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What I wanted to do, she wouldn’t like. I wanted to find the contact…or I wanted to be where the contact would find me. I scanned the buildings and perfect landscape of the island, my mind racing.
“Where can we go?”
The answer was, anywhere Finley wasn’t…so where would that be? Around other people.“Who else do you know here on the island?” I glanced at Kat, hopeful.
“Me?” She cut me a look and shook her head. “Most of the assholes I know here aren’t worth knowing, believe me. Entitled pricks, the lot of them.” She pursed her lips, the furrow of her brow deepening. “But there’s one I know and another I’ve been meaning to introduce myself to. Give me a second.”
She whipped out her phone and started typing. Seconds later, there was a reply. “Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky,” Kat muttered, and tucked her phone away. “You ready to meet someone who’s gonna rock your world?”
“More than ready.”
She gave me a wink. “Then let’s go.”
I followed her, leaving the top side of the island behind. But that eerie feeling came on the back of my neck as we walked. I glanced over my shoulder, watching for movement, knowing all too well who’d have the balls and the motive to follow.
Well, he could pout and rage all he wanted. I wanted far away from Finley Salvatore and his possessiveness. We walked until we came to the third building, set further back from ours, which stood in the distance. Kat’s heels echoed on the pavement as she left the bright sunlight behind and sank into the shadows. She stopped at the intercom, pressed the button, and leaned down. “It’s me.”
The door buzzed, the locks released, and we were inside, striding toward the elevator.
“So, all the buildings are the same, huh?” I murmured, trying for conversation as we rose floor after floor.
“You’re nervous, aren’t you?” Kat glanced my way with a shrug. “Don’t be.”
I was walking into a stranger’s building with only my apprehension as a weapon, damn right I was nervous. For all I knew, they could be drug dealers, thugs, like Finley’s family…or worse,murderers.But the moment the elevator doors opened, the throaty, seductive sound of a woman’s voice floated through the air.
“Fuck that, X. I want money,realmoney, not that playing shit you have.”
“Real money, huh?” A throat growl thick with what sounded like a Welsh accent filled the air. “For someone I just met you think you know me?”
“Here in the island, we’re all the same. Greedy, rich mutherfuckers…I just want to be richer.”
“True that, bitch. True that.”
Kat flashed a smile at me over her shoulder, flicked her hair back, and sauntered through the apartment. “I’m here, bitches, and there better be alcohol.”
Movement came from the living room as two women glanced toward us. The blonde was drop-dead-fucking stunning, sitting crossed-legged on a high-backed chair as she turned her head toward us.
“Guys, meet Anna. Anna, this is Xael and Evan,” Kat said casually before plonking herself down next to a brunette who hid the most banging body I’d ever seen under baggy pants and an open baseball jersey.
“What are we talking about?” Kat asked as she glanced from one to the other.
But both Evan and Xael were watching me cautiously.
“Evan.” The blonde moved first, rising from her seat, her hand stretched out.
I grabbed her hand in mine. “Nice to meet you.”
“Anna, huh?” the brunette muttered with a thick accent, giving me a once-over. “Got a last name,Anna?”
“Eden,” I answered, and swallowed.
“Eden,” Evan repeated slowly, and sat once more. “Not sure I know that name.”
“Jesus, guys, really?” Kat rolled her eyes and leaned across Xael for the glass of champagne just out of reach. “She’s with me, isn’t she?”
“No offense, Kat,” Xael muttered as Kat straightened with the brunette’s liquor in hand. “But you’re too goddamn trusting.”
“Only when itdoesn’tcome to family, am I right?” Kat stared at the champagne, then drank.
