Total pages in book: 101
Estimated words: 95431 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 95431 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 477(@200wpm)___ 382(@250wpm)___ 318(@300wpm)
Award-winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents
Hush 3: Hidden Family
Michael
I am the youngest of four but I have more responsibilities than most. I’m not complaining. I earned the role I have taken. I sought out my brother and asked him to bring me in. He did so reluctantly but I’ve become so much like him the world sees us as one.
It has worked in our favor for years. We’ve kept our family hidden and safe because of it.
However, not everything is meant to stay hidden and when I come out of the shadows, a blinding light comes with me before everything goes silent.
Symphony
I am Symphony Isabella Mansilla, but everyone calls me Sim. I wasn’t meant to be who I am, but my grandfather has had plans for me.
The problem is I’m not his real granddaughter, I’m not Italian, and I’m … different. All things that say I can’t have any of the things my grandfather wants for me. All things that got my mother killed and made me a young bride.
To Don Alessio Trovati I have always been Symphony Isabella Mansilla-Trovati. The heiress of the Trovati family and my husband will be the next Don no matter what it takes. Forces are still trying to keep me from my destiny. However, we’re talking about very determined men.
I can dance ballet and play piano while acting like I don’t understand what must be done or I can do my best and become who my family and husband need me to be to make my nonno’s wishes come true. My husband won’t like it, but I know what I must do.
Will we navigate our secrets? Who will be next in line? The great-uncle who has a blood right or the girl and her husband he’s been trying to erase?
Will we become one or can there only be one hitter in the relationship? Who will survive? Who will be hushed once and for all?
*This a Novel in the Lost Hearts Series a spinoff from the bestselling, award winning series Legally Bound that introduced LaSalle, Brooklyn, Logan, and Misha. While you can read this book as a standalone, it will enhance the read to Blue’s books in the provided book order. Blue Saffire’s books are written to weave, loop, and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience.
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At the end, can you say you gave it your all?
Yes? Then you earned it.
―BLUE SAFFIRE
PREFACE
From the Shadows
Michael
Opening my pocket watch, I step from the shadows. The asshole lying in the bed before me lets out a gasp. It’s a familiar sound. One I have grown to expect.
I expect it almost as much as I expect the fear that begins to permeate the room. It’s always the same. To them, I’m the man who makes them hush. They don’t know that I’m only a carbon copy of him.
My brother has trained me to be just like him. Or at least that was his initial plan. I’ve become like him, but I’m the subdued version. I bring the sound of peace before I end it all in a hush.
I lift my finger and place it over my lips. It’s his only warning of what’s to come other than the knowledge of who he believes I am. I then wink at him as a smile comes to my lips.
He deserves this. You don’t order a hit on the wife of another man and think it will be as simple as going to bed and having a good night’s sleep every night. He chose the wrong man and that has consequences.
“Shh,” I hiss quietly.
As “Für Elise” plays, I lift my gun with the silencer on the end and pull the trigger. As soon as his brains are covering the headboard and sheets around him, I turn, close my watch, and take my leave as if I were never here.
I have done what I came here for. I turned off his clock. His time has come to an end.
As I climb into my car, I pull my phone and send a text to my brother to let him know the job has been completed. As I await his reply, I open a picture I was sent earlier this evening. I smile as I run my finger over the screen.
“You’re doing so well. I couldn’t be prouder of you. It’s better this way,” I whisper.
My phone buzzes with my brother’s reply. I grin and nod. All in a good night’s work.
Uri: Record timing. Well done.
Me: I am heading for the plane.
Uri: Take some time for yourself. I’m still smoothing things out here for you. You have other problems to solve as well.
I sigh and lean my head back. He hasn’t told a lie. I have many things to think about and fix.
I can’t move forward until I deal with the past. However, it’s hard to deal with something when you don’t know where to begin. I’m a problem solver, but this problem seems to have no solution.
“Not one I can see,” I mutter to myself.
Shaking my head, I start the car and head for my flight. I took this job as a way to run from all I had on my plate. I don’t know that it’s time to take Uri up on his suggestion. I still question so much and still have no answers.
CHAPTER 1
You’re my Brother
Michael
I promised Nico and Annabella that when I turned eighteen, I would find our older brother. I might be the youngest, but I’m skilled at finding people and things when I want. I wasn’t sure if it would happen at first.
Then my mother started to act odd during certain times of the month. I decided to follow her to see where she was going and why she would return looking so upset. As if she had lost someone or her heart had been broken.
I never thought she would lead me right to my brother’s doorstep. I’ve known where to find Uri for a month now. I’ve been working up the courage to meet him face to face.
“You can do this. Just follow him and tell him who you are,” I mumble to myself as I follow him up this dark, secluded street.
I’m in awe of Uri. I’ve been following him since I found my mother with him. Once she returned home, I followed his every move. I have learned a lot about my brother.
His life is very different from ours. He is connected to a lot of dangerous men. I can’t help but think about how different my life could have been if I had been raised by whoever raised him.
Anything other than being raised by Roberto Zuko had to be better. I still don’t understand why Uri has been kept away from us. Nico and Anna remember him more than I do.
I was only one year old when our father was killed, but I do remember there being one more of us. I remember him playing with me as I learned to walk and then he was just gone.
“Why are you bloody following me?”
The sound of a gun cocking as it’s pressed to the back of my head fills my ears seconds before the cold steel placed flush against my head registers in my skull. I close my eyes and freeze. How did he get behind me?