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A quick last-minute job is all it took for me to lose everything.
I did a favor for an old Black Ops buddy. A few hours upstate to take out some fuckhead—I didn’t get the details. Not my problem. I got the kill, long-distance sniper shot.
A few fucking goddamn hours with my eye off the ball, off Dakota, her well-being in the hands of someone else whom Smith arranged to watch her.
Babysitting. That’s all the asshole had to do.
She was out early yesterday evening with some fucking art guy and now…
Poof. Fucking gone.
If I’d been there, I’d have moved in.
If I’d been there, I’d have blown the place up to get her.
I’d have taken one look at who walked in the door and carried her out of there.
My stomach is eating itself, nerves gnawing at my bones. It hurts to breathe in a way I haven’t felt since I found Fina.
Dirty, naked, bleeding.
It all threatens to crash down. The sharp pain, the guilt that crushes. They knifed her and raped her. He was coming back to do it again when I ripped him apart. It’s all a blur, what I did to that man. I could barely see through the thick red haze. My rage was so great and all-consuming, it was all instinct and the driving need to kill.
And I did.
She was too far gone when I got there.
Then everything was gone.
Her life.
A future.
Happiness.
The baby.
All of it. Gone.
My raven-haired, beautiful, brilliant Fina.
And now…
I force myself to calm.
To breathe.
What happened to Fina won’t happen to Dakota.
Dakota is sweet where Fina was ruthless and savvy in getting her story. Dakota’s young and only beginning to live, where Fina had already lived a few hard lifetimes by age thirty.
And Fina would kick my ass for being cruel to Dakota. Pushing her away because I’ve got… what? Fucking feelings?
Feelings have nothing to do with anything. I just need to make sure Dakota lives.
Smith looks… pale. Good. I want to fucking shoot the prick, and I don’t care that he’s a friend. Right then, I want to shoot everyone.
We’re at a holding place down in the depths of the Knights’ building, where the sex club O-Ring and the club Orb reside.
