Page 95 of Heartbreak Hero

“Where are we going?” Levi asked once he was sitting in the back of King’s rental SUV.

“To the hospital,” Rowan said from the spot next to him.

“I don’t need the hospital,” Levi snarled.

West turned around in the passenger seat and shot him a glare.

“Not for you, dumbass. We’re going to see Aiden.”

Levi closed his eyes and thunked his head against the backrest.

Of course they were. Aiden was wounded, and they needed to be there for him.

Only Levi had forgotten everything in the face of losing Sara.

“And after that, we are going with Stolts and Carson to take down Kevin Wilson, Chester Miller, and their boss Edward Stewart.

Now that sounded like a good fucking plan.

He wanted to kill something right now, and Kevin Wilson was just the ticket.

“We’re going in as backup,” King said.

Levi glanced up and found King gazing at him via the rearview mirror.

His boss knew him all too well.

“If he does anything stupid, he’s history,” Levi said and yeah, the words came out in a low growling voice but so the fuck what?

“Drug trafficking and money laundering,” King reminded him.

“Don’t forget the video of them killing someone,” Levi said, and met King’s stare with a challenge in his eyes.

“If they resort to violence, we will answer in kind.” King returned his eyes to the road.

Violence.

Levi was used to that from the military up and including both Aries and Deckman Defense and Security.

The only softness in his life had been Sara.

Now that she was gone, he had no reason to change who he was.

He had no reason to become a man to be admired. He was shit, and had been from the moment he had taken Jones’s money. That he gave it back didn’t really matter at this point.

“I’m coming back to Aries full-time,” Levi murmured.

“What the fuck?” Rowan said, his voice a hiss in the quiet of the car.

They shouldn’t be surprised. They all knew him and what he was capable of. He had tried to hide it from Sara, but look what had happened in the end.

She was better off without him.

He was no fucking hero.

Two days later…

Aries hit the Velvet lounge when Chester Miller was having a weekly meeting in Kevin Wilson’s office.

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