Semi-Obsessed by Isabel Jordan

Author:Isabel Jordan [Jordan, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harper Hall Investigations #5.5
Publisher: Isabel Jordan
Published: 2018-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Quinn wasn’t all that surprised when their conversation turned to his past. He’d avoided it as long as he could. She’d been so open with him that he’d be a complete dick if he didn’t reciprocate. He wouldn’t keep things from her now, even though common sense told him he should.

So, after they covered favorite TV shows (Supernatural for her, Game of Thrones for him), movies (The Princess Bride for her, The Bourne Identity for him), favorite music (classic rock for her, metal for him), and favorite superheroes (Iron Man for her, Batman for him), she asked him the question he’d been stealthily avoiding since their very first conversation.

“Are you going to tell me why you were in prison, or are you going to keep avoiding the subject?” she asked.

So much for stealth.

He twirled a strand of her long, thick hair around his index finger and sighed. “I’m not trying to keep secrets from you, love. I just didn’t want to ruin the moment.”

More like he didn’t want her to realize she’d just shared her time and perfect body with a common street thug who’d deserved every second of his prison sentence. Didn’t want her to stop looking at him like he was worthy of her.

She raised a brow at him. “You do realize that my brother-in-law is an ex-con, right? And Seven? She’s an ex-con, too. So is Nikolai, who just happens to be my best friend’s husband. We’re not terribly judge-y about that kind of thing in my family. If you give me a little bit of trust and the truth, I think you’ll find I’m pretty open-minded.”

Well, when she put it like that, how could he not tell her anything she wanted to know?

He cleared his throat. “I was, oh, I don’t know, maybe six when I went started slayer training with Sentry. I don’t remember much of anything about my life up until that point. My file with Sentry said I was born just outside of Dublin and that my mum was killed in a car crash. My da turned me over to Sentry right after that.”

“Why would he do that?” she asked quietly. “You were just a baby.”

Quinn had long ago stopped trying to figure out his father’s motives. What difference did it make now? “My mum had been a dhampyre like me, but my da was just a regular human. He apparently didn’t know what to do with the likes of me. He might’ve thought he was doing the best thing for me when he turned me over. Who knows?”

Marina made a disgusted noise that let him know what she thought of that theory. Her disgruntlement on his behalf meant more to him than he cared to analyze at the moment. So he went on, “Basically, when Sentry disbanded, all I’d ever known was slaying. Hunting. To say I was out of sorts when I no longer had a purpose would be an understatement.”

It would be more accurate to say he drank himself

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