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“I didn’t even know he existed until that day.”
Shane frowns. “What? You didn’t know him, and you just strolled out of here holding his hand? You expect us to believe that?”
I shift in my seat. “I did know him a long time ago… It’s complicated.”
“Then uncomplicate it, Jessie, or I swear to God, I will put a bullet in your head right now,” Shane snarls.
“How are you going to get your money from the Wolf then?” I challenge him.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” he scowls at me.
I clamp my lips together and sit back in my chair as Conor leans forward in his. “Is he worth losing everything for, Jessie? Tell us who he is and why you went with him and you can walk out of here.” He stares at me with those deep brown eyes and I remember all the times I looked into them and the love I felt. How did all of it come to mean nothing? Did it ever mean anything?
Suddenly, I am so tired of everything. I can’t do this anymore. I have been fighting for so long, I’m exhausted by it. “You promise?”
“Yes.”
I take a deep breath. I don’t know who I trust or what I believe any longer, but what have I got to lose when I’ve already lost everything? “He’s my father,” I stammer.
All four of them stare at me with their mouths open.
“So, your father wasn’t the guy who was killed by the Wolf?” Conor asks.
“Yes. But he didn’t die. He survived.”
“No. That’s impossible. I saw the police reports. You’re lying,” Shane snaps.
“I appreciate that it seems impossible. But it’s him. He managed to escape from our house that night and then there was some kind of cover-up.”
“Jessie,” Shane interrupts me. “You saw what the Wolf did to him. You’ve seen those police reports too. The autopsy reports. Your father is dead.”
Tears prick at my eyes. “I know. But he was here. That day I came back from the salon, he was here. He said he’d been looking for me all this time.” I sniff as I wipe the tears from my cheeks. “I know it sounds crazy, but it was him.”
“But why did you go?” Conor asks. “Why didn’t you wait for us?”
I swallow hard as I look at them. I suppose I’m all in now, anyway. “He told me that the reason he’d found me was because you were trying to reach out to the Wolf. So you could sell me back to him.”
“And you believed him?” Conor snaps.
“He’s my father!”
“No, he’s not,” Shane interrupts me.
“You don’t understand,” I say with a shake of my head. “I thought he was dead. And then he was standing there. Right in front of me. I was in shock. I wasn’t thinking clearly. And then he told me that was how he found me and I… I didn’t have time to question him. He said we had to leave.”
“Red,” Mikey says. “You can’t honestly think that we would do that?”
“Really? The four guys who kidnapped me and kept me in a cell for days with hardly any food or water?” I snap. “No. You would never do anything like that, would you?”
“But that was because we thought you were working for the Russians. We came home and you’d left that stupid fucking note. You didn’t think we’d check the security feed and see you walking out of here holding some guy’s hand? What the fuck did you expect us to do, Jessie?” Shane snaps.
I blink at him. I’m so damn confused. “I don’t know,” I look down at my hands. “But why would he lie to me? And how did he find me if it wasn’t because of you?”
“The guy from Balthazar’s,” Conor says with a sigh. “He didn’t die, Jessie. At least not for a few days. And he obviously recognized you as your mother’s daughter. That must be how he found you.”
“What?” I look up and blink at him, trying to process this newest piece of information.
Mikey whispers something to Shane who nods at whatever his brother said before he pushes a piece of paper across the desk to me. “These are the results of the urine tests the doc did on you yesterday. She double checked them in the lab and emailed these this morning. You see all of those drugs that were in your system?”
