Page 49 of Sinful King

Fuck.

SIXTEEN

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They hadthe church’s entrance taped off when we arrived.

“You shouldn’t be here today,” Liam said for the tenth time. “Too many cameras and people gawking. Sean won’t like this.”

My husband had his own family shit to deal with and wasn’t here to pass down judgment, whatever it may be.

“Aren’t you part of the reason there’s people and cameras?” I asked, taking note of every face my eyes connected with until they stopped on my brother.

I couldn’t help myself and hopped out before Liam could protest.

“Trouble lurks,” I said, stepping beside him in my five inch heels.

The ground was coated in snow but I wasn’t new to this. I could rock a pair of heels in any weather, especially when it gave me the opportunity to look down on the men in my family.

“Yeah? From which corner?”

He barely glanced my way but I felt the shift in his energy and smiled.

“All four…” this time his eyes met mine, the little upward flick to do so tickling my spirit and bruising his ego like always.

I loved being the tallest, smartest bitch in the room.

“My ma is dead but you knew that, right?”

Her body was with the funeral home Sean’s family owned, waiting for my instruction. There was no point in a home going service, when no one would show up but me. Didn’t feel right cremating her either.

Blake looked away with a shrug, pushing his shoulders back a little to prove my presence didn’t bother him.

We knew the truth though.

“Not my mother or problem,” he said, confirming what Darragh told me. “You want revenge, take it.”

He shrugged.

“Thank you for permission. I won’t feel bad for my actions going forward…” I went to leave but turned back. “Oh and let my father know, I’ll be front and center on first Sunday with my husband. It’s time for a family reunion, don’t you think?”

He gave me a sideways glance and walked away.

Yeah, I’m the problem lurking.

Liam had gotten out of the truck and moved to the curb, where he stood until I walked past him and got in the backseat.

“See, nothing happened,” I said, brushing my fingers between the pleats of my textured mini skirt as he pulled from the curb. “Take me to the warehouse. Esi is there.”

I felt Liam’s eyes trying to catch my attention through the rear view and sighed.

“What now?”

“Something is off with your friend.”

He was too observant for me.

Everything was off about Esi but that was for me to know, not anybody else.

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