Ruthless Captor by Theodora Taylor

Author:Theodora Taylor [Taylor, Theodora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rom Tell That

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Taking A Chance On Love

AMBER

I’ve been confused for so long. But today…

Today I’m completely clear. As I say goodbye to Naima and Rock, after he surprises her with the “lunch date,” he requested from Luca when he asked to break the news to Naima himself. As I patiently wait another hour in the sitting room for the housekeeper to finish her cleaning and go home for the day. As I ignore the ache in my back and the siren call of Luca’s empty bed to make a trip to Naima’s soon to be former bedroom.

No afternoon nap today. I have a mission.

I make my way into Naima’s bathroom, knowing precisely what I want…if not exactly where to find her Tampons.

My back has stopped aching by the time I clumsily get down on my hands and knees in front of the bathroom’s vanity. However, it’s not exactly the easiest position to get into without the cushion of a bed. I grope around the cabinets underneath the sink. My hands eventually find a smooth rectangular carton, pushed to the furthest recesses of the small space, as if Naima was afraid the housekeeper would pilfer through this particular box.

I reach inside and root around until my fingers knock into something decidedly not tubular. Gorilla glass…encased in aluminum…yes! It’s the phone.

I pull it out and don’t even bother with closing everything in her bathroom back up as I lumber to my feet with the prize. I’m so happy, I’m not even angry when my back starts aching again as I walk up the slimmer and more straightforward set of metal stairs to the roof.

I crunch through what feels like even more fallen snow to the spot where I always make my phone calls. But I hesitate when I raise the burner to go through the process of calling Peter’s number.

The thing is, I’m completely clear on what I’m going to do, but not quite how to phrase it. My well-honed sense of argument construction abandons me in the moments before my call. Because when you think about it, there’s just no good way to tell your brother that you’ve decided to do Somethin’ Stupid. Yet again. Except this time, you don’t feel stupid about it.

Because…well…uh, a mishmash of reasons, including that Luca has changed for me once, and I now have faith I can convince him to change for me again. No soul-sucking CalMart job this time. Just a simple ask that he entirely delegate the criminal parts of his operation to Stone and actually commit to the job title at the top of his official CV as the CEO of Ferraro Disaster Management full time. I mean, he said it himself. He only feels the need to retaliate against people who have hurt his loved ones. And what better way for nobody to get hurt than for him to stop being a criminal full stop after the baby is born?

It didn’t work last time, but it will this time. Because we’re older, wiser, and we understand each other so much better now.

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