Until Retribution Burns: A Dark Mafia Romance (Beauty in Lies Book 3) by Adelaide Forrest

Author:Adelaide Forrest [Forrest, Adelaide]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

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Rafael

Isa’s mother glared up at me, blaming me for the way her daughter had turned on her. The loss of the well-behaved girl who had always done everything she was asked became poignant and undeniable in those moments when she stared at her mother defiantly.

The choice was clear. If they made her choose, Isa would pick me.

It was the final nail in the coffin of the meaningful choices she’d made after leaving Ibiza. She hadn’t chosen me in that first moment when Chloe revealed the truth to her, but she’d chosen me in every one since then.

It would always be the two of us, no matter what life threw our way. I knew it in the depths of the soul I thought I’d lost years before her. The photos of her as a child only proved that, serving as confirmation that our lives had been intertwined when she was only just a child. This was something that I felt in my core.

Maybe I’d subconsciously recognized her on the street that day. Maybe our lives had been determined by some higher purpose before we could understand the pieces that were in play. All that mattered to me was the end result.

Isa was mine in a way I’d thought I could never achieve.

Her mother glanced down to her face, seeing the steely resolve there and releasing a sigh. “Call me when you’re ready to talk,” she said, turning on her heel and guiding Odina from the house. I half-wondered if Waban would make good on his vow to call the police, but it didn’t matter much to me.

They’d never bother to investigate. Just like they hadn’t really when my father had thrown Isa in the river. Our lives were so entrenched in violence between our families, I had to consider the prospect of what would come if Odina couldn’t toe the line I’d drawn in the sand.

Would Isa forgive me for killing her?

With her family out of sight, she turned and buried her face in my chest. Sniffling against my shirt, she pressed herself tighter as the strength she’d shown in front of her family faded. Until the pain that she hid so fluently revealed itself, and only those she could trust to support her, no matter what she did, remained.

Hugo and Gabriel nodded, moving out of the room and giving us privacy as I stared down at the top of her head. “We didn’t even make it to dinner,” she said, her voice muffled against my chest.

“I know,” I said, smoothing the hair over the top of her head. She would need to consider the fact that her family may never accept the woman she’d become. That she was too far removed from the one they’d known and loved for them to realize she was the same person.

She was just more.

I'd do everything in my power to protect her from the pain of their intolerance in the long run. Even if that meant hurting her more now to save her from feeling that disappointment over and over.

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