Killer Desire--A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Alexis Abbott

Author:Alexis Abbott [Abbott, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pathforgers Publishing

Luca

“No... no, you’ve got to be kidding me,” Serena breathes as we pull up to Bathing Beauty and see the big yellow sign posted on the front door. We don’t even need to get out to see the big bold word CLOSED written at the top of it.

Coming here in the first place was a risk, but it was a calculated risk. I had some men scout around the area before us to make sure there were no police watching the area. But just to be cautious, I also had them draw the attention of any beat cops a couple blocks down.

There’s still no word of my escape in the news. They likely don’t want to draw attention to the fact that one of Detective Prince’s prized inmates escaped and are keeping it hush-hush. Still, it’s been eerily quiet, and I know it won’t last. But I have to take it day by day.

When the guard had intruded on us back on the island, he said there had been sightings of police investigating Serena’s shop. Looks like the reports were right.

As we come to a stop around the back of the building and Serena hops out of the car to run up to the sign, I pull my hood over my head and don my old aviators. It doesn’t help make me look less suspicious, but it does make me a little harder to spot as anyone but just another shady figure.

There’s no shortage of those, this time of night.

I step up next to Serena and put a big hand on her shoulder as she stares at the notice with a gaping mouth, and I can see anger rising in her cheeks.

It’s a police notice. The sign is a bunch of jargon, but in short, it says the business is temporarily closed because of an ongoing police investigation, and that removing the sign is a punishable offense.

“How could they do this?” Serena stammers, looking up to me with panic in her eyes. “This place is-is my livelihood! They don’t have anything tying me to... anything!”

“It’s a threat,” I say in a grave tone, reading the thing over again and glancing over my shoulder. My hand slides from her shoulder to her smaller hand, and I give her a tug to follow me around the back of the building. “Come on, we should get out of sight.”

“Where?” she asks, following me.

“Inside,” I say. “Looks like nobody’s doing any investigating right now, it’ll be better than hanging out on the street.”

We go to the back door, and Serena unlocks it to allow us to step inside. We enter, and I can immediately tell things are off.

Serena flicks on a light, and there are signs of tampering everywhere. As I step through the shop with her, I can tell that inventory has been moved around roughly, the office has been nearly torn apart from someone searching through any files Serena happened to have around, and even the front of the store has been looked through.

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