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No, covering them up meant Andraius won. I would never let the bastard win.
I still wanted a tattoo—a specific one designed by two people long ago. I’d hidden the design away in my childhood bedroom.
I guess it wouldn’t happen, though. Because the only person I’d allow to put it on my body was Xander.
He used to ink everyone when we were younger. Art came naturally to him, and somehow it had veered into tattoos.
“If this enforcer thing doesn’t work out, I could always open a chain of tattoo shops. I’m sure Theios Peter would lend me the seed money.”
“He knows how talented you are. He’d give it to you now. This doesn’t have to be a backup plan.”
“Nah, I like punching people too much. Just promise I’ll get to ink you first.”
I couldn’t help but smile thinking of the memory. I was a senior in high school then. My classmates loved to tease me and tell me I was fascinated with my too-old-for-me, college-aged bodyguards. Though none of them had a clue I was in a relationship with them.
That was such an innocent time for us. Our biggest worry back then was how we’d eventually break the news about the three of us to our families and the fallout we may face afterward.
Lifting the lid to my computer, I decided to focus and finish my assignments for the lady bosses. The whole process of logging into their system took as long as the homework. The only things they left out of the security protocols were a blood sample and a retinal scan.
Once in the network, I spent the next hour working through the modules to acquire various data packets from locations Lilly had set as my targets.
When I acquired the data drives, she wanted me to relocate them onto a secure network while still connected to the home server. Next, the instructions said to log in using the information provided and review the contents.
As I scanned down the screen, my hands shook. Lilly hadn’t been training me. She fucking had me hacking.
Oh my God. I’d just broken into a Bahamian bank’s security infrastructure.
My pulse drummed into my head, and dizziness filled me. That bitch. Was she trying to put a bigger target on my head than the one already sitting on it?
As I readied to close the document, my eyes caught an image of my signature. But it wasn’t my signature.
Oh, no fucking way. It was forged.
That rat bastard. He was embezzling money from the family and pinning it on me.
Motherfucker.
I clenched my jaw and decided to use those fucking hacker skills to manipulate the documents, removing any trace of my identity. I also wired the funds into a Swiss account, which would direct wire into multiple holding accounts I’d created based on Papa’s directions.
When the time came, all the money would return to the family. But until then, this asshole I married wouldn’t get a penny.
I rubbed the bridge of my nose as a throbbing ignited in my head.
Lilly knew about all of this and had never told me.
Why the hell not?
Then it hit me.
She wanted me to learn to take care of myself.
Theo’s words about living as a victim and being a child echoed in my mind.
All of these people had come into my life to help me, seeing things about me I couldn’t. I fought Andraius out of the sheer fact that I’d given up and, not because I wanted to actually fight him and take back my life.
Okay. I’d shouted my demand for a divorce. I’d better follow through with it. To hell with the event a few days from now.
I’d go alone. Nyx would probably laugh out loud and clap.
