Be My Queen (The Crown Duet Book 2) by Chelsea McDonald

Author:Chelsea McDonald [McDonald, Chelsea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

“Look, Finch, it’s been nearly two days. You can’t put this off any longer. You need to start talking or get the fuck out.” I delivered the ultimatum with my arms crossed over my chest. He’d stalled for time, and I was sick of it. He needed to tell me what he knew, or he needed to stop trying to interfere.

Finch looked around the hotel room awkwardly, as if he were looking for another exit.

“Our dad was the one that hired Anton,” his confession burst out of him.

I shook my head, confused by the statement. He must have known that sounded insane, so he started to explain at the same time as I asked; “What? Back up, why? And how the fuck would you even know that?”

This vague accusation wasn’t exactly what I’d been hoping for but at least it was a start. But my mind boggled, I had so many questions and not enough information. I needed the whole story before I jumped to any conclusions.

“Alright, geez. I’ll tell you everything you want to know.” He held his hands up placatingly.

“The Varela and Bellucci families drew up Anastasia’s arranged marriage long before she was even born. Marco himself was only a few months old. The families had a feud going on dating back generations and the idea had been to put an end to it by coming together. It had all started over something stupid, land rights I think.”

I nodded for him to continue. I’d heard about the feud, so I vaguely knew what he was talking about.

“For things to change, something had to give. But from the start it had all a front. The Bellucci family didn’t want the alliance, they just wanted to buy time so that they could wipe the Varelas out and take over their base.” I could’ve groaned out of sheer frustration with a family that I hadn’t even met. Worst of all, Ana had no idea about any of this.

Everything was beginning to make sense. I still had no idea how Finch could possibly have known about all of this, but since he clearly wasn’t finished, I let him continue.

“Cassio Bellucci rang a friend for a favour. Our father. Cassio brought him in to hire Anton and arrange the kidnapping… it couldn’t have been traced back to him.” He sighed, his shoulders slumping. I knew how he felt. Our parents hadn’t been the best but this… it made me feel sick with guilt. To know that we were directly related to this man, a man that stole a child away from her family?

Ugh.

But it all made sense to me. It seemed like such a coincidence that I’d found Ana, but it wasn’t. For as long as I could remember, my father had been loaning money to Anton, even with his terrible track record. It was almost unimaginable that I’d fallen for her...

“How would you even know about any of this?” I asked, shaking my head again.

“Because I was there. I was in Dad’s office when Bellucci came to him.

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