Page 62 of Bratva Jewels Box Set

Tomas stills, refusing to answer my question.

“There are flaws in your fucking logic, my love. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but I’m going to get to the bottom of this. And our Zoe is not a honey trap.”

“I don’t know what to believe. These people would stop at nothing to get what they want.”

Stepping toward him, I reach out and place my hands on his shoulders. “I hear you. But this time I think you’ve jumped to conclusions. You’ve had a shock. We all have. Let me check in on Zoe and then we can come back together and talk about this calmly.”

“Maybe you’re right. I’m going to give Enrique a call. I think he needs to know about this.”

I squeeze Tomas’s shoulders. I’m not going to argue with him in this moment as it’s not going to get me anywhere. Leaving Tomas in the living room with his phone, I head down toward our bedroom in the direction Zoe went. I step into our bedroom and see Zoe madly packing.

“Where are you going to go?” I ask, making her jump.

She has an overnight bag and is packing essentials. She’s dressed in a pair of dark denim jeans which show off her ass perfectly.Now is not the time, Mateo.A white shirt is pulled across her perfect tits. Her blonde hair is piled up into a high ponytail.

“I don’t know, but it’s for the best.”

“The best for who?” I say, resting against the door jamb as I cross my arms over my chest.

“Mateo, don’t fight me on this. It’s for the best. Tomas hates me. He thinks I’m a spy. Ruby warned me that you would be in trouble if I stayed. I can’t let that happen. I have to go to protect you.”

Now we were getting somewhere—she’s running scared. Walking into the room, I take a seat on the edge of the bed.

“We can protect you, Zoe.”

Zoe shakes her head. “Look at what they have been doing to Tomas already. If they know I’m alive they will do so much worse to you. I can’t let them do that.”

I grab her hand, stilling her. “And what will they do to you if they find you?”

She looks down at our joined hands, then pulls them to her lips and kisses my knuckles. “I’ll be okay. Don’t worry about me.”

Then she drops my hands and moves away from me.

Don’t worry about her. Is she crazy? I love her with every fiber of my body. Does she think I’m going to give up on her that easily?

Jumping up, I wrap my arms around her, halting her movements. “Please don’t go, Zoe,” I beg of her.

“I have to.”

“No, you don’t. You think you’re doing the right thing, but you’re not. We are better together. The three of us. Strength in numbers and all that shit.”

Zoe’s arms tighten around me as she buries her face into my chest. I can feel her body shake as she sobs. Picking her up in my arms, I lay her down in our bed. The same bed that’s sheets are rumpled from our previous night of lovemaking.

“It’s going to be okay. I promise you. Whatever we need to do to keep you and your family safe we are going to do it. Tomas isa fucking billionaire. He can afford the world. And me, I don’t do too badly either,” I explain to her.

She burrows herself in closer to me.

“Look, I know Tomas was a bit of a dick tonight, but he loves you. We both do. When the shock of who you really are wears off and Enrique tells him you have nothing to do with the men hurting him, he will relax. I’m not siding with him, but just before you came into our lives, things had been strained with this Mykonos venture. It’s the reason we were spending the summer here in Ibiza away from it all.”

“It’s the truth,” Tomas says from the doorway as he steps into the bedroom.

Zoe and I sit up on our elbows as we watch him walk toward us cautiously.

“I’ve had some time to think about what’s happened, and I’m sorry,” Tomas tells Zoe. “Hearing your story triggered me, and I snapped, and you caught the brunt of my anger over these fuckers.” Tomas takes a seat at the end of the bed. “If they are the same people that kidnaped you, then I will use every single euro I have to bring these assholes down.”

Zoe reaches out and calls him to her.

Tomas curls up behind her in bed. Zoe is the meat in our sandwich. It’s been one hell of a long night. We can talk more about the situation when we wake up in the morning rested. The three of us fall asleep together.