, and I wait.

I wait, and I listen.

“We got a small flux of new students,” her mother continues, “so I’m cycling around and working on the basics so they can keep up. Why do you ask?”

I don’t see the women, but I kind of imagine Olivia’s carefree shrug. I imagine her sexy yoga pants, and the sweat that slides along her slender torso after the class she just finished hosting.

“Just curious,” she answers. “Do you need me at your six p.m. class, or can I skip out tonight?”

The voices come a little closer, just a little louder.

“You don’t have to be there,” Lindsi replies. “I can bring one of the advanced students in to help, or Aunt Andi is starting to annoy me, so maybe she’ll volunteer.”

Olivia snorts and releases a little of the tension she’s no doubt been holding onto since last night.

Olivia Conner is not a bad girl; she’s not a secretive, sexy fuck-affair kind of girl, so no doubt she was awake all night worrying about her soul going to Hell and all that jazz. A conundrum I long ago stopped obsessing about when my options were to starve, or to steal.

“You know she won’t,” she says. “She’ll race outta here the second she gets word you’re annoyed at her.”

“Probably. What are you doing tonight?”

A moment passes where neither women speak, only to be broken by Lindsi’s, “Liv?”

“Hmm?”

“What are you doing tonight that requires you to skip class?”

“Oh.” Her voice cracks a little. Not a whole lot, and not so other people would notice.

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