Evil Boys by Clarissa Wild

Author:Clarissa Wild [Wild, Clarissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clarissa Wild
Published: 2023-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

LANA

I swallow the damn rage I’d felt mere hours before.

Kai leans in sideways to whisper, “You wanted to know why he needed the money. Now you know.”

No wonder Nathan said it was a matter of life and death.

That trade wasn’t just to pay off the debt his mom and dad owed. It was to save her. That tiny little girl hankering for his hugs, looking up to her big brother like he’s her entire world.

Everything she has left after the world has crumbled around her.

Rory looks around with awestruck eyes. “Is this your home?”

A proud smile forms on Nathan’s face. “Yup.”

“Can I live here too?”

“Oh my God, she’s so cute.” Milo bursts out into aahs and oohs and the sound almost makes me burst out into laughter too.

“No can do, Ro, sorry. You can stay for a couple of days, but nothing more,” Nathan says. “This society is for grown boys only.”

“Aw …” She pouts. “But I like Milo.”

She turns her head to look at him, and he winks at her.

“Do you now?” Nathan muses. “Well, you’re not the only one.”

“He gave me this lollipop,” she says, showing Nathan a bright red one.

“Milo keeps those stashed away in the kitchen for when he’s got one of his midnight cravings again,” Kai whispers into my ear.

And I have to say, I’m not even mad I’m being fed all these details I never knew I needed.

Everything’s suddenly starting to make sense.

“I love strawberry. It’s my favorite!” Rory excitedly waves it around.

“When all of this is over and you’re done living with Auntie, I’ll take you to an ice cream shop and you can have as many strawberry scoops as you like. Okay?”

Her face lights up like fireworks. The kind that brings joy to even the most fucked-up souls. “Really?”

Her smile is contagious as Nathan begins to grin. “Pinky promise.” He hooks his pinky around hers again. “Swear on my life.”

“Yay!”

When he puts her down, he momentarily glances at me, and for a moment, all the pain and darkness in his eyes are back.

As though he means to tell me everything there is to know about him with just one single look.

A guy dead set on protecting the only family he has left.

And it breaks all the resolve and hatred I have burning within me.

Rory grabs his hand and drags him with her. “C’mon! I’ve gotta show you the unicorn in Milo’s room!”

“Unicorn?” Nathan narrows his eyes at Milo.

He simply shrugs with a big old smile as we head toward his room upstairs. Sure enough, there’s a human-sized stuffed unicorn right in the middle of his room. “Bought it on the way to her place. I figured she might want a friend while she waited here for you.”

“You’re nuts,” Nathan jests, shaking his head at Milo.

We all gaze in wonder at a little girl having the time of her life on an imaginary rainbow ride.

Nathan finally approaches us and looks at Kai first. “Thank you for helping out.”

“It was nothing,” Kai says.

“Eh, we just stole some shit and sold it for cash, big deal,” Milo says.

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