Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 160041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 800(@200wpm)___ 640(@250wpm)___ 533(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160041 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 800(@200wpm)___ 640(@250wpm)___ 533(@300wpm)
He sucks in a deep breath and sighs out loud. “She’s a bit terrifying.”
I laugh. “Just a bit?”
He smiles at me, and it warms my heart, even if I know it’ll only last briefly. It matters.
“I’ve killed for her,” he says.
“Yes, you did. And it probably won’t be the last time.”
“She has a list,” he mutters.
I narrow my eyes at him. This is new information. “Where?”
“Her phone.”
“You mean like a hit list? How do you know?”
“Because I snuck into her room and took a picture.”
My pupils dilate, and my jaw drops. “Wow. Living on the edge.”
“What?” He eyes me like it isn’t completely wild that he tried to rob a serial killer of her prized possession. “I just needed to know.”
“Obsessive. I like it.”
“It’s how I got in trouble in the first place. I tried to help, and it backfired because I fucked up.” He shakes his head. “I wonder if I’ll ever be able to make her happy.”
I sit down beside him. “Maybe we can.”
He glances at me. “How?”
I grin. “You have a list of all the men she wants dead. I say we help her out a little.”
His eyes narrow. “You truly have a death wish.”
“And proud of it.”
“She told me she doesn’t—”
“If we don’t mess it up, we can help her. Together.”
His eye twitches when I say that word.
“Maybe that’s why she wanted us to bury the hatchet,” he says, licking his lips. “So we’d kill for her. Together.”
“You’re just saying all this because you want her to kill you for going against her wishes,” he says.
“And you’re in agreement because you want to help her so badly you don’t care if it gets you killed.”
“Touché.”
“So are we friends now?”
He sucks in another deep breath. “Fine. You can be my friend.”
I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly, and he shoves me away. “That’s enough, Navarro.”
“Aw … you got me a nickname already. Cute.” I wink.
He rolls his eyes and gets up. “I might end up killing you before she does.”
CHAPTER 25
Xavier
I open the computer in the library and fish out my phone to open the pictures I took from Sunny’s contacts. I don’t recognize any of these names or numbers, but let’s see I can find out any information about them online.
I type in their phone numbers one by one.
“I have no clue who she’s looking for, or who these people are,” I mutter.
Barely any of them get a hit. It’s like she has invisible friends, or they’re all operating under fake names.
Orion plants his hand on the desk. “Wait. Scroll back.” I do what he says, and he points at the screen. “I know that name.”
I frown. “You do?”
“Not the guy, the gang name,” he says.
I lick my lips and look at the name he’s pointing at. “Bones Brotherhood.”
“That’s it. Dad talked about them once. Said he helped Felix, Alistair, Nathan, Kai, Milo, and all the others bust out Sunny’s mom when she got captured by the Bones Brotherhood.”
“Wait, aren’t they a bunch of traffickers?” I immediately slam my own hand in front of my mouth when I realize I said that out loud in a public space.
“Who is?”
Orion’s brother Atlas leans over the cubicle with a book in his hands, and we both look at him like we’ve seen a ghost.
“Nothing,” we say in sync.
His brother raises his brow and moves in closer. “A bunch of traffickers is nothing?”
Orion swiftly slams his hand in front of his brother’s mouth. “Shhh! Do you want the whole library to hear?”
Atlas pushes his hand away. “Then tell me the truth.”
Orion looks at me like I fucking know. Our families don’t like to talk about the past, especially not when it could endanger us in the present. But the cat’s already out of the bag now.
“I’m not gonna spill, I swear,” Atlas adds.
“Fine.” Orion sighs out loud.
I grumble, “This is going to bite us in the ass so badly.”
“I’m not going to do anything. I just want to know more, that’s all,” Atlas says. “So why are you guys looking up the Bones Brotherhood? Didn’t Felix say we could never talk about that again?”
“Yeah, but since when is Felix the boss of anyone?” Orion mutters.
Atlas grabs a chair and sits down behind us. “What did they do?”
“Drugs, trafficking, you name it, they do it all. The Bones Brotherhood is one of the most wanted criminal organizations.”
No wonder Sunny is chasing them.
Atlas frowns like he’s taking it all in.
“And you’re searching for them, why?” Atlas asks.
I stare him down. “It’s private.”
He glares back at me. “Fine. I get it. You don’t want me around.” He raises his hands. “No harm. I just wanted to see what was up, since y’all apparently got more information that my dad will ever divulge to me.”
“Don’t tell me Ares never spoke to you about the Bones Brotherhood.” Orion frowns. “His late dad literally had dealings with them at his casino.”