Arcadia Falls by Kai Meyer

Author:Kai Meyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-07-01T21:00:00+00:00

BAIT

IN HER MIND’S EYE, Rosa saw a wedding cake of several tiers, a dream of a cake filled with whipped cream and buttercream. On it stood two figures dressed in black and white. The bride was holding a kitchen knife and hysterically stabbing the bridegroom with it.

If you reduced the Hungry Man’s plan to its essentials, there was something absurdly comic about it.

However, she was alone in seeing it that way. Even Danai looked shocked when Rosa abruptly burst out laughing. She laughed so hard that she could hardly catch her breath. She couldn’t restrain herself, particularly when she thought about how she hated buttercream and how whipped cream gave her a rash.

Alessandro kept his eye on her, said nothing, and waited until she had calmed down. He knew her so well. She reached up and kissed him. His lips tasted salty.

“Well,” said Evangelos Thanassis, “that was an interesting assessment of the situation.”

“But how crazy can you get?” exclaimed Rosa. “Is that the bastard’s idea of leading the Sicilian Mafia?”

“The Mafia is obsessed with blood rites,” replied the old man. “If anyone can be impressed by such things, it’s Cosa Nostra.”

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