Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
“That’s all you’re gonna get. My sister is still dead.”
“And I’m sorry,” Levi growls back.
“You should be,” Silas rebukes.
“He didn’t kill her,” I say.
“But if he hadn’t made that dumb pact with her, she’d still be alive!” he shouts.
“She was the one who suggested it,” Levi retorts.
“If you’d just confessed your fucking feelings to my sister, she would’ve never suggested it!”
Wow. They sound like a married couple.
“Touché …” Apollo says, and Levi throws him a glare.
A wickedly proud smile slowly forms on Levi’s face. “You’re just mad I’m fucking your sister.”
Silas’s pupils dilate, his muscles tightening instantly. “You—”
Apollo flexes his muscles at Silas, who glances between him and Levi, then settles for a mad grumble.
I roll my eyes.
Men.
“You can’t be serious,” Silas says, looking at me now. “These three? With those faces?” He plants his hands on my shoulders. “I can get you a dozen other guys better than them.”
“Ouch, now that hurt,” Apollo mutters.
I tilt my head. “You know I’m not going to change my mind right?”
Silas closes his eyes and sucks in a deep breath, visibly annoyed. “Goddammit.”
Grey hides a chuckle in the corner.
“You just had to go and fall for these three boneheads …” Silas groans.
“And you’re just going to have to accept it. Just like I have with you, Ivy, Heath, and Max.”
His face turns stone-cold, like he got caught red-handed. “Really? You’re gonna throw them under the bus?”
“You know I’m right.” I wink.
He grumbles again. “Fine. Do what you want. I’m not stopping you.”
Before he can leave, I drag him in for a forced hug. He doesn’t protest even though I know he hates them.
“Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For trusting me.”
Finally, he releases all the pent-up rage and just gives in to the love, as his hand settles on the small of my back and a short breath escapes his mouth.
“Be careful,” he says with a soft voice, probably so the others won’t hear. “I don’t want to lose you too.”
I smile. “I know.”
He pulls back and points at the guys. “And if any of you ever even cause so much as a scratch on her skin I will fucking skin you alive and hang you on the Skull and Serpent Society walls like a goddamn tapestry.”
“Jesus, that’s morbid,” Grey mutters.
“I’m more of a Shibari fan, but that’ll work for me,” Apollo says, snorting.
Levi punches his arm, then focuses on Silas. “I was willing to die for her. You bet your ass I’ll protect her with my life.”
Silas’s face scrunches, like he’s actually contemplating the words. “Good. Just know I’m keeping my eyes on you.” He holds two fingers in front of his eyes then toward my guys and back to his eyes again.
I snort. “All right, sheriff, that’s enough.” I push him out of the room.
But before he leaves, he grips the doorpost and says, “I forgot to tell you, Mom and Dad wanna have a chat with Levi and his parents.”
Oh God.
Silas sticks up both his middle fingers to the guys. “Bring some tape for when they’re done ripping your asses so you can tape it back together. See ya.”
CHAPTER 68
Aspen
“Twenty missing people. All working for the Rivera family,” Agent Foley says, noting down the information. “And none of you have seen a thing?”
“Nope,” my mom says, smiling stupidly.
“The families haven’t reported them missing,” he adds.
That’s what happens when your parents pay the families that work for them fortunes to keep them quiet in case their loved ones die for us.
“Is that a question for us?” Felix asks, annoyed.
“Just an observation.” Foley sternly glances at him.
“Maybe they didn’t have great family connections,” I muse.
Foley raises his brow. “I doubt that.”
Having him visit the family home sure is awkward. I wonder how many times my mom and dads have had to entertain him with lies while their kids started killing everything around them. Must’ve been tough dealing with that, and it makes me very thankful to know they’ve got our backs.
“I’m especially concerned by the fact that the road up to Spine Ridge U suddenly seemed to have gotten a deep chemical cleanse overnight. You wouldn’t happen to have seen anything, Felix?”
“No.”
“Interesting …” Foley pens more things down.
“Anything else you need, Agent?” Mom asks, grinding her teeth.
He clicks his pen a couple of times and then clears his throat. “No. I have all the information I need. Thank you, have a good day.”
Felix shuts the door behind him, and my dad whispers into my ear, “Almost let the door hit him on the way out.”
I chuckle to myself.
“How many times do we have to keep doing this?” Felix grumbles as he flops down on the couch.
“As many times as it takes,” Mom replies, folding her arms. “We gotta protect them. At all cost.”
“You know, one of these days that fucker is going to get something on us,” Felix says. “And it’s not going to be easy to get out of it.”