Secrets of Mine: An FBI Dark Reverse Harem Romance (Of Mine Book 2) by Alexis Grace

Author:Alexis Grace [Grace, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

26

ELI

The photo of Adelaide, the victim from Danville, looks up at me from the coffee table. She has her arms around her two blond boys, a smile lighting up her face.

The photo reminds me of my mother. In my memories my mom was always happy. She worked nights as a nurse at the local hospital, so she wasn’t always around much in the evenings, but she used to leave notes in my blinds. Every time I rolled them down to go to bed a piece of paper would flutter out. Even at fourteen I still liked finding those fucking notes. She’d tell me something funny one of her patients had said or done and wish me sweet dreams.

Adelaide Janson seems like she was a good mother. She was on the PTA. Took her kids to softball. Baked homemade birthday cakes. It takes someone really fucked up to hunt mothers. There’s a malicious cruelty to it because you’re not just killing a person, you’re killing a family too.

I know nothing is ever as perfect as it seems, discovering Maxwell’s victims were being abused proves that, but even if the husbands are pieces of shit, the kids are innocent. And I know first-hand they’ll never be the same again.

The door to the pool house opens and River steps inside. He takes in the autopsy reports I have spread across the coffee table, and I try not to hold it against him that he spent the night with Freya while I was here, trying to find a way to catch Maxwell. I would have had her in my arms too if I could’ve brought myself to stay.

Holding her open for River, watching him take her, had me hard as fuck and it took everything in me not take my turn and sink into her snug heat.

I jumped in the cold pool after I left and stayed there until I could think straight. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing at the moment. I haven’t told Freya it’s over and the longer I wait the more I doubt that I’ll ever be able to. And I have no idea where that leaves us.

River sits down on the couch opposite me and leans forward. He zones in on the photo of Adelaide before looking over at me, but he doesn’t comment on it. “Josh, Luke’s boyfriend, has gone missing. Angelica says she knows where he is.”

My brows dig down. “You think Maxwell took him?”

River shakes his head. “Not exactly. We think it’s a distraction but Freya’s not willing to take the risk. I’m sending you with her to Quantico.”

My chest tightens. “Just the two of us?”

“Yes.”

I gather the autopsy photos together because I need something to do with my hands and put them back in the file. “Send Jude.”

“No.”

My spine goes rigid. I glare at River. “Maxwell is here, in L.A. We’re closer than we’ve ever been before, I’m not fucking leaving.”

“Yes, you are.”

“River—”

“You’re going.”

Panic floods my mind and I lash out. I swipe the files off the coffee table as I stand up, rage shooting through me.

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