Perfect Enemies: A New Adult Mafia Romance (The Five Families Book 6) by Jill Ramsower

Author:Jill Ramsower [Ramsower, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jill Ramsower, LLC
Published: 2021-07-06T18:30:00+00:00

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Valentina

Things changed after Valentine's. Kane never verbally defined where we stood, but everything about his demeanor around me changed. We became a couple. Friends. More. I woke each morning excited to start my day and fell asleep each night smiling at the memory of his touch. The only thing that interrupted my contentment was a sliver of confusion that wedged its way between us. We texted, and Kane made sure everyone at school knew I was his, but we didn’t hang out alone, and he never asked me on a date. For each of the past two weekends, he’d had excuses that kept him away—they were valid but still frustrating. The one time we did anything outside of school, we included Reyna, just as he’d promised. I appreciated him thinking of her, but in two weeks, we hadn’t spent any time with just the two of us. I tried to remember that he’d asked for my patience, and two weeks was hardly any time at all, but patience wasn’t my most abundant virtue.

Each day, I walked through the Xavier entrance with a grin, itching to see Kane since school was the only place we were together. I would round up Reyna from the library, then loiter in the hallway by Kane’s locker, waiting for him to come sauntering down the hall. Our eyes would meet at a distance when his towering frame came into view. My heart would leap into my throat. When he finally reached me, he would pull me in close and whisper, “Hey, baby,” into my ear. Those two simple words vibrated through me, warming my blood and summoning thoughts no good Catholic schoolgirl should have.

It was a magical way to start a day.

However, on Tuesday, March third, just two weeks after we started in this new direction, I entered a strange new dimension where everything was topsy-turvy. Nothing about that day went as planned.

If it had been possible, I would have bleached the day from my memory entirely.

I waited for Kane by his locker—that was as long as the normalcy lasted. Other classmates came and went. Reyna stood with me briefly before heading to class when the first bell rang. I waited until the tardy bell, but Kane never appeared.

I shot him a quick text before rushing to first period, trying not to worry. By lunch, I still hadn’t heard from him. My appetite shriveled up to nothing. Rey tried to reassure me, but I couldn’t shake the horrible feeling that something was wrong. Terribly wrong.

Turned out it wasn’t Kane I needed to worry about.

I was ten minutes into fifth period when I was called to the office over the intercom system. The secretary had said I was leaving for the day, but I couldn’t fathom why. I didn’t have any appointments that I could recall.

I dropped my iPad back in my backpack and left class. When the office came into view, my blood went cold at the sight of my mother and Javier. Mom’s face was blotchy as though she’d been crying, and Javi was radiating menace.

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