The Devil You Know (Ashby Crime Family Romance Book 3) by KB Winters

Author:KB Winters [Winters, KB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: forbidden mafia, female mafia boss romance, brothers best friend forbidden romance
Publisher: BookBoyfriends Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Terry

Emmett was still upset about the attack and I was happy Sadie didn’t make a big deal about me going up to check on him. Now, I hoped Emmett didn’t make a big deal about it either. Three sharp knocks on the door and I shoved one hand in my pocket and waited while my brother took his sweet ass time opening the door.

“Hey man. How you doing?”

Emmett shrugged his wide shoulders and stepped back. “I’ve been better, man. What’s up?”

“I haven’t gotten a chance to talk to you since you got your ass beat. You okay, man?”

Emmett snorted and turned away, shoving his hand through his hair as he made his way to the other side of the room. “You want to talk about me getting my ass whooped or how I’m doing?” He peered at me over his shoulder, half bitter and half sarcastic.

“Why does it have to be an either or type of situation?” I hated that he questioned if I was here for him or for the Ashby family, but it was the nature of our work.

“It doesn’t.” His shoulders fell and he dropped down into a sofa near the window, wincing slightly. “Sorry, I guess I’m out of sorts.”

I nodded and stepped inside the room, taking the slightly uncomfortable chair pushed up to a desk Em had no reason to use. “You should be out of sorts; I’m fucking furious.”

His lips curled into a grin. “Yeah, thanks. But if you were really furious, you’d send me a shit ton of food like Kat did, since you were having lunch together.” I ignored the taunt because I wasn’t touching that shit with a ten foot pole. Not even a twenty foot one.

“Walk me through what happened.”

Emmett laughed. “So much for being furious,” he snorted under his breath. When his expression sobered, I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees and listened to every fucking detail.

“After the fight at Emerald Isle, I went back to the locker room to clear my head. The night was mostly a success but something didn’t feel right about Ravager’s win, and I didn’t want to think about it with fuckin’ cameras and microphones in my face.” His gaze damn neared pierced through me and I knew he suspected the truth, knew it in his heart, but he didn’t want confirmation.

“Anyway, the locker room was empty. Suspiciously empty right after a big fight like that. So, it took no time to grab up the House of Ashby swag and then I left, thinking I’d talk to the fighters in the morning. Chicken shit, but it is what it is.”

“That’s what you normally do after a fight?”

He nodded. “Not really. Usually the losing fighters want to talk a bit, maybe look at some tape. Since they were all gone, I decided to go home and have a drink. Forget about everything until morning.” He blew out a breath and leaned back as if he couldn’t get comfortable.

“Which exit did you use when you left?”

“Shit, I don’t know.

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