“I have enough, trust me,” I say.
“Show me then,” he replies.
A smirk spreads on my face. Yeah, I’m sure he’d like to know all about the photographs and the bodies that we found targeting specific members of the Bones Brotherhood, ones involved with students at the Spine Ridge University. We know because we kept track of their whereabouts and sales, including the ones right here on campus. Some of them have already died after their encounter, and others are probably being tracked.
“No. I’m not going to help you aid your criminal sidekicks by handing over police evidence. I’m not that dense.”
“Assumptions will get you nowhere, Foley.”
The police have turned a blind eye to this family’s antics for years because of corruption and payments, and because they only ever killed mobsters, but enough is enough.
These spineless bastards are turning this campus into their own underworld, and I am done with them playing their own judge, jury, and executioner.
“You will put an end to this,” I say. “Or I will.”
The look in his eyes darkens. “Is that a threat, Foley? I thought your father taught you better than to get in the way of the Riveras and the Torreses.”
My jaw clenches as we engage in another stare down.
Of course, he had to bring my father into the conversation. It’s no wonder Dad hated him and his friends as much as he did.
I knock on his desk and turn around. “Next time I’m forced to come here, there will be a permanent station for my men here. Mark my words.”
“Have a great day, Foley,” he says, as I slam the door shut behind me.
Xavier
I freeze entirelywhen a dark-haired man in a suit, tats peeking out from under his shirt, barges out of Dean Rivera’s office and nearly bumps into me. He stops and looks me up and down, the fury in his gaze making me uncomfortable.
“Sorry,” I mutter, and I step aside.
He waltzes past me and heads down the stairs in a hurry, and I can’t help but stare until he’s finally out of sight. My heart thrums in my throat, not from the way he glanced at me, but from the police badge on his coat … and the fact that I recognized him.
He was at the hospital when Sunny was brought in. Is he the cop who rescued her?
I turn my head and look at the dean’s door. I wanted to talk to Felix about the brunch Mom scheduled with the family and ask if he could let me skip this one, but now I’m not so sure.
I could hear everything those guys said in there.
From the police investigation to the serial killer running around campus …
Sunny is in danger.
I have to warn her.
CHAPTER 8
Xavier
I turn aroundand rush down the stairs again. I have to take care of this first, before it blows up in our faces, because Sunny isn’t the only one in trouble. If she’s implicated, so am I for helping her.
Fuck.
I need to tell her without making it obvious, but how?
I can’t just go up and talk to her. She’ll have plenty of reasons to kill me.
Should I leave more notes?
