Reluctant Heir: American Mafia Book 1 by Jacie Lennon

Author:Jacie Lennon [Lennon, Jacie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

14

CONNOR

“Geo!” I wait until he pokes his head in my office and then ask, “Where is Sylvia?”

“I haven’t seen her recently.”

“Go find her. Tell her I want to talk to her,” I say with a flick of my hand. Geo mutters something under his breath, and I glance up. “What was that?”

He glares at me with murder in his eyes, and I smirk back. I’m in no mood. He stalks off, and I go back to pacing the floor with a drink in hand. Now that I think about it, she hasn’t been at any of the dinners, and I haven’t seen her in passing around the house. Maybe Lilliana would know.

I go to step out of the office and almost run into Geo, who is jogging back.

“She’s not here.”

“Not here?”

“As in not on the grounds. She had a car pick her and Lilliana up yesterday.”

“Where did it take them?” I ask, but the sinking feeling in my gut tells me I already know.

Sylvia went home and took my sister with her.

Fuck.

“The airstrip,” Geo says.

“And no one fucking thought to let me know?” I roar. My voice echoes around the house, and I hear something being dropped a few rooms down. It shatters, breaking the silence that follows my outburst. “How does she disappear out from under me and take Lilliana too?”

I slam the office door and stalk toward the stairs, Geo following.

“This won’t look good,” Geo says.

I can already feel him shaking his head behind me, like a disappointed father. Well, too bad. I’ve already had one of those, and he’s dead.

“No shit. It looks like I can’t control my family, which really doesn’t help things, considering where I stand right now. I don’t even have my damn inheritance.”

“She did this on purpose,” he says, and I spin.

“I fucking know that. She goes crying to daddy whenever things don’t go her way.”

“She should have gotten something from Bertrand.”

“I don’t give a fuck what she should have gotten. The only good thing she’s ever given this family is Lilliana. And now, she’s taken that, back to our enemies.” I continue walking with Geo.

“From Bertrand’s point of view, the whole reason she married him was to create an alliance.”

“Which is shattered now that he’s gone and I’m taking over. But I don’t know that it was an alliance in her father’s mind. He hated Bertrand. And Sylvia hates me. I’ve always been a nuisance to her. I’ve never been hers.”

Not that I ever wanted to be. I had a mother—a damn good one—and Sylvia wasn’t that. She was money-hungry, power-hungry, and hungry to please her family. There’s no telling what secrets she’s taken back to them. Back to Chicago.

“Do you think this has anything to do with Fernando?” Geo asks.

I stop short, right outside of Wryn’s room.

“I did think it could be Leoni who hit him,” I say on a whisper, not wanting that to be the answer.

“But it doesn’t make sense why,” Geo says, pressing his lips into a thin line, his hand inadvertently going to the gun on his holster.

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