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"Zeus... they know someone took it. Mr. Imbue." She says, and my blood goes cold. This is the same man that I fought in the alley. The same man who tried to intimidate Father Joseph. He hurt my woman.
He's going to fucking die.
I calm myself and do what I need to help Inessa. She's in bad shape, but once she warms up, and I get her cuts patched up she's much better.
I hold her in my arms as she sleeps and as her chest rises and falls I stare at the space right between her breast. I could see my name inked right there on her sternum. I'm going to mark her as my own, I just have to figure out a way to make that happen.
Once I know that she's sleeping soundly, I reach for my phone again. I need to call back home.
Sven and Luka wanted me to keep this under wraps, but there's no way for me to do that now. I'm not going to leave Desmon to go free, and anything I do will be public in some way.
It's likely either early in the morning or late the next night when I call. I don't know and don't care.
"Zeus, what the fuck man, you woke Brinley." Luka says.
"I'm going off plan. Shit arose and I can't keep this quiet. I need the okay." I say softly, not wanting to wake Inessa.
"Fuck, wait." Luka says. I hear a beep and a few seconds later another.
"This better be fucking life or death." Sven grumbles.
"I have to kill him. It's going to be public."
"Wait. No. We discussed this already. Dagger knows what's going on." Sven says, and I hear the coves shuffle as he sits up in bed.
"Not Joseph, fucking Imbue. Giles' muscle." I tell him.
"Absolutely not. We don't want Giles to know we're on to him. He's infiltrating too quickly. We need to make sure that we have our business straight before we take him on."
"I don't care!" I snap and suck a deep breath in when I realize I've just spoken to the leaders of my family like that. "I apologize. He hurt, Inessa. Would you let him get away with hurting Ema or Brinley? I can't… I can't… I fucking can't"
It feels like a hand is wrapping around my neck as the idea of letting the man who hurt Inessa go free is planted in my head.
"Who's Inessa?" Luka asks.
"The sister from the convent."
"No... No, you didn't!" Sven says, and I can hear the smile coming through the line.
"Sven!" I grunt out, doing my best to remain respectful.
"Is she going to take your mark?"
"I don't know if she leaves the life, I'll make sure she does. Either way, I can't just leave her here to deal with our mess. I did this. We left her open like that." I say.
"Fire." Luka says out of nowhere.
"What?" I ask.
"Those old structures burn down all the time. If the man has to go, fire is the way to do it. Spare as many as you can." Luka says, and finally that's one answer I can get behind.
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Zeus
I leaveInessa back at the house with a note on the night table to explain to her what I'm going to do. I need to take care of this tonight before Desmon is in the wind.
I make it back to the convent in record time, but make sure to park my car a bit back, so I can run the rest of the way on foot. If Desmon is still there, which I hope he is, I don't want him to see me and get spooked.
