Partners (Fire & Lies - One) by Lilliana Anderson

Author:Lilliana Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, australian romance, revenge story, alpha romance, fiesty female

Chapter Fourteen

JULY, three years ago

“OY, YOU. Get your head into gear. These walls aren’t going to paint themselves,” Aiden’s sister Marli said when she saw him get lost in thought yet again. “What’s up with you today?”

“Nothing,” he grunted, dipping his roller into the charcoal coloured paint and running it over the drip tray before lifting it to the wall to paint over the powdery blue that was there before.

When their father had passed away the year before, Marli and Aiden had inherited his old, failing bar. Together, they had decided to turn it into a nightclub but the decorating was all Marli. She had decided that they should paint the walls with black and then put some sparkly metallic shit all over them so they resembled the galaxy or something.

Aiden and her husband, Jeff, couldn’t really see the point in making the walls any colour–nightclubs were dark. No one would see anything anyway. But they both thought the world of Marli and would do anything she wanted to keep her happy.

“That isn’t a nothing face, Aiden. Spit it out. I’m not going to leave you alone until you spill.”

“Can you drop it?” he replied, focusing on the wall in front of him.

Of course, being a woman who was used to deciphering the men in her life through her own intuition, she didn’t leave it alone at all.

“Did something happen at work? Is there a problem with you taking so much leave?”

“No.”

“No? Do you hate the wall colour?” she tried again.

“No, Marli,” he laughed. “I’m fine. Just tired.”

“Are you coming down with something?”

“No.”

“What’s going on?” Jeff asked, as he entered the room with more paint.

“Nothing is going on,” Aiden replied, beginning to feel a little exasperated.

“Aiden’s been staring off into space and he won’t tell me why,” Marli supplied.

“He’s probably affected by your galaxy paint idea,” Jeff teased with a laugh.

“Very funny, fuckface,” she said, flipping her middle finger up at him as she grumbled about neither of them having an idea that was any better.

“It’s probably about a girl,” Jeff added, using the corner of a paint scraper to work at the rim of the paint tin to lift the lid.

Marli laughed. “A girl? Aiden? I’m sorry, that’s just hilarious. Have you ever seen Aiden spend more than the necessary time to bed and move on from a girl?”

“I don’t know. He’s got that look about him. I remember feeling the way he’s looking when I started dating you. Look at him. He’s got this goofy grin twisting his mouth up.”

“Would you two just fuck off and get some work done. You were bitching about me not working, and you’re both too busy standing around gawking at me to get any bloody work done yourselves.”

He glanced around at the two of them, glowering before turning back to his own section of the room.

“Oh. My. God,” Marli gasped, after taking that opportunity to study his face properly. “You’re right, Jeff. Holy shit, Aiden. Who is she? I have to meet her.

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