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Sienna hesitates, then shrugs. “I don’t actually know.”
“What?” Maddoc asks, his face darkening.
She winces. “I mean, I don’t actually know all thedetails, but I’m sure that’s his plan. It’s all he’s talked about ever since the first time they called the two of you in front of them.”
“Okay, so we’re done here,” he says flatly.
“No,” Sienna blurts, reaching for Maddoc across the table.
He pulls back so that her fingers don’t do anything more than skim his sleeve. “Why? What else have you got to offer?”
“Really, Maddoc?” She looks up at him through her lashes. “You like a lot that I have to offer. I know you haven’t forgotten.”
The only thing stopping me from punching the sultry look off her face is the flat, uninterested stare Maddoc gives her.
“It sounds like that’s just one more thing you’re wrong about then,” he tells her. “There’s nothing memorable between you and me. There never was.”
The bitch actually pouts. “I know you don’t really mean that. I shouldn’t have left you. I can see that now. You treated me better than Austin ever did, and—”
“And fucking nothing,” he says, standing up abruptly. “I don’t give a shit that he beat you, and the only problem I have with him dumping you in that river is that you crawled back out.”
“Asshole,” she hisses, glaring up at him. “I came toyou.”
“And now that you have, I should finish what McKenna started,” Maddoc says coldly, pinning her with a look that has all the blood draining out of her face. “He’s already gonna die for kidnapping Riley and forcing her to marry him, but you went along with it. You were there. You were a part of that shit, Sienna. Make no mistake, there’s only one woman I care about here, and it’s gonna be up to her whether you live or die today.” He looks at me, his eyes full of simmering rage, barely held in check. “Butterfly?”
Sienna’s eyes dart toward me too, true fear flashing across her face.
Maybe I’m the monster here, because I like it. Seeing it feeds the darkness in me, and I hope like hell that she’s remembering the way she treated me, the way she taunted me, because I sure as fuck am.
“You can’t be serious, Maddoc,” Sienna says, her voice trembling a little.
He doesn’t even bother to answer her. He’s waiting on me. And I know just as well as Sienna does that if I give him the word, he’ll do it in a heartbeat. Any one of these men will kill for me, no questions asked.
But the fact that they did ask, that Maddoc’s giving all the power to me after that bastard, McKenna, took it all away, it’s… enough. I hate Sienna, and I hate what she did, but I don’t want more blood on my hands, and I don’t need it. Not when I’m the one who fucking won here. She’s a shitty person, but she already lost everything that matters. She lost one of the best men I know, and now she’s lost everything she left Maddoc for too.
“I don’t want you to kill her,” I tell him.
He holds my gaze for a moment, and I can’t tell if he’s disappointed or proud, but there’s definitely a lot of emotion in his eyes. Then he turns back to her. “You heard Riley.”
“Okay, yeah,” Sienna says, nodding quickly and scooting toward the edge of the bench seat, clearly ready to bolt.
Maddoc nods toward Logan, and Logan blocks her.
“The fuck?” Sienna spits out, glaring up at him.
Logan doesn’t react, and Maddoc leans across the table, getting right in her face. “Right now, it’s Riley’s choice, and she’s made it,” he says, his gray eyes burning into hers, “but if you ever show your face in Reaper territory again, if you ever fuckinglookat Riley again, I’ll end you, do you understand?”
She swallows hard, shrinking back. “I understand.”
“Logan,” Maddoc says without looking away from her.
Logan nods and steps back, letting Sienna out of the booth, then he taps something into his phone as she slinks away.
“I’ve got Greg and Vic on it,” he tells Maddoc after a moment. “They’ll escort her to the border.”
Maddoc nods, then tugs me against him, practically pulling me onto his lap. He buries his face against my neck, taking a few breaths as his hands dig into my hips.
After a moment, he looks up at his brothers, not addressing the fact that he’s still holding me so tightly that I’m guaranteed a few new bruises. “What do you think about that bitch’s intel? Have either of you heard any word on the street about this shit with The Six?”
