When Lucas chortled, she smirked but hit the call button. A soft, shaky breath was sucked in then quickly blown out when Aidan answered, “What?”
“Aidan, this is Kitty Frasier.”
“Kitty?” Aidan’s voice morphed from irritated to confused. “Is something wrong?”
“No, s—” The word ‘sir’ almost fell from her lips. Then she stared at me. I nodded. Her shoulders straightened. “No,Aidan. Nothing’s wrong. But I asked my brother for your cell number because I have something important to share with you.
“It’s regarding the Albanian situation and…” She swallowed. “Dead To Me’s almost assassination.”
Aidan didn’t speak. Not at first.
Then, slowly, he drawled, “And how would you know anything about either topic, Catriona?”
“Eva Martinez contacted me,” she said in a rush.
“This is Valentini-sanctioned,” I intoned in the background, not taking the phone away from her, only setting the record straight.
“Come to my building. One hour.”
Jr. didn’t let her reply, only ended the call.
Lucas received a text that he read out: “Your sister’s incoming. Escort her up to my apartment.”
Kitty whistled. “Fuck. He’s intense.”
“He’s a psychopath.” Lucas hooked an arm around her shoulders. “And you decided to dive straight into shark-infested waters.” He might have been messing with her, but the look he sent me promised death.
“Oh, shut up and don’t be glowering at Stan. This has nothing to do with him and everything to do with me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Remember Beatriz?”
A soft smile danced on his lips. “How could I forget her? You two were inseparable.”
“She’s not dead, Lucas.” When he jerked upright, she confided, “You know who Eva Martinez is, don’t you?”
“Of course. She’s as crazy as Aidan. Married totheMartinez.” Lucas’s brow puckered. “Ironically enough, he’s pretty sane. Seems a decent guy.”
“Until you cross him,” I inserted dryly.
Lucas conceded that with a grimace. “What about them?”
“While I was away, I learned… Martinez and Beatriz are family. Long story short, I told them she wasn’t dead.”
“In hiding?”
“Yeah.” Kitty gulped. “She probably hates me more now.”
“You don’t know that. She ran to protect herself,” I chided.
“She didn’t run to them though, did she?”
“Martinez would have been in exile around the time of her death. He only came out of it once Eva became pregnant and he and the Valentinis graduated to business partners. Perhaps that’s why she thought she couldn’t depend on him.”
“I guess.” She stared at her watch. “I need to use the bathroom before I talk to Aidan. Don’t kill each other while I’m gone.”
The warning wasn’t solely aimed at her brother.
