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“Okay,” There was a short pause before he sighed, and I could hear him get up and move. “What’s on your mind Tiny Dancer?”
“I… I… I need to talk to you about Kyle,” It came out rushed and my nerves caused me to stumble as I said the words.
I could hear him sigh, before he called out to someone letting them know he was leaving.
“Logan?” I said, my voice small, as my anxiety levels started to heighten. “Are you there?”
“Yeah, I’m here Phee,” his voice was soft, I could hear the car door close, he must have been heading home. “I’m about to head home.”
“You didn’t have to leave,” I immediately started to feel bad, I hadn’t wanted him to cut his plans short.
“It’s okay Phee, Stryker gave me the heads up that this would be coming,” He sounded relieved, which had me confused. “I’m guessing you’ve made your decision?”
“Ahh not really, it’s why I called you,” I said, I could feel my heart as it rapidly pounded in my chest. This was such a hard thing to talk about. My palms were sweating.
“If it were up to me, I’d put a bullet between his eyes Phee,” The determination in his voice told me, he’d put a lot of though into this. Relief washed over me, not that I had decided to end Kyle, but if it came to it, at least I knew where he stood.
“I think I want to go see him Lo, I need to know why?” I took a deep breath, I needed to do this. It was time to take back my life and move on. Once I had my answers, then I could make my final decision.
“Phee, if you don’t want to do it, I will.” There was finality in his voice. He had already decided what should happen, I couldn’t help but smile at the protectiveness he was showing. “If he gets out, he won’t stop coming Phee, he is fixated on you. It’s the only way to keep you safe.”
“Yeah I know,” It was what I feared the most, I’d always be looking over my shoulder if he was ever to be released. It wasn’t a way to live, for any of us. “You think you could take me?”
“Tiny Dancer, I’d walk through fucking fire for you,” His voice deep and full of love, as he said the words, making me smile. “I’m on my way home now.”
Chapter Forty Two - Phoenix
“Are you sure you want to do this Phee?” Logan asked, as he grabbed me by the arm as I went to enter the room where they had been keeping Kyle. “If you want to take a little more time it’s okay.”
“I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t, Lo.” I answered quietly, looking down at where his hand rested in my arm then up to his face, worry was written all over it. Turning to him I rested my forehead on his. “Trust me the sooner we get this done, the sooner we can all start to move on.
Reaching up on my tip toes, I gave him a chaste kiss, before turning around and opening the dirty looking door. As I entered the room, the smell that hit me was almost nauseating. Body odour, old blood, sweat they had all combined and was heavy enough to turn your stomach.
“Oh God,” I whispered, bringing my hand up to cover my mouth and nose, looking back at Logan. He just stood there mutely and shrugged. What the hell had they been doing here.
In one corner was a filthy old mattress, the sheets had long turned and started to change colour. The lights overhead flickered and sitting in the middle of the room, was the reason I was here.
Taking a deep breath, I took one last look at Logan, an unreadable expression on his face, the same one that has been there ever since I’d shot and killed his aunt. Watching me intensely ever since, I’m not sure why, but something told me he’d been kinda relieved he didn’t have to do it himself.
“Ah Kitten you finally came,” Kyle purred with some weird sense of satisfaction. The hungry look in his eyes, made me want to gauge them out. “I told them you’d be happy to see me.”
“If by happy you mean I’d happily put a bullet through your brain, just like I did your mom, then yes, asshole I’m definitely happy to see you,” The sarcasm thick in my voice as I threw him a saccharine smile, I knelt down just out of his reach, now on equal level. “Why me?”
Kyle looked at me intensely trying to get a read but failing miserably. I saw the flash of anger in his eyes before he decided to take another approach. “Untie me Kitten and help me out.”
“Answer my question, Kyle.” I demanded. Standing up, I turn around and head to the table that was behind me. “You know your mother came to see me last week. I’m also sure they told you she’s dead. Why would she be under the impression I was to be your wife?”
“Because you will be once you set me free.” Kyle’s words sent chills down my spine, cementing Logan’s warning earlier, he would never stop coming for me.After today he wouldn’t be able to come for me ever again.
I wasn’t afraid of him anymore; I’d spent the last few days preparing for this. Nothing he said would hurt me now. Since shooting Catherine Ducane and learning I had to decide the fate of this psycho, the guys had been helping me. Training, talking and dance, when I wasn’t doing any of those I was sleeping. Stryker’s words played on loop inside my head“Take that guilt and bury it Firecracker—you bury it deep and take the anger out on those that deserve it.”
It’s what I intended to do. It’s why the most senior of the Lennox family had made sure everything I could ever want was laid out in front of me. It was why he had been summoned by his father and wasn’t here watching me. Cillian Lennox knew his son would try to stop me if he had an idea of what I had planned.
“Who said I’d set you free?” I replied absently, as I run my fingers over the array of knives, belts, and other tools laid out on the table, the same tools he’d used on me. Settling on a small army knife. “It’s not really a choice you see. If I set you free, you’re never going to stop coming for me, you can’t see what’s right in front of you, I don’t want you Kyle, I never have. Don’t you get it—it will never fucking beyou.”
“Phoenix, Stop itnow.” His attempt to sound in control started to slip as he slowly realised that I wasn’t going to do as he asked. “This won’t end well for you if you don’t.”
“More empty threats Kyle?” Turning around to face him again I twirled the knife between my fingers, I needed to remain calm and unaffected. Looking over at the door, I could see Logan still staring at me, jaw tensing every time Kyle opened his mouth to say something. “The only one in here that this won’t end well for, is you.”
