Fateful Allure: A Standalone Reverse Harem Novel by Jessica Sorensen

Author:Jessica Sorensen [Sorensen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Borrowed Hearts Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-EIGHT

ALLURA

I’ve got to stop looking at this, or else it’ll drive me mad. But it’s like I’ve nudged a door open I’ve spent three years pressed against, and now I can’t get it shut.

Reece at a party with a blonde girl who looks a few years older than us.

Reece at a party with a brunette who I think we went to school with.

With a redhead …

Reece.

Parties.

Reece.

Reece.

Reece.

Dammit, I need to stop obsessing.

Forcing myself to close everything up, I do a search on my mother’s disappearance to see if any news stations have covered it.

Nothing pops up at all. Just new articles about the fate ceremony and a few parties she oversaw.

So, my father is keeping this pretty tight-lipped. The question is: why?

Because he killed her?

The concept isn’t entirely implausible. While I don’t like my mother, the idea that my father may have killed her sends rage prickling through me. It’s another representation of how little value women have in the mafia world.

I despise it.

Despise my father.

Despise the people he surrounds himself with.

I also thought I despised Ryder, Reece, and Blaise, but that simmering burn no longer flames inside me.

Setting my phone down on the bed, I peer up at Reece. He’s been sitting at the desk for a couple of hours, still attempting to hack into the flash drive.

I’m aware the guys have fantastic computer skills, along with their drug-dealing talents, ability to deal cruel punishments, and their general talent of charming people over—well, minus Ryder on the latter, but he’s always been able to reel people into the dark vortex that swirls around him, anyway. Look at me. I got sucked into it the moment he spoke to me. It was because I found him fascinating, and later, because he was nice to me, a trait that only seemed to apply to me.

And then I only saw him as darkly cold as everyone else saw him.

“What in the gods hellfire demon witches did she do to this thing?” Reece mumbles as he removes a pair of square-frame glasses, cleans the lenses, and puts them back on. He looks gorgeously nerdy-cute right now, but I’m attempting not to think about that.

“Did you just say gods hellfire demon witches?” I ask, pushing up on my elbows.

He leans closer to the computer screen and clicks a few more keys. “I sure did. And it seems like a perfect description of what your mom did to this flash drive. I mean, she fucking encrypted it with like twenty passwords.” His gaze shifts to me, eyes wide. “Twenty fucking passwords, Allura! It’s like she didn’t want anyone to see whatever’s on this thing.”

“Or she just wanted to make it extra hard because whatever is on there could be dangerous.” I push to my feet and wander over to him. “Are there really twenty passwords?”

He rocks back in the chair. “No, that was an exaggeration so I could show you how frustrated I am.” He slips his glasses off again and rubs his eyes with the heels of his hands.

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