Broken (Erebus Assassins Book 1) by Reese Knightley

Author:Reese Knightley [Knightley, Reese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erebus Assassins book one
Publisher: Reese Knightley
Published: 2024-04-03T18:30:00+00:00

One week later—First week of May

Ice felt somewhat content.

Sitting beneath the bright sun with the sand between his toes and a brand new, fully loaded, Ruger thirty-eight auto pistol in his lap, he sipped at the last of the tea in his glass.

At that very moment, he could say he was a happy man, but in all honesty, he had to wonder at the changes in Echo the past few days.

Ever since the breakdown and screamed words, I’m broken, Echo had been different. The assassin was starting to come out of his shell.

It was surprising, but maybe Echo was beginning to trust him just a little bit?

Yet, could Ice honestly trust anything right now? After the knifing, evading, and shooting Echo had done, how sincere could he suddenly be? Ice would need to wait and see, as much as he hoped Echo had turned a corner and that their relationship was moving in the right direction, he was going to save his hopes about their future until more time passed.

Echo dropped into the lounge chair next to him and handed him an open bottle of beer.

“No more ice tea?”

“You’ve graduated to beer since you no longer need the pain meds.”

“How long can we stay here?” Ice asked, taking a swallow of the icy freshness.

“As long as we want.”

Ice glanced over. “Who owns this place?”

“I do,” Echo said, picking at the paper on the bottle.

“It’s beautiful here,” Ice said, hesitant to voice the hundreds of questions that swept through his head. “It looks like a fancy vacation rental.”

Echo smiled and took a sip from the bottle. “I had the siding custom made to resemble a thatch hut when I bought it.”

“Was that around the time you left Erebus?”

Ice smiled at Echo’s look of surprise.

“Yes, it was. What do you know?” The words themselves could have sounded suspicious, but Ice found only curiosity in Echo’s deep brown gaze.

“I know that a few years ago, you left Erebus and were gone for six years. I came to work for them during your hiatus.”

“You quit the business.”

“I did. Just before you returned. That’s why we didn’t run into each other,” Ice said.

“But you came back,” Echo pointed out.

“I did.” Ice stared out at the sea. What would Echo think if he knew he’d come back to find him? He’d think he was nuts for sure. Ice rubbed the cool beer bottle against his forehead, and Echo was out of his chair with a hand pressed to his head as if feeling for a fever.

“Does your head hurt?” The assassin dropped to his knees between his splayed legs and Ice cupped Echo’s cheek, running his thumb lightly over the man’s lower lip.

“My head is fine. I’m too tough to die.”

“I saved you. I can’t let you die.”

Echo cringed inside at how stupid he sounded after he was the one who’d shot Ice, but he couldn’t stop from blurting out the words. Ever since he’d located Ice in the water beneath the pier, he couldn’t seem to let the man out of his sight.

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