Mafia Kingpin: A Dark, Thrilling Organized Crime Romance

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CHAPTER 20

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU?

§ ABID §

I texted Trex frantically. There was no way in hell that he was going to fuck things up, now that I'd just seen Aliyah alive in the flesh.

I needed answers, and I needed them now.

I went out for a smoke and met a chick outside, I texted him. Going over to her flat. Don't wait up for me.

I hung up my phone angrily, shoving it back into my pocket... And then I started to bolt out of the room, running as fast as my legs could possibly carry me. Aliyah had been wearing high-heels, so she couldn't have got that far.

My head was thumping, and my whole body was throbbing. Part of me wanted to believe that I was hallucinating. That it was just my fucked up brain playing tricks on me again. But deep down, I knew it wasn't. I hadn't imagined seeing Aliyah after all of this time.

I thought she was fucking dead!

She looked different. She'd changed her look. She used to have short hair, tanned skin, heart-shaped lips. Her lips were now a lot fuller, her hair had been dyed, and it was a lot longer, and her skin was no longer tanned.

She looked sexier than ever.

A million questions shot through my brain at once. Millions of unanswered questions. How the hell did she survive? Where had she been all this time? And why was she back in Birmingham after all of these years?

And seeing as she was alive...

Why the fuck didn't she contact me?

Why did she let me suffer?

Why did she allow me beat myself up every night, torturing myself, hurting myself...

Because I blamed myself for her death?

I could feel my heart thump in my throat. Tears slid down my cheeks as I ran. I needed to get it together.

I needed answers.

And I needed them now.