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“That’s not true. With the help of the Kings and the police, we could search every inch of a sixty-mile radius until we find him. I’m not going to let you touch him again.”
“Even though he liked it, and wants me to make him come?”
“Tell me where he is right now!” I yell through my clenched teeth. “Right. Now!”
“Wow, you sound a little bit like your father when you’re all angry and scared.”
I pull the trigger, this time intentionally missing his head by a few feet.
“Dammit, Maddie! If you kill me, he’ll die out there!”
“Out where?” I ask through gritted teeth.
“In the middle of the ocean.”
“He’s on a boat?”
A knock on the apartment door interrupts us, making my racing heart gallop even faster.
Shit. The prospect or a neighbor must have heard the gunfire.
“Stay,” I tell Eli. Since he’s out of sight in the bedroom, I check the peephole and then open the door without removing the chain when I see it is one of the Savage Kings new prospects.
“Everything okay? I thought I heard some pops like gunshots.”
I hold up the gun still in my hand and say, “Oops. I fired it by accident when I got it out of the closet. You know, just in case.”
“Okay,” he says, eyes narrowing at my wild head of hair. I don’t want to even look in the mirror. “Be careful.”
“I will,” I agree before shutting and locking the door again.
Eli is where I left him in the bedroom. I march right up towering above him, but staying out of his reach, I point the gun at him and demand, “Tell me where Jordan is right now or…or I’ll shoot you again.”
“Come on, Maddie. We were having fun. You and me, and me and Jordan. Just one more night and I’ll let him go.”
I shake my head. “No, you won’t. You’ll kill him, and then take me back to Vegas where I’m guessing youwantme to tell Daddy we fucked so he’ll finally kill you. Why do you have a death wish?”
“Because I’m tired of this fucking life!”
Whoa. I didn’t actually expect him to admit it.
“You’re tired of this life?”
“I’m tired of who I am, what I am. I don’t want to do it anymore.”
“Then just stop! Stop torturing and killing people.”
“Don’t you get it? I can’t stop. It’s not like there’s an on and off homicidal switch in my brain. If there is one, it’s jammed and will always be stuck in the on position.”
“Eli, you can decidenotto hurt people. You just tell yourself that you can’t as an excuse to keep doing it!”
“No, Maddie. I can’t stop. I’m a monster. I always have been, always will be. I wish I could change, but I can’t.”
“Then-then I’ll help you stop. Tell me where Jordan is being held, and we’ll help you stop. Both of us.”
“Yeah, right,” he snorts and then reaches a hand to his calf like the jarring movement made the wound hurt worse. “Jordan might actually put a bullet through my head now.”
“But I thought…you said hewantedyou to do those things, so why would he kill you once he’s free?”
