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“That was unexpected.” Rossi looked at Thom. “I told you I’d protect you and I failed. Please accept my apologies.”
Thom nodded. Of course he did. But I wasn’t so forgiving. I took a step forward as all heads turned to the thud of steps behind us. I glanced over my shoulder and found London’s diamond assholes walking in. All fucking four of them, including the smug, self-righteous asshole who’d threatened me.
I glared at him as he walked past. He might be on our side, but that didn’t mean I didn’t want to drive my knee into his balls. Yeah, that’s how low I was willing to go. The pompous prick must’ve read my mind. He jerked his gaze toward me as he strode by, giving me a look that told me the feeling was mutual.
“Helene,” He murmured to my woman standing at my side. “So nice to see you again.”
A twitch came in the corner of my mouth. Keep going, buddy…keep fucking going.
“Baron, Royal, Loyal, and Wolfe, and Miss…” Benjamin fixed his gaze on the young woman with them.
“Cloe,” Baron answered for her, his hand protectively against the small of her back, and not in a fatherly way.
Interesting, very interesting.
“Cloe,” Ben added. “Thank you for joining us. The Ares family?” He glanced at London.
St. James just shook his head. “Today is the funeral. I think they have enough problems of their own to deal with right now.”
“Fair enough.” Ben nodded, then turned his attention back to us. “We’re closing in, but we need to move faster. London and Guild have their men pressuring the known gangs who work for him, but it’s not enough. There’s already been two attacks on my family. One two years ago, and another recently.”
Surprise filled me.
All heads turned to Lazarus. His gaze was pure rage, clear, cutting…cold as ice. No wonder the redhead was fixed to his side. The baby mewled in her arms. The raven haired little one dressed in pastel lavender sat on the ground at her side, focused on scribbling with crayons on an open coloring book.
“What kind of attack?” London lifted his focus from Hale’s child.
It looked like I wasn’t the only one left out of the information loop.
“Hale has started proceedings to gain full custody.”
“No,” Vivienne whimpered, shaking her head. She was pale and shaking, her hands around her belly. “No, he can’t do that.”
Ben’s expression only grew darker. “That’s what we’re trying to prevent. This is more than an outright attack, this is fucking sickening.”
Kat’s red eyes shone with tears. It looked like she’d been crying and hadn’t stopped. It made me shift a little closer to Helene. The time for children for us was long gone. But that did little for the bloodthirsty part of my nature. I felt for Lazarus. To take a man’s child was one thing. But to do what we all knew he wanted to do to this little one was a whole new level of sick disgust.
We needed to find him.
And we needed to find him now.
“Harper has been working ever since we gained access to find his location.” London said.
But the moment my gaze found the hacker, he didn’t fill me with confidence. Dark circles under his eyes only enhanced the desperate look. I’d seen that look far too many times.
“If he doesn’t.” I turned to the others. “What then? We keep going door to door until we’ve searched every goddamn building in the city? How long do you think that’s going to take.”
“It’ll work.” Lazarus forced the words through clenched teeth. The guy looked like he was about to rip someone’s head off. I was quite partial to where mine was, but still, someone had to ask the question.
“What about Anna?” Kat asked, turning to him. “Please, Laz.”
“She’s a Salvatore, baby,” he growled and stared straight ahead.
“No, she isn’t,” Kat whispered. “She’s my friend.”
Obviously there was bad blood between the two main Mafia families once more. I’d assumed they were over it, obviously not.
Tears spilled from her eyes. This was a whole new layer of tension.
