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“Don’t worry I won’t get your baby too messy,” I teased.
Dimitri glanced down at his phone. “Brax is meeting us there.”
“Isn’t that too risky?”
“He said that he owesthat bitchfor everything she put you through. He knew she was involved, but couldn’t do anything about it.”
Who was I to argue?
Within the hour, we were outside Loraine’s mobile home, banging on her door.
“You’re back!” Eyes wide, she glanced behind me. There was no doubt in my mind she’d realized her fate.
“Why Loraine—” I smirked. “—you act as if you never expected me to return.” I continued forward, forcing her to retreat further into her home. The three guys moved with me as if we were one.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” her voice trembled.
“Where have you been?”
“I—uh—went to Ontario.”
“To visit family?”
She nodded. If there was one thing I loathed the most in the world, it would be conniving women. Especially the ones I had stuck my neck out for in the past. It was like this whole situation was coming full circle. As if everything in this very moment was because of the choice I made a year ago. I might have been barely eighteen years old at the time, but I wasn’t a naïve new adult.
And now here we were, in the last place I expected to be.
With Loraine on my chopping block.
“You must have left right after the guys questioned you about what happened to me.”
“If someone could kidnap you, then there was no way a person like me would be safe.”
“If you didn’t think it was safe, then why did you return?”
“This is where my home is.”
“I want to ask you about the night I was kidnapped,” I told her.
“I don’t know how good of a help I’m going to be. I don’t know anything about that.” She stared down at her fingernails like they held all the answers in the world.
“Why was Dirk here?” I asked, watching as she tensed up.
“Dirk who?” she asked, voice trembling.
“Maybe you know him better as Diederik?” I replied.
“I don’t know who that is.”
“Don’t lie. I saw him at your kitchen table the night I was kidnapped.”
She raised her head and locked eyes with me. “I have no idea who this Derek guy is.”
“Diederik, or Dirk, not Derek,” I seethed. “Give me one good reason I shouldn’t kill you.” There wouldn’t be a reason good enough for me to excuse everything she helped bring down on my family.
I didn’t care who the person was.
If anyone dared to touch my family, I would rain hell down on them. What she did was a complete deal breaker. I might have let her off with a slap of the wrist, had she fessed up to Hunter and I when we visited her. But she didn’t. And now this was the consequence.
