Six Brothers (Gypsy Brothers, #2) by Lili Saint Germain

Author:Lili Saint Germain [Saint Germain, Lili]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lili Saint Germain Publishing
Published: 2014-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

We are roaring down the highway when it occurs to me that I’ve driven this route before.

“Where are we going?” I asked. It was hot, the air blowing into the car stifling. Jase and I sat in the backseat, Mariana and my father in front.

“You’ll see,” Mariana said, her Columbian accent clipped and anxious.

I looked over at Jase, who was glancing between Mariana and my father before landing his gaze on me, a troubled expression on his face. I put my hand on the hot leather seat between us and held my palm up, wiggling my fingers. Jase smiled, his dark eyes crinkling at the corners, grabbing my hand and squeezing it.

My father stopped the car when he reached Mariana’s house, parking out the back, hidden from view. My stomach roiled when he did that. I had grown up in the life and I knew that when my father started hiding and acting secretively, things were about to get bad, real fast.

Inside Mariana’s apartment, the one where Jase lived, we were told to sit down on the sofa, Mariana and my father sitting across from us.

“Daddy,” I said thickly. “What’s going on?”

He sighed, his eyes pinched and old, as he looked pointedly at my hand and Jase’s, squeezed protectively together between us.

Mariana didn’t sigh, though. She smiled, her beautiful face lighting up with things long forbidden for the mistress of the Vice President of the Gypsy Brothers. For although the name suggested they were vagabonds and travellers, the same could not be said of their families, their children, their mistresses. These people were effectively trapped in a web of lies and bloodshed, forbidden to step away from the watchful eyes of the club.

“We’re leaving,” she said, hope dancing in her eyes. That hope she carried around with her was such a dangerous, devastating thing to clutch onto.

I nodded, looking at Jase, who looked like he was about to flip out.

“You are coming with us, hijo,” Mariana said affectionately, reaching her hand over to brush his cheek. “You don’t need to be scared. I will always take care of you as if you were my own.”

I continued to look at my dad, one thought troubling me, a weakness in their plan.

“Is mom coming?” I asked, finally noticing the way Mariana and my father sat so closely together, their knees touching every now and then, her hand patting his arm, the way she gazed up at him and the way he looked down at her.

My throat constricted as I saw what they had been trying to hide for a very long time.

“No,” my father said heavily, and I could practically taste the guilt in his words.

I didn’t drop his gaze, something powerful passing between us. I needed him to know that I understood. Why he would leave his wife, the mother of his child, to the wolves.

Because she was one of them.

“Good,” I said firmly. “She’d only rat you out.”

At that, my father hung his head, with relief or sadness, I’ll never know.

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