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This business, the money that’s rinsed through it. It’s all he fucking holds dear. I hear enough to know that. Even Alistair doesn’t want to protect him. Surely, a son would never want to turn his own father in if there was a good relationship there.
Julian Young only puts his cold heart into what he cares about most.
Himself.
And that has made this so much simpler, a silver lining, even if it’s taken longer than it should have.
I roll my shoulders, then rotate my neck, the tension cracking through my bones. Rose sounded lost on the phone. She’s had a bad day. Maybe she’s missing her family in New York. Maybe it’s something more. But I haven’t even been able to talk to her about it. I had to leave her with turmoil filling her eyes. My beautiful girl is at home, waiting for me,needingme. And I’m here, in a grim, concrete yard, waiting for the man who stole something from me that I can never replace.
Time.
But starting tomorrow, all my time will belong to her. To Rose.
The clock resets.
A new sunrise.
“Why don’t you head off. I can wait.”
Marcus’s brows shoot up. “We’re both supposed to be here. Everything’s done in pairs. Those are the rules.”
I shoot him a look that has him shrinking back.
“But I would like to get back. Julie asks questions when it gets too late. She knows the only bars open after two are titty ones. And it’s never a great day after if she thinks I’ve been in one of them.”
I force the image of Rose having a lap dance out of my mind. I can’t lose focus by remembering how turned on I was watching her explore her own pleasure as she experienced something new. Every fucking thing she does turns me on. I only have to look at her walking around at work in those swishy little skirts, with her incredible legs on show, to get a raging hard-on at my desk.
“Go,” I grunt. “We’ve checked everything together and it’s all been sealed. The only difference is Young’s dropping in tonight because it’s a big shipment. Wouldn’t you rather stay off his radar anyway?”
His eyes dart around the still deserted yard. “You know… that sounds…” He rolls his lips. “Yeah. You got this, haven’t you? Doesn’t need us both just to wait around like fucking losers.”
His left eye twitches. It happens when he’s on edge. Like the night his ‘friend’ was helping himself to Young’s latest delivery. The asshole could have gone nice and quietly, but he had to make a scene. And then I was forced to leave him enough of a memory to ensure he never spoke about it to anyone. I couldn’t risk having my cover blown.
His wounds will have healed by now, anyway. But if he’d brought Young’s attention onto things Marcus and I were given to handle, then there’s no telling what would have happened.
I wouldn’t be here tonight. About to see him finally go down.
Marcus looks me over, his eyes settling on the bulging vein that’s pulsating in my neck.
“I’ll see you soon then, yeah?”
“Yeah.” I nod in response as he backs up and then turns and walks away.
He won’t.
He won’t see me again. But he doesn’t know that. He won’t have a job come tomorrow morning. Julian Young and his entire shady enterprise will have been brought to its knees. And if Marcus has an ounce of sense about him, then he’ll take it as his chance to leave this life behind. Go off and live with Julie and her home-cooked steaks.
Have a fucking happy life.
Because it’s what I intend on doing.
I’m going to go back to the cottage and slide into bed with Rose.
Pull her into my arms and never fucking let go.
Headlights appear on the far side of the shipping yard, slowly drawing closer as the vehicle drives up the wide lane between the rows of containers. I stay where I am, off to one side, hidden in the shadow of one container.
I don’t want him to see me yet.
