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“When I saw how you looked at her the first time, I knew it,” Knox continued, shrugging.
Something was different about her, but I didn’t understand how Knox knew. I’d tried to hide my interest in Janea, not only from her but from the guys because of the situation I had put the club in.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
“If it was anyone else, you would have just put a bullet in their head, Eros. You wouldn’t be going through all this trouble despite the information she gave us. We would be burying her beside Crash. When you decided not to kill her, you put her before the club. That’s how I know she’s different.”
“You think I put her before the club?”
He looked at me like I was crazy for even asking the question. I did put her before the club, but it sounded different coming from a brother.
He titled his head and arched his brow before chuckling. “Of course you did. I’m not busting your balls over it, Eros. It is what it is. Now that you’ve done it, you just have to show how your decision will benefit the club. And I think the information she gave you will do that. But I’m just one brother. All of them need to see it.”
“This,” I tapped the folder, “can fuck up everything.”
This was a fucking distraction I did not need.
“Who is it?”
“Someone I used to fuck.”
He leaned forward. “No feelings involved?”
“Not for me. It was a long fucking time ago.” I wiped my hand down my face. “We were in the same unit. She was a badass, man. But she wanted more, and I didn’t.”
“Does this seem like something she would do?”
“Fuck, I don’t know, man. The person I knew, no. But when has Libby ever been wrong?”
“Good point,” Knox said, leaning back in his chair. “Did you go to the funeral?”
“Fuck, no. I was on a mission at the time. She’s supposed to be dead. How the fuck did she pull this off?”
“Deep pockets and good fucking connections.”
Dawn Nicks, Nikki Angel, we called her, was one of the most beautiful and talented women I’d ever met. She just wasn’t the one I wanted to give my entire life to. And she couldn’t handle that. So, when I broke things off, she got out of the military, and I re-enlisted.
“How did she die?” Knox asked. “Or how was she supposed to have died?”
“Robbery.” I blew out another long breath. “Broke my fucking heart, man. I cared about the girl, but I wasn’t ready to settle down. It’s why I ended up out here.”
“You think she knows about you being in the Order?”
“I don’t know, but Nikki is a force to be reckon with. We’re going to have a fight on our hands.”
“We’ll be ready,” Knox said.
“Let’s hope so. Let me go get shit straight with my woman.”
“You’re woman, huh?”
I shrugged, causing Knox to laugh.
Fuck, I never thought I would see that face again. I hated myself for the words left unsaid between us. She was no longer the girl I cared for. She was a hired killer, and she was coming after someone I wanted in my life.
Chapter Thirteen
Janea
