Wickedly Betrayed by A.E. Nalle

Author:A.E. Nalle [Nalle, A.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, second chance love
Publisher: Evernight
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

We spent the next three days at the resort waiting and researching. The longer we looked into the man who was with Tanner, the more I fretted over his safety. I was so terrified for my brother but I swore when we found him I was going to kick his ass.

Ever since my hypothesis about Tanner and “Cole,” I couldn’t quite get the image out of my mind. We had learned a couple of things in the last few days, though. “Cole” was actually Peter Broderick. Leo had proven he had some really good connections stateside. It took less than twenty-four hours to find out everything there was to know about Mr. Broderick.

I’d been wrong about him being in foster care all his life, but it turned out he probably should’ve been. I was still very saddened by the fact that his life had been so unforgivingly hard.

Peter and his two younger siblings had grown up with a neglectful heroin addict of a mother. His father, if he even knew him, was nowhere in the picture. He never had much of a home to speak of as every place they had tried to settle ended in an eviction notice. By the time Pete was thirteen he was already doing whatever he could to raise his two siblings, ages one and five. Department of Family Services had been called multiple times but the courts kept placing the kids back with the mother. By the time Pete reached eighteen, his siblings had been taken from the home permanently and placed in foster care. He was left to fend for himself as he was no longer a minor.

Peter tried to fight for custody of the two children but was denied by the judge. He’d been told he had nothing to offer and that the foster home would be better for them. That part broke my heart the most I think. Imagine having someone tell you, you had nothing to offer your own siblings who you had practically raised yourself.

I don’t know what was sadder, the fact that he had to grow up in that situation or that he grew up just to repeat the same cycle his mother started.

In the years since then, Peter made quite the name for himself with local law enforcement. His rap sheet was a mile long with offenses ranging from possession of illegal substances to petty theft. He spent most of his twenties in and out of lockup with an endless list of public defenders to keep him company.

When looking into the crowd he normally ran with, we found that most of those people were known for various nefarious criminal activities as well. It didn’t take much digging to find that some the same names on Pete’s list were on Tanner’s. My assumption of them meeting at a mutual party was proving to be spot on.

The more Leo and I dug into Peter’s past, the more my imagination seemed to run rampant. I even started having bad dreams about it every night.

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