“As I stated earlier than, she is essentially the most lovely girl. She at all times has been, and it was a speaking level round right here. Everyone knew of her and but no one ever acquired shut as a result of Apollo was infatuated together with her from a really younger age.”

He squeezes me tighter as he breathes slightly quicker.

“The day she went lacking, we had been on the mainland attending to enterprise, which wasn’t unusual. After we returned, they informed us she by no means made it again from the city.”

I stay silent, however my coronary heart is racing as I unravel slightly extra of the thriller.

“We looked for her for 2 days straight. Traced her footsteps and located her bike by the aspect of the highway. Apollo was out of his thoughts, and I shared his fear. It didn’t look good and but regardless of all our greatest efforts, no one knew something. She simply disappeared off the island and was by no means seen once more.”

He exhales sharply. “We used all our contacts and our greatest interrogation strategies to seek out her and solely an opportunity encounter final month gave us some hope. We had been in New York, serving to the Vieris with an issue that they had and overheard two guys in a membership speaking about Madeira Island. The dialog was very fascinating.”

“What did they are saying?”

I’m holding onto each breath he takes as a result of this can concern me and he says in his horny voice, “They had been discussing the proprietor, Hosea Madeira. They referred to him as a mad son of a bitch and swapped tales. Then they spoke a few younger lady who he introduced out each night time in some form of ceremony earlier than the occasion acquired began.”

“Ceremony?” This doesn’t sound good, and he activates his aspect and stares deep into my eyes and I swear the moon dips behind a cloud in concern of what’s mirrored there.

“This lady was painted black and introduced into the principle corridor and made to face within the heart of the room beside him whereas he greeted his visitors and made his choice from the visiting girls. Then they’d observe a procession exterior the place she was tied to a crucifix.”

“That’s severely creepy.” I shudder, and Adonis stares at me with a grim expression.

“Hosea received’t enable anybody to the touch her. She is guarded and worshipped because the keeper of pure souls.”

“I don’t know what to say. It’s form of fucked-up.”

He nods. “It’s how his thoughts works. Hosea Madeira is harmful. He misplaced his thoughts a few years in the past, and that is simply one other loopy instance of that.”

“However I don’t perceive what he hopes to realize. It’s insanity.”

Adonis shrugs. “It makes excellent sense if you perceive the story behind it.”

He reaches out and touches my face with a gleam of lust in his eye. “Hosea is one step away from insanity, however he’s additionally obsessive about Greek mythology. He studied it at school and most of his properties are riddled with statues of the Greek gods. It’s his obsession, and he’s utilizing his island to re-enact one among his favourite myths.”

“Eros and Psyche.”

I perceive now, and Adonis laughs. “You realize your topic effectively.”

I shrug. “I see the enchantment, however I doubt I’d take it to these extremes.”

Adonis nods. “It is smart why he got here to the island to seek for essentially the most lovely lady that everybody was speaking about. You see, Psyche was a powerful mortal lady who even surpassed the fantastic thing about Aphrodite herself, and males from all around the land would go to to admire her magnificence. Psyche additionally means soul and for a person with one of many rottenest souls on earth, he noticed Phoebe as a cleanser of his. She is the antithesis of him. The actual fact Phoebe was engaged to a person named after a Greek God was most likely the icing on his cake. He eliminated her to his island and is praying she falls in love with him.”

“Love can’t reside with out belief.” I remind him of the highly effective message behind the parable and he nods. “He is not going to contact her to realize her belief.”

“However how are you aware it was her?”

“We didn’t. That was solely confirmed later when Alexei was despatched {a photograph} from one among his contacts. Nonetheless, the lads’s description was sufficient to seize our curiosity. They informed us the one manner onto the island was through Hosea’s boat, which you might solely board with a gold leaf invitation. Don Vieri has been engaged on securing one so we will take a look at the story.”

“What is going to you do whether it is her? You stated the island is closely guarded. I imply, this man is a Columbian medication lord. Safety can be off the size.”

Now I’m frightened and Adonis grins, a malevolence surrounding it that takes my breath away, and he growls, “The Vieris are a household who’re extraordinarily able to taking over a person like him. If they’ve the backing of the Romanovs and us behind them, they don’t actually stand an opportunity.”

He stares deep into my eyes and hisses, “That’s the reason I would like another person to go there in your house. If Phoebe is there, she can be leaving with us, and chances are you’ll get harm.”

I fall silent as a result of I by no means thought-about it’s harmful, however my coronary heart is racing on the promise of the journey I’m in search of.

It is a world I do know nothing about. Individuals I don’t perceive and would ordinarily by no means encounter. The romantic in me needs to assist liberate Phoebe, and the warrior in me needs to see Hosea Madeira get what he deserves. However most of all I wish to show I’m not just a few airhead heiress who outlets for a dwelling and does brunch, so I stare again at him with a willpower that shocks even me as I whisper firmly, “Don’t you dare attempt to cease me, Adonis. I gave my phrase, and I can’t take it again.”

For a second, he simply stares into my eyes with an expression that’s not possible to learn. Then he tugs my face to his and kisses me slowly, deeply, and with objective. It’s as if we’re signing our settlement in a much more intimate manner and when he pulls again, he whispers, “Include me.”

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