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“Don’t.” Her voice is a faint whisper.“Please.”
Movement in the corner of my eye steals my attention as thug number two makes a dive for his weapon. But he’s too late. A bullet rips through his skull, and he falls to the ground in a flash.
Rose screams, and I grip the back of her head, forcing her face into the crook of my neck so she can’t see.
I straighten the gun, aiming it back at Julian. He looks at the two bodies on the ground, the same question in his eyes as held in mine.
Who?
“Listen to Rose, Dax. Put the gun down.”
I stop breathing as Marcus comes into view, his own gun pointed at Julian.
Only he sounds nothing like Marcus. His voice is different. And he’s holding the gun like it’s second nature to him.
And he knows my real name.
And Rose’s.
“The fuck?” I stare between him and Julian, keeping my gun firmly aimed still.
Rose twists her head, her lips brushing over my neck.
“Don’t do it, Dax.”
I train my eyes back on Julian as Rose lifts her lips to my ear, her next words turning my body to stone.
“He’s your father.”
Chapter 32
Rose
“He’syourfather.”
I can pinpoint the exact moment that my words register in Dax’s brain. The exact moment that all he knew implodes. All blown apart.
My beautiful man, hit with a force that has the power to destroy him.
The air leaves his lungs, a groan and a gasp all in one.
Then silence.
Silence as his grip falters around the gun.
“No.”
I squeeze my eyes shut against his skin. “I am so sorry.”
“It’s not true, Rose. Who told you that?”
“I’m so sorry,” I sob. “I wish it weren’t.”
I look up at him and his eyes are round and pained.
“I found old accounts. Transactions to an account in his name. Your grandparents paid him off when your mom and him began dating. They had suspicions about him. They were trying to protect her. They didn’t want him anywhere near her. I didn’t want to believe it. But then I found letters from your mom in the attic. They confirmed it. She told them it was their fault her baby had no father. That she knew what they’d done. She said she knew they’d forced Julian away. Heisyour father.”
“No.” He screws his face up and looks back at Julian, his arm shooting out straight again. “Don’t fucking move!”
