CUL-DE-SAC (On The Edge Book 1) by M.E. YILDIRIM Read Free Book Online

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based on what little they knew about him.
    Externals , he thought with disgust.
    People always went by them. He wasn’t going
to pretend he didn’t do the same but in his case it was all about a gut feeling
and it had saved his ass too many times to start counting now.
    He implied more pressure cutting off her
ability to breathe. Just enough to let her know he meant business.
“Don’t ever try to use me again. You won’t like the price to pay.” He
warned her in a low, menacing tone of voice.
    Isis looked into his eyes and some of her
excitement waned. She understood he was not in the mood to fuck around.
Whatever she read in his gaze made her gasp and her eyes brimmed with tears.
“I’m sorry.” She choked out and ran out of the room without looking back as
soon as he let her go.
    He didn’t doubt she was sorry; the worst
part of it was that he didn’t think she regretted coming here with her
dastardly plan in mind.
No, she was remorseful just because it didn’t pan out the way she wanted.
    His breath hissed out between his teeth and
he braced his hands on the wall before he could do something as idiotic as
planting his fist in it instead. The only thing stopping him from it was fear
of the outcome. He didn’t need any more problems, Xan decided.
    The word problems whispered through
his mind and his eyes automatically landed on the camera sitting on a chair
since the previous night. Busy with everything he forgot about it, but now was
as good a time as any to check it out, he decided. He needed something that
could occupy his mind and make his hands busy.
    He walked toward it and grabbed it,
noticing for the first time it looked old and was far from any of these sleek
and modern looking pieces of technology he saw people walking around with.
    It still looked expensive but… outdated.
    His fingers found the card slot and he
opened it to retrieve the memory card, ignoring the tremor in his hands.
His temper was yet to subside.
    He was wondering about the pictures before
and there was no reason to wait any longer with satisfying his curiosity. He
grabbed his laptop and inserted the card waiting for files to open, except…
there were no files.
    The damn thing was completely empty.
“Impossible.” He muttered to himself, but the result was the same.
    A nervous twitch started somewhere under
his eye and it didn’t seem like it was going to stop anytime soon. Xan stood up
slowly, put his laptop aside with great precision ready to pace off all pent up
emotions swirling in his gut.
    His eyes landed on the camera again and his
superficial calm frayed on the edges and then cracked altogether. He grabbed
the cursed device and hurled it across the room but the crashing sound it made when
it connected with the wall, failed to make him feel any better.
    Somehow she had replaced the card before he
could get to her, there was no other explanation, Xan decided and gritted his
teeth again. It seemed he was going to meet up with her the next day after all.
    She was yet another person trying to fuck
him over, thinking she could outsmart him. Well, he was about to show the bitch
the error of her ways, he thought viciously and his gaze flared in
anticipation.

 
    CHAPTER 5
     
    Catalina was frustrated and as much as she
accepted the state a while ago, as far as her work went, the feeling didn’t
have a place in her private life. Even worse was the realization that this time
nobody else was the source of it but… herself.
    She kept driving herself insane since the
previous night when she woke up at three a.m. and hadn’t been able to go back
to sleep.
    She counted at least a dozen reasons why
she should stay put instead of going to meet up with this Xan because really,
what did she know about the guy beside the name, which probably wasn’t a real
one to begin with?
    The man was practically a criminal; living
on the outskirts of law in the best case scenario, which – one way or another – was making him the
least