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I blink, and tears fall from my eyes as I look up into a set of green eyes. It’s Saint now standing in front of me. My chest is tight, and I’m gasping for breath. “I…slept with him.” My words shake.
Saint sighs and steps into me, but I go to step back. “I…I let him—”
“Come on, sweetheart.” He picks me up, and I bury my face into his shirt as I allow him to carry me out of the room.
SIXTY-FOUR
SAINT
Ienter my room in the birdcage and lay her on the bed. I’ve been dying to bring her in here to be with me. She should have been here all this time. “You’re okay, Ashtyn.” She’s shaking, her eyes wide, and I pull her into me.
I recognized the guy the moment Kash removed the mask. I had seen him before when I was watching her. Benny was one of her clients who came into Glass. She had been sleeping with him. I watched her one night meet up with him at a hotel.
It was one of the most excruciating things I had to witness. Watching my wife please other men. But I had to wait. I had a plan in place and couldn’t deviate from it. Now I wish I would have rushed in and killed him right then and there. Not given a fuck about the plan and just taken her for myself.
Her cries fill the room, and I rock her back and forth until they subside and her body relaxes in my arms.
* * *
Kashtonand I are sitting in the office when the door opens, and Tyson enters with his four men. Jenks drops something on the desk.
“What’s this?” I ask.
“We took the phone that Benny had, and I crossed it with Ashtyn’s phone you gave me. I was able to make a match.”
“We knew that would happen,” Tyson says.
“Yeah, but I also found a connection to a number that she had in her phone.”
“Who?” I rub my forehead. It hasn’t even been ten hours since I found out my brother betrayed me, and my wife had been pregnant when she left me.
“Whitney.”
My head snaps up to see Haidyn now standing in the office when he answers me. I get to my feet and glare at him.
He is unfazed. “Benny said that he had a friend of Ashtyn’s drug her. When they came to grab her, they traded her with Whitney. She was the only one who could put him in Ashtyn’s house the night he raped her.” He crosses his arms over his chest. “Her mother was dead, Laura was here…”
“Why didn’t he touch Laura?” Colton asks. “He had the perfect opportunity.”
“Because Laura was always on his side from the beginning,” Haidyn answers. “If it wasn’t for her, he wouldn’t have known she was pregnant. She was his inside contact.”
A part of me wonders if that’s why Laura tried so hard to get my father to get rid of Ashtyn. She knew all along that she was raped and that I cheated at the ritual. She kept my secret because she knew I kept hers. I wasn’t aware that her mother had anything to do with it, though. Benny said her mother planned it, but on the video, the masked man—being Benny—had called Laura and said it was done. It was her voice I heard on the other side of the phone.
I couldn’t touch her, though. That’s why when Sin came to me and we realized who we had inside of Carnage, I knew I’d give Sin whatever he fucking wanted in exchange for Laura. Even if that meant I had to take him in and torture him first. I’d kill a million Lords if it meant saving my wife. I was betting everything that Elli’s father would bring her mother in. He spent too much time here to not want revenge.
Just then the door opens, and Adam enters. He’s another one on my shit list. They are both tied at the top.
Kashton gets up and walks over to him, giving him a handshake hug. “Does this mean you’re back?” Kash asks.
He shakes his head. “No. I don’t belong here.” Looking over the office, he turns to Haidyn, and they hug. “But I’ll keep in touch.” He looks at me, and I stay where I’m at.
If you ask me, he abandoned Ashtyn when she needed him the most. And to stay gone all this time. Why? What was the point of coming back now? How long has Haidyn been in touch with him? Did they have this all set up? So many questions that I refuse to ask because I’ll look like I care, and I no longer do. I wrote him off a long time ago.
“How many did you collect?” Haidyn asks him.
“We’ve got eight loaded and ready to move,” he answers.
Adam’s referring to the prisoners we had here at Carnage. After Ashtyn fell asleep in my arms in our bed, I got back to work. I couldn’t have her here unless I knew it was safe. We had moved everyone to the morgue and needed to get some back to the hospital. The buildings needed to be checked and cleared.
