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“Catch her,” I growled. Whoever had allowed her onto the floor would be terminated.
“And if I do?”
“Bring. Her. To. Me.” Whoever had dared enter my realm would face my wrath.
My way.
* * *
Several weeks later
“Don’t say a goddamn word to the press. Not one,” Barrett Sheffield advised as he flanked my side the second I was dragged from the back of the police car.
I’d anticipated the presence of reporters, my impending arrest obviously leaking the second the cuffs were slapped around my wrists. I took a deep breath, cognizant my entire family was behind me. My father had gone off the rails, threatening almost everyone about what he would do if I wasn’t released immediately.
His demands had been met with smiles from the arresting officers, laughter from the prosecutor. They had quotas to fill and snagging a notorious mafia leader was the highlight of their year. What their behavior told me was that the witness had been found, a feat my father’s web of informants had been unable to accomplish.
I said nothing as I was pulled directly through the crowd, microphones stuck in my face as we tried to pass, the questions berating me and my family’s organization. It would take all I had to keep my cool.
“Mr. Thorn. What does it feel like to finally be arrested?”
“Mr. Thorn. Do you feel any remorse for killing an innocent man?”
Innocent, my ass. However, the fact one of the most elusive arms brokers in the country had been killed by a so-called ‘known enemy’ had made national news. The scene was a fucking circus.
“Mr. Thorn. Do you expect to use your family’s influence to get out of the charges against you?”
“Mr. Thorn. Do you feel any remorse?”
The last question came from a young female reporter, her face reminding me of the witness, whose face and figure I’d finally seen arriving at the courthouse on the news the day before. I’d thought about her too much since. She had to be found.
And silenced.
I stopped abruptly, the officer holding my arm glaring at me. When I turned my head, staring into the reporter’s eyes, I sensed fear and within seconds she backed away.
Barrett tried to push me along, his harsh whisper duly noted.
“Not. One. Word.”
As I was led up the stairs to the precinct, the prosecutor was waiting, the aging man wanting his moment of glory before retiring. When he approached, Barrett moved in front of me, prepared to begin the legal battle.
“Mr. Thorn. What a pleasure to have you in my house of justice,” Michael Morechower said, laughing as his expression of disdain was caught by every camera. “And I assure you that you will be going to prison for the rest of your life.”
Not without the witness.
I’d learned her name, the girl believing she could hide from me and my soldiers. Jade Wellington had no idea that she’d faced a monster and would do so again.
When I found her, I would take my time, enjoying the power of my position. She’d learn to obey my every command.
I’d taste her.
Stroke her.
Fuck her in every hole.
And I would break her.
Yes, the lovely young woman had crossed my path and there was no doubt that one day she would be mine.
