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At least not until Kate and I can build one ourselves.
And we will.
The caveat to this agreement was that I take full responsibility for killing her dad, hiding the fact that a contract was drawn up between the two men. To be honest, after the King showed me their contract, killing Carter was the easiest fucking decision to make.
Not killing the King for agreeing to it, the motherfuckinghardest.
I don’t like the man. Don’t fucking trust him, and I certainly don’t believe he will keep to his side of the deal, but for the time being I’m willing to let him live so that Kate and I can make a plan, and build a fucking army. There will come a day when we’ll both have our revenge, but in the meantime we use him, then take him out when the time is right.
“This is on you,” she snarls, her rage fucking beautiful to behold.
She may be at her most vulnerable right now, but she isfierce, and one day soon she’ll be unstoppable.
“This has nothing to do with me,” the King says without even flinching. I’ll give him that, the guy has balls of fucking steel and the best poker face I’ve ever seen.
“You’re aliar,” she accuses, her finger tightening over the trigger.
“Kate, this is on me,” I say, stepping over Carter’s body and standing between her and the King, stumbling a little as my head pounds like a motherfucker. I fucking hate that I’m in this position, protecting the King, but it’s only temporary. His time will come.
“Bullshit. What do you have on Beast?” Kate presses, stepping to the side, trying to get a clear shot at the King. I move in front of her again and she bares her teeth at me.
“Not a thing,” the King replies. “I’m as shocked as you are about how this all panned out.”
“Bullshit!” she shouts, fury leaking from her now.
“Kate, listen,” I say, holding my hands up and trying my fucking best not to pass the fuck out. “This is on me.I’mresponsible.”
“What?” she asks, snapping her gaze back to me.
“I went to Carter this morning about us. I explained everything to him. I tried to make him listen. He wouldn’t.”
“And he didn’t kill you the second you told him?”
I shake my head. “No. He said if I won the fight tonight then he’d allow us to be together. I took him for his word, Kate,” I lie, because I didn’t say a damn thing about us. As far as I was concerned he knew nothing. I only realised that wasn’t the case when he asked Rodriguez to bring the weapons into the cage. Right now I’m not a hundred percent certain which fuck told him, but given the look on Rodriguez’s face, I’m guessing it’s him. “He wanted me dead. That’s why he allowed weapons into the ring. He also wanted a bloodbath, and he fucking got one.”
“Yet you survived,” she whispers, sadness brimming in her eyes as she aims the gun at me now.
“Kate, what are you doing?”
“You killed my dad, Beast.”
“Ihadto do it. He would never have allowed us to be together, Kate,” I say, covering up the fact that I did it to protect her. Thathewas the fucking monster ready to sell her off to the King to save his own arse.
“And I have to do this,” she replies, her sadness replaced now with a hardness that is so much like her dad it makes my blood run cold.
“We can work this out,” I say, watching as she shuts down her emotions one by one.
“I will never be respected in this business if I let you walk after what you did.”
“Kate, I was protecting you!”
“Don’t you see, it doesn’t fucking matter. We could’ve found a way around thistogether, but you chose to murder Carter instead. How can I let that go? Tell me how?” she pleads.
“Princess, think about this…” Dom says, his voice trailing off when she snatches her head around to look at him.
“It’sGrim,” she snarls.
“Grim, listen, you’re in shock,” he says quickly, and the room around me fucking spins as darkness claws at my brain. “Understandably so, but even I can see that Beast did what he had to do.”
