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But I knew there would come a day that Rafe would go too far, cross a line that would put all of us in danger. And when that day came, someone would have to be willing and able to pull the trigger.
I flung open the door to a small room on the lower deck and waited for IKE to walk my brother inside. He shut the door and waited for me to make the first move. I was pissed. Actually, that wasn’t a good way to describe what I was feeling right now. Hatred for his actions topped the list. But the way he treated Eva still burned in my gut. I knew he had his reasons, and that he was trying to protect me. But he hadn’t trusted my team, and my wife ended up getting hurt in the process.
Finally, I stopped pacing and turned to Rafe. He was still the cocky bastard from a year ago. Nothing had changed. I knew what happened on deck was all for show. He wouldn’t normally allow me to kick his ass. In his eyes, he was throwing me a bone, allowing me to feel like I was getting some retribution. But why, I wasn’t sure.
“So, what was Fox’s job?”
“Simple,” he shrugged. “To intercept the sellers and draw in the buyers. I was going to bring hell down on them, but as usual, your guys just can’t resist fucking up a situation. Now, all my evidence and the men responsible are sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Dead men can’t talk,” he pointed out.
“You could have had a hundred different men do what Fox did.”
His eyes twinkled as he stared at me. “But I didn’t want a hundred different men. I wanted Fox, and he needed something from me.”
“I fucking told you to leave my guys out of it,” Cash hissed. “You just can’t stop fucking up other people’s lives!”
“All your people are alive and well. Including the woman Eli dragged along. Don’t ask me what the fuck he’s doing with her. She’s a liability.”
“She’s the job,” I spat. “None of this is about you. When the fuck are you going to realize you can’t just jump into the middle of our lives and take over?”
“Don’t forget that I gifted you that anonymity you so desperately crave,” he said, stepping closer.
“It wasn’t supposed to be at the expense of my people.”
He rolled his eyes, scoffing at me. “Don’t tell me this is about FNG.”
“Where is he, Rafe? Did he really die or is this another one of your jobs?”
He dropped his head, rubbing his hand across his forehead. “Look, it wasn’t supposed to go like that.”
Anger built in me with every word he spoke. We had no fucking idea what happened to FNG, but I had a feeling all those answers were about to come out. “What wasn’t supposed to go like that?” I bit out.
“The job. Cash, I swear to you, we had a plan.”
“And I’m just now hearing about this?”
“You weren’t ever supposed to hear about it,” he snapped. “Christ, you just have to have all the answers!”
“Says the man that won’t stop this fucking crusade!”
“This was different. My guys were there the night of the attack at the bar. FNG slipped away and it was all good, but Johnny wouldn’t stop digging.”
“Because you framed Tahlia!”
“Because he’s too fucking good at his job,” Rafe snapped. “FNG agreed to do a job for me. That’s all it was supposed to be. One fucking job. We made it look like he died in that truck. That’s the way it had to be. He fucking agreed to it.”
“And that makes it alright?” I spat. “He was my employee. He was one of us and you just decided to snatch him up without even consulting me.”
“It’s the way it had to be. No one could know what was going on. As it is, everyone still thinks he’s alive!” he shouted.
“And is he?”
Rafe’s lips tightened the longer he stared at me. A sinking feeling in my gut told me I wasn’t going to get the answers I wanted. “We had to stage a second death. You were there. Your company saw it.”
“And it went wrong. He was on the fucking plane and it blew up,” I concluded.
“No, he was still alive. He went on the job as planned.”
“And?”
