The Wild: A Dark Mafia Romance (Las Vegas Love Book 2) by Penelope Black

Author:Penelope Black [Black, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

18

MAEVE

“Absolutely not,” Keira barks.

The five of us are crowded around the reception desk inside the same building Keira was in. The three Santorini brothers form a semicircle to my right, Keira and I on the left.

I keep my gaze on my sister right now. She needs my undivided attention and I don’t know if I can look at any of them without letting the wide array of emotions play across my face.

And I would rather die than let them see what they’re doing to me. Not when I’m so unprepared.

“It’s a good plan, Keira,” I remind her.

“Bullshit. It’s held together by a shoestring—”

“It’s a private island. That I own. And is only attended by three full-time employees who live on the smaller connected island. If they were going to betray me, they would’ve done it by now,” Nico says, though he’s not nearly as patient as me.

Keira glares over my shoulder, presumably at Nico. “People will do a lot of things for money. And thirty-five million dollars is a lot of fucking money.”

“Thirty-five? I thought you said the bounty was five a piece,” Tommaso says.

“It was. But I’m working with a laptop here, so if there are backdoors and stipulations built in, I can’t access it without my computer,” Romeo says.

“And how will you be able to do that on some unheard of island?” Keira pops her hip to the side and folds her arms across her chest. It’s a challenging stance, confidence that she’s caught them in a lie.

“Rome has a whole kit at the island house. Private, rerouted server with satellite service,” Nico says.

Keira bristles, but I tuck that piece of information away for later. Like when I need to reach out to my sisters.

“I hate to rush you, but the longer we wait, the higher the chance we’ll lose our pilot,” Romeo says.

I sigh, hating that I know he’s right. Hating the fact that I have to leave my sisters for an undetermined about of time. And even hating my da a little bit for being the catalyst for this whole thing.

I swivel to face the men, locking gazes with Nico. “Alright. I’ll go with you, but this—”

“Maeve, no,” Keira interrupts me.

I continue as if she didn’t. “Doesn’t touch them.”

Nico inclines his head.

I look him in the eye. “I want your words.”

It’s the same thing he said to me at The Red Lion all those weeks ago.

His nostrils flare, and his eyes narrow. Good, I guess he remembers then. “You have my word. No blowback on your sisters.”

“We don’t need their fucking protection, Maeve. We’ve got our own ways of protecting you.” She glances pointedly to my stomach.

Nico quirks a brow but doesn’t comment.

I don’t exactly trust him but I distrust the men and women fighting for twenty million dollars more. I bite the inside of my cheek and admit to myself that there’s a yearning sort of desperation inside of me. For them. It belongs to the hopeless romantic, I’m sure.

And maybe a tiny bit to me.

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