Second Guess: A Dark Bully Romance (The Marchetti Men) by Vee Taylor

Author:Vee Taylor [Taylor, Vee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

15

Alex

Present

I was fully aware I was a horrible person. Leaving Chelsea in the other room after I knew she felt the same way I did, was the biggest dick move I could have made. If I had allowed myself to get closer to her, I wouldn’t have been able to let go. Her sweet, floral scent and beautiful doe eyes were filled with curiosity and innocence yet laced with an intoxicating darkness that sucked me in. She was my vice.

But the truth was, I was keeping something from her. Something big. The blackmail was eating away at me, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her. I didn’t want to scare her off or make her think less of me. So I acted like an asshole, hoping it would push her away.

Waking up in the room alone, I felt relieved, yet guilty at the same time. We had the rehearsal today, and I knew I would see her soon enough. Just the thought of her made me want to hold her close and never let go.

As I stepped into the shower, memories of last night flooded my mind. It was the most intimate I had ever been with a woman, and it scared me. I wanted to keep her wrapped in my arms forever, but I knew this was temporary. She could never be mine, and that thought was suffocating.

As soon as I jumped out of the bathroom, I wrapped a towel around me before I heard the familiar trill of my cell.

“Marchetti,” I answered on the first ring.

“I’ve got it.” Rafe’s boyish tone echoed on the other side of the speaker.

“Talk to me.”

“You and Krissy were right. It is the Irish. The tattoo on the man’s leg, when reconstructed with AI for added missing elements, is the Irish flag.”

“Motherfuckers,” I growled into the phone.

“They wanna traffic?” he asked. He shared the same concern growing in my chest.

“Yeah.” The disappointment was evident in the silent moment between us.

“I can figure out which one it is.”

“What do you mean?” I asked, not exactly following where his train of thought was.

“I am going to figure out which sect we are talking about.”

“Still not following, Rafe.”

“There are two types of Irish gangs. The first is the Irish American Mafia. Long ago, when the Irish immigrated here for the first time, they formed an alliance. They tend to operate in the states with only affiliates from here. We know them as the Irish mob.”

“Yeah, okay.”

“Then there are the Irish, with ties still to Ireland, more specifically to the Dublin area. They are known as the Irish Republic. They operate in Ireland but have always wanted to infiltrate here. It doesn’t look like they ever have. If we are looking at trafficking, they would likely want the pipeline clear to bring bodies back and forth from here to there illegally.”

“Do we know who leads the one out here?” I hesitated but knew they could have ties to those who wanted to take our operation down and expose me as the person behind the veil of innocence.

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