Page 162 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

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Siena’s gaze drifted between the screen in front of her, and Kev sitting across the desk. Something on her brother’s phone had become extremely interesting to him, but she didn’t know what exactly it was.

Still, she couldn’t ignore how heavy her stomach felt. Like a dead weight had come along to sit down and make itself at home. Nothing she did was getting rid of the dreadful feeling.

Her gaze darted to the landline on the corner of the desk. More than once since she had arrived at the restaurant, she had considered trying to make a call. Yet, every time she attempted to do just that, her efforts were thwarted by one of her brothers coming in the office.

Even when Darren had left for a couple of hours earlier, and Kev stepped out for a smoke, the enforcer came inside to sit with Siena while she worked.

For some reason, they were keeping a very close eye on her.

She couldn’t breathe loudly without one of them looking at her.

What were they planning?

What was going on?

Nothing good, she suspected.

“What are you doing?” her brother asked.

Siena looked at Kev again. “Working.”

“Then, why are you sitting there doing nothing?”

Jesus Christ.

She couldn’t even be still without one of them suspecting something was up.

She knew it then …

Something was definitely about to happen.

Siena just wished she knew what it was.

“Do you want to stare at a computer screen for hours on end, and sit in this uncomfortable chair without barely moving at all? I can’t take a minute to stretch my fingers and blink?”

Kev cocked a brow. “As long as that’s all you do.”

Asshole.

Siena kept her thoughts inside her head, but barely. If only she could get a couple of minutes alone, then she might be able to send out a call from the landline.

Something to warn John that her brothers and father were planning an attack on him. One that would push his family in to a war with the Calabrese.

Who else would tell them?

Kev stayed sitting in the chair across from Siena’s desk. He wasn’t moving an inch. The longer she stared at her brother, silently willing him to even get up and use the damn bathroom while Darren had stepped out, the more pissed off she became.

Siena’s mouth opened to tell her brother off just for existing. Darren slid into the office, and stopped her from saying anything. The grin he sported was downright smug.

If not altogether evil.

“Well?” Kev asked.

Darren nodded. “Yeah, it’s happening.”

“How do you know?”