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Pinned to a chair, screaming, writhing in agony, and faced with a man who showed nothing but boredom, after an hour of Grant not changing, other than to pull the knives out and place them somewhere else, throwing alcohol onto his wounds, for him to feel every single burn, Miguel cracked.
He told them everything. Every single detail of the Cartel.
Grant stared at Miguel. He wanted to end him, but that wasn’t for him to do. Getting to his feet, he put his hand on his brother’s shoulder, and then left the basement.
“Are you okay?” Pat asked.
“Fine.”
“Are you sure? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you do something like that.”
“There’s a lot you don’t know about me, Pat,” Grant said. “That didn’t bother me. My woman, alone in a hospital bed, that’s what bothers me.”
Bull came up from the basement. “It’s been taken care of.”
“What’s the plan?” Grant asked.
William appeared as well, face set in stone. “It’s time for us to go to war.”
“You don’t have an army,” Grant said.
“But I do.”
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“Come back to me.”
“Come back to me.”
Aria moved her head from side to side, confusion clogging her thoughts. She was so tired.
Grant … he was speaking. She wanted to follow the sound. To hear him talk, listen to his voice, but the sleepiness was too much. She had no choice but to close her eyes and go to sleep. Sleep was a good place to be.
“Do you think she’s going to be okay?”
Was that her sister? What was her sister doing in the burning hotel?
“I think she will be. The doctors are hopeful. We’ve just got to think positive.”
Was that Michael? What was he doing in the burning hotel as well?
“Is he good enough for her?”
“That’s not your place to say. If Grant makes her happy, then you can’t come between the two of them.”
“I know that, but she’s my sister and I want her to be happy. She deserves to be happy.”
“And she will be.”
Grant, she missed Grant. Where was he?
“Aria, I know you’re sleeping and this will be helping you to mend, and to be … right, but I need you to come back to me. Please, baby, I need you to come back to me right now.”
Grant. She wanted him. She wanted to hold him. To tell him that she didn’t care, it was all in the past, and that she didn’t want to waste a moment. But she was so tired. She’d tell him as soon as she woke up.
“Hey, bestie, I’m awake but it would seem that you are not.”
Lidia? Why was Lidia talking to her? They were trapped together in a burning building.
