MenageaDare Read Online Free Page B

year of college. His remains
weren’t found until five years later.”
    “That’s awful. I’m so sorry.” Eve shifted a little, moving
his hand off the small of her back. A half-second later, her fingers wrapped
around his and held on tight. “If it’s difficult to talk about, don’t feel
pressured.”
    “Talking is good. Blair passed away. His soul didn’t and he
visited me often that first year, then intermittently until his killer was
caught.”
    “What did he say or do when he came to you?”
    “The first time it happened, I’d gone home to help my
parents and sisters search for him. He came to me in my room, warning me about
Mr. Sisco, the ice cream man and youth soccer coach who lived a couple miles
from our house.”
    “You told the police about this man?”
    “Absolutely, but Abe Sisco had a wife who’d given him an
alibi the day Blair disappeared. He had children, all adopted, some were my
sisters ages and they played soccer together.”
    “Oh my god, I can’t imagine what it was like for you and
your family.”
    “It was terrible. Each time Blair appeared to me, he
insisted he’d gone into Abe’s garage to get an ice cream cone out of the
freezer and never came out.”
    Eve squeezed his hand again. “Poor Blair, I wish I could
hold him right now. Did the police apprehend Abe Sisco?”
    “Yes, my brother was found in an old cellar under Sisco’s
garage.”
    “Your family must have been devastated.”
    “They were, we all were, but we got vindication. A forensics
team and the police were able to trace Abe Sisco’s alias to a serial killer
from Chicago who’d gone dormant and moved to Massachusetts when the FBI nearly
caught him.”
    “Tell me this sucker is in prison or I’m having Phalen,
Ethan and Taran Maddox hunt him down and take him out,” Eve demanded, her fight
for his baby brother touching his heart.
    Tugging on her hand, he brought her around to face him,
shrugging to ease the backpack off his shoulder and set it on the graveled
path.
    “Sisco is gone, sugar,” he assured her.
    “Gone as in dead or gone as in prison?”
    “Dead,” Remy revealed. “Authorities believe he committed
suicide in his cell soon after being sentenced to life in prison without
parole.”
    “Then Blair was given justice,” Eve commented.
    “Blair stopped visiting once Sisco was arrested.”
    “Do you miss your brother coming to visit you?”
    Remy inclined his head. “Every day, but I’m glad he’s at
peace.”
    “But you’re not?” Eve locked eyes with him, elevating her
chin, her stance telling him she was ready to take on his demons.
    “During those first five years my brother was gone, I made a
lot of mistakes, hurt people I loved, all to cover the pain going on inside.”
    “You must have felt so alone,” she said, lifting her hand to
place it against his cheek.
    “Yes, and I’d fooled myself into thinking fucking anyone I
could find would fulfill that part of me that’d been missing since Blair died.”
    “For what it’s worth, Remy, I’d have stood by you.”
    “You’ve stood by me even after I kept pushing you away.
Why?”
    “Because you are the part of me that beats,” she claimed,
resting her free hand over her heart.
    “I’m your heart, sugar?” he asked, liking that, liking that
a lot. He’d never been someone’s heart before, much less believed himself
worthy of a woman such as Evelyn.
    “Haven’t you figured that out yet?” Her fingers curled
inward slightly, cupping his cheek and making him feel wanted, loved.
    “You’re going to let me make love to you tonight, aren’t
you?” he asked, wanting to kick himself in the ass for getting nervous all of a
sudden.
    “For as long as you want me, no matter what you ask of me in
bed, I’m yours,” she answered. Bending his head toward her, he caught her mouth
in a gentle kiss, remaining aware of the chill in the Colorado air and the
approaching sunset.
    “Be careful, Eve, my kinks go beyond the norm,”