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Valentyn barked out a laugh, “Ada, I doubt you guys are close enough for that. The fact that Liam isn’t constantly trying to bail you out and the fact that we haven’t even heard from him tells me that he probably won’t help you out of shit.”
Gianni chuckled at the way Ada’s face turned pale, adding fuel to the fire. “Besides, someone else wants to see you. Mainly… who is it, your father-in-law?” She took a step back, frantically looking around as if being on a watch list wasn’t scary enough. She took off back to her car before speeding off onto the main street.
Gianni threw us a wild grin before pressing a kiss to the side of my head and swiping past us. He easily slid into the car that Valentyn drove and peeled off down the street after my sister. Valentyn twisted toward me as he leaned down for a kiss as well. His tongue swiped along the seam of my lips, his hard ridgespressed against my body, the full length of his arousal pressed against my belly. “I need you to understand something.”
I tilted my head up to stare at him. I had no idea how he thought I was supposed to focus when he was hard and holding me against him.
“Umar wants Ada dead or alive. She absolutely will not make it there in one piece, Rhys. She disrespected my family. She hurt my lovers and made the world unsafe for my child. I can’t stand for that. I won’t.” The fierceness in his tone warmed me from the inside out.
My cheeks heated, Valentyn chuckling as he read my thoughts. I tucked my head, agreeing with his words. “I just want the nightmares to stop and that can’t happen until she’s gone.”
“And sweetheart, I know that better than anyone. However, I will not hand your niece a nightmare she can’t come back from. Your sister ruined your life but I guarantee that Tia will want her day in court with her mother. She will want answers and she can’t get that if her mother is dead.” Valentyn searched my expression as he waited for me to catch on. Ada deserved to die for the shit she had pulled over the years but as much as we both wanted her gone, Tia would suffer for it.
There was no good way to end this but I knew that Tia would want to speak to her mother at least once more in the coming years to understand the chaos that was unfolding now. Even more so, I wouldn’t be satisfied until I knew that Ada’s crime couldn’t come back to haunt us. Having her behind bars would expose Hawk International in a way that Umar would never let happen if she was delivered to him.
Slowly, I nodded.
He pinched my chin and dragged me in for another kiss. “One last thing. Wewillhand her over to the authorities but I need answers for the hurt she’s caused. Do you understand what that means?” I swallowed and bobbed my head up and down again. Ididn’t want to be part of it. I didn’t want to hear her screams. Not like I had with Owen. I just wanted her to pay. I also knew how the men I had fallen in love with worked. “I need your words, sweetheart.”
“Yes, I… understand.”
“Let’s go get a certain woman that thinks she’s above the law, eh?”
This time when I climbed into the car, Tia reaching for me, I didn’t feel like we were starting another roller coaster.
“Mommy won’t take me, right?”
“No, Tia. You’re not going back with her. I can promise you that much.”
Tia took a moment to respond and then nodded. “Okay.”
Chapter thirty-nine
DMITRI
With Rhys and the kids tucked safely at the house, every fucking camera and alert turned on as well as Reggie on call for any shit going down, we were free to unleash our anger on the fucking thorn of a woman in our side.
Valentyn and Gianni had been at it for hours, the fuckers starting the torture session without me. I couldn’t blame them though, the pure delight in Gianni’s voice when he had chased her down a dead end and lassoed her like a fucking cow. I knew Gianni was fucking crazy but the wild grin on his face when I pulled up to one of our old warehouses, reminded me not to fuck with him. I didn’t even bother hiding my amusement as he twirled a scalpel between his fingers and danced around Ada who was currently bound in a chair, her hands pulled behind her back.
Valentyn looked almost as crazy, his overbearing presence looming over her like a fucking demon. She squirmed but didn’tscream, just constantly pleading for her life. Neither one of my men was in their right mind to say anything to her but I had words.
I had questions.
First, the easy ones.
“Just how deep does this go, Ada?”
She spat at my feet as if that was going to anger me. In situations like these, when emotions ran high, strangely enough, it was me who ran the show. Gianni would have torn her to pieces and Valentyn would have just beaten her bloody. I knew the strength in my fists but I also knew that without information, we wouldn’t be able to move forward.
“Ada, just answer the goddamn question. We both know how this ends but if you want your fucking daughter to grow up in a world that isn’t constantly after her, just spill the beans.”
She sniffled, her body relaxing, eyes darting over to Gianni who was still whipping that scalpel through the air. Blood covered most of her right side as she shifted painfully. “I don’t know how far it goes. I just know that Ernest and Umar were onto something and… it got too big. I offered to help.”
“Offered seems like the wrong word. What’s your father’s part in this?” Ada bit her lip and I could see that she was still trying to hold back information. I gave Gianni a little nod, the man slicing through Ada’s arm. She howled, whimpering for several moments afterward, fists clenching on the armrests before she spoke.
“He declined an offer way before we existed, however, his initial involvement set Umar’s sights on me once I was old enough.”
We stilled, my eyes narrowing at the woman who had ruined Rhys’ life. “Explain that because what you’re saying-”
