Worth of Waste by Bethany-Kris

Author:Bethany-Kris [Bethany-Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Dino arrived at Karen’s apartment less than an hour after hanging up the phone. He didn’t even knock, just used the spare key she had given him to get in, shrugged his coat off, and found her in the living room. She had found a comfortable spot sitting in front of the bay window beside the lit up Christmas tree, watching snow fall outside on the walkway in front of the apartment building.

“I didn’t see you park,” Karen said.

Dino came to stand in front of her, kneeling down and placing his hands on her thighs. For a long moment, he stayed like that, touching her softly and being silent as he did so. It was enough to ground the anxiety that had been rushing her nerves like a tidal wave for the last hour.

“I parked a couple blocks away and came in the back,” Dino explained. “Just to be safe—seems you’re on someone’s radar, now.”

Karen frowned. “Am I?”

“You did say it was a detective, right? Not an agent.”

“That’s what he said.”

Dino’s expression gave nothing away. “Okay, tell me everything that happened. Don’t leave anything out, huh?”

Karen did as he wanted, going over the strange encounter with the detective and how it had seemed as though it came right out of the blue. Dino waited her explanation out, never speaking until she was finally done.

“You haven’t been approached at all before this?” he asked.

“No.”

“And no one around you has mentioned that someone might be asking about you?”

“No,” Karen repeated dully.

Dino sighed, standing. “Then it might be just what the detective said. They’re looking into my businesses, the restaurant happened to be one of them, and you were an employee on their list to talk to. Nothing to worry about.”

He’d said that so flippantly, and she knew he had probably meant to calm whatever fears she was feeling, but it didn’t help.

Something just didn’t feel right.

“But what if—”

Dino quieted Karen’s statement by leaning down and pressing a soft kiss to her mouth. When he finally pulled away, his thumb stroked her cheek gently, reassuring her silently. “This isn’t about you—it’s about me. I haven’t had any officials come my way since my release, but I knew it was only a matter of time. This tells me they are building something against me, or maybe they’re getting everything ready before they do come my way. Either way, I know now.”

“And what about me?” Karen asked, looking up at him. “Or J, Dino. What about us?”

He stilled, turning into a cold statue right in front of her eyes.

Karen had the distinct feeling that Dino had not given them much thought, but maybe he hadn’t meant for it to be that way. He considered his legal troubles as his, for him to deal with alone, but he forgot to factor in that they were still a part of his picture, too.

“I don’t want to be left alone again,” Karen said softly.

Dino was kneeling down in front of her again in a flash. “You won’t, I promise.

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