Stalked to the Altar : A Dark Italian Mafia Standalone by Selena Michaels

Author:Selena Michaels [Michaels, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Sin Bin, LLC
Published: 2023-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Silas

I’d just finished drying off when Eden’s phone rang. I rushed to get it, not wanting her to be woken up. A photo of a man appeared on the screen. I moved onto the cottage’s deck and clicked connect.

A stout man with thinning dark hair pacing back and forth in front of her apartment door. The hair on the back of my neck rose.

“What are you doing?” I demanded, startling him so badly he actually jumped.

He looked down at his phone, his nose shiny, his eyes red and glossy. I could imagine the smell of stale cigarettes and alcohol wafting off him. His gaze turned hard as he got a good look at me.

“Who are you?” he countered.

My anger rose at the challenge. “You don’t live there.”

“I’m looking for a family member.”

“Who?

“Eden Johnson.”

My jaw tightened. After meeting her mother, I didn’t trust anyone who claimed to be her family. They seemed like a crazy bunch, and I wasn’t letting him within ten feet of my girl.

“Never heard of her.”

“Well, funny because you have answered her phone. Where is my niece?”

“Safe. With me.”

“I was told she was in trouble that I needed to check on her. Her mother in jail. I need to come get to her. I need to pick her up and bring her home.”

The sweat stains on his shirt spread wider every second. If he was her uncle as he claimed, why was he so nervous? “Why would I do that?”

“Look, I know she lives here.”

“She’s not home,” I replied. “So you can leave.”

“I don’t believe you. Is she in here?” He pounded on her door. “Eden? Eden! Open up, it’s your Uncle Darren. We need to go down to the station and drop these silly charges.”

I could feel the red haze of anger taking over. If this guy didn’t leave now, I would end up hunting him down and eliminating the problem sooner than I had intended. Someone was bound to call the police with all that racket, which would bring attention to Eden, and my ties to her not only as her neighbor, but as her professor. I had too many enemies in the area to be drawing notice to anything even within twenty feet of me and mine.

“Eden will not be dropping the charges,” I assured.

“I don’t know who the fuck you think you are,” her uncle snarled into the phone, “but Eden is my niece. If anyone doesn’t belong around her, it’s you. So give her the phone.”

I smirked. “I’m her fucking man, that’s who. And as I said, she will not be dropping the charges.”

He looked ready to explode. “This is why me and her mother want her home. It’s not safe here. There is a serial killer loose, and she obviously doesn’t know how to stay away from fuckers preying on young, naive girls—”

“She’s an adult—”

“Our lawyer is petitioning for guardianship again. And when Eden is back with us, we’ll make sure she never sees you again.”

Eden’s phone cracked under my grip, cutting off the connection.

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