Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

Author:Rachel Van Dyken [Van Dyken, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult, mafia, cancer, love story, contemporary romance, heartbreak
Publisher: Rachel Van Dyken
Published: 2015-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Sergio

I WASHED THE BLOOD FROM MY HANDS, not really sure why I was putting forth such an effort when it wasn’t going to come off unless I scrubbed like hell until my skin was raw.

The good news?

I didn’t work for the feds anymore, so I had nothing to hide. I could waltz right into Starbucks with a bloodstained shirt and tell people I’d just fallen off my Harley, and people would barely blink.

It irritated me that in the face of something so terrifying — had you not been raised in it, you’d assume it only happened on the movies — Andi had simply watched in fascination.

And then had the nerve to tell me I couldn’t protect her.

What the hell?

I slammed my hands against the marble countertop then slammed them again. “Damn it!”

“Easy tiger,” Andi said from the doorway.

I looked up at her reflection through the mirror. She walked hesitantly toward me.

I shook my head and moved away before she could touch me. It was too raw, killing them, nearly losing her, being reminded yet again that this little story wasn’t going to end happy. In the end, I would lose her.

It was up to me to decide how.

Shit.

With a scowl, I turned on the shower. “Not now, Andi, I’m not in the mood.”

“Not what you said about an hour ago.”

I started pulling off my clothes. If she wasn’t going to leave, I didn’t give a rat’s ass; I was still going to shower. I needed to get Russian slime off my body.

Steam billowed out the minute I opened the shower door.

After a few minutes, I assumed Andi had left.

I was just getting ready to turn the handle when a soft delicate hand met mine. With a curse, I closed my eyes and leaned forward, allowing my forehead to press against the glass as water dripped down my face.

Her breasts pressed up against my back; her arms wrapped around my waist. “I’m sorry.”

I couldn’t trust myself to speak. I’d always been good with words, even better with my intellect, but in that moment I had nothing. I didn’t know what to say because I’d never been in a situation so out of my control — so completely out of my element that all I wanted to do was push it to the farthest part of my brain so I wouldn’t have to think about it.

So I wouldn’t feel.

“I’m sorry I told you not to come after me.” Andi sighed, pressing a kiss against my back. “And I’m sorry I did it in front of the guys… but what I’m most sorry about is that you’re in this position, somewhere you never wanted to be in the first place.”

I let out a heavy sigh, my chest squeezing tight. Slowly, I peeled her hands away from my waist and turned. Her brown eyes were large, focused, sad. It killed me, because Andi wasn’t one of those people. Sadness looked completely foreign on her.

I hated it.

I hated it so much I vowed in that moment to do everything in my power to extinguish that emotion forever.

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