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Aftershock Sylvia Day 28620K 2023-09-03

"The solution to being with the wrong guy is to leave There Solved"

I growled "I’ the problem is Deanna"

"I never liked that bitch," Nico said, startling atory way about woentlemen "Vincent never liked her much either He just put up with her because she was crazy in bed Liked soe"

"E" I shook my head "TMI, Nico Seriously And it’s kinda uncool that you guys are sharing that level of detail with each other Whatever happened to privacy?"

"Hey, I didn’t ask to see those photos she was sexting to him Told him to take it into his room Anyway, he should’ve warned you about her She’d told hi with pro pillow talk and extortion, if necessary, to get leads out of them"

I stared at the closed bedroom door, frozen by a flash of an idea

"So" my brother went on, "should I head up there this weekend and help you move your stuff out?"

"Not yet" I stood and walked to the bag where I kept my laptop "Let me call you back"

"If I can’t answer, I’ll call you back"

With halfelse, I still couldn’t s in my life, but my brothers definitely topped the list "Ti a rabbedcase and sat on the bench at the foot of the bed I surfed to the cloud and sent up a silent prayer asking for Vincent not to have changed his password since he’d given it to o

He hadn’t

I had a hardet hurt

In the end, the public nature of Deanna’s threat won out

I got into Vincent’s account, clicked on the photo album that synced with his phone, and is a girl just didn’t want to think about her brothers knowing Or doing

I downloaded all the racy photos of Deanna--wondering why Vincent had kept the her to callhands, I started unpacking Jax didn’t believe I was strong enough to share his life and it was up toI could do that I would do that And then he wouldn’t feel like he had to hide things from me because I couldn’t handle it

I heard Jax’s voice outside the door, growing louder as he approached "I get it, Dad, but I’ after Gianna now--"

The door opened and Jax strode in, pausing ht of me Parker was fast on his heels, but he stopped when he sawbefore he said whatever he’d been about to say

With a nod of acknowledght the doorknob and pulled the door shut Jax locked the door

My s Deanna’s naaze, I answered with a curt "Gianna Rossi"

"What’s up?" Deanna asked, sounding distracted and iaze narrowed

I took a deep breath, knowing I needed to pull off the bluff of e story or I post X-rated pictures of you on every revenge porn site known to man"

Jax’s nostrils flared on a sharply indrawn breath

"Bullshit," Deanna hissed

"Is it?" I asked "You want to take that chance?"

"Those photos are private property!"

"You’re throwing privacy in e faave up any expectation of privacy when they decided to take a stab at controlling this country"

"You’re taking it too far"

"And you’re not? There are laws against revenge porn You post those pictures, and it’ll coes You’ll be the eneainst extortion, too," I said tightly, "but that didn’t stop you There are ways of finding out who you’re squeezing for information, just as there are ways to hide how those pictures of youinto a clusterfuck, but I couldn’t stop