“Come on.” Taking my hand, he leads me out of the closet, ignoring the curious looks of the men and women now loitering in the hallway. The Texan from earlier is standing to one side, a champagne flute still clutched in his meaty hand.
“What’s going on?” Rebel asks him.
“A body. Someone found a body in the kitchen. Some hired help or something. Blood everywhere, apparently.”
Rebel’s expression turns to tempered steel. My arm nearly comes out of the socket as he pulls me after him, pushing and shoving his way through the crowds. He stops in his tracks when he reaches the kitchen. On the floor, just as the Texan said, a body lies in a pool of blood. It’s the girl who came to my room, Rebel’s friend, Leah. Her eyes are wide, starting to cloud over; her throat lays wide open, slit from ear to ear.
“Oh my god,” I whisper. “That’s—”
“Yeah.” Rebel lets go of my hand, dropping into a crouch, covering his mouth with his hands. Devastation sweeps across his face. He’s turned sheet-white.
I go to comfort him. I take a step forward, wanting to place my hand on his back, to say something to let him know I’m there, but something stops me. Or rather someone. Across the other side of the room, talking to Louis Aubertin, a man I recognize all too well catches my eye. He has the fucking audacity to smile. I feel like I’m going to throw up.
Hector Ramirez.
Dressed in an expensive-looking suit and holding a cut glass tumbler of what looks like whiskey in his hand, it’s obvious he’s here for Louis’ fundraiser. And from the cold, evil smile he sends my way, it’s obvious that he’s responsible for the dead girl lying on the floor.
Rebel must see him at the same time I do. Slowly, shakily, he gets to his feet. The man I was naked with, so caught up in only ten minutes ago, is completely gone. It’s like he never even existed. “Motherfucker,” Rebel snarls. “He should never have come here. He should never have known. I am going to fucking destroy him.”
Right there, in front of everyone, Hector raises his glass and smiles at Rebel. If the message he’s sending with the dead girl on the floor isn’t enough, the one in his eyes is crystal clear:
Bring it on, Rebel. Do your fucking worst.
Dear lovely reader,
I promised a few weeks ago that there would be four additional chapters at the end of Rebel, and I haven’t forgotten! At the time of upload for pre-order, the chapters are still being polished so that they shine, however by the time you are reading this they will be available for your exclusive viewing on my website.
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All my love,
HELL’S KITCHEN
Callie Hart and Lili Saint Germain have teamed up to create their first debut novel as Hart Saint Germain! Hell’s Kitchen will be unleashed on the world on March 2, 2015.
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Roberto Barbieri is known in the Kitchen by many names: Bobby B. The Barber of Brooklyn. Il Assassino. My brother and I call him Father. No matter what name you call him by, when Roberto Barbieri tells you do something, you do it. No questions asked. And you do not fuck it up.
Money.
Power.
Sex.
Blood.
It all hangs in the balance.
And in this world?
Somebody always loses.
About The Author
Callie Hart is a bagel eating, coffee drinking, romance addict. She can recite lines from the Notebook by heart. She lives on a ridiculously high floor in a way-too expensive building with her fiancé and their pet goldfish, Neptune. Rebel is the first instalment in her Dead Man’s Ink trilogy. Book two will be coming out soon!
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