Page 103 of Sinful King

“Ain’t nobody else here but me,” ole dude spoke, grabbing our attention but not enough to get us to move from where we could see all blind spots. “I only want my bitch and that’s it. She ain’t tell me you were out of your mind.”

He glared at her.

“Shut the fuck up, Aaran!” Zi screamed. “He will kill you! Is that what you want?”

“You think I’m getting out of here alive?” he asked her, holding on to the arm Tadhg shot. “You think I’m going to die without telling him the truth. Nah, fuck that…” he looked Tadhg dead in the eyes. “That’s been me for over a year and that baby she carrying mine too.”

It wasn’t shit we could do to stop him from putting a bullet between his eyes. And he did it without hesitation.

Now Zi was screaming and he had the gun pointed at her.

“You think I won’t fucking kill you?” he asked as I descended the steps to stop him from doingthat.

He would regret it and I couldn’t live with myself for allowing it.

“Can’t let you do that,” I muttered, standing next to him. “Hand me the gun, Tadhg.”

His wild eyes met mine and I felt his fucking pain.

“Nah, I’m not giving you shit. She’s carrying another man’s fucking baby, Sean. My…” he turned back to her. “What I do to deserve that?”

Zi was trembling when she whispered her response.

“I can’t hear you! Speak up!”

“You didn’t do anything,” she cried, trying to reach for him but failed when he pulled back. “I just… I got a little lonely and then I met A-Aran…” she spared his lifeless body a glance. “It wasn’t like that. I didn’t care for him or anything, not like how I care for you.”

He shook his head.

“But you’re carrying his baby?”

She nodded.

“I thought it could be yours but then you told me about the vasectomy and and and…”

She couldn’t even speak and he was staring at her like he wanted to comfort her but I knew he wouldn’t.

“You can’t kill her.”

He glanced at me again and I thought he might do it anyway but instead, he tucked his gun and turned away. “I need a minute.”

“I already called to get this cleaned up,” Finn said. “Let me get the chief in this district on the phone before all of fucking NYPD is here.”

“What am I supposed to do now?”

Zi was looking me dead in my eyes, hers filled with tears of… remorse? Or maybe she was just upset about being caught and getting her child’s father killed.

“I can’t answer that,” I told her. “Whatever happens next is between you and Tadhg.”

THIRTY

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Violet hadthe patience of a saint.

Following behind Landell all day was driving me up a wall, but she was cool as a cucumber and I admired that. He’d made two more stops before leading us all the way to a tiny community in Pennsylvania, two hours from Manhattan. Now that night had fallen, I was itching to end this and get home to my man.

We pulled into a gas station once the road began to wind for miles with no cars in sight.

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