Starlet (Sophie Lark Standalones) by Sophie Lark

Author:Sophie Lark [Lark, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

11

“Alice!” Jack cried. “Where the hell have you been?”

“Come on,” I gasped, continuing to pull him right out of the Trocadero. “Let’s get out of here.”

I would have kept going all the way down the street, but once we were outside Jack made me stop.

“Alice, what happened? Where are your shoes?” he demanded.

“I was talking to Bugsy,” I said.

Jack’s face went white, and he looked furious. He was still holding my hand, but now his grip was tight around my wrist.

“That was extremely stupid,” he said.

“I know,” I said. “But I had to go upstairs with him. It was the only way to get him to talk.”

“Are you alright? Did he . . .?”

I saw his eyes sweep down over the torn sleeve of my dress, and the tops of my breasts that were now bared to the evening air. His jaw clenched, and his fingers dug into my wrist harder than ever.

“No,” I said. “I mean, he tried, but he didn’t do anything to me.”

Jack looked relieved, but still furious.

“You lied to me,” he said. “You planned to go talk to him all along.”

“I did,” I admitted. “If I had told you that, you would have tried to stop me.”

“Damn right I would have! He’s a gangster, Alice. I know you’re having fun playing detective, but that was idiotic.”

I wrenched my wrist out of his grasp, glaring up at him. My heart was still racing a mile a minute from my sprint out of the club, and somehow the heat of my conflict with Bugsy was all turning on Jack.

“I’m not playing at anything!” I shouted. “My sister was killed, and I’m going to do whatever I have to to find out who did it. I’ll talk to fifty gangsters if that’s what it takes!”

“Then you’ll get yourself killed just like she did!” Jack snarled back at me.

Our faces were inches apart, both of us red in the face and breathing hard.

I wanted to slap him for bringing up Clara like that, and I could tell he wanted to grab me and give me a good hard shake.

He had better self-control than I did.

He stepped back from me, shaking his head.

“I’m not going to be a part of that,” Jack said. “If you’re going to be reckless, then you’re on your own.”

He turned around to walk away from me.

I was still angry with him. But he had only taken a few steps away from me before guilt began to creep in, too. Jack was my only ally at the moment. I had put him in a bad position, coming to the Troc with him and then sneaking off to speak with Bugsy. I was used to doing things on my own, in my own way. That wasn’t how you treated a friend.

“Jack, wait!” I called after him. “Look, I’m sorry. I couldn’t see any way around it—I didn’t think he’d tell you anything because you’re a cop, but I figured he might talk to me.”

Jack looked back at me, his jaw still clenched.

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