Redeeming by Bella Matthews

Author:Bella Matthews [Matthews, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Declan doesn’t listen.

He follows me to the front door and smiles sweetly when Amelia opens it for us.

“Where is she?” I ask, not giving a shit what kind of an ass I sound like.

“Caitlin?” Amelia steps back, letting Declan and me inside. She kisses his cheek, seemingly confused.

Until she isn’t.

Her eyes narrow on me, and a hard glint takes shape in her icy blues. Eyes the same color as her daughter’s. Her entire attitude changes in an instant. Where a second ago, she was confused and open, she’s now closed off and furious. “Why are you here, Callen?”

“Amelia—” Declan starts, but Amelia holds up her hand, stopping him.

“This doesn’t involve you, Declan,” she snaps, and I get a glimpse of the woman everyone likes to warn you about. The one who killed another woman to save Declan’s wife’s life. “Your brother took something that didn’t belong to him, and instead of treating it like the precious gift it was, he tried to destroy it.”

Every word . . . Every syllable . . . They’re laced with a deadly venom directed at me. “So, I’m going to ask this one more time before I have you escorted out of my house, Callen. Why. Are. You. Here?”

“Callen?” Maddox comes out of the kitchen with Lucky and Rome next to him. “You here to see Cait?”

“He’s leaving,” Amelia announces.

“I’m not,” I move around her until Rome blocks me.

“Hey, man.” He widens his stance. “Not sure what’s going on, but you heard Mom. Sounds like it’s time for you to leave.”

Maddox stays back, watching. “What the hell is going on?”

“Why don’t you ask your friend, Maddox,” Amelia challenges, like she thinks I’m going to back down.

Maddox watches me.

He looks from me to his mother, then back to me again.

He stiffens and balls his fists by his sides.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Maddox’s voice booms through the three-story foyer as the pieces click together. “My sister?”

“It’s not like that, man.” I try to get around Rome, but he mirrors every step I take. “I’ll tell you everything after I see Caitlin.”

I don’t even care if she doesn’t want to talk to me.

I just need to know she’s okay.

I need to see it for myself.

I need to know it’s not too late.

Rome blocks me with his whole body, shoving me back.

“My fucking sister?” Maddox moves, but Declan blocks him.

He grits his teeth, seething, like I knew he fucking would if he found out this way. “This isn’t your fight, Declan.”

“Move, Declan,” I tell my brother, not wanting him involved in this.

“We’re leaving, Callen,” Declan tries to force my hand, but he’s out of his fucking mind if he thinks I’m leaving without seeing Caitlin.

“I love her,” I tell anyone who gives a shit to hear it in the room.

Three words I should have given her months ago.

Maddox charges me like we’re on a football field.

Bad fucking move.

We both fly back through the round wooden table in the center of the foyer. It splinters as

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