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“So why now?”
I look away, my arms circling her tightly.
“Because your sister always used to tell me to not go over the edge. And going one more second without telling you the truth was going to be going over that edge.”
Tempest sinks into my arms as I hold her tight: our lips locked, our hearts beating together.
Two toxic souls crashing together.
34
TEMPEST
Our weekin the Hamptons turns into two, and then three. Three weeks in a ten-thousand square foot home on the beach, constantly having the most incredible sex ever?
Pretty sweet.
That said, I do miss my New York life, at times. Gabriel, Alistair, Bianca, and Taylor have all come to visit. And, Pam, bless her, keeps sending those smoothies out like clockwork. Still, it’s not the same.
The not-so-sweet part is that Charles has used what happened at the dinner party to go back on his word about Maeve moving in with Gabriel. He’s been stalling ever since, blaming the “unsafe atmosphere” around my brothers for not allowing the move to go as promised. Which is obviously complete horseshit.
If my grandfather gives a single shit about his own daughter, it pales in comparison to the shit he gives about power and using her to somehow gain more of it.
Three weeks after we get out here, I’m sitting in the library reading a book when there’s a knock on the doorframe.
I grin without even looking up.
“Oh, good, it’s the pool boy with my daiquiri and fresh sunscreen.”
“I think you’re overdressed for a pool.”
I giggle as he walks over and plucks the book from my hands, and the fact that he slips a bookmark into it before he tosses it to the side is just…yeah.
Chef’s kiss.
Dante leans down to kiss me softly. His tongue explores my mouth, his hand tangling in my hair. When he finally pulls away, I’m breathless andachingfor him.
“What was all that for?” I breathe.
“That,” he murmurs, “was me telling you to get dressed. We’re going out.”
I blink. “I’m sorry,what?”
For the last three weeks, we haven’t left the grounds of this house at all, with the threat of what happened with the arsenic poisoning hanging over us and all. And now we’re goingout?
Dante smiles a thin, grim smile. My brow furrows.
“Wait, what is it?”
“They found the guy.”
My eyes widen. “Seriously?”
He nods. “Ken Freeman. He’s a nobody. A rich trust fund drug addict. But his first cousin was Lance Hammond.” When mybrow furrows, his darkens. “Lancewas in Apex Club. Ken was hoping to get revenge for his death, I guess.”
I shudder, my stomach knotting.
“Oh, and he’s dead, by the way.”
