Duplicity by Lisa Phillips EPUB & PDF

Duplicity (BENSON FIRST RESPONDERS #8) by Lisa Phillips EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online

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• Authors: Lisa Phillips
• Language: English
• Genre: contemporary romance
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Two years ago
“Don’t do this.” She grabbed Arlo’s hand, but he pulled his arm away.
“You’re not gonna stop me.”
Fact was, he had no choice. He’d been ordered to do this, and
since Arlo had a debt to pay, this was how he had to pay it.
His mother flopped down onto the ratty couch she always said was
better than nothing. More times than not, it seemed like nothing was all they
had. So, he’d gone out into the neighborhood and made his own way. She
hadn’t complained when he came home with rolls of bills. She took the
money and didn’t ask how he got it.

For a while, they had more food. Money for clothes, for her and Millie.
He’d bought the sneakers he wanted. Took a girl out for a while, until she
asked why he didn’t treat her more fancy.
In the bedroom, Millie started crying. Dang kid was always wailing
about something. Hard to believe she was his, but that was what Selise had
said before she left the baby with his mother and never came back to pick
her up.

He listened for a moment and looked around. Soaked up the sights and
sounds he wouldn’t know for a long time—maybe never.
If he was lucky, he’d get fifteen to twenty years. But when he got out,
his debt would be paid, and he’d be free.

Millie didn’t need to grow up with him in her life. He’d never done
good for his daughter. His mom could make her own money for once. Even
if Hayden had promised to “take care” of them, whatever that meant.
The two of them would be all right.

Arlo closed the front door behind him and headed down the hall. He
took the stairs and went out the fire exit to the alley where a nice Dodge
with black windows and an engine that growled was parked.
He got in the back, and it pulled out before he’d even shut the door.

“You know what you gotta do?”
Arlo stared up at the building. At the fire escape outside his window,
where he and Selise had lain on that blanket and pretended they could see
the stars.

“I asked you a question, kid.”
He turned to the guy in the back seat beside him. Suit. Slick hair. Rings
on both hands. Hayden was the kind of guy Arlo had tried to be, but some
people had money. Some didn’t. No matter how much Arlo tried, this kind
of life took more than it gave. He weren’t never gonna be rich.
“Yeah.” He cleared his throat, but he sounded like a little kid anyway. “I
know what I gotta do.”

The guy up front drove the car from the east side of the city, through
downtown traffic, and right up to the curb in front of the Benson Police
Department.

“So go do it.”
Arlo turned to him. “Then we’re clear?”
Hayden said, “Don’t worry, kid. We’ll take care of your momma and
that baby.”

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