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“What’s that idiot done now? I swear, if Blaze does one more stupid thing to you—” He grabs my phone, glaring at the screen before his face softens.
Because the messages that are pulled up aren’t from Blaze. Instead, he’s staring at half a dozen drunk texts David sent after I went to bed last night, begging me to forgive him, talk to him, and give him another chance.
Felix looks back to me, his eyes serious. “Brooke, you can’t go back to him.”
I stay silent, biting my lip. Because after what I did with Blaze last weekend, I’m beginning to think David is exactly the type of person I deserve.
“Brooke.”
“Just show me what’s on the hard drive.” My stomach is in knots. What could he possibly not want to show me?
“Fucking hell. Your brother is going to kill me. Bring your chair around.”
I let out a sigh of relief and do as he says. But nothing is pulled up on his computer screen.
“Before I show you any of this, I need you to promise me you’ll stay the hell away from David.” Felix’s expression is deadly as he clasps his hands, resting them on his lap. “Not even to tell him he’s a horrible person. Delete his texts, block his number, and forget he ever existed.”
“Fine,” I say, waving the thought away. “Just show me.”
“You’re sure you want to see? You’ll wish you hadn’t.”
His words make me pause, but only for a second. Because I’m so tired of all the men in my life wanting to control me. I just want to make my own goddamn decisions. “I can live with that.”
After a long, hard look, Felix sighs. “You’re definitely not going to want to go back to him after this.”
With a few clicks, Felix has the contents of the hard drive pulled up. Most of it is spreadsheets, along with some bank account information and other stuff I can’t quite figure out.
When Felix pulls up a specific document, I frown. “What is this?”
“His books.”
“His books?”
Felix nods. “You dodged a bullet, kid.”
“I don’t understand.” But my voice is quiet, because I think I actually do, and I fucking hate what’s going through my head right now.
“Drugs, Brooke. And, by the looks of things... people, too.”
My mouth falls open. “What?” Nope, definitely worse than what I was thinking.
With a grimace, Felix closes everything he pulled up. “We’ve known for a while that he’s been working with Tristan Goodwin. They run a dirty business together, Brooke. Like I already said, drug and human trafficking. Murder. Cover-ups. We tried the FBI, but Tristan has too many good connections. Including being related to a senator.” He says it all like dealing with criminals is an everyday occurrence for him. Hell, maybe it is—or was, before he moved here.
I swallow the lump in my throat. Because, setting aside the fact that I was engaged to a criminal, I heard exactly what Felix didn’t say.
I let out a short breath, my eyes falling on his dark expression. “You’re going to kill them.”
He doesn’t say anything.
I lean back in my chair, letting it all sink in. Ever since Felix came to town six months ago, I knew he was more than a computer genius. The guys refuse to bring up his past, and I can only imagine it’s because it’s a messy one.
But killing? Maybe I could put it past Felix, since it sounds like he has a dark past. Hell, I could even see Dominic doing it. But the thought of Blaze putting a bullet through someone’s head sends a shiver through me. He may be in security, but I don’t think it’s ever come to that.
“You okay?” Felix’s lips are pressed into a thin line, and he’s watching me with a dark intensity that would be terrifying if I didn’t know him.
I lean forward, elbows on my knees. It’s a lot to process, and I’m absolutely not okay. I wasn’t before this. But knowing that I was so intertwined with a man who could be so evil—it makes me sick.
I slept with him. Loved him. Trusted him. Made him dinner. All while he was destroying people’s lives behind my back.
