Page 59 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
“You did, didn’t you?” he asks, letting go of my chin.
“Is that why you were missing tonight?” Tomas asks.
“Missing?” Mateo yells, turning his fury onto his lover.
“I couldn’t find her for part of the night. But when I did, she was stepping out of the bathrooms and said she wasn’t feeling very well,” Tomas explains.
I raise my face to the two men. “You are safer without me. Please, you can’t ask any more questions. I don’t have any answers to give. All I know is that it’s for the best.”
“What the hell kind of cryptic bullshit answer is that?” Mateo curses at me. “You are not fucking leaving here till you tell us what is going on.”
“I can’t.”
“Are you in trouble?” Tomas asks calmly.
These boys are too perceptive over me. I try and hide my panic at how close he is to my truth.
“You remember, don’t you?”
I don’t answer him.
“Zoe, answer Tomas.” Mateo grunts.
“It doesn’t matter what I remember. What we had can’t be anymore,” I explain to them as I take a couple of steps away from them.
“How can you say that it doesn’t matter?” Tomas asks sternly.
“I’m not who you think I am,” I scream at them in frustration, anger, and worry.
“We don’t care who you were before, Zoe. We love the person you are now, right here in this moment. You have my heart just as much as Tomas does,” Mateo yells at me.
“I don’t deserve it.”
Mateo rushes toward me, and I take a couple of steps back until my back hits the wall.
“Dammit, Zoe, you can’t make me stop loving you,” he states angrily as his fist meets the wall behind me, making me jump.
“You have to.”
“Never.”
“Please let me go, Mateo,” I ask softly, looking up into his chocolate eyes.
“I can’t and I won’t,” he declares before he grabs my face and kisses me. Mateo pours every bit of his love into that kiss, and I’m powerless against it. My legs begin to sag unable to hold myself up against his love. He wraps a strong arm around my waist and holds me safely against his chest. “I will always catch you, angel.”
And with those sweet words, I give in. I wrap my arms around him and sob. He holds me tightly against his hard body and lets me release all the secrets that have been eating me up inside all night.
Eventually, I pull myself from his chest.
“Please trust us with your memory like you do your heart,” Mateo pleads.
“Whatever you remember, I promise we will help you,” Tomas adds.
I suck in a deep breath and hope that what I’m about to tell them doesn’t change what we have.
“My name is Sapphire, and I’m a high-end escort for the Bratva. And I’m supposed to be dead.”
The room goes silent.
