Ruthless Queen: An Enemies to Lovers Gang Romance (Crooked Paradise Book 3) by Eva Chance & Harlow King

Author:Eva Chance & Harlow King [Chance, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2021-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

16

Mercy

From a safe distance, I observed the front lawn of my old house. A couple of guys were standing at the edge by the sidewalk just beyond a streetlamp’s glow, sipping beers. No lights shone in the windows, and in the hour I’d been watching, I hadn’t seen anyone moving inside or going in or out.

Now or never. With Wylder and the other guys dealing with whatever the fallout was with his dad, I couldn’t just sit around twiddling my thumbs. I needed to know why these Red Shark jackasses had set up shop in the house. Had Dad been keeping more secrets than I’d guessed?

My heart skipped a beat at the thought of how I’d run off on the guys, but I’d only done it because Wylder had insisted. I just hoped he found a way to get through to his own dad—or to stand up to him in a way that wouldn’t get him hurt for his trouble.

I forced myself to push those thoughts aside and crept through the night’s shadows to the back of the house. After ducking through the neighbor’s yard, I scaled the sturdy fence between our properties with a leap and a quick scramble, and sprang from there into the oak tree in my old back yard.

The leaves rustled. I crouched on the branch in the darkness for the space of a few breaths, listening hard. When no sound of alarm was raised, I clambered across the tree and made my way through one of the second floor windows, just like I had when I’d gone to retrieve my bracelet weeks ago.

Inside the house, I stood completely still for another minute, confirming there were no sounds of movement around me. My fingers drifted over the outline of the Little Angel bracelet in my pocket. When no noise reached me except faint laughter from the men outside, I slipped down the darkened hall.

Maybe it was a risk coming here right now. But something had been niggling at me ever since Gideon had played that recording of the Red Sharks guys talking. If I was going to find any answers to the questions I couldn’t get out of my head, it’d be here.

Back when everything was… well, as normal as my life had ever been, Dad’s home office had always been locked, even when he was inside. He hadn’t allowed me to set foot in there since I’d been around seven or eight, but I’d understood more than he’d realized when I’d been a little kid.

I’d come equipped with the lock picks that Anthea had given me a brief tutorial on during one of her recent visits, but it turned out I didn’t even need them. The door was standing ajar, the knob completely removed. One of the past intruders had broken in. I picked up my pace, setting my feet quickly but silently on the floor as I hurried over.

At the doorway, I scanned the room quickly. The intruders had gone through the contents on Dad’s desk.

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