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“I don’t care.” I lean into my man. “He’smykiller now.” In that moment, I realize Mr. Baines is going to die. Right here. Right now. No going back. He tried to kill Jacob. He sealed his fate. Plus, I don’t think Jacob would be too keen on the idea of letting him go. Not after he took me from him.
“I’ll make the call about your cousin.” He starts to reach into his pocket.
“Slow.” Jacob orders as he watches him pull the phone out and place the call.
“Cancel it all. Evan stays alive.” He drops the phone. “Jacob, I can make you a very rich man.”
“I’m already a rich man. And you can call me Mr. Black.”
“Rich? Really?” I look up at him. “Does killing people pay that well?”
He chuckles, his lips twitching into a smile. My insides tingle seeing him like this. I bite my lip. I want him so badly. My body craves him, the soft way he loves me and the hard way he fucks me.
“Not now, babe,” he growls.
“Right.” I shake the lust out of my eyes and turn back around. “We’re murdering people. No thinking about sex. No sex. Not even a little. No way. Just the murder. That’s it.” I slice my hand through the air.
“You’re throwing everything away for a woman? For a stupid piece of ass that you could get anywhere, anytime?” Mr. Baines shouts. His hands are clenched at his sides. Blood is starting to pool around him from the wound in his leg.
I try not to gag. God, I hate blood. This is why I would never be able to kill anyone. Well, I guess I could poison them. That would be better. No blood. And somehow it seems . . . nicer?
“Not a woman.Mywoman. You tried to take her from me. Did you really think I’d let you live?” Jacob fires the gun, and a bullet hits Baines right between the eyes. He falls backwards. Jacob spins me toward him before I can see any of the blood.
“Are you okay?” His hands are all over me.
I giggle on accident. “That tickles. I’m fine. I mean, I’m tired, scared, mad, laughing inappropriately, and in love all at once. But I’m fine.”
He wraps his arm around my waist and lifts me off my feet to kiss me. My eyes fall closed as I kiss him back. Another shot rings out in the room. I jerk back from the kiss. Jacob lowers his gun. Mr. Baines’s son-in-law lies dead on the floor. He must’ve been hiding in Mr. Baines’s gold plated bathroom.
“I never liked him. He cheats on his wife, beats her, too. No respect for women.”
“Then he definitely deserved to die.” I nod.
“Let's get out of here. We need to get Bernie and Wally.” He puts me back down on the ground and takes my hand. “Can we stop and get McDonalds?” I ask when he pulls me onto the elevator.
“You didn't like what I cooked you at the cabin?”
“I didn't say that.” I smack his chest. “I hear you can afford to splurge anyway,” I tease him, making him laugh again. I grab his shirt, pulling him down to me. That’s when I realize he has a bulletproof vest on. My man is smart. He’s always a step ahead of everyone. No wonder all of them feared him.
“I love you, Jacob.”
“I love you, too.” He kisses me again as I hear the elevator ding. The gun goes off again. This time, I don’t jump. I just step over the guard’s body, making sure I don’t get blood on my shoes as we make our getaway.
EPILOGUE
JACOB
5 years later
“Why is there so much blood, though?” Margaret puts the back of her hand to her mouth and stifles a gag.
“What?” Petunia looks up from her doll.
“I just don’t think that’s necessary, you know?” Margaret rubs her baby bump. “I mean, that can’t be good for Ken or Barbie or any of the people here. It’s just so, gruesome. Can we redo this without all the red--”
“Ketchup, Mommy.” Petunia taps her finger in the tomato mess and licks the tip.
Margaret looks close to fainting, so I step in and wrap my arm around her waist.
