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“I wouldn’t go that far,” Kavanaugh muttered. “But here’s to the craziest fuck I know.”
I raised my bottle, shaking my head. Water was a poor sendoff for a friend. “What are we going to tell Fox? He already had all those milk cartons made.”
Cash downed the rest of his drink before slamming it down on the table. “We have to tell him the truth. This can’t go on any longer.”
“Yeah, but…he just went all psycho. No one’s seen him since…”
I waited for Red to finish, which he obviously wasn’t going to. “One of us should check on him.”
“Maybe that should be Anna,” Kavanaugh suggested.
“You want to send his wife in to check on him when he’s gone dark?” Cash asked.
“Who else is going to get through to him?” Red asked.
The answer was obvious to me. There was only one person to send in to draw Fox out of the hole he was sinking into. But I wasn’t sure anyone else would agree with me on this one. My gaze flicked to Red’s, and for just a moment we were locked in a stare down.
“No,” he said, pushing out of his seat. “Are you fucking crazy?”
“You know she could help him.”
“She’s my wife!”
“She helped him the last time he was falling apart,” I argued.
“Yeah, and look how that turned out.”
Cash grinned. “Fox became your kid’s godfather. I think it’ll work.”
“No, it won’t work, because I won’t use the mother of my children to stop him from going apeshit.”
“He would do it for you in an instant.”
“Fox is crazy,” Red argued. “No, that’s my final answer. I don’t want to hear another word about this.”
36
FOX
“Run!”
I squeezed my eyes closed, trying to get the images out of my head. I slammed my fists against my forehead, trying to push the images further back in my mind. They assaulted me the moment I stepped into this room, refusing to leave my brain.
The statue weighed heavy in my hand, but all I could see were her pleading eyes, begging for me to run. But I was the man of the house, no matter how small. I couldn’t allow anyone to treat my mother like this. I ran at him and swung hard, smashing the statue into his head. A flood of happiness filled me with every drop spilled. That smug look on his face was soon disfigured so badly that no one would be able to identify him.
Men like him didn’t deserve to walk this earth, to be allowed to touch something so precious like my mother. She might not be the best mom, but she did everything she could for me. This man took advantage of her, used her for his own amusement, and I would never allow that to happen again.
I spun around and faced the man currently stretched out on the table. Blood ran like a stream off the table, dripping into the little puddles on the ground. I flipped the knife in my hand over and over, trying to regain some control, but the darkness had taken control.
I bent down so he could really hear me. After all, he only had one ear. The other was laying beside him on the table. “You will never touch another woman again, you sick fuck.”
He whimpered, but the fun was gone. He was barely conscious. It wouldn’t be too much longer before he was gone. My gaze slid down the length of his body to where his stomach was ripped open. His insides spilled over the table, and his blood was barely pumping through his veins. I gave him another five minutes before his suffering ended.
It was a shame I couldn’t make it last longer. I got a little carried away tearing apart his body, and the enjoyment didn’t last nearly long enough for me. But after I watched that video of him breaking into Sarah’s room, I knew I had to take him out. The need thrummed through me, leaving me unable to settle until I found out exactly who he was. And what I found was even worse than what was on that video. The number of innocent lives that he touched…it made my stomach churn. With him out of the picture, he would never hurt anyone again.
I stepped back and flipped the knife again. My pulse was still jumping, telling me there was more to do. But this man was far beyond any form of torture that would make his last moments hurt. It just didn’t seem like enough. Nothing was ever going to satisfy that hunger inside me to kill the men who would hurt the innocent.
“Fox.”
