This is book 1 in the Mystical Wonders Series!
BLURB
Madison Morina, college professor, meets Sal at the college’s pep rally. They hit it off, but Madison still has her doubts regarding their relationship. Shari Stafford, a clairvoyant, hairdresser, finds love when she hires a carpenter to do renovations on her house. She has a special gift of reading minds. Private Investigator Cassie Scott has an on and off relationship with Dennis. When family secrets are revealed, her life is changed forever. Bad boy Angelo Esposito sweeps Fay Odina off her feet. He has a dead wife and an ex-wife, along with a secret past and an agenda. Angelo finds his perfect mark in Fay, who owns the family Vintage Clothing Shop. Despite her friends’ warnings that she is in imminent danger, she runs off and marries Angelo. It’s up to the girls to juggle their own relationships and dig deeper into Angelo’s past. Four friends, four lives intertwined together.
EXCERPT
There wasn’t a lot of time
to waste so he drove directly to Fay’s store and parked his car around back. He
had everything set up from earlier when he brought her boxes down to the
basement right before she closed the store.
Everything worked out
perfectly. He had outlined the whole day and pretty much stayed on the schedule
he’d made for himself. His personal satisfaction wasn’t on the list, but it
sure did feel good.
Angelo didn’t foresee any
problems. During his last trip to the basement, he made sure he distracted her
from checking the backdoor. Smooching, thoughts of an expensive dinner, and sex
had preoccupied her. He was relieved.
Angelo opened the basement
door, turned on his flashlight and grabbed the splintered banister. Earlier, he
hadn’t noticed that some of the stairs were warped, cracked,
and one or two only had
half a step remaining. He didn’t need to fall down and have Fay come into work
the next day to find him lying on the bottom of the stairs with a broken leg
and a concussion.
Once he reached the bottom
step, he opened the door, thankful he remembered to leave on the light. This
way there was nothing out of the ordinary to cause anyone alarm. He went
directly to the file cabinet in the corner, opening and closing the drawers
looking for past bank statements or any other vital information.
He removed the December
files, knowing these would be the final figures for the previous year. This was
easier than he thought. Finally, he had planned something out the right way and
it hadn’t cost him that much to woo her. Fay was so blinded by his charm, she
didn’t see him for the man he really was.
The last two broads he was
married to had to be lavished with expensive gifts, Broadway plays and
vacations to the tropics. God forbid if there wasn’t diamonds in the piece of
jewelry he bought them. But that problem was easy to amend. He would take a
piece, sell it and buy something new. What made this little ploy pathetic was
his wives had so much jewelry they didn’t even realize when something went
missing.
Fay was a whole different
story. She never asked for anything. So when he brought her the smallest of
gifts, she would make a big deal over it. She had turned into the perfect
score.
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Angelo finished copying the
files and carefully placed them back where he retrieved them. Covering his
tracks was imperative. He started walking downstairs when he remembered the
papers in his pocket. Returning to her office, he made a quick copy of them.
Once he got back to her house, he would return the envelope. Sooner or later
she’d have to use the bathroom or he’d send her down for a snack.
Shutting the light off,
Angelo made his way down the stairs again. He put away the original file he had
taken from down in the basement, sliding the box that blocked the file cabinet
back in front of it.
These papers were going to
be the key to his future. It would be the deciding factor on what he wanted to
do about his so-called relationship with Fay. If she was worth the money he
suspected, then he would just have to fake his way through a loving
relationship while finding his restitution with his lover Tina.
KAREN'S SOCIAL MEDIA
An interesting look into the mind of a villain.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Angelo took over the whole book. He is a unique individual.
DeleteGood job on showing justification and lack of remorse.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Holly.
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