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“There’s nothing to forgive.” Even after taking their money, she could never be mad at Morgan. He was her pillar. They were each other’s solace. They were all the other person had. And Morgan was constantly coming up with new ways to make money quickly.
She swallowed. “What kind of a deal did you make?”
“I give them their money back in exchange for you. I have their word they won’t harm you or me. They’re not the type of men to break their word. I believe them.”
“Okay,” she said, then had to shake her head to clear her throat. She had no idea why she wanted to cry.
“It’s the reunion today, did you remember?”
“Our school reunion?”
“Yeah. That’s where the deal will go down.”
“Are you insane?”
“A little. But it’s all arranged. Do you remember my secret locker in the old gym, where the reunion is being held tonight?”
“Morgan? They’re going to kill you as soon as they have the stick.”
“They won’t. I have their word.”
“They’re the mafia.”
“And they gave me their word. I trust them. The reunion, the old gym? That’s where I hid the stick. I thought I could get it back before but then they shut the place down and I couldn’t get to it again. Until tonight that is. They’re opening the gym for the reunion. They bring you to the reunion. I give them the stick and they go away. Easy. See you soon, Lorelei. I’m sorry. I was stupid. I thought I would get away with it.”
“Morgan wait—”
But the call disconnected.
Lorelei gave the phone back numbly to Mike.
Without saying a word she went into the bedroom she slept in and sat on the bed, ready to start crying.
“What’s wrong? Was that your friend?” Gianna had followed her and now sat beside her.
“They’re going to kill him,” Lorelei sobbed.
“They might not.”
“They killed a man called Ace right here in their apartment for taking ten thousand dollars from them. Morgan doesn’t—”And I let them touch me and do shameful things to my body and I repaid them by coming for each of them multiple times.
“Wait a minute. Ace? I know Ace. I saw him working in the club’s kitchen. His fingers, on one hand, are probably broken because they were in a cast, and one of his fingers on his other hand was in a bandage but he seemed to be using that hand, which looked like a nightmare to use.”
“He’s not dead?”
Did they really spare his life? Still, it didn’t matter. What Morgan did was incomparable to what Ace did.”
“Yes. Ace is very much alive. Unhappy but alive. Did your friend make a deal with them?
“He’s giving the money back that he took from your godfathers in exchange for me. So I guess I’ll be free.”
“If that’s what my godfathers said they were going to do. That’s what they’re going to do. Trust me. If they say they're going to kill a man they do. If they say they’re going to let him live, they do. Just trust me.”
As if everything came together in her head, a lightness elevated her heart. She believed Gianna. More importantly, she believed Justin, Ian, and Drake. If they said they were not going to kill Morgan and set her free then that’s what they were going to do. She did trust them. Wholeheartedly.
They were giving her up now.
But the reunion was the last place she wanted to be but it was okay. She just had to do it this one time. She didn’t want to think of what her days would look like after them.
