Ocean Light_Psy-Changeling Trinity by Nalini Singh

Author:Nalini Singh [Singh, Nalini]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-06-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 41

Hugo, you’re late! We’re going to miss the start of the show!

—Message from Kaia Luna (16) to Hugo Sorensen (16)

“LOVE ISN’T THAT simple,” Bo replied, and using that word, it came easy. It felt right. And yet his mind continued to churn, his heart fucking aching with the hurt. “A man who isn’t here has no faults, can’t make Kaia angry.”

Carlotta nodded after a long pause, a slight curve to her lips. “Absence does definitely make the heart grow fonder.” She looked at Filipe and something unspoken passed between them, the communication so effortless that Bo thought of a distant future in which he and Kaia sat next to each other and spoke with their eyes.

Filipe’s deep voice shattered the fragile daydream. “Hugo’s a charmer, as my ma used to say. That boy can make Bebe herself laugh, and when he was younger, he could make anyone, even my Carly, forgive him his sins.” Reaching out an age-spotted hand, he closed it over his mate’s.

She turned hers upside down, wove her fingers through his. “Black-haired, with skin as dark as Filipe’s and a smile like the sun, he’s got the devil in him—but it’s a charming, likable devil. There’s no meanness in Hugo.”

Bowen had never been called charming. “What’s he like as a friend?”

“He can be fickle,” Carlotta said with a smile. “But he’s so joyously dismayed about being late or forgetting an appointment or not paying back a loan that you forgive him instantly.” A glance at her mate. “He was careful with Kaia, though, always there when she needed him.”

“She’s special to him,” Filipe confirmed. “He’d do anything for her, I think. They laughed together a lot.”

Bo’s shoulders knotted, his thoughts snapping back once again to the exchange in the lab and to Kaia stepping away, putting distance between them. “Did he have curiosity?” he asked past the rock that sat in his stomach. “Like Kaia.” For the sake of the investigation, he needed to get a handle on why a poker-playing charmer would suddenly turn detective, but it was the man who adored Kaia who wanted to get to the core of this stranger who lived in her heart.

“Curious?” Carlotta pondered the question. “Not a word I’d choose to describe Hugo. He can find out information, yes. But it’s usually because he’s been told to find that information or because he needs it for a reason of his own.”

The hairs stirred on the back of Bowen’s neck.

Was it possible someone else had asked Hugo to look into the movements of the Alliance Fleet? It couldn’t have been Malachai—it was obvious the news had come as a shock to both him and Miane. So either Hugo had been so struck by what he’d heard from his drunk friend that he’d begun digging, or someone else in BlackSea had pushed him to it after Hugo shared what he knew.

But if that was true, why had that unknown individual left Miane and Malachai out of the loop, not even

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