Sinful Protector by Mia Ford

Author:Mia Ford [Ford, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2019-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Allison

I’m not surprised when there’s a knock on my door barely ten minutes later. Of course Kyle followed me home. I consider not answering it, but then I grit my teeth and stalk over to the door, throwing it open.

“What?” I snap.

Silently, he holds out my bag of groceries.

“You dropped this,” he says quietly.

Stiffly, I take it. I don’t really want it anymore. Then again, there’s some good quality snacks in there. I can stuff myself with them tonight in order to forget all about Kyle and the ease with which he could talk about making Jesse go “missing”.

“Look, Allison, I’m sorry,” he says.

“Are you?” I ask frostily.

“What?” he asks.

“Are you sorry?” I repeat. “Are you sorry you said it, or are you sorry that I overheard you?”

He winces. I know that’s my answers.

“What if I hadn’t overheard you?” I demand. “I would keep looking over my shoulder for Jesse, and all the while you’ve casually arranged for him to meet some sort of accident to remove him from my life. Do you think that would make me happy?” I can hear my voice raising. Mrs. Phillips would probably come and bang on my door later. “This is exactly the sort of thing I’ll be trying to get convicted in court!”

He winces again and runs a hand over his face.

“I’m not a killer,” he tries.

“Could have fooled me,” I snap. “How many others have you arranged to go ‘missing’?”

“None,” he says, and there’s a pleading note in his voice, begging me to believe him. “I swear, Allison. I had a rough past, but I’ve never killed anyone.”

“Then why would you say that?” I ask coldly.

Kyle hesitates, and then he sighs.

“Because I hate him for what he’s done to you,” he says bluntly, and I lean back, surprised by the passion in his voice. “I wasn’t lying. I don’t care where he ends up. I just want him out of your life.”

For a moment I’m stunned by his sincerity. I know he’s telling the truth. In the back of my mind, part of me is swooning, wanting to hear more.

The rest of me, the more logical part of me, is slowly getting angry.

“Seriously?” I ask in a low voice. “So, you’re okay with turning a blind eye to murder if it means you won’t have to dirty your hands? You do know the assassin’s client is just as culpable as the assassin, don’t you?”

He grimaces. “I’m aware.”

“Maybe you’re angry and you said something you didn’t mean to,” I allow. “But that message will get passed on, and someone who doesn’t mind killing will find Jesse and remove him. Then what? You’ll be a party to murder because you started it.”

I search his face, looking for some kind of shame, something to tell me that he’s upset that he could be causing something like that. But he just looks stressed that I’m angry at him, and I realize that, as long as Jesse leaves me alone, he doesn’t care what happens next.

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