Alicia Hernandez knows her gran tio Joaquín was an awful, horrible man who nearly killed his own two brothers, but her beloved gran tio Alvaro saved his brother Rio, and they both made a new life in Colombia, hoping to forget what happened in Mexico.
But sadly, because of Joaquín's actions, her family has been on the run for decades from the evil French mafia known as Oiseaux de Proie. They had to leave Colombia, and their past lives, and go back to their homeland of Mexico, leaving Joaquín behind.
But Oiseaux de Proie never gives up, led by Sébastien Merchand and assisted by a mysterious hitman known only as the Debt Collector, they intend to find and kill Joaquín, and the family.
Now Alicia has found out that Joaquín may not be the man he was said to be, and with enemies piling up, in order to save her family, she, along with her tio and prima, must become runaways, and save their family, and unearth the truth about gran tio Joaquín.
Will she ever forgive them for abandoning her?
Will they ever be able to unveil her secrets?
Where was she for all those years?
This is story of a girl who was abandoned by her brothers when she was seven. Now, after 9 years, her brothers brought her back home. How will she deal with them, simultaneously dealing with the terrors that haunt her every night?
Sneak Peak-
Once we were out, I stopped and turned to face my blood relatives and said, "Okay, now that I am out you don't need to act anymore. Now, you guys can go back to your house and pretend that this never happened. I will go to my house and will make sure that we will not cross each other's path, even by accident."
I was about to turn back when Ezekiel held my elbow, stopping me on my track. I immediately snatched my hand back glaring at him and said,
"Do not ever touch me again." His eyes showed an emotion of hurt that I am sure I read incorrectly because one thing that Kensington brothers are incapable of was getting hurt by any outsider. And that was what I was. An outsider.
Sensing the tension in the atmosphere Aldric took it upon himself to say whatever his brother was about to.
"You are going with us." He spoke.
One thing about Aldric Kensington was that once he has made his mind, there is nothing in this world that can change his decision. This is the very quality of his that made my life a living nightmare, and this is exactly why I hate him more than any of my brothers.
"Let's go Athaliah," Ezekiel said this time.
That name. No one has called me by that name in six years. "My name is Zahra," I corrected and continued, "And I am not going with you."
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