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He closes the call off, muttering a curse word as he approaches me.
“Who was that?”
Grave eyes regard me, the storm in them raging.
“We need a new banker.” His response isn’t what I asked, but I don’t care. “Seems during tonight’s run of jobs, ours was ambushed.”
“The money?”
“Gone.”
“All of it?”
“Every last penny.”
“Fuck.” My hands ball into fists. “And what about Cole?”
“One gunshot wound to the head. Same with Mike.”
“So, execution-style?” I ask, and he nods. “Anything else?”
“Yeah, this,” he starts, pausing only to open the message he just received. “Recognise it?”
Sat looking pretty amongst brain matter and blood is the impression of scarlet red lips pressed cleanly against the window, Mike’s lifeless head resting against the inside pane.
“You should’ve let me kill her. Should’ve let me kill her pet. He’s definitely worth more dead than alive.”
I stare at him as I admit that, currently no love lost.
“Oh, trust me. Next time, I won’t stop you.”
I know she hates me, but I haven’t even tipped the level of my hate for her.
We were always told there’s a fine line between love and hate, and I’m close to toeing the line to get what I need now.
“Good. Make that a promise.”
I know I have to face the music. There hasn’t been a change of the boss in my lifetime. All I ever knew was Nicolas at the helm, but never did he have a run of bad luck in quite such quick succession.
And what maddens me isn’t the clear-up I have to overlook and the face I have to put on the matter. What enrages me the most is my father. I can already hear every octave he’ll use to condemn me, to condemn the atrocities that have happened today, and condemn Natalia—just like he has so many times over the years.
“Do me a favour.”
I round my side of the car, hand on the driver’s door handle, and glance across the top of my car at Sebastian.
“What’s that?” Sebastian asks.
“Take my gun off me before we get back. The mood I’m in, my father is likely to end up like Mike and Cole the moment he opens his mouth.”
“Take mine off me too, because I feel like I might join you.”
Chapter Eleven
NATALIA
“Did you know?”
Is he serious right now?
