Ruined (Family Untied Book 1) by S.A. McEwen
Author:S.A. McEwen [McEwen, S.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648201342
Publisher: Kaleido Text Media
Published: 2021-03-12T06:00:00+00:00
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For the rest of her Melbourne tour, Natalie is on autopilot.
Part of her is conscious of the things that need to be doneâhair, makeup, clean lingerie, changing sheets, being delightfulâbut if anyone had asked her for a single standout detail of her bookings, she would have been lost.
Finally, ten-thousand dollars richer and ten-thousand times more worried than when she left, she boards a flight home.
Eloise picks her up from Sydney Airport, and they drive in silence to Eloiseâs flat, where Eloise regards Natalie carefully.
Itâs nearly nine oâclock. For the first time since she fled Aaronâs apartment, and his painting of her, Natalie starts to let her guard down.
Nursing a Shiraz, she tries to calm her crazy heart. She doesnât know how it hasnât been lurching half out of her chest and scaring her clients for the entire tour.
Taking a deep breath, she tries to explain her jumbled thoughts to her friend.
âGriffin. He approached me on the street. Said heâd seen me staring at the Jack Charles portrait the night before. He said something virtually identical to what this client said to me in Melbourne. Heâd painted a picture of me looking at Jackâs portrait. But they said the exact same things. About me looking like I wanted to morph into the picture. Like, thatâs a weird thing for one person to say, right? Two people?â
Eloise nods, placing a hand over Natalieâs to still its worrying at the tablecloth.
âBut the picture made me rememberâ¦Griffin met me all dressed up as Ivy. Whenever I see him I still wear one of my wigs, most of the time. But in the pictureâ¦Iâm in casual clothes. With no wig. No makeup. I donât really know that he would have recognised me from the galleryâ¦would he? Itâs bothering me. With all these dead escorts.â
Natalie breaks off, putting her head in her hands.
âGod. None of them were killed in a booking. The last client they saw and the one they were going to visit all had alibis, CCTV, something that cleared them. The police havenât put a lot of resources into any of them. Theyâre considering them last-minute bookings gone wrong. But just say. Oh, God. Is it Griffin? He was with me when they found Letitia, but not at her actual time of death. Am I being insane?â
âNo. No. You trust your gut. If something feels off, it probably is. But what about this other guy? What if heâs the off one?â
Natalie shakes her head slowly.
âNo. He took me to his brotherâs apartment. He really thought I would be excited about the painting. I panicked and ran, but I thinkâ¦the painting was so detailed. He really did see me standing in front of Jackâs portrait. He got the look on my face fucking perfect. It looked exactly how I felt. How I feel when I think of that portrait.â
âMaybe they work together?â
âBut why? Why disorient me like this? It must have taken him days, maybe weeks to paint my portrait? Why would you bother? And thatâs pretty crazy evidence of a connection to have in your studio.
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