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I shrug. “Whatever you see fit.”
“All this for her?” He cocks a brow at me and tension slips into my shoulders.
“You know how you said Savannah’s learning to be safe. Hannah will never be safe, so long as her mother’s alive. No matter what I or anyone else does.”
“I wanted Parker dead. All the shit he’d done to your sister and to others. He doesn’t deserve a fair trial. He also doesn’t deserve the ultimate kindness, either. I want to watch him rot.”
“I want to watch Laura Gaines choke in a pool of her own blood.”
Logan ponders this for a moment, before sitting forward.
“We can use her.”
“No.”
“Well, do you want her safe, or not?”
“I want her safe. Not sacrificed.”
“Well, sometimes, you’ve got to sacrifice a little to get what you need. There’s a charity ball next week. Take her. She can keep up appearances with her mother and she’ll know where she’s at.”
“So she can kidnap her? Not fucking happening.”
“No . . . so she can see that there’s someone standing in her way. She won’t touch her with you connected to Parker. She won’t want to get involved.”
“Sounds like a shit plan.”
Logan shrugs. “You have a better one?”
I shake my head, chuckling bitterly.
“Almost a year later and Parker’s still fucking with us.”
“Fucking tell me about it.”
“So, I take her to this thing, then what?”
“Then, we wait. It’s like playing chess. You don’t move all your pieces at once. Just keep Hannah safe, make sure she doesn’t go wandering off. Whatever you’ve got to do.”
“No.”
Both Logan and I turn toward the doorway to the kitchen. Savannah stands there, eyes full of tears and glistening in the light overhead. I grit my teeth, steeling myself for what I know she wants to say.
“Don’t do this,” she bites and Logan scrubs a hand over his face.
“Savannah—” he starts, but she cuts him off.
“No. You said it yourself. Having her around is dangerous. We just went through hell, Mason.”
“Yeah, well, you’re not the only one and just because you’re safe and sound in your little Santa Monica mansion doesn’t mean everyone else is.”
While Logan sits staring back and forth between the two of us, my sister is not so easily perturbed.
“I want to put all of that behind me. Parker, Melissa Gaines. The Brethren. I want a life, Mason.”
“What would you do, Savannah?”
Her lips clamp shut and she pauses, glaring at me.
