Santa Baby: a Carelli Family Christmas Novella by Chelle Bliss & Eden Butler

Author:Chelle Bliss & Eden Butler [Bliss, Chelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bliss Ink LLC
Published: 2019-11-25T18:30:00+00:00

Smoke

I didn’t like being lied to.

Hit me. Steal from me, maybe.

But lie to me, and I got fucking offended.

Especially, when you promised not to do something, and two hours later, you did the very damn thing you gave your word you wouldn’t do.

Like touch my little sister.

To be fair, she was a grown woman.

I got that.

I wasn’t her keeper.

Antonia had had plenty of men in her bed. Granted, I didn’t want to know shit about that, and yeah, maybe I’d facilitated a few background checks and had a few conversations with assholes I knew were fucking my sister over. But this was different.

Luca DeRosa gave me his word to stay clear of Antonia, shaking my hand on it, then wormed his way into a family dinner, and sat right next to her all damn night.

Then I stepped away for ten damn minutes and they disappeared. Alone. Together.

“You didn’t see where Antonia and Luca went?” I asked Dario, who clearly wasn’t sober enough to get over being pissed at me. When he only shook his head, I grabbed his glass from him, pushing him back in his chair with one hand before he could stand. “Did you hear me?”

“Nope. Not my business.”

“Our sister is not your business?” I asked him, tilting my head to look down at him. I handed off his glass to Dino when he approached my side.

“You do your own time, man. Let her be.”

“Do your own…hey, asshole,” I told him, kneeling down to his level. Dario was lit out of his skull. “You aren’t in prison anymore.”

He blinked at me, and it took him three full seconds before the dots seemed to connect.

“Yeah, you with me?”

Dario nodded, rubbing his eyes.

“Antonia?”

“Where’s that girl? Maggie?”

I grunted, giving up, but still glanced down the table to where Maggie sat with my cousin Ricardo and his husband, David. Ma and Maria were arguing over who got to hold Mateo, and I tossed Maggie a smile when she looked up at me, hoping she knew I was serious about the offer I made.

She was wound tight. Probably hadn’t let herself go since she got pregnant. A woman like that being closed off, holding back and keeping herself alone?

She needed to let go a little.

“Dino,” I said, nodding my man over. “You see my sister?”

“Yes sir,” he said, placing Dario’s glass on the tray of a passing server. “’Bout a half hour ago she and that Luca fella went upstairs.”

A small ache started to pinch at the base of my skull, but I ignored it, nodding to Dino. “I gotta handle something. Keep my brother away from Maggie, and get someone to grab him some coffee. I don’t want my father to come back and see him like this.”

“Yes, sir. I’m on it.”

By the time I made it to the stairs and cleared the first five steps, Antonia was coming down. Her hands were in her hair as Luca followed behind her with a smug, satisfied grin on his face as he adjusted his tie.

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