Kiss of Redepmtion by Maggie Cole

Author:Maggie Cole [Cole, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pulse Press Inc

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Beckett

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“Damn it!” I kick the ground as Mia’s SUV tears away from me.

I can’t do this with you. Mia’s words play over and over.

Ryland climbs down the ladder. “Where’s Mia going?”

I throw my hands in the air in frustration. “I don’t know, but she took her gun.”

“What?”

“She said since I’m not going to tell her what’s going on that she’ll have to figure out who is good and who is bad.”

“Beckett, she knows Henry is part of this.”

My gut is flipping, but Ryland’s words make it flip even more. “I know.”

“Maybe you should tell her.”

I jerk my head at him. “About what we’re planning? No way!”

“No. Not that. Just what happened that night and who was part of it.”

This is bad. “Mia shouldn’t know anything. It’s too dangerous for her.”

“Maybe it’s more dangerous for her not to know. Besides, it isn’t like she is going to tell anyone.”

The same fear I always have fills me. “I don’t know.”

Ryland looks around to make sure no one is around us and says, “What do you remember about a girl named Veronica?”

“Veronica?”

“Yeah. She said she was ‘friends’ with Clay, hung out a few times. Blonde, nice body?”

“Blonde, nice body...can you be more specific?” I raise my eyebrows. “That sounds like half the girls in our class that were all over Clay.”

“Okay, killer body. Said she met Clay at the bonfires, so I don’t think she went to your school.”

I wrack my mind. Someone who didn’t go to our school who Clay met at the bonfires.

I snap my fingers. “There was a girl right before Clay died. I only met her a few times. She hooked up with Clay, probably four or five times. I don’t know much about her. Why do you ask?”

“We saw her in one of the shops. She said Mia looked familiar, and she has a twisted heart tattooed on her collarbone.”

My eyes widen as chills run through me. “Are you sure it’s the same tattoo?”

“Positive.”

The tattoo is what Skates has on his forearm. Members of his gang have the same symbol inked on their skin to signal they are loyal to him for life.

I know that tattoo well. Several inmates had it, and over the years, more and more had come into the prison I was at. Skates’ gang had substantially grown over the past decade. Gang fights in the prison were common and, as Skates’ power grew, so did the pressure to join.

It didn’t matter if you were in prison or outside. Skates had plenty of “jobs” for his members to do for him. Recruiting new members was part of the gangs’ duty.

“She could have met Skates after everything went down. I don’t remember her having a tattoo ten years ago, but I could be forgetting.”

“She said she thought Mia had died. There wasn’t a death announcement in the paper about Mia. It only said that she was shot. Her grandparents held the joint funeral and told everyone she died, but it was never announced.”

“News on the island travels fast though.

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