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Unable to sit for long, I pace from one side to the other.
I need to have her in my arms again. I could go to her and take her from this place. I could hide her away and tell the Accandis she ran away. I could find them another bride to fulfill our contract. Someone more willing.
I can’t stop the fierce rage of jealousy from tearing through me. This time tomorrow that Accandis prick will have the sweetness of Lili in his mouth and on his cock when she could belong to me.
When she should belong to me.
I could be done with all this and have her in my bed tonight if I was any other man.
I don’t know how long I stare out the window when a loud knock comes at my office door. Lili would break it down so I know it’s James.
It’s about damn time. “Come in.”
“Sir.”
“James. Where are your brothers? Have they done as I ordered?” My last hope at righting my wrong here lies in Accandis fucking up tonight in a way that voids our contract. Every hour that passes closes the window on any chance of that happening. Before long I’ll lose Lili to those monsters and I can’t have that happen.
“That’s just it, sir. I lost communication with Arthur and Con nearly an hour ago.”
“And you’re just now telling me?”
I’ve never seen my enforcer scared before but the scrunch of worry creases his forehead and his mouth pulls into a tight, white line. “You said every hour. The last time they checked in was two hours ago. I waited another hour and still nothing.”
I grab my suit jacket and strap on my guns. “Where were they the last time you texted with them?”
“A warehouse but I don’t know which one. They followed the Accandis men there.”
This doesn’t bode well. The ink on the contract isn’t dry yet and they are already doing deals in my territory without my knowledge? If so, good. All I need is the proof.
“Stay with Lili. Make sure she gets that dress and is ready by noon.” I don’t say it out loud but she’ll be wearing it tomorrow to marry me and one way or another I’ll void this fucking contract. I regret the second those fuckers put their pen to paper.
I head for the elevator with James behind me. I step inside and punch the button for the basement level. “You were right, James. I had no right to play God in her life.”
“Don’t tell me, sir. Tell her.” The doors close on my enforcer’s grim expression and I don’t blame him looking like he wants to kick my ass when I want to do the same. I’m a fool for wanting peace with men who rather fight until the last man is standing than forge a peaceful union.
Liam could have heaven at his side with Lili, but he would rather be an asshole.
I spend hours driving the streets of Chicago looking for any signs of my enforcers. Turning up empty-handed all I can do is wait for bodies to show up or for them to walk through my door. If it’s the latter, they better have an excellent reason for not being dead and not answering my calls. I have to get back to Lili. There’s no way in hell I’ll let the Accandis put a ring on her finger.
The elevator doors open up to water running over my shoes. Smoke burns my nostrils. Lili. What the fuck has she done?
My pulse ratchets up. “James!”
I don’t need the explanation coming off his lips when he sprints out of the hallway to my left, heaving for air. This is one hundred percent Lili’s doing.
“Key!” He tosses it to me and I point toward the control panel on the far wall. “Get the damn sprinklers turned off!”
James is shaking his head before I finish. “It’s jammed. The water fried the circuits or something.”
For fuck’s sake. Can this day get any shittier?
I leave James to do whatever he can. I throw open Lili’s door to find a woman dripping wet. White cotton clings to her round breasts. Hard nipples press against the fabric and my cock is instantly hard for a woman that has murder glittering in her eyes. Black jeans stick to her shapely legs and that cute braid she’s done has me wanting to pull every damn twist of hair loose just so I can get the full effect of her dripping wet beauty.
“What the fuck have you done, woman?”
“Ding, ding, daddy! Time for round two!”
Bright eyes blaze into mine. She lunges and my universe turns into a slow motion reel. She doesn’t see the danger she’ll put herself in if she goes into fight mode. Every hard edge in this place has death written all over it. Warrior cries pierce my ears one second and then chaos takes over.
