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“I thought that he was waiting for us to attack so he could blow us to shreds with something we wouldn’t expect, but I don’t think he’s going for an actual kill here,” Jaxon says. The weight I’ve been carrying instantly gets heavier.
“That motherfucker wants to ruin me,” I say, finally having a piece of the missing information I couldn’t conjure myself.
Jaxon nods. “I don’t know how, but think about it. You stole his daughter. He then ‘rescued’ Tori and we stole her away while also blowing up his house. He’s going to use that against you.”
“But how?” I ask, still not seeing the full picture.
The cops would have been here by now if he’d stayed behind to tell them who attacked their house, but nothing of the sort has happened.
What the fuck is he waiting for?
“That’s what we need Bryson for,” Damon says, then finishes off the rest of his drink as he stands to pour another.
He’s not wrong, and waiting until tonight to go see him is going to make for a long fucking day.
“So, that’s it,” I say. “We know Titan is planning something big and that we might have fallen right into his trap, but there’s nothing we can do until tonight?”
“That’s not entirely true,” Markus replies. “Why do we need to wait until tonight and give Titan more time to act? He’s outwardly trying to fuck us, so why do we need to hide? Let’s go see Bryson now and get the information we need.”
Bryson said he was trying to protect someone else within Titan’s grasp and that he couldn’t out himself yet. I had respected that before, but Markus is right. We don’t have time to waste. Bryson better have sorted his shit out, because we’re coming for him, and he’s going to cooperate whether he wants to or not.
“Get ready,” I say, then glance at Jaxon. “See if he ended up at the same hospital or somewhere else. With a bullet wound, there’s no way he didn’t go somewhere.”
He’s already out of his seat and has his phone in hand. “You got it. I’ll be in the garage within ten minutes.”
Damon and Markus both agree, and our plans are set. This shit is going to end and really fucking soon. I’m done with Titan’s games. He needs to die today.
I leave my office with the rest of them and hope that Olivia has had enough time to calm Tori down, because I need to get into my room.
After going up the elevator, I head to my door, and when I hear laughter, I don’t bother knocking. Entering the apartment, I find Olivia and Tori on the couch together, each of them with a drink in hand and tears in their eyes but smiles on their faces.
Olivia’s bright stare meets mine, and she sobers. “Is everything okay?”
“We’re heading to the hospital now,” I say, moving toward my room.
She gets up to follow me as I assumed she would. My Raven doesn’t just let things go. She seems to rather enjoy being pushy for information.
“Why so soon?” she asks once I enter the closet.
I start to undress from the black fatigues so I can change into my preferred suit. “Because we don’t have time to wait. Titan is fucking with us, and I need answers now.”
She watches me, standing just outside the door of the closet, and when I take a second to look at her, my dick starts to harden. “Unless you want your friend to hear you get fucked against the wall, I would quit looking at me like that.”
Not that I have time to devour her, but I would make time.
Her cheeks fill with crimson. “As fabulous as that sounds, you seem in a hurry.” She leans against the doorframe. “What can I do?”
“You can stay here, question Tori about anything she may have overheard in that house, and relay it to me through text,” I reply, buttoning up a white dress shirt.
Her eyes flick toward me briefly. “I’ve already done a bit of that. She said he was always kind. Never raised his voice and explained that the extra men were for their protection, hired help, not his regular crew.”
She moves to face me again before continuing. “He even told her that you went as far as threatening my innocence and life after your father died, and that’s why he had to leave. That he only did so to protect me and my mother.”
As the words leave her mouth, I watch her eyes, all while the fury in my chest grows and expands through the rest of my body. My pants are still unbuttoned, but I stop everything I’m doing to stalk toward her.
My hands cup her face, and I hold her cheeks tight, keeping her gaze. “You know that’s not true.”
She nods. “Of course, I do. Though, I have a feeling it will take Tori some time to accept the truth.”
