Page 67 of Cruel Revenge

“For fuck’s sake!” I glare at her, rubbing the spot where she drove her knee into my thigh. “What the hell was that for?”

“You wanted to mock how deadly I am.” She gives me a sweet smile over her shoulder as she keeps walking. “I just wanted to remind you what I’m capable of.”

I should kill her.

It should be easy. She’d beg for her life, and I’d snap her neck. Leave her lifeless in the park for driving her bony little knee into me.

It isn’t as easy as it seems because I want her around. Even at the expense of my own health and safety. Life with her is harder, but it’s also lighter. Better.

And I want to know what else we can be and do together.

Besides, it could’ve been worse. She could’ve gone for the balls.

Skyla smirks like she knows exactly what I’m thinking about as she looks back at me. “Are you coming, or am I finishing this walk on my own?”

Sighing, I follow after her, walking along the winding park trails and back out onto the street. “Where are we going?”

“Well, I was thinking that we should go to the zoo. I used to take Summer and Jade there all the time when they were little.”

My eyebrows pull together at the distant memory on her face. “You’re close to them? All three?”

“More so Summer and Jade. Ellie had a tough time after our dad died since she was there when he was killed. Someone had to take care of the others, though, so I stepped up.”

“Where was your mother?”

“She died two years before Dad was killed. Car accident. She wasn’t much of a mother before then, though. Dad was cheating on her, and she was a shell of a human for most of my childhood.”

I nod. “When my dad went to jail, I was the one who kept the family running.”

“Yeah, Logan said as much, though he used to say you thought you ran the world and everyone else was supposed to bow down to you.”

Shrugging, I step out between two parked cars, looking to see if we can cross and get coffee from the shop on the corner before heading down to the zoo.

Skyla appears beside me just as a van comes screeching around the corner.

She grimaces. “Shit.”

It slides to a halt in front of us, and she sighs, looking up at the sky.

I reach for the gun at the back of my waistband as the driver’s window rolls down and the back door is thrown open.

Aiden looks at me over the top of his sunglasses. “Get in.”

Chapter Seventeen

SKYLA

As Aiden turnshis glare on me, my stomach plummets to my feet and my pulse pounds.

Did he find out about Zoe’s visit to the laundromat before I had a chance to tell him?

Did he find out that I let her leave?

If this is about Zoe, then things are going to get nasty fast.

I glare at him, trying to put on a show of not being bothered by him. “We’re on a date right now. If you want to talk later, book an appointment with Kalani.”

His lips press into a thin line. “I don’t want this to be difficult. Either get in the van or I’ll make you get in. And if I have to do that, we’re going to have a big problem.”

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