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“Get it out!” I barked at Alex.
He knelt and patted Jacob’s legs, findingthe phone and pulling it out. He handed it to me, and as he did, I saw it wasn’t his usual phone, which meant whoever did this to him had his personal phone, and therefore now had access to a lot of information about my business.
“You little cunt,” I growled when I answered the phone, not givingwhoever was at the other end a chance to speak. “I will cut off your balls and shove them down your throat for what you have done!”
I was met with silence for a beat before they spoke. “Nice to speak toyou too, Hendrix. What makes you think someone with a set of balls sliced and diced young Jacob?”
My heart stopped beating in my chest at the voice I hadn’t heard insix months, but one I’d never forget.
The one that got away.
If things had gone the right way, Riley would be chained up in mypenthouse right now, used and abused as my own personal sex doll. The things I had planned on doing to that girl,Christ.But I’d had to make a choice, save Max or take Riley, and at that moment, I needed Max more.
I’d done what I could to track her and Miles down when they ran fromHollows Bay after a video was sent to a number of key figures. The video showed Dr. Harris attempting to bring Kai back to life as he was strapped to a number of machines. One machine bleeped long and loud, indicating no pulse was to be found.
The video in which the doctor called Kai’s time of death.
I wanted to see his body as proof that he really had died, but by thetime my men got to Dr. Harris’ surgery, the place had been cleared out. There was no sign of Kai’s body, Miles, or Riley. When Max was well enough, he’d examined the video in great detail, dissecting the digital information behind the video, and he eventually concluded it was real.
The great Kai Wolfe was no more.
As for Miles and Riley, they were nowhere to be found. Whereverthey were, they’d done a damn good job at staying hidden. I didn’t know if they had anyone helping them, but I doubted it. I’d put out a warning to all my contacts that if anyone was found helping them, they’d face the same treatment Miles was going to get when I got my hands on him- his head on a spike.
“You expect me to believeyoukilled Jacob, Riley?” I replied throughgritted teeth, trying my fucking hardest to remain cool and not at all affected that she was on the end of the line. Even after all this time, just hearing her voice was enough to make my dick twitch. I’d fucked most of the girls in Sapphire while imagining they were Riley, but none of them lived up to the fantasy.
I still itched with the need to get my hands on her.
“Believe what you want, I couldn’t give a shit either way. There issomething you should know though,” she paused, and I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut to hear what she had to say. “I’m coming for you. And when I do, by the time I’m through, you’ll be wishing Kai was still alive to have tortured you instead of me. Consider this a warning.”
The line went dead before I had a chance to reply, and as white-hotrage coursed through my body, the sound of a ticking clock started somewhere nearby.
I stared at Alex, looking him up and down.Stupid really, he wasn’t fucking ticking. But he was looking at me inexactly the same way, as if he thoughtIwas ticking.
Seemingly coming to the same conclusion that neither of us wereticking like a fucking clock, we both glanced down at Jacob. I raked my eyes down his body, looking for what the source of the noise was, and it was then that I noticed a wound roughly stitched together, disappearing under the waistline of his pants.
I reached down and lowered the band to find a flashing red light goingoff under the skin, and it became crystal fucking clear the ticking was coming from a device implanted there.
It took less than ten seconds to realize the little cunt had put an IEDin his gut.
“Run!” Alex shouted. We both turned and ran towards the cover ofthe warehouse, and as we reached the door, I turned back just in time to witness Jacob’s body being torn apart from a small explosion.
I lifted my arm to cover my eyes, trying to protect my face from theheat of the raging fire now burning where Jacob’s body lay moments ago.
Mutters came from all around me, and Alex was talking, but Icouldn’t hear what he was saying. All I could focus on was the roaring in my head, my thoughts consumed with a little girl who thought she could come for me.
It was laughable.
I hope she did come for me because I was going to have a lot of funfinally making Riley Bennett mine.
Chapter 1
Riley
“Again,”Milesbarkedashe held the boxing mitts up to cover his face.
Sweat dripped down my back, my little pinky throbbed from where it had been curled into a fist inside the boxing gloves for the last hour, and the muscles in my arms ached.
Despite that, I still raised my hands, ready to strike Miles again. Itdidn’t matter that my little finger hurt like a motherfucker, thanks to Max Thorne dislocating it. If anything, the pain in my finger distracted me from the pain in my heart.
