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For what?
Money?
The worst fucking kind of man.
Maybe I should have shown him some mercy.
But, at the end of the day, I doubted he gave a fuck that Warren would show none to Claire or Judah.
So when I aimed, I did so to kill.
Then I squeezed the trigger.
Once.
Twice.
The gun fell from my hand as my guard crashed to the floor.
With what little energy I had left, I reached into my pocket, stabbing my finger blindly at the phone screen, unable to focus.
There was a ring.
And a voice.
Then the world started to go dark.
So this was how it ended.
Protecting my woman and kid.
There weren’t many better ways to go, I guess…
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Claire
My heartbeat was a frantic tap against my ribcage as I stood inside Judah’s bedroom, trying to convince myself that it was likely nothing.
A tree scratching against a window.
A plane overhead.
A hungry bear or raccoon playing with the garbage cans.
We were safe.
It was a safe house, for God’s sake.
There was a guard parked out front, day and night.
There was no reason to think anything was happening.
Except, of course, the swirling, sick feeling in my stomach, the cold sweat that had spread across my skin, chilling me further as my gaze slid to my son sleeping peacefully in his bed.
Closing my eyes, I raised my hand to the cross at my neck, and said a quick prayer.
It felt like hours passed as I stood there, listening to the complete silence in the house as I tried to convince myself that silence was good. It meant that this was truly nothing, that Aurelio was just being paranoid and overprotective.
