“It’ll be you and Sebastian next,” she teased.
I gave her a weak smile.
If she’d said that about a month ago, I would have agreed with her, but now, I wasn’t sure.
All I wanted was to spend the rest of my life with the man who had my heart. The man who had always had my heart. But it felt different now. That incredible communication we had after everything that happened with Jason was fading away.
He was keeping things from me again. I could feel it in my bones.
Lies only ended in heartbreak, and if he carried on the way he was, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to forgive that this time.
35
Sebastian
Imade my way to the cabinet in the Organisation and poured a whisky, then pulled up a chair to sit with Hayden, Valon, and Logan.
Hayden pulled his laptop out and brought up some CCTV. It was Dante and the guy I’d tortured not too long ago about Luca’s shipment. They were clearly working together, money being exchanged between them.
Swirling the glass, I took a sip. “What’s the plan?” I asked.
“Well, if we can’t get my products back, then we need to make it so they can’t distribute anything,” Valon said.
I took another sip of that amber liquid to force that sick feeling back down.
I should have been at home, not here.
I wasn’t quite sure what the fuck was going on. Dante had been so quiet. He mostly operated in Barking but had warehouses in Essex, but the guy I’d tortured had said it was him, and Hayden had found the proof.
“We should hit one of his warehouses,” Logan suggested.
It wasn’t a bad idea. I mean, I could do with watching something other than my relationship burn to the ground.
“Get everything sorted, and we’ll leave in an hour,” Hayden said.
“Logan, can you get the guys ready?” I asked.
“Will do.”
“Let me contact my cousin, Olli, to help us.” Valon rose from the chair. “This is his forte.” He smirked, then left with Logan, and it was just me and Hayden again.
“Did you get that file I asked for?”
Hayden looked over at me. “Yeah, I did some digging, and there was nothing untoward with him. Raised by a single mum. Attended Oxford for business, the usual. He’s clean.”
“There’s something there. Check again.”
He let out a heavy breath. “You don’t trust me now?”
My eyes widened slightly at his words. I trusted him with my life. “You wouldn’t be sitting here if I didn’t.”
“Well then. Trust me when I say there’s nothing more to dig.”
I rolled my eyes at him. There had to be something, but I decided to leave it; this wasn’t the time to push him.
“You sure about this with Dante?” I questioned.
Hayden sat forward on his chair. “Didn’t expect that out of your mouth.”
