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Atlee sighed, “yeah, alright,” and got out of the car. “But I get to watch you fuck her tonight.”

That was never going to happen. “You can’t watch shit if you don’t have fucking eyes.”

“You’re no fun.” He waved over his shoulder and headed across the parking lot.

Unsurprisingly, the bikers were not welcoming. A couple of them leaned forward and braced their forearms on the handlebars as Atlee approached, while another blew a cloud of smoke in his face. They didn’t give a shit who we were or what wecould do. In fact I’d be amazed if Atlee got anything out of them. But I’d seen him charm information out of worse people.

“I’m gonna go to the bar around back,” Darry said. “See what I can dig up there.”

I nodded and turned my attention to my brother, who was giving me a look through the window. He found something. A suspicion that was confirmed when I opened the door and stepped out into the parking lot.

Romeo immediately came out from the diner and headed around the side of the building. He wanted me to follow him. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out, but I wanted to go to Nova.

I looked at her then back to where my brother was waiting for me.

Fuck.

Romeo wouldn’t have done that if it wasn’t important. Goddamnit.

I sighed and headed over to him. Nova was safe for now. No one was getting to her with all these cops around.

Once I stepped into the shadows at the side of the building, Romeo pulled a phone out of his pocket. “Simon dropped this.”

A phone? That’s what this was about? Why was he wasting my time? “I need to get to Nova.”

I turned to walk away but he grabbed my shoulder.

“You need to see this.”

“Fine,” I grumbled and took the phone from him.

“Look at his pictures.”

“I already know about the pictures he took of us.”

“Yeah, there’s some video too.” Romeo put a cigarette between his lips and flicked open his zippo. “Won’t be scrubbing those images out of my head. You’ve got some stamina, Little Brother.”

He watched them? Of course he did. “I think the rating of my sexual performance can wait until later.”

“Those videos are just the tip of the iceberg.” He blew out a stream of smoke. “This Simon asshole has a real obsession with your girl.”

“What?” Okay, now that made me curious.

“Just, look.”

Letting out a breath, I turned my attention to Simon’s phone and clicked on the photo app.

The screen lit up with images of Nova. At school, going to work, and coming to my house. The more I scrolled the more there were. The motherfucker even had pictures of her asleep in her room. There were hundreds if not thousands of them. Every hour of every day accounted for on this prick’s phone. And that wasn’t including the videos.

“What the fuck?”

“Yeah.” Romeo said. “Fucked up, right?”

To say the least. I was still scrolling through this shit. “How far do these go back?”

“The first ones are at court.”

My eyes snapped up to my brother. “Court? As in Kato?”

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