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"Yeah," Gianni agreed. "And we don't care who we kill to get what we want."

I wasn't convinced it would be that simple. I wished I could believe it would be. Kurt knew exactly what he needed to do to evade all of us. With enough money he could change his identity and his face and never be found.

Reuben placed a hand over one of mine. "We will find him. There's nowhere he can hide that's out of reach."

I turned my hand around and laced my fingers with his. My heart actually fluttered. It had never done that before, not for anyone. I liked that it did it now.

"You can't put everything and everyone on this forever," I said. "Sooner or later, we have to move on from him and what he did."

Gianni chuckled. "When Reuben is determined to see something through, he will. It would take an army of tanks to stop him."

"There's nothing wrong with being driven," Reuben said.

"I didn't say there was," Gianni said. "Just like there's nothing wrong with fixating on a certain goal. Especially one like this."

"Women like a man who knows what he wants, right Mina?" Daisy smiled at me.

"Yes, they do," I said. I couldn't seem to tear my gaze from Reuben. The more I got to know him, the more he fascinated me. He was a stone cold killer, but he could be so gentle. I'd always found him attractive, but he was so closed, like a heavy door on a bank vault.

Now I realised he wasn't shut off because he was unfeeling, but because he was guarded. He was driven, yes, but he was also committed and loyal. When anyone tried to fuck with him or someone he cared about, he fucked back.

The fact he'd go to such an extent to find Kurt suggested he cared for me more deeply than I suspected. This wasn't just revenge for screwing with the Brantley family. He wanted to give me my own revenge and closure.

"No one else knows Mina is here?" Ric asked.

"Just the twins, Caleb, and everyone in this room," Gianni said. "No one else."

"That's as far as it goes," Reuben growled. "No one else needs to know. Not until Mina decides they need to." His gaze was also locked on me.

"No one else will hear," Daisy assured us. "We'll keep this all about Kurt stealing from the Brantley family. I think Ric is just curious what your brother Zeke will say when he sees Mina."

"I was thinking more of Asher, but yes," Ric agreed. "He's going to find all of this very…interesting."

"I don't care if he doesn't approve," I said softly. "It's not up to him." Trust my cousin to hit the nail on the head though. Yes, I didn't want my brother to see me looking starved and broken, but I also didn't want him to judge any of the choices I voluntarily made. Including being with Reuben.

"Can I be here when he finds out?" Ric asked. "Ouch." He glanced at Daisy, who jabbed him in the ribs with her elbow. "Don't say you don't want to see that too."

"Of course I do, but it's none of our business." She narrowed her eyes at him.

He responded by rolling his eyes playfully and making a face. It was clear that while she kept him in line, he wasn't intimidated by her. Not too much, anyway. What was her relationship with her other two boyfriends like? I didn't know Gunnar, but I'd met Hilton a couple of times. He seemed like the kind of man not to be crossed if people enjoyed living.

Like everyone else in this room, I supposed.

"Exactly," Reuben said. "Your business is finding Kurt and figuring out whatever else he was up to." He pressed his lips together. "I want to know if there are any other women hidden away."

The smile faded from Daisy's face. "You think there might be? If there are, I'm going to rip his fucking balls off."

"Did I mention that you need to get in line?" Gianni asked. "We don't know if there are others, but if he did this to Mina, he might just as easily have done it to someone else."

Reuben squeezed my hand. It wasn't until then I realised I was trembling. The idea of some other woman locked away, terrified, hungry, used and scarred, it got to me every time the subject came up.

So far, we hadn't found anyone, but that didn't mean they didn't exist. Even worse was the idea that Kurt ran, leaving them to die alone, not found until it was too late. That could so easily have happened to me. If they hadn't found me when they did, I'd be dead in that filthy cage. I might not have been discovered for years.

"I'm so sorry," Daisy whispered. "If there's ever anything I can do, please ask. I can't get my head around my own brother doing this to anyone. I knew he was an asshole, but I didn't know he was a monster." She sounded devastated. Furious.

"It's not your fault," I whispered back. "You're not responsible for what your brother did. He decided to be who he was. Not you or anyone else." Although my father gave him the opportunity. He was as guilty as Kurt, but Daisy wasn't.

"I know, I just feel like I should have seen it," she said. "Maybe there were signs and I missed them."

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