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My blood freezes in my veins.
There is no way that Demarco is after me. Not a chance in hell.
“That’s impossible.” I grip the edge of the counter with my free hand. “He died seven years ago. I was at his funeral. So, unless you are suggesting the dead can walk the earth and make my life hell, I don’t see how that’s possible.”
“He’s alive.”
Though I don’t want to believe it, in some dark corner of my being, I do.
Alessio is my friend and ally. The relationship we have is built on trust. If he believes that Demarco is alive, then I have one more reason to watch my back.
Even if Demarco isn’t alive, which I still need to verify for myself, if Alessio has enough reason to be suspicious, I should be too.
After everything that happened years ago, Demarco could still be out there.
Unlikely, but possible. He could be living in the shadows.
I’m going to have to send my people all over the state to start digging up information on his whereabouts.
I’ll need to find the bastard and kill him before he gets to me.
Or Zoe.
If he knows that she is married to me, he is going to come after her.
“And to think, my own men have been trying to figure out who is after me for years and haven’t been able to dig up anything.” I run a hand down my face. “Thank you for finding this out. I will have it dealt with as soon as I can. How did you find this out?”
“Billie did some digging after she overheard a woman in a store talking about going to Tennessee with her old man sometime soon. Billie started talking a mile a minute as she does. Found out that this woman is Demarco’s current girlfriend.”
“Fuck. Alright. Thank you again. I have to get my people on this as soon as possible.”
“Take care,” Alessio says before the call ends.
I spend a couple more minutes in the bathroom, trying not to lose my temper.
People have been trying to kill me for years now. If I hadn’t hid in Columbia for the last few years, I would have been dead a long time ago.
Demarco is a man to be feared. He was my father’s right-hand man for decades. He’s the kind of person who won’t hesitate to kill me when he finds me.
It’s why I need to find him first.
Especially if he finds out about Zoe.
The moment he finds out that I’m married, I know his attention is going to shift to her.
Anyone would change their target if they thought it would hurt more. Going after her would be the way to get me to come to him.
I can’t let anything happen to her. Not if I want her father to stay off my back.
Not if I want to see what else our chemistry leads to.
It’s a scary thought, but I know that Zoe is slowly weaving her way deeper and deeper into my world. She proved that within the last day.
I did something horrible. I made her watch me cut up a body.
She still came back at the end of the day and was ready to move forward.
She was still able to look at me and see something other than the monster I know I am.
