Sins That Find Us: A Dark Modern Fairytale (Madly Ever After Book 1) by E.M. Lindsey

Author:E.M. Lindsey [Lindsey, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

I don’t go back down straightaway. Instead, I peruse the halls to find a room that I think will suit the sweet darling best. The one I settle on is woodsy, like all the rooms, but it’s got feminine touches here and there. I doubt Kane’s ever set foot in it. I doubt anyone has.

It’s clean because all the rooms are cleaned weekly, and it smells faintly of dried roses. There’s a thick duvet on the four-poster bed and a dresser with a mirror. Along the far wall is a door that leads to an en suite with a claw-foot tub that I can’t stand because getting out of those with one arm is a balancing nightmare.

It’s got a nice shower, though, with two showerheads and black tiles, and the soaps are all fresh and full. I’ll go on a run, of course, to spoil little Alice if she really is going to have a home here. I don’t know exactly what Kane is planning, but I know that tone he used. It’s the same one he had with me—kid gloves and uncertainty but ultimately obsessed with keeping me.

Alice is not going to go the way of most Romanos who end up behind our walls. She never was. She was always special. Kane was just very good at hiding that.

There’s a noise from behind me, and I turn around, unsurprised to find Phoenix in the doorway. He’s wearing his usual sweater and trousers, his hair neatly brushed, his face tipped down, which means he’s listening to something in his earbud.

“Is she speaking to Ari?” I ask.

He snorts. “She’s babbling. She’s nervous. He’s sitting on his ass, twirling a butterfly knife like a little shit.”

I can’t help my own chuckle as I cross the room and pull Phoenix toward me. He comes easier than anything, tipping his head up so I can kiss him. “Did you hear what Kane said?”

Phoenix sighs as he brushes fingers over my jaw. “Yes.”

“Do you mind that we’re keeping her?” It’s an honest question. His opinion has more weight because disturbing his carefully constructed home shakes him sometimes. It took him a while to adjust to me, and those early fuckups that had him tripping and falling were met with fury and violence. But he was angry at his situation, not me, and that’ll be the case with Alice too.

His brow is furrowed, but after a long beat, he shakes his head. “As long as she stays out of my library and out of my office, I don’t really care what happens to her.”

I think there’s more to it than that, but I don’t call him on it. Phoenix has never been down to see her, but that’s not really a surprise. He has been blind for twenty years now, but he still feels vulnerable around new people. Even if they’re at our mercy.

“Do you think Kane’s making a mistake?”

His eyes—prosthetic and unnervingly realistic, though they don’t move as freely as natural eyes do—somehow manage to lock on to my shoulder.

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