Page 120 of Bene

Something just wasn’t right.

He felt it.

In his bones.

Something was wrong.

Maybe it was still those tears that had been in her eyes when she stared at him, begging for him to listen and to let her apologize. Or maybe it had been Mario, and the way the man’s face drained of color when Bene asked if Vanna was actually fucking him when he tried to say she was in his bed now.

“You okay?”

Bene met his twin’s gaze. Behind them, the conversation between their other three brothers continued like they couldn’t hear the two of them. Given how low Beni asked the question, the rest probably didn’t hear their conversation.

He nodded. “Yeah, sure.”

“I know when you’re lying.”

“You could leave it alone, too.”

Beni lifted one shoulder. “I mean, I could … but that’s not really what I do, and definitely not where you’re concerned.”

Not a lie.

The bigger problem for Bene was that the things running through his mind wouldn’t spell out anything good to his brothers, or the rest of their family. The fact he felt anything at all for Vanna, or that a part of him wanted to keep digging until he figured out what was wrong here, would only cause a major issue with his brothers.

She fucked them over.

Messed with their life.

Hurt their parents.

That should have spelled the end.

Completely done.

And yet …

“I don’t know if everything with this, and her, is as simple as it seems,” Bene murmured, “but if I said that to Marcus, or—”

“Yeah, that won’t go over well. He’d kill her first, and not even bother to ask questions later.”

Exactly.

“It won’t get out of my head, though.”

“Or is it her?”

Bene let out a hard breath. “Both, maybe.”

“Do you think she—”

“Wanted to hurt us, yes. Got in over her head. But it’s something else, too … something more, Beni, and I don’t know how to let it go.”

“Maybe,” his brother drawled lowly, “you don’t let it go.”

The two of them stared at one another until Bene put his attention on his reflection in the window. “Then, Marcus would kill me.”

“Only if he finds out you’re looking into shit, though.”