Page 59 of Taking His Heart

“Okay, sit the fuck down so I can get my two very innocent sisters out of this city full of sin,” Aurelio says.

“Innocent?” CJ parrots.

“Not a fucking word,” Aurelio grunts. “She might be your wife, but she was my sister first.”

“I wasn’t going to say a damn thing about her. But Rosie? You know she just took three-hundred grand from a bunch of champion poker players,” CJ replies.

“What?” Aurelio and I ask at the same time.

“Huh, guess you didn’t know. Sorry, Rosie,” CJ says, sounding anything but sorry.

“We’re coming back to that. First, who is he?” I turn to my sister.

“It doesn’t matter. It’s over. He didn’t like me being gone so long.” Her eyes are watering.

“I’m going to kill him,” I growl. “No one makes my little sister cry.”

Aurelio drops into the chair across from us, followed by CJ. “Who made you cry, Rosie?” Our brother’s tone is easygoing, but we both know whatever he’s thinking is not.

“Nobody, I’m just tired.” Rosie says.

Pulling out my phone, I send a message to Ares. If anyone can dig and find out who Rosie was seeing, it’s my little hacker of a cousin.

Me:

Rosie was seeing someone. I want to know who.

Ares:

Did you try asking her?

Me:

Yes, asshole. He dumped her and made her cry.

Ares:

You should have led with that. I’ll find him and make him cry.

Me:

I’m pretty sure Aurelio will want to help.

Ares:

I’m sure.

I pocket my phone and give my brother a look. He knows exactly who I was just messaging. “So, when we get back to Melbourne, we’re house shopping,” I say, breaking the awkward silence.

“We need a house with a helipad,” CJ adds.

“Why?” Aurelio asks.

“Because my wife wants a helicopter.” CJ smiles at me. “And what my wife wants, she gets.”

Chapter Twenty-Five

Daniella is exhausted. I’m fucking exhausted. Flying across the world will do that, even in the luxury of a private jet. Thirty hours later and we’re finally standing in her house. I knew she had moved out of her parents’ place. I just didn’t picture this as the house she’d choose to live in.