Pretty Wicked Secrets (Ruthless Hearts Book 2) by Callie Rose

Author:Callie Rose [Rose, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

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RILEY

“You don’t want the money?” Austin scoffs in Maddoc’s face. “You’ve put too many fucking resources into tracking the girl down for me to believe that shit. Unless… oh.” He glances my way, then smirks back at Maddoc. “I see.”

“You see shit.”

“I see that you’re fucking weak.”

A vicious sound rips out of Maddoc’s throat, his body jerking forward like he wants to hit the man.

Dante and Logan stop him, and Austin laughs.

“Weak,” he repeats. “It’s why West Point is gonna wipe you Reapers out. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but make no mistake. It’s gonna happen.”

“Not worth it, Madd,” Dante says quietly, the killer that lives so quietly under his laid-back charm visible just under the surface for a moment when he meets Austin’s eyes. “No point goading this shithead into doing something we have to respond to. Not here, where we’ll regret it.”

Austin’s eyes narrow and the look on Maddoc’s face says he wouldn’t regret a single second of it. I feel the same. But Maddoc doesn’t have the reputation as a leader that he does for no reason, so instead of showing Austin why West Point will never come out on top over the Reapers, he reins it in.

“Let’s go,” he bites out, giving his seconds a sharp nod to let them know he’s got his shit under control again.

Of course Austin doesn’t leave it alone, but we all ignore the final, taunting comments he throws out and split away, heading back to the Escalade.

Maddoc slips behind the wheel, and I flick a concerned gaze toward Logan and Dante. Maddoc’s agitation is obvious, but Logan just stares back at me impassively while Dante’s lips curl up at the corner as he gives me a small shake of his head.

Fine. They know him best.

I slip into the back seat with Dante while Logan takes the front.

“We need to ramp up the search for Chloe,” Maddoc says as he pulls away from the curb, tires squealing. “Logan, you need to get in touch with Isaac.”

Logan nods as Maddoc keeps rattling off orders that he needs his seconds to give the Reapers, and Dante leans forward as the three of them start up a rapid-fire conversation about protecting their territory. “We need to find a way to do it without sparking another fucking blowup between us and West Point.”

“We can’t afford that,” Logan agrees, glancing up from the phone screen his fingers are flying over for a moment. “But the upside is that McKenna can’t, either. That alone will help keep more violence from blowing up.”

“That, and the smackdown we both just got from The Six. McKenna’s gotta know they’re not fucking around.”

“He knows,” Maddoc says grimly.

Logan’s lips tighten with disdain. “But does it matter when the man doesn’t always behave rationally?”

“That’s why we’re gonna stay a step ahead of him,” Dante says, going on about the logistics of how they plan to do that.

I tune out the details, my mind still stuck on what Maddoc said to Austin McKenna back there.

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