VIOLENT REIGN: Violent Kingdom: Book 3 by St. Germain Lili

Author:St. Germain, Lili
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

ELLIOT MCRAE

It’s a long wait until the next Wednesday to get ahold of Avery Capulet. She’s finally back at work, but she’s in wall-to-wall meetings all morning and barely emerges from the meeting room or her office, which is weird, considering that she’s pregnant. A fact I learned when I had our IT guy hack into her medical records after Isobel and I tailed her and Nathan to an OBGYN appointment.

Honestly, I thought the bathroom at work would be an easy get. But she puts it off. Must be too early in the pregnancy for her to have to pee all the time. Honestly, I’m still reeling from the news that she’s knocked up. Maybe that’s what the shotgun wedding was for, then. But still. It doesn’t make sense. None of this makes sense.

Finally, she goes in when there’s nobody else in there and I seize the opportunity, dashing out from the dimmed meeting room next to the bathroom, where I’ve been lurking the better part of the morning.

I hover inside the door until she’s done and wait for the rush of water in the sink before I make my move. Avery’s chosen the sink closest to the door, so I only have to take one step to get my hand over her mouth.

She makes a strangled scream into my palm, but I’m already dragging her backward into the accessible stall. Damn, she’s got fire. It’s hard to get her small body to move. Finally I stop with the stall door still open so she can see both of us in the mirror. Her struggle falls away and is replaced with a pair of wide eyes.

I get us both into the stall and close the door, locking it behind me.

“What are you doing here?” she hisses. “You’re going to get us both killed.”

“Here in the women’s bathroom? I thought it would be pretty safe in here.”

Her eyes dart all around but finally settle back on me. “You have to back off. You are seriously putting my life at risk. If Nathan finds out you’ve talked to me, he’s going to lose his shit.”

I’ve never heard Avery so deadly serious about anything. She doesn’t just mean that Nathan will be angry, or that Nathan might shout—the whites of her eyes tell me she’s afraid he’ll do something more. To me? To her? I don’t know who it’s going to be worse for.

“Avery, what the hell’s going on?” I mutter. “You can square with me. I’m not on the company payroll, I swear.”

She swallows, her eyes darting around the stall. I realize she’s trying to stop herself from crying. “If I tell you, we’re both dead,” she whispers. “What do you want?”

“I want to tell you something.”

She gestures as if to say, spit it out already.

“We ran Nathan’s DNA, and we found out he’s blood related to you. He’s not Enzo’s adopted son. He’s Enzo’s biological son.”

Avery’s mouth drops open, the color fleeing from her face. “You’re lying.”

“I’m not.”

“How—” She looks away, shaking her head.

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