Family Ties (Morelli Family, #4) by Sam Mariano

Author:Sam Mariano [Mariano, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Six

Mateo starts sleeping with the stupid maid.

Since my brother’s love life has become a contest between me and Sal, he treats it like a victory. I inform him he has only won a battle, but I’m still going to win the war. We both win the greater pot—more time together. Now that Mateo’s tucked away with his pretty little distraction, I’m able to slip out to visit Sal after dinner four nights the first week.

It. Is. Incredible.

Friday I get to spend the night with him, and I decide to call myself off Saturday morning so we can have the morning together, too.

Sal and I make breakfast together. I sit at his table in one of his T-shirts after an amazing night of togetherness, and life is absolutely beautiful.

Sunday Mateo brings his maid to family dinner. She leans down to whisper intimately in his ear right in front of Mia, and he caresses the maid’s hand on the table. I’m not worried on a grand scale; it’s very like Mateo to be aggressively into a woman early on, then his interest tapers off as he figures her out and gets tired of her. Not Beth or Mia, but the flavor of the week types like the maid. The more intensely interested he is at the start, the faster he peels back the layers, figures her out, and finds her lacking in some area; consequently his interest dies as quickly as it started up.

I’m not worried about any of that. Mia is still with Vince right now anyway.

No, what ruins Sunday for me the bomb he drops at dinner about unfriendliness with the Castellanos family and how Mateo is “planning something” now because they’ve given him no choice.

I barely make it through the rest of the meal. I know I have to keep my cool in front of Mateo, but all I want to do is scream and cry.

I also have no idea what to do.

Telling Sal what Mateo said would be a complete betrayal. It’s exactly the kind of thing neither of us can do, and why we don’t talk about this sort of thing. But not telling Sal could be potentially dangerous for him.

All of a sudden the hypothetical question that spurned our only fight isn’t so hypothetical anymore: do I stay loyal to my own family and keep my mouth shut, or do I betray them for Sal?

It sounds like it should be fairly straightforward—I love Sal. Sal is wonderful. Sal deserves my loyalty.

But my brother murders traitors. Being his sister doesn’t automatically provide me any safety; he killed our disloyal older sister. That makes it a little more difficult.

I’m so sick to my stomach I go straight to bed after dinner. Then I decide to take a long bath instead, so I can cry out my frustration and fear in the only place in the damn house I have any privacy.

I wish I could talk to Adrian or Mateo and find out what they have planned, so I could better determine the stakes of my next move.

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