Gemini: Book 4 in a Young Adult Paranormal Romance Series (The Zodiac Twin Flame Series) Read Online Free PDF Page B

laughed.
    The cringe that threatened was reigned in before it could register on my face. If only he knew how close he was to revealing my predicament. And here I was, going for a day out at the beach.
    ‘I can’t see us on a holiday somehow.’
    ‘Funnier things have happened. See you later.’
    The phone went dead. I wiped my sweaty palms on my suit. I liked being included in the mission. We needed to get on top of Nick and his men.
    The woman from the night before came into my mind. She had been extraordinary. Something was wrong with her, though. She was hiding something. Her haunted eyes reminded me of something that I couldn’t put my finger on.
    ‘What did he want?’ Taurus said.
    I debated keeping the mission to myself. Would it really help us if we knew everything?
    ‘Nick’s been in contact with mother.’
    ‘How?’ Cancer butted in.
    It was a good question. Mother was in a safe place. She had a new phone number and there was no one in touch with Nick that…
    ‘Where’s Matt?’ I asked Cancer.
    In my worry about finding money, I had forgotten about Cancers’ man. He had completely slipped my mind for almost a whole week.
    Virgo spun in her seat. Leo looked in his rear view mirror, which made him swerve the car.
    ‘Careful, Leo!’ Virgo snapped.
    Cancer wrung her hands together. She could feel all eyes on her. Scrutinizing her behaviour with a married man. Not that she had done anything with him as far as I was aware.
    ‘Aries has put him in another flat. I think he might be-’
    ‘Using him to communicate with Nick?’ Realisation dawned as Cancer nodded her agreement. Her eyes misted up. What was wrong with her? Why was she so worried about the man?
    ‘How can we afford to house him? I thought Nick threatened to kill Matt,’ Taurus said.
    ‘He did,’ Cancer said, ignoring the first question. ‘When Aries told Matt to let Nick know that he was under the Zodiac’s protection, he agreed to communicate.’
    I shook my head. ‘Why haven’t we been told?’
    When Aries had blown his legs off, I had stepped up to help rescue our father. Ever since we had achieved our goal, it seemed I had been left out.
    ‘We tried to tell you,’ Leo spoke at last. ‘But you’re so wrapped up in yourself, you fail to see what’s directly in front of you.’
    His words made me stiffen. He was wrong. I wasn’t self-centred, I was trying to stop us from being bankrupt. I may have caused the problem by losing money but my intentions had been good.
    The van was silent. Everybody obviously agreed with Leo. They thought that I only cared about myself? Well, if that was the case, I would let them get on with it. I just needed to sort out my cash flow first.
     

Chapter Six
     
    I sent the text. My local contact would know if there were any games in Brighton that evening. The sun was fading fast. We had laughed as we’d pushed the girls into the cold sea. They had squeaked and hit us, feigning feminine sensibilities.
    ‘Are you staying down here?’ Leo asked. His guitar hung over his shoulder as we packed up the van. The picnic basket was sufficiently empty after our lunch session on the pebbles.
    ‘I don’t-’ My phone beeped, interrupting my answer. ‘Yes, there’s a game.’
    Leo closed the back door and put a hand on my shoulder. Tattoos covered his arm, right up to his sleeveless T-shirt. Like Aries and Scorpio, he was a couple of inches taller than me. My six-foot height was a blessing when I wasn’t with them but I looked short when we were all out.
    Taurus came over to us. Standing between the two muscly men, I glanced down at my slim arms. I wasn’t unfit or completely skinny but I was pretty slim compared to them. At least I was taller than Taurus.
    ‘Are you still as disconnected from the game as you used to be?’ Leo’s question was a good one.
    I had promised them that as soon as I had an addiction, I would step down as a professional gambler. At twenty-two years old, I didn’t want to be