Dark City by Sarah Kay Moll

Author:Sarah Kay Moll [Moll, Sarah Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NineStar Press, LGBT, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mob, murder, family drama, gay, bi, in the closet, BDSM
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2018-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

IT’S HARD TO hate Jude with his eager smile and his bright eyes, but Eli tries, because he has to hate someone. Sometimes, he succeeds, achieving the brusque distance he wants to keep between them, and other times, like right now, Jude slung over his shoulder, murmuring incoherently, he fails completely.

Jude is a person sharply divided, and is it really so strange that Eli’s feelings about him would be so starkly split as well? Sometimes, Jude is a cold, sly bastard, and Eli gets on with him okay because that guy’s not the real Jude, the heart or the soul. That persona is just a weapon, like a fist, an extension of Jude, but not his true self.

He can’t recall ever liking Jude all that much, but he does feel responsible for him, in the way he might feel responsible for a scruffy, helpless kitten left on his doorstep. Any residual fondness from their childhood days has been carefully quashed. Eli has built a cold wall of hatred between himself and his brother, who has succeeded in everything Eli has failed at.

He carries Jude through his parents’ darkened mansion, setting him on his bed so their mother can hover anxiously over him, pressing a hand to his forehead even though they both know this isn’t a fever, but a sickness of another kind.

Eli leaves Jude in their mother’s hands—this isn’t the first time he’s passed out like this, and he always wakes up just fine.

Downstairs, their father is in his study. He looks up from the papers on his desk when Eli walks in.

“Nikita…Nikita’s dead,” Eli says, standing at attention in front of the desk. “Jude freaked out at the end, so I killed Nikita myself. I don’t think he would have done it, Dad.”

He knows this won’t be enough to erase the five years Vance has spent making his disappointment in Eli clear. But maybe it will shift the balance between Jude and Eli a little bit. Eli’s sin was showing mercy, and now Jude has done the same thing.

Vance looks up, mouth pressed into a grim line. “Jude would never rat you out like this. You know that, right?”

“I know,” Eli says, and the absurd thing is, Vance is right. Jude would never say a word against Eli—but then again, he never has to. He’s the favorite, the golden boy, and he has the luxury of loyalty.

Vance nods and looks down at his paperwork again. “Quit telling lies about your brother.”

Dimly, Eli wonders why he’s so surprised. Of course their dad would take Jude’s side. He gave up on Eli years ago, when Eli let Nikita escape a similar trap, a betrayal Vance has never forgiven him for. And he’s not the type of man to change his mind.

“There’s something wrong with him. There’s something wrong with Jude. You have to have noticed it.”

“Get out,” Vance says without looking up from his desk. And when Eli hesitates, he growls again. “Get out.”

For a moment, Eli is seized by

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