Pieces of Eight (Mad Love Duet Book 2) by Whitney Barbetti

Author:Whitney Barbetti [Barbetti, Whitney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitney Barbetti
Published: 2018-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

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When my mom drove her car off a bridge with us inside of it, there was a brief moment where things went from good to bad, that moment of limbo between the two worlds. From one emotion to the next, in a span of less than a second. It was that discombobulated emotion that had filled my throat with terror.

And it was that emotion that had me grasping for a wall, for fucking anything, when I met the eyes of a man I’d never expected to see again.

“Mirabela,” my mom said, and Six watched her movements with the tiniest bit of shock on his own face. He looked between me and between my mom’s companion with no small amount of trepidation, but I could hardly dissect the emotions playing on his face when my mother was feet away, nearly embracing me, her perfume enveloping me, suffocating me. Each step felt like the advancing of a tempo in a concerto, with my increasing heartbeats and the volume of her footsteps rising as she came closer.

Before I could fully register my surroundings, her hands were on my shoulders and she leaned in, powdered face beside mine. A flash of brown hair flew in front of my eyes and as it dissipated, I looked beyond at the man who’d come in with her.

“Oh, you look good, Mira,” she said, and she turned to her companion. “This is your step-father,” she said, reading one bracelet-clad arm toward him. “Clay.”

My stomach clenched painfully as the man stepped forward. Of course, I already knew him. “Clay.”

Six stepped into view at the same moment, coming right up behind Clay. I was in a wind tunnel, my past and present spinning around me so fast that I couldn’t connect the dots.

“William?” my mother asked Six, and then my knee did buckle, albeit briefly enough for me to regain my footing. “What are you doing here?”

I was staring at him, waiting for the moment that it would all click for me. When Six’s eyes turned regretful, I took a fool, shaky step back from my mother. “You know him?”

My mother looked between Six and her husband, and then back to me. “Yes…” She rubbed her lips together and seemed to be giving a lot of thought to how she’d answer. “I hired him for a few things.”

I took another weak step backwards until my back was against a cool, blank wall. I gripped onto it with all my might. “A few jobs?”

She laughed, and while she may have looked different from the woman I knew as a child, that fucking laugh was exactly the same. “To find you, mostly.”

“To find me.” I whipped my head to Six. “To find me?”

“Yes, of course. You weren’t answering your phone for months at a time, and I didn’t have time to fly in and babysit you.” She said this matter-of-factly, as if I should be well apprised of the situation I had just found myself in. She looked at Clay, the man

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