Four years. That's how long it has been since Sebastian saw his best friend's sister Maya. She was the sweetest seventeen year old girl you probably ever met. Now? Not so much.
Her brother Theo moved out and her whole world fell apart after that. Sh...
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"You want to tell me why you dragged me out of bed so early in the morning? I mean, off the couch." I spoke as Theo and I sat down at the restaurant.
"Lyssa is back."
"What?" I laughed. "Are you drunk? I don't know what you had buddy, but you should share."
"I mean it, Sebastian." He looked at me seriously. "She's back."
"Maybe we're misunderstanding each other here, Theo." I leaned my elbows on the table. "Lyssa, Killian's girlfriend, Lucy's adoptive mother, died eleven months ago when a building collapsed on her." Don't ask, long story.
"Yes." He looked at me like I was an idiot. "But she obviously survived."
"How sure..."
"She tried to kill them." He cut me off.
"Oh yeah, that sounds like her." I laughed.
"I have to get back to New York."
"Wait what? No." He can't leave. He needs to talk to Maya first.
"I don't like it either, trust me. I thought I would have more time with Maya, but I have to go back."
"No Theo, trust me, you should stay." Lyssa chose a really bad time to come back from the dead.
"I can't. I have to help them. But I can't tell Maya that. So what do I tell her? That I'm leaving her again after telling her I wouldn't?"
"You can't leave." I said between my teeth.
"What's your problem Sebastian?" He frowned. "Shouldn't you be glad we're leaving?"
"Under other circumstances, I would have already sat on the plane, but..." I stopped and took a breath. I looked away from him and ran my tongue over my front teeth. "Maya has a problem." I finally said.
"What problem?" He looked at me confused.
"I..." I let out a frustrated breath. "She was supposed to tell you herself."
"Tell me what, Sebastian?" He insisted.
"She has a...Maya has uhmm..." I swallowed hard, knowing that if I said it, someone is going to end up dead.
If we had no connection to the mafia, he might have taken it differently that his sister has a stalker. But what if this stalker isn't after Maya, but wants to get to Theo and Killian through her?
"I swear Sebastian, if you don't tell me what..."
"She has a stalker." I finally said and regretted it at that moment.
Fuck.
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