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Of course, he hadn’t changed much in ten years. He’d always been a real frozen bastard.
Jason hadn’t even been fifteen when he had killed his first man. The woman that had changed everything was just a year or so later.
Jason had killed his own mother.
Right there in front of Wayne, Preston, and Bruce. And Geena. That woman—she'd had no business being there with Preston's wife that day. She was too damned naive and sheltered, but Preston's wife had thought it was funny to expose her new little friend to thereal world.Patsy had gotten off on shocking little Geena, too. No denying that.
Wayne regretted Geena most of all. She’d been anicegirl. Young, innocent, that kind of thing. Naive. Her husband had sheltered her a great deal. Probably too much. Wayne had been dismissive and derogatory about that woman. She’d annoyed him. All that wholesomegoodnesshe had thought was stupid.
He’d been a fool. Innocence like that should be protected.
His girls were all that innocent, too. He’d kill a man who took advantage of one of his girls. Destroyed that goodness in them. Without hesitating. Now…now he understood why her husband had been so rabidly overprotective of her back then.
But Patsy had pushed, and pushed. Until Morris had turned to the boy and told him to do it. Right there. Jason Smith-Morris had stabbed his own mother dead. Without hesitating. On his father’s orders.
Then turned on her little friend Geena.
Geena had gotten lucky to survive. She’d ran, bleeding from the wound in her neck.
Right outside.
Just as her husband had been pulling up, angry that she was there in the first place.
Wayne hadn’t seen them since.
Well, Geena probably regretted that day more than anyone. What that woman had lost—well,nowWayne understood the hurt. He had nothing against Geena and her husband. He never really had. He just wanted her to keep her mouth shut. That was it. She had for twenty-three years, as far as he knew. But things were changing.
Morris Preston would face the consequences of what he had done now. Wayne just wanted to make sure thathedidn’t face those same consequences along the way.
As far as Wayne knew, Geena was the only one on the planet besides Wayne now who knew the truth about Jason. About who the man's mother was.
More importantly, Geena knew who Jason'sfatherwas.
Morris Preston's secret. Geena knew. Now Jason wanted her dead because of it. The younger man was a psychopath. There was no other way to describe him. Obsessed.
Jason wasn’t going to stop until Geena was dead. Wayne needed to figure out a way to either make that happen. Or take Jason out of the equation.
Geena and her husband dead would clean up some worries for Wayne, too. He couldn’t discount that. He was going to have to find a way to make that happen.
Wayne just had tofindher first.
Jason’s sources—they weren’t infallible. Geena was still out there.
But it was just a matter of time.
26
Marin’s idea tostart a catering side of the diner had been a good one, but Dusty was beyond exhausted. It hadn’t helped that she hadn’t slept well. Again.
It was all Ben’s fault.
She’d tried to avoid him while he’d been at the hotel.
It hadn’t been easy.
Ben, Ben, Ben.He was all she had been able to think about.
Ben and the kiss that had flamed her insides and changed her forever. She would never be able to look at him as just Nikki’s older brother again. No. He would forever be the man who turned her world on its side when she had least expected it.
