LOVE AND RUIN: RHEA'S REVENGE
"I’ve been funneling money to Rita. I’ve been keeping her safe. I thought if I could just get enough leverage on the Rossi family, I could end them."
He was inches away now. I could smell the familiar scent of him, like it'd only been yesterday since I was last in his embrace. He smelled of cedarwood and a faint, sweet smell of the shampoo I had introduced to him.
"You're lying," I whispered, though my hand was already trembling as it reached for the lapel of his suit.
"Rhea," he breathed, his forehead leaning against mine. "Look at my eyes and tell me I'm lying."
I looked. And that was my mistake. In the deep blue of his irises, I didn't see a killer. I saw the sixteen-year-old boy who had