Infinite Sorrow: La Reina de Escorpiones Duet Book I by Dahlia Reign

Author:Dahlia Reign [Reign, Dahlia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“La Sombra? You’re positive?” Gabriel’s voice pulled me back from the unknown. My eyes moved rapidly behind my eyelids, but I couldn’t open them.

“Yes. The men have his body for confirmation.” Mateo sounded exhausted.

“Mierda. And that’s all he said?”

Mateo repeated his words one more time. They were both in agreement, certain they knew who hired the hit. And then I was lost to obscurity.

I coughed past the dryness in my throat, my hands feeling along the jagged stitches under my jaw. The devil inside me had wanted to escape but he was sealed back up.

“Don’t touch.” Mateo gently repositioned my arms, begging me to sleep while lying about the fact that I was safe.

A short time later, I was awoken by cold fingertips inspecting the wound. An overhead light was shining down on me, making the figure blurry. My mouth opened, to beg them to turn it off, when a calloused palm clamped over it, silencing me. His silhouette encased me, stalling my thrashing and increasing my panic.

It was him; he was back.

“Camila, calm down.” He held my wrists in one fisted palm, while the other remained on my mouth. “I’ll remove my hand once you promise not to scream.” The moment I nodded, air filled my lungs. “Good girl.”

“W-who are you?” I blinked several more times, and things slowly started to come into focus. “No,” I gasped.

“Hi, Camila.” A ghost of a man stared back at me. “I’ve missed you.” His eyes roved over my body, scalding my skin as I lay hidden under the sheet. “S-Santiago. You’re dead.” The deceased Entente brother had returned from the grave.

“She remembers.” His smile was crooked, his neck and jaw riddled with scars. “I came back for everything that was stolen from me.” He sniffed my hair, the gesture sending a jolt of something strange through my nerve endings. When I was a child, I didn’t really understand death, not until my parents’ joint executions. It was so much loss at once I didn’t get a chance to linger on his death very long. And now he’s back… wanting what was stolen from him.

Me. And my cartel.

“Have you been dreaming of me? Of our time at the hotel?”

Santiago had raped me. The man my father had chosen for me to marry. The man who was supposed to protect me. He was the same man who took something from me—something that no longer belonged to him. All the truths and lies fluttered to the surface and each new realization made me come alive. He kissed my forehead, turning his muscular back on me and heading to the door, the white doctor’s coat pulling tight across his broad shoulders.

And I lost my composure. “You motherfucker,” I shouted as his hand gripped the doorknob. He turned, suddenly back at my side with the overhead lamp blinding me once more. The door opened and several people rushed into the room. Shouts seemingly came from everywhere, and I fought their hands as I teared at my own skin.

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