Filed To Story: Pretty Poisoned Novel by Elle Mitchell
I meet Declan’s eyes over Luca’s shoulder. I wonder if he remembers telling me the same thing.
“I love you, Teagan,” Luca says.
“I love you, too. B”
“Don’t say that. I’ll see you tonight.”
“Okay. See you tonight.”
I walk them to the door, and when it closes behind them, I feel just a little more empty than I was before.
A little afraid, too.
Shortly after I crawl back into bed, Sebastian emerges from the bathroom. I watch in the dark as he dresses and pours himself a glass of water before lying on the small sofa.
“Sebastian? Will you”
“No. I’m not going to lie in your boyfriends’ cum stains with you.”
I get out of bed and cross the room toward him.
“No, Teagan,” he says again when I stop beside the sofa.
“But I missed you,” I tell him. I climb on top of him anyway, wrapping my arms around his back and resting my head on his chest. I close my eyes and breathe him in. “Just let me.”
Sebastian sighs. He doesn’t say no.
He wraps his arms around my back, and we fall asleep.
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“Get up,” Sebastian says.
Luca’s shirt is pushed up to my chest, and I’m naked from the waist down. Sebastian’s hard dick presses against the inside of my thigh through his pants.
I want it.
I move my hips over him, reaching for his face to bring his lips to mine, but he quickly shrugs me off and climbs out from under me.
I miss waking up to him inside me.
“What time is it?” I ask.
“It’s just after noon,” he says.
“I’m supposed to be in Blakely’s suite to get ready soon.”
“I know.”
“What are you going to do?” I ask.
“I’m going to get ready, too. The blonde one is a big baby, by the way. Won’t even help chop up a body.”
“His name is Luca,” I say. “He’s your brother, and you know his name. And I like him the way he is.”
“A crippled drug addict who abuses women?”
“You abuse women. You’re a serial killer.”
“So are you.”
“You made me one.”
“No, I didn’t,” he scoffs. “You killed before you ever met me. You would have hacked up your Tinder date if it wasn’t for me. I saved you.”
“Yeah I guess. What happened to him anyway?”
“I hacked him up.”
Hmm. I should have known.
He rifles through his bag until he pulls out something familiara needle attached to a tube and a blood bag.
“He’s misunderstoodLuca. He’s just ” I trail off, unsure how to finish the sentence. “He’s a good person.”
“Whatever you say. Make a fist,” he says, tying a small rubber tourniquet around my arm.
“What’s it for?” I ask.
“Decorating the room,” he says. Unlike Riv, he doesn’t warn me before he stabs me with the needle. “They’ll find enough of your blood and this other guy’s blood in here, and they’ll think you’re dead.”
“Oh.”
“That’s what you wanted, right? You don’t want them to think you’re out there somewhere or to wonder why?”
“No, I don’t ”
But I was thinking more along the lines of a car accident. A murder will hurt more. Still, it’s better than wondering.
“So, they’ll think that guy killed me?”
“Maybe. But they’ll probably think I killed you and some other guy.”
“Well, won’t that be a problem for you?”
“Nah,” he says. “I don’t exist anywhere on paper, remember? I’ll disappear, too.”
“Won’t The Order punish you?”
“Mmm, maybe. There’s only one other person who knows my name and facethe one who raised meso I guess that will be up to him. Otherwise, no one will ever know it was me who was here with you, and they’ll just think you and Declan outsmarted your tail.”
“Can I still see you?” I ask.
“No, Teagan, you can’t.”
“But”
“Teagan, I know them,” he says. “I know how they work. They just want to continue existing and operating in secrecy. They want people to forget the FBI was ever saying their name. They were willing to let the De Rossis go as long as they never came back because if they killed them, they’d have to kill their father, too, and that would leave a mess. Not to mention they’re celebritiestheir capture would make national news, and their disappearance from custody would get just as much attention. They don’t want to kill them. If you’re gonewhether they believe you’re dead or notif the police think you’re dead and you’re not a threat to them, they’ll leave you alone, too.”
He removes the needle without warning, too.
“Well then why can’t you come with us? You’re a De Rossi.”
“No, I’m not, Teagan. Not in any way. They won’t let me go, and then they’ll kill you to prove a pointbefore or after they rape you in front of me.”
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