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Shock suffuses me when the image of myself riding my motorcycle in the woods come on the screen. It’s from that night weeks ago when we pulled off the heist to get the guns back. Everything stops inside me when I watch myself shoot and kill Officer Tanner. Next to me is Vincent shooting Falcone.
You can see it’s us quite clearly. We don’t have helmets on.
Fuck.
“You motherfucker!” I growl at Miguel and the punk puts the phone back in his pocket.
“Yes, that’s exactly what I am. So, call off your hounds and stay the fuck away or we’ll leak that recording to the feds. Not only will you and your family lose everything, you’ll spend the rest of your life behind bars for killing a cop.”
This fucker has me exactly where he wants.
“You have until midday to give me the all clear, I’ll call back then. After that, the video leaks.”
Miguel hangs up and the fucker in front of me smiles.
“That was the message ese, now you need the warning to stay the fuck away,” he says pulling an envelope from his pocket.
I take it and he gets in the truck and drives away.
I look in the envelope and my stomach lurches when I see a finger inside with a wedding band.
Dropping the envelope, I know straightaway who the finger belongs to. It’s Kirk’s. And, that can only mean he’s dead.
The guy is nearly out the gate, but the time I look ahead. I want to kill his ass, but what the fuck would that achieve.
Things just took a turn for the worse so I do the only thing I can and call Vincent.
He answers on the first ring.
“We have a problem,” I say.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Lilly
My head… it feels like it might fall off. It’s so light and painful. I have it back when I try to move it forward I wince from the sharp pain that spikes through my forehead.
Opening my eyes I look around and see I’m in some sort of storage room. the high ceilings suggest that it’s maybe a warehouse.
I look to the door when footsteps sound against the floor and my pulse skitters when Miguel walks in.
I jump, startled by his presence but I can’t go anywhere because I’m tied to a chair. Bound with my hands tied behind my back and my feet tied together. All I can do is rivet my gaze to his. He sits on the stacks of crates before me with his fingers templed. He straightens up and gives me that smile from last night.
“Awww wife, is that anyway to greet me? You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” he says with a smirk.
“You’re supposed to be dead, what happened?” I throw back.
“Wow, I guess you didn’t miss me then. There was a situation I had to take off and being dead was the only way I could handle it. I fake my death. It’s easy to do when you have certain friends. My enemy has now been eliminated. So I came back from the dead. But I came back only to find I had no family left. Wife and baby gone.”
My God… I can’t believe what I’m hearing.
“Let me go,” I say. “Let me go please. I don’t want to be with you.”
“No, you want to fuck around with mobsters,” he says with a laugh. “I’m not sure how to feel about that. Or if I should just add it to the long list of things I’m mad as fuck at you for. I was pissed to find out you’d left Columbia with my daughter, since I killed Juan for helping you that tied things over. But then I was mad as fuck that you changed your name back to St. James, and my daughter’s as well. Do you know how I felt when I found out you did that?” He stands and eyes me dangerously. “I was as fuck when my men couldn’t find you, thankfully I have the best. It took us awhile to locate you and we had to make sure it was you. I was mad as fuck when I discovered my wife was dancing at a sex club and her body was up for sale to the highest bidder. Fucking whore, you’re going to pay for that.”
“I was—” I don’t get to say anything. Miguel strikes me with the back of his hand and I see stars and tears pour from my eyes as an immediate reaction to the pain.
“How fucking dare you embarrass me like that! Fucking whore. Then you went and got yourself shacked up with a mobster. My do you ever like the bad boys.”
