Seduce & Destroy: A Dark FF Mafia Romance Book by Poppy Mercer

Author:Poppy Mercer [Mercer, Poppy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

KENNA

Isnuck out of her room before she woke.

It was easy to find who I was looking for. He was sitting with the other boys in the mess hall. His dark clothing was spotted with dust, as if he’d been crawling in a loft or down in the wine cellar. When he saw me approach, he didn’t look happy.

I walked up to him with little fanfare. “Laney’s sick.”

Blood drained from his face. “How so?”

“Mentally,” I said, but stumbled. Her personality switched on me last night. I couldn’t deny that it was hot, her in control, on top of me. It defied everything that I had ever done, but I couldn’t stop analysing her behaviours as if it were precursor to a psychotic break. Not to mention the migraine that followed, as if the mental strain had manifested into a corporeal ache. “And physically too. She gets migraines and…”

“Fainting?” Neenan finished for me.

“Yes.”

“Find Richard Ravencroft.” He said, sternly. My double step didn’t elicit confidence. “Now.”

It wasn’t fear that made me hesitant, but I can’t admit to Richard that I can’t solve this issue. Doubt was already behind his eyes every time that he saw me. If harm befell his daughter, his finger would point toward me faster than lightning and strike me through the heart as a result. I deserve more than dying on a man’s stake.

Thankfully, Neenan wasn’t addressing those words to me, but a man beside me. One I’d never seen before. Strange. I’d thought the high heat in the room was just my emotions, but looking around, it was crowded. They were expecting someone.

I had so little time.

Fine strands wrapped around my fingers as they took yet another stroke through my hair. The men strode toward the door, and I followed behind him.

When we got to Laney’s bedroom door, she wasn’t there.

Neenan looked at me as if I had made it up. A distraction. Just the thought that Laney was some kind of joke hurt.

“No–” I started speaking when a door down the hall opened. Dylan’s brother stepped out of Sir Ravencroft’s office, in handcuffs, Laney appearing a moment after.

My eyes grazed her body up and down. Unharmed. But gaunt and pale.

She looked at me with deep sorrow and it was as if a curtain had descended between us, but I didn’t see who had pulled the string. Neenan went to them, but I was barred.

“Miss Whether.” Richard held a hand up for me to stop my approach. “Find your station. Away from my daughter and away from us. You make her worse. Don’t come near her until she is well.”

“Kenna.” A deep baritone voice said in my ear, too close. “This way, please.”

I stepped backward, away from her, watching her father drop a soft kiss to her head. An intimate act I envied. I turned around and walked behind Forrester’s surly stature as he imprinted heavy step after heavy step into the maroon carpet of the house.

What’s happening right now?

He led me outside on the pavement beside the barracks.

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