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“I’ll send her a pic.”
Fucking obviously.
“When the heat’s died down and whoever this fucker is, is six feet under then I’ll tell Becca it’s safe to come back to Thorn Valley. She shouldn’t be here right now. The man who was using her for intel knows just as well as we do that she is the only person who can ID him. Who has information that could lead to us finding him.”
I let him fill in the blanks. If Becca came back here, it wasn’t just Diesel she had to be afraid of but also him.
“I won’t bring her back here to die. You can’t ask me to do that. No matter the reason why.”
He held my stare for a long moment. “You care for this girl? Even after what she did to you? Could’ve done to them?”
He indicated his sons.
“I didn’t say I forgave her,” I corrected him. “But there’s a difference between making a mistake and a calculated move.”
He nodded quietly to himself, and I knew he had to see some reason in what I’d said. What good would Becca be to him if the man who was grooming her got to her before we did? Before she could ID him?
“All right.”
“All right?”
“We do it your way. She have good security where she is?”
A vivid image of the man whose voice played over the tapes in the warehouse attacking Becca in her European flat flashed in my mind. “I’ll make sure she does.”
Another nod. “I want an established line of contact between you and her by tomorrow, and I’ll have a list of questions by morning.”
Had we just come to an agreement without blood spilling?
Damn.
I’d be more surprised if it weren’t for knowing the ultimate—and mutual—goal here was the assured safety of his sons. It was the one thing I thought that could force us to work together.
“Want me to drive you back?” Grey asked, pushing up from his knees. “We can get rid of the truck for you.”
Grey’s face had remained impassive all night, and I got the distinct feeling that a war was waging beneath his carefully painted mask. He wasn’t just walking on eggshells with me. He was doing the same with his adoptive father.
It made my heart hurt to watch him.
“We aren’t finished,” Diesel said, staring at Grey until he sat back down. “There’s something else, and I wanted to bring it to you three before I put it to a vote with the others.”
Three.
So, not me then.
Noted.
This had Rook sitting up, his whiskey dangling from his fingers between his legs, forgotten for the moment. “Total annihilation?”
Diesel faced him with the smallest of smirks at the edge of his mouth. “No, Son, not yet.”
Rook grunted and sat back again. His excitement gone.
“I want to ally with the Kings.”
“What?” Corvus roared, his head whipping around to face his father. “Why the fuck would we do that? We’ve never allied with anyone and there’s a fucking reason for that.”
“We trust our own,” Rook added. “No one else.”
