Malo: An Age Gap Romance (Ruthless Kings Houston Book 3) by K.L. Savage

Author:K.L. Savage [Savage, K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

MARIA

Istare out of the window, feeling numb as I watch Houston come into view below me. I’ve been crying most of the way back, and it feels as though I have no more tears left in me now. I don’t know what to do, what to think. I just feel… defeated.

Blue watches me with concern from his side of the plane, and I hope he’s not going to hit me with another attempt to cheer me up. I’ve had plenty of those as it is since we left Mexico, and none of them have exactly served their purpose.

I appreciate the effort, but it’s obvious Blue doesn’t have a whole lot of experience when it comes to dealing with people’s actual emotions. He’s been regaling me with tales of his adventures. Most of them, it seems, revolve around his arsenal of weapons in some way. And plenty of them involve him actually setting fire to some part of the compound or another. I don’t know how they let him walk around unattended, given what he’s told me. He sounds like a walking fire hazard, but I guess that works given what he handles for the club.

“Hey, not long ’til we get back now,” he tells me, trying to cheer me up. I feel bad for him, the fact that he’s been stuck with my downbeat attitude all day, but I can’t just cover it up and pretend that I don’t feel the way I do right now. It’s like my heart has been ripped out of my chest at the sight of the picture they sent me. I don’t even know how El Serpiente was able to get his hands on the number I was using, and I’m not sure I want to find out. I haven’t told Blue or anyone about it yet, but I know I’m going to have to spill eventually.

Saying it out loud, though, feels as though it will make it all the more real, and I need to exist in this denial a little while longer. I need to convince myself that my father isn’t in mortal danger, though I know that, of course, he is.

With Rayo gone they’ll surely guess I was the one behind his disappearance, the one who sold him out, and I don’t want to think about what they’ll do to my father in return when they realize Rayo is dead. I have to believe they’re not actually going to kill him, given how much money he could make them if they keep him alive, but how can I be sure? The politics of this world are entirely new to me, and I’m still trying to find my feet.

Surely, Rayo must have expected his end to come like that. And the way he came at me, threatening me, it’s not as though I had a choice. It was either let Malo and Thor take him, or let myself… no, I can’t even think about what might have happened if they hadn’t been there.

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