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Amano barreled into the room, followed by Kyle.
“What?” they both demanded at the same time.
My pulse raged. I couldn’t tear my gaze from the uncoiling snakes.
Pressing a palm to the glass pane, I wanted desperately to put my hand through it and use the shards to sever the never-ending torment.
Resisting, I spoke slowly, a haunting chill in my voice.
“Vale’s still alive.”
epilogue
KYLE
Who are these people?
I’d done some research online when the first indictments had rolled in and Ari had figured out that Dane was alive. Like him, these guys were experts at controlling their global exposure.
They didn’t decorate society pages or have their PR people post photos of them holding million-dollar checks written for charity. They were mysterious and operated in the shadows. That shadow had darkened our doorstep one more time.
Any day now, DNA samples would prove that it hadn’t been Vale Hilliard in that high-speed chase in Flag. That car crash was pivotal to this whole insidious situation. To the depths of my soul, I believed it was Wayne Horton splattered across the front of a freight train.
With him dead, I wondered how easy it would be for the corrupt members of Dane’s secret society to claim they knew absolutely nothing about the bombing and that Horton acted alone. Certainly Vale would corroborate that story and attempt to wash the blood from his hands, too.
Ari’s blood.
If Vale could never be placed at the scene of the crime, if there was no evidence of his connection to Horton, would they all get away with this? Would tax evasion and whatever crimes Dane helped the FBI to unearth be enough to keep these assholes in prison for the long haul?
Or would their vast wealth and influence have them walking the streets, untouched, exonerated?
Free to continue coming after us if they chose to?
I had to find a way to talk Ari out of all of this. Wasn’t she convinced by now that being married to Dane and living in his world was too damn dangerous?
If I couldn’t do that, then I needed to track down Vale myself.
And seek my own revenge.
For her.
read on for a preview of the final book in the trilogy
coming fall 2016
burned
hearts
burned hearts. copyright © 2016 by calista fox.
all rights reserved.
Danger lurks behind every shadow for Dane and Ari.…
“Remember all that’s at stake, Ari.”
“Yes, of course. I really am sorry. I didn’t mean to make either of you worry—or piss you off. It just felt like too good a setup to let slip by. And it was.”
