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“You’ll have to wait outside,” the nurse repeats.
Hale doesn’t want to go anywhere but, after a few more minutes of arguing and the threat of security being called, he reluctantly rises from his chair. I squeeze Daisy’s hand one last time, and Hale kisses her forehead tenderly.
“You should leave and get some rest,” he says. “I’m not leaving until she comes around.”
“I don’t want to go.”
“Come back tomorrow,” he says. “I promise I’ll call if anything happens.”
I find myself nodding. After days of hardly sleeping and the relief of seeing Daisy, I’d become a walking zombie.
“But what about you?” I ask. “What about the club? Won’t you need protection?”
Hale smirks. “Everywhere is safe now.”
I frown. “What do you mean?”
“After Stephanie, I was next in line to inherit the Killers Club,” Hale explains. “I never wanted it, but as of now, I’m the boss.”
“Hold up! What?” I freeze. Maybe sleep deprivation is making me hear things. “Explain it to me like I’m a five-year-old.”
“Alaric is…was…my brother,” he says casually like it’s nothing.
“You can’t be serious.” My head spins. “This has to be a joke.”
Sure, they’re both tattooed and of a similar build, but I thought that was more due to coincidence and life circumstances than their being related.
“Why didn’t you say anything before?” I demand.
“Would you have believed I wanted to kill my own brother?” he asks. “You’d never have trusted us if you knew the truth. But Alaric had to be stopped. He’d always been unhinged. He drew me into his world, and the power went to his head. It was my responsibility to stop him.”
“So you’re going to continue with the club?”
“I wanted Stephanie to take over to free myself of him forever,” he says. “But I’ll have to think of something else. For now, you and the Dukes can consider yourselves safe. You’re not going to be targeted by any other agents.”
I nod shakily, struggling to take it in as I see the Dukes waiting for me at the end of the corridor.
“Go to them,” Hale says. “They’re good guys. They care about you.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow,” I murmur, still in shock.
When I reach them, the guys huddle around me, smothering me in their muscular limbs. Instead of feeling like I’m suffocating, it’s oddly comforting to be surrounded by them.
“How is she?” Seb asks.
“She’ll be okay,” I say shakily. “Hale’s going to stay and will call us if anything changes. I’ll come back first thing tomorrow.”
“Of course,” Freddie says.
I look at the four men who changed my life. We’ve been on a rollercoaster of betrayal and deceit and have now, somehow, landed on the other side. Together.
“We need to find somewhere safe to stay,” Seb says. “With Stephanie gone, we don’t know what the club has planned.”
“Actually, we don’t need to worry about that,” I say. “It’s a long story, but Hale’s now the boss of the Killers Club. He’s Alaric’s brother.”
Everyone gasps in shock, but Freddie doesn’t appear surprised.
“You knew?” I ask.
