Page 9 of Come Alive
Emilio let loose a humorless laugh. “Yes, I know all about who he is. I don’t want Isa to know about him until I deem it safe. When they are reunited, it will hurt her.”
“Izzy deserves to know.” Kazi rolled his bottom lip between his teeth. “I don’t understand how you can possibly think this will end well. We are both filled to the brim with lies.”
Emilio’s arm snapped up, his hand finding its way to Kazi’s throat. “Do not speak her name.”
Kazi didn’t fight him. He knew that this was a tantrum and waited for it to play out.
“Now ready the car, we need to make it to the reunion to keep an eye on things. And tomorrow, I will need the church set up for our wedding.”
Kazi didn’t speak. He wanted to scream at Emilio, tell him how psychotic this plan was. Fucking Izzy without her knowing it was him? Forcing her to fulfill her side of a marriage pact that was ten years in the making?
But unfortunately, Kazi couldn’t take on that problem too.
“What about James’s silent partner? The one who owned the apartment above Yara’s?”
Emilio dropped his hold on Kazi’s neck, releasing a sigh. “I sent Logan to gather more information, but I’m afraid if I’m correct…well, this is all going to go to shit. Now let’s go.”
Kazi wanted to interrogate Emilio, but he knew when the man was done providing helpful information.
Yara’s face flashed in his mind.
Kazi would do as Emilio wanted and then he would be done with this, once and for all.
Chapter 5
Yara
Tapping my foot, I anxiously waited in the long TSA line.
Why is it so busy this late at night?
I had texted Kazi earlier and he reassured me he was okay, but I couldn’t shake that hewasn’t.
My phone vibrated in my hand and my heart stuttered, thinking it was from him, but then Izzy’s NDA came through.
It’s time for her to do this.
I wanted more than anything to be excited for Izzy as she was finally taking the leap into her own needs. Putting herself first. But I couldn’t help the live wasps that buzzed their way around my stomach.
The blank text came through next.
Her signal.
Fuck!
“Hold our spot!” I told Mateo, spinning away from him and racing towards the bathroom before he could stop me.
Paying him no mind, I called Oliver, Izzy’sfriend.
“What is it, gremlin?” His irritating voice came through the phone as I locked myself into the stall.
“You two need to get downstairs!” I shouted before turning my head away. “You aren’t going up there to see Izzy!” Twisting back to the phone, I yelled, “Both of you need to get down here! Bring Maddox too! Izzy doesn’t need to deal with this.”
“What are you—”
“No! Harry! Get away from the elevator! How do you know her room number?!” I cut back to Oliver, demanding, “Hurry!”
“What’s going—”
