ELEVEN

ELLEN

I stood there helplessly with my cell phone in my ear. How was I going to tell Kennedy that I needed to go to work? Everything Oliver Monero said replayed in my head. Kennedy had flown in from New York to visit Sophie and me for the weekend and we decided to have the best weekend of our lives. Kennedy was a lover of steak and I decided to treat him to it that night. Sophie and Lily were on their own little date, and we were all having fun on that Friday night until my phone went off and Oliver flashed on it.

I was surprised at first and stared at my phone like it was something foreign to me, wondering why Oliver Monero was calling my line. He has never called my phone and always reached me through Dante. It was that curiosity that made me answer the phone and I regretted it immediately. The first thing he asked was where I was, I told him I went out and was not in the house, but that did not stop his wicked heart from requesting my presence.

"I need you at