Enzio: An Undercover Romance by Bry Ann

Author:Bry Ann [Ann, Bry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

Nix

“Nix? Are you there? Nix?”

“Sage,” I sigh. “I’m right here.”

I can almost see her nibbling on her nails, legs tucked into her chest in our bed.

“You okay?”

Her voice is barely above a whisper. She’s trying not to seem as worried as she is for my sake, but I know her. I know Sage better than I know anyone. Sage is my girlfriend. Such an arbitrary title for all that she is to me. She’s everything. She’s the reason I see any good at all in this fucked up world.

She’s mine.

But more than that, I’m hers. I’ll forever be hers.

Even if she casts me aside. Hurts me. Rejects me. Hates me.

I’ll be hers. Because I owe her absolutely fuckin’ everything.

“Sage, I’m fine. I told you. I’m just helping my sister out a bit.” To say it lightly…

“Nix, I miss you.”

Again, her voice is barely audible. And this, this is why I’m helping this group of chaotic, criminal and naive individuals, because if I got arrested for all the things I do, Sage would fall apart. And Lacey reminds me too much of Sage to stand down. Not to mention my sister, Rose, is married to one of the men who got arrested. Now, no one can nominate me for brother of the year or anything. I don’t talk to Rose much even though I know she’s desperate for me to. She tries to understand my distance, tries to play off the hurt it causes her, but I know it’s there. I love her. I really do. I just can’t let go of the past. I can’t get over the jealous boy I was growing up. Every time I see her, I see the blonde girl in pigtails running around the front yard, not a care in the world, with my father, when that same man was forcing me to commit unspeakable crimes while he snuck off to fuck my mother. The woman Rose thought was dead.

The woman who abused me mercilessly for who I was.

Aaron Marketta’s son. Yeah, Aaron Marketta. Serial Killer. Dealer. And father. By title only, I assure you.

Not that Rose knew any of this. It’s not her fault. She didn’t even know I existed, but I still can’t get over it.

“I know. Me too. I’m coming home. I promise, doll.”

There’s a squeak on the other end of the phone like she’s biting back tears.

“Pamela misses you.”

I smirk. Pamela is her — our — stuffed hippo. It’s a long story. Sage has lived in hell, and in hell, there are angels. Pamela was one of them. Pamela gave Sage that hippo, and when awful things happened to her, Sage would look at that hippo and hold on. She’d keep the promise she made Pamela in her dying moments, and not let her mind wander off too far. She never let it float off into a place that was unreachable, like so many of the other girls did to protect themselves. So yeah, that hippo is ‘our pet’. No matter how weird it is, that damn hippo is the reason Sage made it out somewhat sane.

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