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“You are unbelievable!” she exclaims. “Don’t you trust me?”
“I trust you about as much as you seem to trust me.”
“I didn’t tell you because I thought I handled it! I didn’t want to create drama where there was none. I didn’t think I would see him again. And for the record, I don’t need you to fight my battles for me. I’m perfectly capable of handling Anthony on my own.”
I snort loudly at that one. Her eyes flare with indignation.
“I’m your wife, not your property, Misha.”
“Is that what you think?” I snarl at her. “Think again.”
“You are such an asshole!” she cries.
I’m fighting the urge to put my fist through a wall. Instead, I turn around and walk out of her room before I say something else that I can’t take back.
92
MISHA
I walk out of Paige’s room and straight into Konstantin.
“I thought I gave you shit to do,” I grunt.
His eyebrows rise as he takes in my furious expression. “I’ll hold off on being offended because I know you’re really mad at Jimmy Garner.”
“Jimmy who?”
Konstantin narrows his eyes in confusion. “Our missing money man. The one we’ve been talking about for God-knows-how-long now.”
I frown. “Did you get a lead on him?”
“I figured you had,” Konstantin says, baffled. “Why else would he have run outta here with a broken nose?”
“Why else would—oh, Jesus fucking Christ. Anthony.Anthonyis our missing money man?”
My cousin looks completely lost as he tries to follow along. “What are you talking about, Misha? Who is Anthony?”
“Jimmy Garner is a cover, Konstantin,” I growl, disgusted at my own short-sightedness. “It’s a fake name. The man that just ran out of here with a broken nose is Anthony. Paige’s ex.”
Konstantin takes a moment to process that. “Oh, shit. Are you serious?”
“Unfortunately.” I nod. “So tell me what you know.”
My cousin leans against the wall, hands tucked in his pockets. “There’s a paper trail that leads right to him. He’s been siphoning money for a few years now. Never enough to actually get caught, but he’s gotten bolder in the last twelve months or so.”
I glance back at the door of Paige’s hospital room. A couple things are clicking in place, and it’s making me feel like my head’s about to explode.
“Where’s your mind at?” Konstantin asks cautiously.
“He’s working with Petyr,” I assert, locking eyes with my cousin. “The flowers Paige received… they weren’t from my mother. They were from him. Petyr. And the only way he could have possibly known about Paige’s chamomile allergy is through—”
“The ex,” Konstantin says, breathing out slowly. “Fuck him.”
I signal over my guards, Remus and Maddox, and give them a description of Anthony. “He left a few minutes ago. Locate the motherfucker and take him to the basement cell. Spread the word.”
“Got it, boss,” Remus says. They move out, propelled by my orders.
Konstantin is looking at me warily. He knows what I’m thinking. “There’s still a lot of unknown factors here, Misha.”
