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She’s right. He does. He’s proven this to me. He loves me. I did change him. He’s declared that many times over. I’m letting the unknowns of his career and past have too much of a role in the present. We are the present. Nicole is his past.
Present.
I control the present.
I control how I respond to the past and the present.
I pick up the gun. “Let me know when you know something, please,” I say, turning back to the stairs.
“Where are you going?” Blake calls after me.
I pause and turn to face him and Kara, but my mind is answering his question. Nicole betrayed Aaron by setting him up. I betrayed him with jealousy, which is indeed the green-eyed monster, a dangerous green-eyed monster.
“Before he left, I made him think I might not stay,” I say. “I made him think that I didn’t trust him. Now, I’m going upstairs to practice shooting. I’m making sure he knows that I’m not going anywhere. At least, not without him.”
And with that, I head upstairs, where I plan to start training. No one is taking my gun from me ever again. And no bitch named Nicole is taking my man. He’s mine. I’m going to make sure he knows that I know it when he returns.
Safely.
When he returns safely.
Chapter forty-three
Aaron
“Who is this bitch to you?” Savage asks as we step to the hotel across from Nicole’s row house in Greenwich Village.
“Nothing but a fuck and a distraction I clearly couldn’t afford.”
“Good luck proving the ‘nothing but a fuck’ to your woman.”
I shouldn’t have to explain, I think. I love the hell out of Ashley. I’d die for her. The only thing I want to do with Nicole, at this point, is kill the bitch. But with all the lies I told Ashley, I can’t expect her to see anything but another, and I don’t know where that leads us.
For the next twenty minutes, Savage and I do nothing but watch Nicole’s place. But I’m ready to get this the fuck over with, so it’s time to make that happen. “Stay here,” I order Savage; I’m about to move forward when Savage grabs my arm.
I eye him. “You do know that I could kill you, right?”
“You do know I’d enjoy watching you try, right?”
“It’s always amusing when someone big and tough thinks I can’t kill them,” I say. “Right up until the moment I do. What do you want, Savage?”
“I don’t stay behind. What’s the plan?”
“You staying behind. She’s the kind of killer who drops men like you like flies.” I jerk my arm away from his reach and head out to the street.
He exits behind me. I feel him there, but he doesn’t approach. He’s not staying behind. If he ends up dead, at least I tried to save him. I cross the street and cut to a side alleyway. I’m at the back of the building on the fire escape in about sixty seconds.
I’m silently on top of it and at her bedroom window in another thirty seconds. And holy hell, one glance in the window, and I find her fucking some asshole she’s probably using like she did me for her million-dollar payout. I reach for the window, and suddenly, she reaches under her blanket and shoots the man with a silencer on her weapon.
She then gets up, pulls on a robe and walks to the bathroom. She doesn’t know I’m here.
I silently break the window, just enough to turn the lock, doing so using a technique I’ve long ago mastered, and then open it, before climbing inside. I then cross to stand against the bedroom wall by the bathroom. I don’t bother to pull a weapon. I don’t need one to kill her or anyone.
The bathroom door opens and the tingling down my spine tells me that she now knows I’m here. On first sight, she’s fully dressed, and she turns toward me, gun in hand. I knock it away, but she’s no easy mark. She comes at me, and we exchange blows before I shove her against the wall.
“Long time, no see, lover,” she says, her blonde hair wild, her lips painted red.
“You know what I want,” I say.
