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Ramos nodded. Dean swore under his breath and stormed toward the freezer door. “Why the fuck did you put her in there?”
“Relax. I meddled with the temperature. She won’t freeze.” Ramos’s footsteps pounded behind Dean. “Besides, your woman is a fighter, and in case Luciano came back, I figured it was safer to contain her than expect her to play along. I always planned on helping her escape. And if all this went pear-shaped, the last thing I needed was your old lady identifying me as part of the syndicate.”
“Ever heard of blindfolds and ropes, dumbass?” Dean held his hand to the freezer.
Ramos kept his mouth shut long enough for a muffled scream to come into focus. Sarah’s scream. Pitchy. Broken. Desperate.
For all the savagery she’d encountered today. For everything he’d put her through in the days and weeks prior. He’d always banked on being able to simply slip out of town and out of her life. That she’d be just fine without him. But trouble followed him, and nothing he touched escaped unscathed.
She wasn’t dead, but her cry belonged to someone who thought they would die soon enough. A cry he’d heard before, all those years ago in the service. A cry that sank metal claws into his heart and pointed blame at him for all her trauma.
This wasn’t how he’d wanted any reunion to go.
There was no telling what awaited him on the other side of this door.
