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I was going to enjoy it.
There was something inside me that thrived on chaos.
The human mind was an incredible thing, but everyone had a breaking point. I needed to take Elena beyond it. I needed her to understand what Old Money really was.
I’d rigged the game, twisted things for a specific outcome, and now had to wait to see the ending. In the meantime, I wasn’t going to idly sit by and let anyone fuck up all the progress I’d made.
Hence why I was in the middle of goddamn nowhere.
Normally, I didn’t do grunt work. I had a plethora of people to do it for me, but this was personal.
Sergio was already lifting the gate on the Tahoe to reveal Tony. His hands were tied behind his back. His face was black and blue.
I carelessly ripped the duct tape from his lips, taking bits of baby hair with it. He winced but kept his pain silent.
“I just talked to her,” he rasped as I pulled him out of the truck.
“You did more than talk. You looked at her like she was on your grocery list. Touched her with your filthy hands. We both know it would be a matter of events before you let something about Eva slip.”
I flipped him onto his stomach and placed my shiny shoe on his back.
“You know—”
“Knife,” I directed at Sergio. I heard a splash, followed by another, in the large lake behind us.
“What are you going to do to me?” he asked, his voice shaking.
Elias removed a rope from the hatch and busied himself tying it around Tony’s midsection, tightening to the point the man grunted and coughed.
“I’m going to give you the opportunity to get away. You once told me you were on a swim team. Make it across the lake, and you’re free to go.” I cut through the tape around his wrists, and then his legs.
I grabbed one arm while Elias grabbed the other. Leaving a bit of rope to drag, we began hauling him towards the body of murky water.
I knew Baz and Boss were somewhere lurking underneath, and my boys were hungry. I’d purposely withheld having any bodies dumped here for the past two weeks. Tony was the perfect size to placate them.
He frantically glanced around, stumbling once or twice as the blood started recirculating in his legs.
“What’s in there? Is it piranhas?”
It wasn’t, but that was an excellent idea. I knew piranhas were too small to eat an entire human, and even in a swarm it would take a while for them to tear someone to bits. But I imagined being sliced by hundreds of little fish teeth would be like falling into a bathtub of razor wire. I logged it as something to discuss with Diablo.
“What’s the rope for?”
“So you don’t drown,” Elias answered.
We reached the lake’s edge and there was still no obvious sign of my apex predators. They were simply blending in with their environment.
“Wait I can give you information, I know—”
“I don’t want, nor do I need, information, Tony.”
“Good luck,” Elias followed up, shoving him head first into the water.
He landed with a splash, arms flailing.
Sergio stood to the side, holding his cellphone up to record.
The first thing Tony tried to do was swim right back out. I pulled my gun from my waistband and aimed it at his head.
