Tease (The Villetti Chronicles) by Sarah Bailey

Author:Sarah Bailey [Bailey, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Tree Publications
Published: 2022-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Rina

Mamá asked me and Arlo far too many questions before we could escape back to my room. While I was happy she approved of my relationship with Arlo, I wanted to check my search to see if it had found anything. It had been long enough. I was desperate to help Arlo and my family find out who was after us. After all, Arlo had just made my dream of us being together come true. He wanted to be mine. Not that it was my incentive to help. I wanted us to go back to our normal lives without having to be watched twenty-four-seven.

I was worried about how Arlo and I would navigate a relationship when he was back with Zayn. It wasn’t like I had doubts about his feelings. However, I couldn’t help but be afraid all the same. He wasn’t just any man with a normal nine-to-five. He was part of a dark, seedy underworld, where violence was an everyday occurrence. It didn’t bother me what his occupation was. Just that I got to be with him. And I had no idea how much time he would have for me when he had to go back to his normal life working for my cousin full-time. Now was also not the time to be telling him about my fears. We had more important things to worry about.

Planting myself at my desk, I looked over the results that had popped up while Arlo was busy on the phone. Zayn had called him when we were walking up the stairs. My eyes immediately went to one of the things that had popped up. I clicked on it and found an article from twenty-five years ago. It was dated not long after Sofia was born. As I read over it, a sense of dread ran through me.

“Arlo!”

He spun around and looked over at me, putting his hand over the phone.

“Did you find something?”

I nodded. I wasn’t sure why this was ringing alarm bells in my head, but my gut feeling was it had something to do with why we were being targeted.

“Hold on, Zayn, Rina thinks she’s found something.”

Arlo came over, ducking under the bed and standing behind my chair. His eyes scanned the article. I stared at him as he read it, noting when he frowned and when his mouth thinned.

“Zayn, I think we need to talk in person.” Arlo leaned closer to me and pointed at the screen. “Can you send that to him, please? And anything else you find related to it.”

I checked through the rest of the things the search had brought up before forwarding all the relevant pieces to Zayn. Arlo ducked out from underneath the bed and continued talking to my cousin. When he put the phone back in his pocket, he turned to me.

“You’re coming with me to Desecration.”

I’d never been to Desecration. My cousin owned a private sex club only the elite could become members of. Not sure my mother would approve of me going there, but I wasn’t about to get left out of this.

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