Page 46 of Broken Promise


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Rational Rafe:“I’m sorry baby, I need to get that. Hold that thought.”

“That’s not what I was holding.”

With a frustrated growl, I jogged to the door. I didn’t need to check my phone. I knew who it was. The last person I’d ever expected to find on my doorstep.

I yanked the door open. “Matthias, what the fuck do you want?”

The kid smirked. “I was in the neighborhood. And I have the information you want. You left in such a hurry I didn’t get to give it to you. Noah said I’m supposed to play nice. This is me playing nice.”

His gaze slid past me to Diana inside and he grinned. “Did I interrupt?”

Assassin Rafe: Get out the knives and let’s play.

Rational Rafe: Punch him in the face and go fuck.

I sighed. “You could have mentioned you were coming around.”

The kid shrugged. “I could have, but this way I get a chance to say hi to Diana.” He brushed by and whistled. “Nice flat, mate. Gosh, I have interrupted something. It wasn’t something important, was it?”

“Fuck you,” Rafe growled.

Matthias chuckled. “Sorry. Not sorry.” He sauntered over to a now-standing Diana and gave her a hug that lasted too long in my opinion. “Diana, love. You all right?”

I knew the kid had proximity issues. He was a cagey fuck who didn’t like to be touched too often, but still, he was standing in my living room with his arms around my woman.

Relax. He’s trying to get a rise out of you.I could only scowl.

Diana grinned up at Matthias. “I’m good. It’s good to see you.”

“You know, Rafe’s never invited any of us over before. We just show up uninvited. It’s nice to actually receive a warm welcome for once.” Matthias smirked at me. “And the place looks better than ever. I don’t doubt that you had something to do with it. I can’t really see him buying pillows.”

“I thought I’d help make the place cheery since he’s been so nice to let me stay for a bit.”

That was enough. I nodded at Matthias. “You need to tell me something?”

Matthias chuckled. “Yeah, let’s talk.”

I inclined my head. “This way.”

The kid was still angry at me. Good God, the Blake guys were such pussies. They all needed to get over the trying-to-kill-them thing.

Thatonetime.

Okay, maybe twice. But so what? We were all friends now. Jonas and Oskar had warmed to him. But it seemed Matthias still held a grudge. Maybe because I’d bested the kid in hand-to-hand?

I would never admit it to anyone, but I still felt a twinge of guilt when I thought back to the lengths I’d gone to rescue my sister… who hadn’t needed rescuing at all. I’d let out that part of myself I swore was gone for good.

I led Matthias into the office and closed the door behind us. “Okay, what’s up?”

I had never seen the kid smile this much. He looked positively giddy to have fucked up my night.

“Okay. I did as you asked. I looked up Diana. It’s like she said. She’s from Yonkers, no points on her driver’s license, and no debt to speak of. Granted, there’s not really anything before three years ago when she graduated university. But she was a minor before that. So if there was anything, that’s a little harder to find. I can do it if you want. But I’ll only be able to find stuff specifically on her if she was registered in public school or had a run-in with law enforcement. Anything else I find will be on her parents and any family she has to speak of. You want me to dig deeper?”

I frowned. She’d been telling the truth? Despite what Matthias was saying, everything in me told me there was more to the story.

“Yeah. Keep looking.” The words came out clipped.

“You look tense, mate.”

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