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“She’s alive and safe, Kill.”
He staggered back out of my hold and scrubbed his hand over his face, tears springing to his eyes. Tears of painful relief.
It was no longer just a really well-crafted delusion he’d been fighting tooth and nail to hold up for the last few days.
Now I could see it too.
Aurora wasn’t gone.
There was hope.
There was actually hope now that she hadn’t been lost to us after all.
“We’ll get her back… we’ll find a way, even without him,” Kill uttered in a broken voice.
“We’ll get them both back. We won’t fucking stop until we do.”
Even if we had to go through every single motherfucker making the mistake of stepping into our path to do it.
5
~Revenant~
I ground my jaw as I swiped through photo after photo.
Ronan had been thorough.
Normally, I would never believe anything to be considered too thorough. In my line of work, living the dangerous life I did, there was no such thing as too detailed or too much information.
But in this case, I’d just found an exception.
So much disturbing evidence of the Head Infidels’ sons all over my daughter.
My daughter.
I’d had Ron watching at a distance for the first little while after her move to Hexwood.
But after encountering such resistance from Asher toward me taking Aurora away from the situation, away from them, I’d had him step it up, to watch more closely.
Initially, it had been hard to gauge the extent of their interest in her, to determine what the relationship between them truly was.
They’d also managed to create somewhat of a smokescreen. The intel that had reached me had painted Aurora as a means to an end that they’d come to respect with her being my daughter.
I hadn’t known how deep it had run until that meet with Asher, when I’d seen it all over him up close.
Following that, my brother-in-arms’ more detailed surveillance had only served to emphasize that, to prove it to me over and over.
I grimaced as I took in several photos of Killian with his arm wrapped around her, demonstrating overt affection for her, and looking at her as though she walked on water.
Jonah in a grocery store laughing and joking with her, then actually demonstrating a chivalry I hadn’t thought any of them had possessed, as he’d walked her to her rented house one day.
Extreme protectiveness and possessiveness had then been made clear to me through photos and videos of the three of them intervening in an altercation outside the bar Aurora worked at. He’d also sent me follow up imagery of what had happened to those offenders out of Aurora’s eyeline, and completely unbeknownst to her. Brutality didn’t begin to cover it.
Through it all, Asher had been struggling to remain impassive, holding back with her. Until one night by their pool, a dinner they’d all shared together. The way he’d looked at her had made me sick. On the surface, it was adoration, but I’d seen eyes just like that look at my ex-wife with the same. Obsession. That was what it was.
I’d decided in that moment that I’d had to decimate their connection to her.
I’d had to pull her out.
