Page 117 of Thrill Me (Dark Odyssey 3)

Fontaine… another name to worry about. Just as bad as Stephanou. I don’t know the full extent of what is all happening, however, I pay real good attention when I watch Salvatore tense up. I know in that moment we’ve hit something big.

“Marc Fontaine? What do the files contain?” Salvatore asks.

“Government stuff. Files that contain evidence against the government. Things that link them to the Fontaines. I don’t know. It’s details I never knew, but it’s stuff he doesn’t want anybody getting their hands on.”

“Evangeline Cipriani knew about these files?”

“She got hold of them, so she had to be stopped.”

“Stopped…” I say. My voice barely there.

“Someone killed her?” Salvatore clarifies and Porter nods.

In that moment something inside me snaps and I crumble. My knees just falls from under me but someone catches me. I look up and see Gabe. He holds me as I break down and I hold on to his arm like I’m grasping on to life. Holding on to the rug of reality and all the fibers that’s just been pulled from under my feet.

“Come doll. You’ve seen enough,” Gabe says as I cry from deep, deep within my soul.

I’m so weak, too weak to stand up properly and the tears just flow from my eyes like a river.

“Someone killed my mother Gabe,” I whisper through the flood of tears.

He doesn’t answer or try to get me to walk. He just picks me up and carries me out.

We get up the stairs and the last thing I heard before we go through the door is a single gunshot.

Chapter Thirty-Five

Salvatore

I hateblood on my hands.

I don’t like it.

The last few days have been hard.

Tonight, raw and gritty.

I was going to leave that asshole, Porter, to bleed out. I was, but he thought he could get one over on me by pulling a gun he had tucked away in his pocket.

The asshole was just waiting to use it. I had to kill him.

Kill or be killed.

Everyday I’m reminded of that concept.

Like its some kind of affirmation that needs to be drilled into me by the second.

I’m just grateful for the information we got. What I’m not happy about is the truth it brought with it.

Mimi’s mother was killed. That is the truth we have to face. But… learning that information has opened a door.

Fontaines. Marc Fontaine wanted Mimi dead.

He wanted her dead because he thinks she has the files.

Files that contain evidence against the government. Files he doesn’t want anyone to see.

Files that got Mimi’s mother killed.

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