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“I want that bastard picked up, tied up, and dragged down here,” Viper snarls, slamming his fist on the table.
“Already put a call into Stoney. He’s got men picking up and doing as you want.” Vulture smirks. “Now, for more that needs to be said, Rosemary had already caught the attention of these people. She’s damn good in the ring, and I mean damn good. That’s where Enyo comes in. See, Enyo is the actual person to which Dominic answers. She is the one who pulls all the strings.” Opening a folder, Vulture pulls out a picture and tosses it to the middle of the table. “Does anyone recognize this woman here?”
I take a look at the image, not recognizing the woman. “I didn’t recognize her. Who is she?”
“I don’t recognize her,” Viper remarks, cocking a brow.
“It’s my ex-wife,” Big announces. “Rosemary’s mother.”
“I thought you said your wife was dead,” Viper growls, leaning forward in his seat, looking ready to come out of it.
“She is.” Big grunts and looks at his son. “Should have known this would come back to haunt her.”
“Want to enlighten us?” I sure as fuck want to know what’s going on.
“Violet, her real name is Violet, and she’s a bitch. She tried to kill my daughter. Hated her from the moment she was born because she was no longer the center of attention. Left when she was only a few months old after Cobra caught her trying to drown Rosemary. The woman Rosemary knew as her mother was killed years ago, and we hid the truth from her. She didn’t need to know that the reason her mother was killed was because Violet didn’t want Rosemary to have her. Violet made it known before she disappeared, dropping off the radar.”
We all listen to Big finish telling us about the shit that Rosemary knows nothing about. I have to respect what these men did to protect her from the truth, but it hurt her in the process. She lost them along the way.
“So, let me get this right, this Violet woman is Enyo, and she’s got a vendetta against Rosemary because she was born and took away her spotlight?” My voice heavy with sarcasm.
“Violet was always a bitch, only reason we married was ‘cause I knocked her ass up the first time. I was going to leave her, and she tricked me into having another kid, saying she wanted to give me another son. Instead, we had Rosemary. She hated how I was with my princess. It pissed her off because she wasn’t getting the attention she thought she deserved.”
“The woman was a psycho bitch,” Cobra says bitterly.
“And she killed the woman Rosemary knew as her mother?” Cyprus grunts.
“Stephanie.” Big grunts. “I hired her as a nanny and ended up marrying her.” He shrugs with mocking resignation. “Never should have done that. Loved her, but not enough to protect her as I should have. That was on me. I let her go out when I knew there were threats. Told her about them, and she brushed them off. Violet got her hands on Steph and tormented her. She then made sure I knew that Rosemary would suffer next. It’s why we let her go the way we did. To protect her. Fuck.” He lets out a breath. “Should have known it was her behind this. She’s selfish and also big into fights. It’s the one thing the two of them ever shared in common. Only difference is my girl is damn good at it. She grew up training and learning to fight. She excelled at it and loved boxing. It was her passion, but she didn’t want to do competitions that much. She’d do them, but she wanted to teach it. Used to say she was going to own her own gym one day and teach kids what she learned.”
Well, fuck.
“How do we take this bitch out?” Wolf asks, leaning back in his chair, arms stretched out, as he taps his fingers on the table.
“First, we have to find her.” I rock my head on my shoulders, stretching my muscles, trying to relieve the tension there. “We got Rosemary back way too easily after we found her. Why?”
“Because they’re playing games here,” Vulture declares, eyes gleaming. “According to Dominic’s phone records, he got a call just moments before the match started. It was all set up from there. They tricked us and got away.”
“This is just getting started,” Viper finishes, turning in his chair. From the side profile, you can visibly see his jaw clenching.
And he’s right. This is just getting started, and we need to figure out a game plan. They were one step ahead of us this time. We need to be prepared for them and what they might try to do next.
CHAPTER9
ROSEMARY
“Come on, Tigress, wake up for me, baby.” The words spoken were soft and sweet-like. Fingers brush through my hair, massaging my scalp. It feels good, and I don’t want to wake up, but I know who the voice belongs to.
I know he’s right next to me, the one stroking his fingers soothingly.
“What are you doing?” Blinking, I roll to my back and stare at him, bewildered by the fact he’s here.
“You had a moment, and we had to sedate you, baby. You’re in my bed.” Kevlar’s eyes hold that softness, though it’s mixed with concern.
It takes a few seconds for his words to register, and I narrow my gaze, irritation sliding into place, replacing the confusion and uncertainty. “You sedated me? Put me in your bed.” Flashing him my teeth, I jerk away from him and scramble out of the bed. My anger builds, and I whirl around to face off with Kevlar as he climbs out of bed. “What gives you the right to do either? I’m not anything to you or anyone else here.”
“That would be where you’re wrong,” he states with a deceptive calm in his voice. One that doesn’t match the flash of anger that replaces the softness in his eyes. “When it comes to you, I have every fuckin’ right, Rosemary. I’ll be damned if you think otherwise.” Kevlar grips my wrists, yanks me the short distance toward him, and engulfs me in his arms, surrounding me with his heat. “The way I see it, I may have fucked up that night when I kicked you out the next morning, fucked up even further with what I did later on, but you’re mine. Have been since that night, and don’t deny it.”
He did not just say that.
