Trust Me: Matty and Kayla, Book 2 by Christine Bell

Author:Christine Bell [Bell, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Matty

“Okay, so where do we start?” Reid rubbed his hands together, a determined light in his eyes.

Guilt pricked at me hard and I scrubbed the stubble on my jaw without answering.

It was fucked up. It had been three weeks since that first “sex date” with Kayla. We’d had three more and each at least as intense as the last, if not more so, and here I was digging through old newspapers online to try to find out some dirt on her father.

Even though my intentions were good, though, it was still a tough pill. If feeling bad about something lessened the heinousness of the crime, then I was nearly an innocent man, because I felt like total shit about it. But it needed to be done.

Ever since Olivia had mentioned it, the thought had been dogging me. At first it had seemed like a pipe dream. Something I considered and then rejected over and over at various points in my day. But with every passing week, I found myself more and more entangled in Kayla. It had gotten to the point that, as much as I was looking forward to my next bout, it wasn’t half as much as I looked forward to my Saturdays with her.

It wasn’t healthy. It wasn’t smart. But those were the facts.

And it was exactly those feelings that made me decide to pull the trigger.

I was through with Mickey Flynn and the only way to get him out of my life for good and still make sure my family was protected was to make sure I got enough dirt on him to pull him up short. I needed to escape his snare, that was for sure. And even though she didn’t realize it, Kayla needed to escape him just as badly.

As much as we all tried to pretend otherwise, she was in constant danger. Everyone from rival mobsters looking for revenge to disgruntled gamblers desperate for a way out could show up at that warehouse and pepper the place with bullets or toss a Molotov cocktail through the window and she’d be a fucking memory. Not to mention she was an accessory to dozens of crimes. If Mick went down in some kind of bust, she was going down with him. Suddenly that mattered to me. A lot. If he loved her the way she thought he did, he wouldn’t be so cavalier about her safety.

Surely she'd understand if I told her why I had to do it.

Then why aren't you telling her?

I pushed the question that had been rearing up over and over in my head aside and turned to face Reid, who was staring at the computer screen from over my shoulder.

“I think we should divide and conquer,” I said, finally. “You take over the research part. You're smarter than I am and can figure a way to find the information we need faster.”

Plus, that would leave me to take a walkabout through Southie and ask around without risking my little brother's pretty face in the process.

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