Lie to Me: A Second Chance Mafia Romance (The Romano Empire Book 3) by S. Wilson

Author:S. Wilson [Wilson, S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2025-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Sloane

Present

Banging on my front door wakes me from my already restless sleep, filled with images of the past and those words from the notes I’ve been left whispering from my consciousness. I dart up in my bed, frazzled and confused as fuck as to who’s trying to break my door down at—I check the time on the nightstand—2:08 a.m.

“What the fuck,” I mutter to myself and throw the covers off before heading to the door of my apartment. The closer I get, the more wary I am about who’s on the other side of that door. My steps slow, and I hold my breath as I quietly peek up through the peephole. I huff as I see my brother looking disheveled on the other side.

I swing the door open and glare at my twin, who gives me a sheepish smile in return.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”

He grunts and looks past me into the apartment. “Are you alone?”

I open the door wider for him to come in and he takes the hint, strolling inside with his hands shoved into the pockets of his slacks.

I close the door and head to the kitchen, grabbing a beer from the fridge for him and a bottle of water for me. I slide the beer across the counter to him and he takes it, fiddling with the label before peering at me with unsure eyes.

This is the first time I’ve seen him since I stormed out of his house, pissed that he’d kept something so big from me for so long. This is also the first time I’ve ever seen so much emotion in Finn’s eyes. This has clearly been eating at him.

“I’m sorry, Sloane,” he murmurs. “I’ve been away on a business trip, but came here as soon as I got back to the city.” He glances a look at the time on the stove and cringes. “Which I probably shouldn’t have done, but I’ve been going out of my fucking mind knowing that you’re pissed at me. I needed to see you and tell you how fucking sorry I am for not telling you.”

“All those times, Finn,” I mutter. “All those times I cried silent tears on the phone to you. All those times I told myself that I was unlovable because of what happened between me and Marco. And yet even when I came back to the city, you sat and told me to hear him out when you knew the truth. You let me blow him off every single time he tried to talk to me. You let me think that everything between us was a lie for years. You knew that Dad knew all this time, you knew he had threatened Marco, and you never told me. You just carried on playing his little bitch boy until he went and got himself killed.”

Finn’s eyes glaze over with an emotion I’ve never seen on his face before. It’s a mixture of denial, regret, and something that looks like… shame? I’m honestly not sure.

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