Lace Vengeance by Eve Dangerfield

Author:Eve Dangerfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Bristol

Mr. Leblanc’s driver takes me to Mia and Ben’s school to pick them up, and it’s more than a little weird, waiting in the carpool line in a fancy SUV. The final bell rings, and kids pour out of the front entrance. They all run down the steps like they barely survived. Like they can’t wait to be free in the sun.

Mia and Ben are walking a little slower than the rest.

We were all up most of the night. It would probably have been best for them to sleep, but the apartment had to get cleared out. It was much drier at school.

Mia picks up her head as they reach the bottom step and sees me standing by the black SUV. Her eyes fly open wide. Then they’re both sprinting to me, colliding in a hug.

“Is that your car?” she asks. “What’s going on?”

“It’s my boss’s car.” I could tell them a white lie and say that Mr. Leblanc is my friend, but he’s not. He’s never been my friend. “We’re going to be staying at his place while the apartment gets fixed.”

I usher them into the car. When we’re finished buckling up, I find Ben staring at me.

“Your boss’s apartment?” He says this like I announced we’d be living on the moon until the Queen of England came to personally renovate the apartment in Building C. “Is it close to ours?”

“No. It’s in a different part of the city.” A nice part, judging by the address.

I don’t say anything about timelines. I’m still in disbelief myself. I knew Will Leblanc was rich. I assumed he was powerful, like all people with money are powerful. I knew he was good at managing his company. I knew he was meticulous.

What I didn’t expect is how easily he’d take over at the apartment.

I only had one goal: put everything I could into clear garbage bags. I couldn’t think much beyond that. I knew how it would go. Angry apartment administrators. Another even shittier living situation for the twins. A long, long wait.

Not so, once Mr. Leblanc entered the picture.

He didn’t ask people to come put the apartment back together again on an impossible deadline. He told them they’d do it. Mr. Leblanc briskly agreed to pay triple the rates to more than one of the contractors he called. I never got the impression that any of them hesitated.

Movers showed up at two o’clock. Three people to take out the bags of clothes and books and the very small collection of ragged stuffed animals the twins have managed to keep. It was loaded into the back of Mr. Leblanc’s SUV in less than five minutes.

They’d just stepped out when two guys from the construction company came to survey the damage. I passed the cleaning team on the way out of the building. I bet they already have the broken plaster out of the living room.

“Is he nice?” Mia stares out the window at the city blocks rolling by.

Nice isn’t the word for Will Leblanc.

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