Twisted Lies 4 (Dirty Secrets) by Sedona Venez

Author:Sedona Venez [Venez, Sedona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DIRTY SECRETS SERIES BOOK 4
Publisher: One Wish Publishing
Published: 2018-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

MY APPETITE HAD VANISHED AFTER hearing Core’s earth-shattering revelation, so the waiter and server cleared the table of food and plates. Core had also instructed them that we no longer needed their services for the rest of the night.

I sat stiffly in the chair on the rooftop as the Manhattan air chilled me, staring at Core in disbelief. “Let me get this straight. My supposed parents, Greer and Aubrey, started having an affair behind Bigsby’s back and then cut business ties with Bigsby?”

“Yes,” Core replied.

“And Bigsby got so pissed,” I started after moments of uncomfortable silence, “that he killed Greer in an apartment fire. But Greer gave his brother, Ian, the ledger just in case something went wrong?”

“Exactly.”

Tilting my head in quiet consideration, I studied him. “And Jemma, whom you suspect is my real mother, disappeared while on bail after Bigsby snitched her out to the Feds?”

“I know this shit sounds crazy, but it’s true.” He spoke in a soothing tone.

I bit my bottom lip, examining him for a beat. “And during all this drama, Bigsby had no clue that Jemma was pregnant with me—until now?”

“Also true,” Core answered.

I eyed him like he’d lost his fucking mind. “So Ian is not my father. He’s my uncle and Greer’s brother?”

Core nodded.

“Oh God,” I whispered. I felt like I was about to hurl. My emotions were churning from anger to confusion to dread and back to anger. “My whole life is one big lie.”

Dad is not my biological father?

He’s really my uncle who loved and raised me as his own?

Part of me wanted to reject everything Core had just told me, and the other part… wholeheartedly believed him because this was the answer to the question I’d been asking myself for years.

Why didn’t I look anything like Dad or Grace?

Because I was not their biological child.

I stared into space while images of my dad flashed through my mind. He had been the doting dad who took me to zoos, aquariums, and planetariums, and I always marveled at how fortunate I was to have a parent who loved me unconditionally.

But now those memories were complicated by this extraordinary drama that was unfolding.

Once again, Core spoke in a simple, even tone. “Sin, I have information to verify everything I just told you.”

Jerking my eyes away, I stood and began to pace the terrace, aware he was watching me.

I stopped and stared at him. “But if Bigsby killed all of them—Greer, your mother, and Ian—isn’t it plausible that he killed Jemma, too?”

He pushed up to his feet, striding over, and stood just inches from me. “Bigsby is a psycho, so if he killed her, I’m sure he would have bragged about that, too, on Jeff’s recording. But as far as I know, he’s still looking for her.”

Sex trafficking.

A Manhattan madam who is also my mother.

Greer is my real father.

What. The. Fuck?

But the crazy thing was Core’s story did make part of my life make a hell of a lot more sense—like how much Grace disliked me, especially after Dad’s death.

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