The Sins Duet by Cook Abbi

Author:Cook, Abbi
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Dark Vine Media LLC
Published: 2020-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Alexei

I wait in the shadows for the precise moment to strike. I’ve hesitated too long on this job, and I can’t drag my feet any more. I kill people. That’s who I fucking am.

Even if recently it feels like that’s the last thing I want to do.

There’s too much Natalie in my head pushing out everything else lately. When I’m not worrying about her still living at that house with that fuck of a husband, I’m obsessed with seeing her again.

I swear I can’t get a moment’s peace since this woman came into my life. That needs to end right now.

She refused to go with me. She left me no choice. I had to leave her there and accept that she won’t leave him.

So she’ll leave this way.

I watch through the living room window waiting for her to come down now that he’s home. He walked upstairs, probably to their bedroom.

Fuck, even the thought of him in bed with her makes everything in me hurt like someone’s cutting tiny slices in my skin and pouring salt in the wounds. He wants her dead. She knows that, and yet she stays there.

He sure does have her trained, doesn’t he? She does exactly what he wants, and still he hires me to kill her. Fucking ingrate.

My phone vibrates in my pocket, so I take my eyes off the house for a moment and see Samson’s name on the screen. “What’s going on?”

“I was calling to ask you the same thing. You didn’t tell me it was going down tonight, so I’m here watching the house like I do every day. You’re pretty obvious, Alexei. I mean, I guess I’m looking for things, but in this neighborhood, someone staking out a place like you are isn’t exactly subtle.”

Great. Now I’m losing my touch at my job in addition to the rest of my life. Damnit, this woman is going to be the end of me.

“So now you’re an expert who knows more than I do?” I snap.

“No. I just thought I’d check in,” he says more than a little reluctantly.

I stand from my spot just outside her backyard and start heading down the pathway separating the houses on Garrison Lane. Grudgingly, I have to admit Samson’s right. I’m not thinking clearly. Hell, I’m not even sure I intended on doing the goddamned job tonight.

Or any night, for that matter.

By the time I reach Samson’s car, I don’t feel like beating myself up anymore. Settling into the passenger seat, I lean back and pinch the bridge of my nose to forgo the headache growing behind my eyes.

“So nothing tonight?” he asks, and I can tell he’s smiling even before I turn to look at him.

“Maybe I should shoot a smartass underling who can’t remember his fucking place,” I grumble.

“Underling? Man, that hurts,” he says with a laugh. “The rest of it is certainly true, but damn, Alexei. Underling cuts me.”

I know he’s busting my balls, but I nod my understanding that I stepped over the line anyway.

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