Wicked Vows: Kenzo and Evaline's Story (Sovereign Brotherhood Trilogy) by Jo McCall

Author:Jo McCall [McCall, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Ink Publication
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Her father’s house is teeming with all of New Orleans’ high society for our rehearsal dinner. Not that there was much of a rehearsal, since my bride is currently refusing to speak to me. She was slightly withdrawn as we left Harumi after dinner, but now she has completely iced me out.

All because of one fucking nosy-ass reporter.

I’ve no doubt that Saori set it up. The angle of the photo told me it was taken from just beyond the door of the patio. I was unsure of how he got back there. He couldn’t have come through the restaurant. If he had, my men would have stopped him.

Colson Wells is well known to my men and banned from nearly every one of my establishments. Which means he had to have snuck in. Wataru found a weakness in the chain-link fence just beyond the garden room where I always hold dinners at the restaurant.

“Looks like bolt cutters,” he told me. “Someone set you up.”

And that someone is no doubt Saori. What I can’t figure out is why. We ended our relationship a few years before I was set to marry Evaline. Whatever her reasoning, the photo Colson shoved at my wife as we exited the restaurant served its purpose. And now she is back to hating me.

It doesn’t help that I refused to answer any of her questions regarding the situation or Saori. It isn’t any of her business, and even though she’s iced me out now, it won’t last forever. I could have told her that Saori kissed me. That I denied her advance, but I didn’t because it will ensure that my wife understands that our marriage is nothing but an arrangement.

There will be no love here.

Evaline bites her lower lip as we make our way through the front door. I take her hand in mine, giving it a firm squeeze when she tries to pull away. We need to look like a united front here, and she needs to play the part of the loving fiancée.

“Evaline.” A woman in her mid-forties greets my wife, kissing her on each cheek like we are in fucking France.

“Mabel.” My wife smiles at the older woman, but it doesn’t reach her eyes. “How are you?”

“I’m good, darling,” she says, taking a sip of her martini as she eyes me. “I was thrilled to hear you were back from your trip overseas. How ghastly it must have been for you to be in a place without running water or basic hygiene.”

Confusion passes over my wife’s face before she remembers that she was supposed to have been helping the less fortunate in a third-world country.

“It wasn’t so bad.” She keeps her answer vague. “I’m just glad to be back.”

“Of course you are.” The woman laughs, the fake happiness grinding on my ears. “Well, I need to go find that fat husband of mine. I’ll be sure to bring him your way when I do. Your father was talking about a new gaming license he needs.

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