Page 95 of Reclaiming Adelaide

“What do you propose then?”

How about ripping your head off for listening to our conversation and staring at her naked body when she was mine?

They may have been okay with sharing, but I certainly wasn’t.

“I’m going to find them and kill them.”

“Sounds like something you’d want to think long and hard about.”

“I have.”

Did all night count?

“Quando il diavolo ti accarezza, vuole l’anima.”

“Does it look like I speakItalian?”

I tossed my suitcase I didn’t remember carrying up the stairs onto the bed and threw open the lid.

Luca scoffed as he tucked his hands into his pockets and leaned against the door, making himself a fixture. “It means the price for giving in to the temptation may cost more than you’re willing to pay.”

“The only temptation I’ve given into is crying in the bathroom because those fuckers killed her parents after we made a deal.” I tossed on a clean shirt and shucked off my ruined jeans.

Blood soaked my bandage. I must’ve opened it up when I ran. I’d worry about it later.

Throwing on a clean pair, I sat on the bed and slipped my socks over my feet.

“What do you hope to gain from this?”

I sighed. “To wipe them from the face of the earth so no one will ever know they existed.” And if I was going to do it, I’d need his help.

“No one really knows they exist, anyway.”

“Not helpful.”

“It’s the truth.”

I slipped on my shoes, picked up my phone from the nightstand, and called Tonk. He answered on the third ring with a gruff, “What?”

“I need you to pick up Becca from her apartment and take her to the safe house.”

“Give me a scale.”

“One to ten? Eleven.”

Luca disappeared from my doorway while Adelaide stayed in the bathroom.

“Okay.”

“Should I let Alek know?”

“Yeah. We’ll be making our way home on the ground.”

“What’s wrong with the plane?”

Adelaide walked out of the bathroom, her eyes red-rimmed and puffy.

“I’ll explain later.”

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