Total pages in book: 196
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
I’m not sure why those words had struck so much fear in my heart; some of the others had said much worst, but there was something in the governor’s voice that told me he was already making moves to safeguard his freedom and reputation.
This couldn’t have happened at a worse time for him. He’d only just started making moves in his state that he’d waited years to implement. He’s been waiting for the right atmosphere for years and had gone to great lengths to make things happen, and now that he was on the precipice, this had to happen. So, of course, he’d go the extra mile to make sure that our association never came to light.
I zipped up my bag and grabbed my phone to see what all the fuss was about, and Noel started screaming before I could get a word out. “Mom, did you see this? I thought you said you won’t ever let this happen?”
“What are you talking about?” I looked around the room for anything of importance that I might have forgotten to pack while dragging my bag off the bed and heading for the door.
“I’m talking about Ryder and Elena.”
“What about them?”
“What do you mean? Haven’t you been online? They’re all anyone can talk about; they’re all over the internet. It looks like they’re back together. Do something.”
Though the news was a bit troubling, now was not the time. “I don’t have time right now. Tell your sisters I have to leave town for a few days and not to worry.”
“Why? Where are you going?” Luckily, I had made it so that they couldn’t see what was going on back here at home, but I knew it would only be a matter of time before the news reached them.
I’d raised my daughters not to fear anything but failure. But this situation might be above my pay grade. I never imagined that something like this would happen because I’ve always been extra careful to cover my tracks, and what I couldn’t control, I always found a way to destroy. Something that Noel said got through the fog to my brain.
“Wait, did you say Ryder and Elena Gianni were back together?” I was already reaching for my tablet to check it out for myself.
“Yes, weren’t you listening? You promised that you wouldn’t let her have him. It was bad enough that I had to watch him with that simpleton all these years, but I only put up with it because you promised that one day he’d be mine.”
I didn’t have time for this, and when I powered on my tablet and saw all the notifications that led me to the double posts from Ryder and Elena, I was even less inclined to listen to her whine. “Listen, I told you that now is not the time. I’ll take care of everything, don’t panic.” Besides, your sister and I made the same deal, so there’s that to take care of as well.
That’s the difference between this generation and mine, these kids today were too damn smart, and they hardly ever took anything at face value or did anything without some sort of compensation.
I knew that at least three of my daughters were hot for Ryder, and I’d used that to my advantage, dangling him like a meaty carrot before their eyes, but somehow things had gotten away from me at the worst possible time. Knowing my kids, if things don’t go their way, they’ll be an all-out war right here in my own home.
I might have been able to convince and fool the world into thinking for years that my girls were all one big happy family, but no one knows what really goes on behind the scenes better than me. If the secrets that Janie twit had shared don’t bring me down, the infighting between my kids once they realize that I’d duped them would, I’m sure of it.
Then again, I have so much on them that they wouldn’t dare turn their backs on me. “I have to go.” I hung up the phone mid-scream from her and turned it off as I was sure her sisters would be next. I need to find somewhere to lay low then I will deal with this mess. Why is everything happening all at once?
Chapter 74
*Lyon*
“What’s the Scalene triangle up to?”
“Lyon, I have no idea what the hell that means.”
“Look it up. The three little girls, where are they, and what are they doing?” Tommy is another one of my guys from the original crew and the only one I could get ahold of on the island since Hitler’s youth seemed to be up to some shit and had shipped the rest of them off somewhere.
I hadn’t seen it immediately because, one, I’d just left one job and was thrown ass first into another with barely any warning, and two, I don’t fuck with Mengele and her demented shit because it’s like being a mouse in a fucked-up maze designed to make me lose my shit.