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Her mouth opened, and then she started crying, too. “Oh, Giselle. We were all so sick with worry. I can’t imagine the hell you went through. But here, we were all dying a slow death, not knowing where you were. Or when you were coming back. You and Dani. It was too much for us to bear. The sadness was—” she sniffled and shook her head, “impossible. I gave Carlo the comfort you gave to Nick—when I couldn’t. And you know how grateful I am that you helped us out during that scary time in our lives. It’s what friends do. Right?”
I opened my mouth to speak, but I was interrupted.
“Well, isn’t this cozy?” Stefan walked into the living room with a disgusted look on his face. “I guess my invitation got lost in the mail.”
15
Carlo
My fuckin’ brother.
“Honest to Christ, your timing is impeccable as usual.” I tucked myself back into my pants. Just like Nick was currently doing on the other couch.
“After you put your dicks away, we need to talk.” He scowled at me, and then at Nick. “I’ll wait in your office,” he said to me, but not before taking an eyeful in of the women.
“Yeah.” I dismissed him. He gave me one last glare before he spun on his heel and walked out.
I gave Eve a quick kiss and stood. Nick was already up, leaning over to Giselle. “Sorry. He’s an ass,” Nick said to Giselle. Then he placed a kiss on her lips.
Nick and I walked out of the room and into the hall. “Do you have any idea what this is about?” I asked Nick as we strode to my office.
“Not a clue. Hopefully, it’s good news,” he added.
I turned my head. “I doubt it. He didn’t look pleased.”
Nick chuckled and shook his head. “He missed out on fucking Giselle and Eve. Can you blame him?”
I slapped my best friend on the back and ushered him into my office. “I guess not.”
Stefan stood in my office. He gazed out the window, his arms crossed. After I shut the door, he turned to us. “We lost him.”
I narrowed my eyes. “What the fuck do you mean, we lost him?”
Stefan turned around fully and stared at us. “I mean—” he cleared his throat and set his hands on his hips, “we lost sight of Sergio.”
I took a few steps closer to my brother. “We had eyes on him. A shit ton of fucking eyes.” I glared at him, ready to tear his goddamn head off.
He gave me a blank stare. “He’s gone. Disappeared into thin fuckin’ air. Nobody saw a thing.”
My blood pressure rose so high I thought my head might just explode. “How the fuck,” I set my hands on my hips now, “did you fuckups lose that asshole?”
Stefan took a deep breath and retreated back to the window. “How the hell should I know? They had a definite lock on him. Other than to get food, or entice more young women, he hadn’t left his house in weeks. And now he’s gone. They’re sure of it.”
I started walking toward Stefan. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do once I got there, but I’d figure it out.
Nick stepped between us, his hand in the middle of my chest. “Then we’ll find him again. In the meantime, we’re here with Giselle and Dani.”
Now I wanted to rip Nick’s head off. “In the meantime? In the fuckin’ meantime.” I ran my hand through my hair. “I’m sleeping beside a woman who’s got such fucked up dreams, her head’s never going to be right again. Do you want me to go in there and tell her that the cause of her nightmares is wandering around? And we don’t know where the fuck he is?”
Nick let out a long sigh and shoved his hand into my chest. Harder this time. “To be clear,” he said in his typical calm voice, “Sergio was always wandering around free. Giselle knows that. What she doesn’t know is that we found him. There’s nothing you need to say to her right now. Until he’s no longer breathing, that is.”
He was right. As usual.
Giselle and I had skirted the issue of Sergio so far.
She hadn’t gone into detail about what happened. And I sure as fuck hadn’t asked. She had her counselor for that.
And if she really wanted me to know the hell she’d been through, she’d have told me by now.
