Page 192 of Heartless
Zook’s cell chimed.“Edo, you need to see this.”
Edo took the cell from his brother’s hand.He swiped the screen twice, and when he showed it to me, my gut burned.
Chapter Forty-Seven—Legacy
Sienna
I squeezed my fingers in my lap and shut my eyes.Wishing, praying what was happening wasn’t happening.
When I opened them, I was still in the backseat of the tinted-windowed car, trapped between two huge, silent men.They were dressed in all black, down to their sunglasses they had kept on in the car.The one in the passenger seat had grabbed my upper arm as I’d hurried toward the deli to meet Kelly.
Before I’d let out a scream, he’d snatched my purse from my hand and yanked me close.“Don’t struggle.Don’t scream, or your friend Kelly dies.”
My heart had nearly stopped.“What—?”
His hold had tightened.“Just get in the car.”
While he’d dragged me there, I’d frantically searched for Ruiz, but he had been nowhere to be seen.Once I’d been in the car, another man had gotten in beside me.
I had to calm down.Reason with them.
“Can I speak now?”I asked over my raging heartbeat.
The man on my right, Man-one, grunted, but his voice was smooth.“You can, but nothing you say will stop what’s going to happen.”
I hated Nigel.Hated him with every bone and organ of my body.“Did Nigel tell you you’d have to break my neck or shoot me in the head to keep the organs he needs viable?Did he also tell you I’d signed a living will and—”
The one on the left, Man-Two, removed his sunglasses to scowl at me, and I pushed my head onto my shoulders.
“We don’t work for your father.”
The snarl, tainted with disgust, gave me some hope.“So, you’re working for Edo—”
“Don’t say his name,” Man-One snapped.And his tone was loaded with so much menace that I shuddered.
I cleared my throat.“I can explain.Let me talk to him, please.If I could just talk to him.Or to Jake, I can—”
