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CHAPTER 131: Collateral Damage
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Okay, maybe she does know me. It sounds exactly like what I would have done. “Alright. Alright,” I say. “You’ll have the honor. That doesn’t mean they can’t help. I promise you, I’ll take you with me, and you’ll be the one to finish him off. How does that sound?” She finally stops typing. It’s not a full pause. Her fingers lift from the keys, hovering in the air like they’re unsure what to do next. Then she turns her head until her eyes meet mine. There are varieties of emotions running through those eyes. Exhaustion, fear, rage, and some others I can't place. “You promise?” she whispers. “I do.” “Swear on your life.” I pause. Then, because I mean it, I lean in closer. “Better yet, I swear on yours. You know I’m not letting anything happen to you ever. Not while I'm alive.” Her face softens. She exhales and gives a small nod. “Mateo’s going to call back in ten minutes,” she says. “I’m setting up to track the live call this time. I wasn’t ready before, and he didn’t leave a fo
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*** ~~KNOX~~ *** I can hear Jade in the backseat of my car, loading up the guns we pulled from the hidden storage in my home basement. Mateo thought way outside the box with this one. Sloane’s sister. Of all hostages to choose from. I’ll admit—if it were under another circumstance, I might’ve been impressed. But as it stands, I am not. The minute I heard Sloane’s voice shake on the phone, the minute I heard her sound that small and that furious at the same time, my sympathy for clever strategy went out the damn window. “You sure we should be carrying this level of firearm around?” Jade asks. “What if we get pulled over and have to explain the assault rifles and all this illegal shit we have back here? My kid—or kids, if they all survive incubation in their mother's womb—will not see me for a very long time. I bet Margot won’t even tell them I’m alive. Or visit me in prison. All because your girlfriend said Mateo kidnapped that bitch, Serena. Honestly? Just let her die. You’ll be
Craving The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 134: Daphne Underscore Beau
The words stop me cold. I press the phone closer to my ear, straining to hear something, anything, that might tell me this is some kind of joke.“Who is this?” I ask.“You really don’t recognize my voice?”There’s something smug in his tone, something that makes my skin crawl. I know that voice. God, I know that voice. My chest starts to tighten, like someone’s wrapping bands around my lungs and pulling them tighter with each breath.No. No, no, no.“Mateo?”“Correct.”“You have my sister?”“I do, like I said.”All this time, Knox and I had been so paranoid about watching our own backs, checking over our shoulders, making sure we were safe. We’d been so worried about protecting ourselves that we forgot we have family members in this city. Oh, that slimy bastard played us; I’ll give him that. But what I won’t give him is the satisfaction of hearing me squirm without solid proof he’s telling the truth.“Prove it.” I force the words out, trying to keep the tremor out of my voice. “Show h
Craving The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 133: Your Sister Can't Come To The Phone
***~~SLOANE~~***My father is just as bullheaded as most of the men I know.He decides not to heed my warning and stands there like some old-school martyr, arms crossed, face calm in that way he thinks makes him unreadable. It doesn’t. He’s waiting for the storm that’s about to come through the front door in the form of his wife, Daphne.The door opens, and Daphne walks in with Beau.The first person she lays eyes on is Grandma June, curled into the couch with a half-finished glass of wine in one hand and the TV remote in the other.“You’re back,” Grandma says with a slow turn of the head as Daphne kicks the door shut behind her and sets her bag down.“Yeah. Couldn’t stand being around my family any longer. Decided to come home.” She looks down at her son and nods. “Beau, go say hi to Grandma.”The boy hesitates. He’s got one finger lodged in his nostril, and from the way he shifts his weight from foot to foot, he’d rather be anywhere else. But Daphne nudges him, and he reluctantly
Craving The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 132: The Strongest Catalyst
*** ~~HUNTER~~ *** I had expected Mateo to retaliate after I turned down his request to turn against Knox—but not this quickly, and definitely not with a swarm of armed men breaking into my house at night. How they managed to get past the two security guards Knox hired for me is still a mystery. No struggle I could hear. When they dragged me out, I caught a glimpse of the guards—slumped in the hallway. No blood on the floor. No holes in their clothes. Just stillness. I hope they were just asleep. Now, I’m tied to a chair in my damn pajamas. My ankles are bound to the chair legs, wrists tight behind me, the rope biting through my skin each time I move. And I’m not the only one dressed for comfort. Soraya’s beside me in a silk robe. Serena’s at the other end of our semicircle with the hem of her top riding up her thighs. Finn sits just before Serena, the only one in an actual outfit. Jeans and a T-shirt. Only one of his arms is tied. His broken one is left untouched, mercifully.
Craving The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 131: Collateral Damage
The look on Dad's face is almost indescribable. Shock, definitely. But there’s something more. If my father were an emotional man, he’d be screaming. Or crying. Or both. He just stands there instead. “Wow,” he says finally. “Are you on something? Crack? Are you using, Sloane?” I roll my eyes and take a shaky breath. “I’m done talking about this.” “Mom,” he says, voice rising as he turns toward Grandma June, who’s still perched on the couch, legs crossed, wine glass in hand, eyes fixed on the television. “Are you not going to chip in here?” “And say what, Daniel?” she replies without looking away from the screen. “You’ve not seen her with that boyfriend of hers. She’s happy. He buys her designers, a lot of them. Let the kid make her own damn choice.” “And become you, right?” That makes her turn around. “Oh, you better watch that mouth of yours.” “You do realize that however you turned out has everything to do with you choosing the wrong man in the first place, right? He made yo
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