The Black Trilogy (Blackwood Security Books 1--3) by Elise Noble

Author:Elise Noble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Undercover Publishing Limited

After Black and I were both shrivelled, we went out for dinner.

“You pick the restaurant,” I told him, since I still hadn’t explored the local area. “As long as it’s nothing too healthy.”

I was sick to the back teeth of eating salad and grilled fish and chicken and steamed vegetables, which was what Toby, who Black had hired as my nutritionist the week before, fed me most of the time.

“Italian?” Black asked, looking hopeful.

I’d discovered that was his favourite. “Fine by me.”

I ate until my jeans dug into my waist, and even Black, the epitome of self-control, leaned back in his seat and groaned. He was opening up to me more now, and I to him. We’d both been robbed of our childhoods, and I found it cathartic to talk. That evening, I told him things I’d never admitted to anyone, not even Jimmy. Black heard how my mother washed her hands of me as soon as I was old enough to crawl, and the moment I could walk, how I’d had to look after her rather than the other way around.

“Hey, you haven’t lived until you’ve cleared up your mother’s vomit after another heavy drinking session or thrown away her used needles.”

I took another sip of wine. Black turned a blind eye to my age, and because he was with me, so did the restaurant owner.

“Fucking hell. You should have been taken from her at birth. Couldn’t anybody help you?”

“The care system was worse. At least with my mother, I had more freedom. In foster homes, there was always someone checking up on me. I hated it.”

“Makes my life look idyllic, even if I didn’t think so at the time.”

Black came from old money, hence the massive houses and fancy toys. His ancestors had been big investors, first in gold, then property, and latterly oil. Although his early years had been pleasant, when his parents died in a car crash on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, he’d grown up fast.

“I was supposed to move in with my aunt, but Satan would have to live in an igloo before I’d set foot in her house. You’ll meet her one day, and then you’ll understand why.”

“So what did you do?”

“A friend of my father’s helped me out. He altered some records and got the court to appoint him as my guardian, then signed off so I could join the Navy at sixteen.”

“When you say altered some records…?”

“When I said I was twenty-five, I meant twenty-four.”

Suddenly, his willingness to help out with my age issue made more sense.

Black’s father had split his job as a CIA agent with managing the family investment portfolio, and Black followed in his footsteps until he decided to quit the government agency and branch out with Nate instead.

“I was sick of the bureaucracy,” he said. “Do you have any idea how many forms you need to fill in when you shoot someone?”

“It’s not a problem I’ve ever come across, no.”

“And it’s not only that. Some of

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