Submission Specialist: A Bad Boy Romance (Still a Bad Boy Book 2)
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I braced myself to see the event that had set him down that path. It wasn’t going to be easy, reading the article about his parents’ murders, but I needed to see. I needed to make it a part of… the very core of my being.
My thumb ran over the gold band around my ring finger. With this ring, he’d promised to love me forever and forsake all others. I’d done the same with the ring on his finger. He had my heart, and I wanted to do this so I could give him my complete understanding too.
It started out much as Jace had told me. Ruben and Ana Lowell, gunned down by the Picollis for unknown reasons while driving to the hospital. The small business-owner and housewife were survived by Jason Bartholomew Lowell, who had no other known living relatives.
I could feel the tears welling up already. This was the moment in time that changed everything for the boy who would grow up to be my hero. This was what sent him through hell.
That was bad enough, but nothing could have prepared me for the rest of the article. Even though my heart began beating harder, I could feel the blood drain from my face.
“Kendall? What’s wrong? What is it?”
“Jace…”
“What?”
I looked up at him, then back to my laptop. My fork clattered to my plate and I could feel my extremities going numb as I fought to overcome the shock. I mumbled something and passed the laptop over to Jace. I could see when he got to the part that had just about made me faint.
Mrs. Lowell was rushed to nearby Port Magnus General, where she had been scheduled to have her baby delivered by Caesarian that morning before this heinous crime took place. A hospital representative stated that her unborn child has been successfully extracted from her womb. Although the newborn, a male, is under round-the-clock surveillance, at the time of writing he is alive, fighting for his life, but alive. With such a start, one can only wonder what kind of life that might be.
Jace stared at the screen for a long, long, time. This was a man who could stare down an army without flinching, but he looked like he’d been completely blindsided.
“Did he… make it?” Jace finally asked.
“I don’t know. Check the other article. The other attachment in the email I’ve got open.”
Jace ran his finger over the touchpad and made a few clicks, his brow furrowing as the new article loaded and he read it.
“This is the same one I found on the microfiche in that library. It doesn’t even mention my… my brother. Kendall… I’ve got to find out what happened.”
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