Ruthless Heir by Aidèe Jaimes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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NOAH
Four Months Ago…
Death.
It surrounds me. It’s in everything that I do. Eating. Breathing. Fucking.
I wield it like an extension of me, a scythe that forms another limb.
I’ve been given the power to take life. Trained to snuff it out on
command.
Don’t ask. Don’t think. Don’t look into their eyes. Just do it.
Death surrounds me, and yet, until today, I’ve never seen the aftermath.
What happens once the dying is done. I’m usually gone by then.
This time, I have nowhere to go. This time, I’m not the one who’s dealt
the lethal blow, but the one who has to deal with what comes after.
A wail full of sorrow and despair fills my loft apartment as Sylvia, my
stepmother, once again cries. She wraps her arms around her knees as she
balls up on my couch. “How can I go on without him?”
She’s asked the same question a hundred times, maybe more, since we
were informed yesterday morning that my father’s body had been found in an
alley behind an abandoned bookshop near the Hudson River. He’d been
missing for days, and were it not for the homeless man who was wandering
the streets in search of a place to hunker down before the forecasted rain
swept in, he’d still be missing.
I go to the kitchen and fill a teakettle with water, then place it on the
stove. When it’s done, I steep chamomile leaves, then strain the tea and pour
it into a small white cup. While I’m not one to enjoy anything but black and
bitter coffee, she’s always insisted I keep this for when she visits. Today, I’m
glad for it.
Sitting beside her, I give it to her. “Drink.”
She peers at me through wet dark lashes, hesitating only a moment before
she takes it. After a few sips, she sniffles and turns to me. “Have you heard
anything from the medical examiner?”
“Not yet.”
As if the power of my will conjures it, my phone buzzes. I tug it out of
the back pocket of my slacks and view the screen. “I have to take this.”
Before I can get up, she grabs my wrist, her expression wild and
desperate. “Promise me you’ll make them pay, Noah. Whoever took
Leonardo from me needs to pay.”
I pat her shoulder. “We’ll figure out who did this. They will pay. I swear
it.”
She nods and sniffles again, wiping her red, swollen nose with a tissue
from the box I brought her earlier. “I know you will do it, sweet boy.”
Going to the stairwell that leads to the rooftop deck, I answer the call.
“Yes.”
“Mr. Esposito. This is Carl Gunderson from the medical examiner’s
office. I’m a friend of Joaquin Gianni,” he says, referring to my step-cousin.
But as head of the famiglia, Joaquin doesn’t have many friends. He has
people on his payroll, and Gunderson is one of them.
Actually, the asshole probably wouldn’t have any friends even if he was
just a civilian.
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