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With difficulty, he brings his head up and focuses his stare on me. “They’re going to sell London’s virginity to the highest bidder on the night of her twenty-first birthday. They want to break—pass her around to anyone willing to pay the fee—until nothing is left but a shell of a woman. Then, when his control is obsolete, Marcus wants to kill her after she signs everything over to him and Alton.”
There it is. The ultimate goal.
His next intake of air is difficult, and I notice his face swelling.
Pulling my favorite knife from my back pocket, I flip it open and let the steel blade reflect a bit of the light in the room. “Anything else I should know?”
“You have a—” He doesn’t get to finish as I bury my knife up his skull via his chin. The long blade lodges itself, and I twist the handle to make sure he’s dead.
Frank’s body sags against the chains and his breathing is no more.
“Clean this up, and take Jimmy home,” I say while removing my knife. “He can thank me another day for killing the scum responsible for his pain.”
32
WHEN I WALK IN the door a few hours later, I find London asleep on the couch. There’s a repeat of her favorite show playing, the women fighting about something that no one cares about, yet my girl finds amusing. The trashier the show, the more she loves it.
Taking the control from her hand, I turn the TV off and set it aside. My eyes stay on her beautiful face and pouty lips. On how she’s smiling a tiny bit.
That innocence in her kills me. Makes me throb.
It reminds me of her inexperience, yet how eager to learn she is to please me.
“Sorry for missing it, pretty girl,” I whisper, leaning down to nuzzle her soft cheek. “I’ll make it up to you. Promise.”
Being late tonight was inevitable. After disposing of Frank and having Jimmy taken home to his not-pregnant wife, I sat down to have a conversation with Javier and my lawyer.
Amelia’s home is back in the legal possession of her daughter. A judge sided with London over the contest of the will, seeing that several changes were made the day of her death and the filing signature was wrong. As of today, at four thirty in the afternoon, she no longer has a guardian. The accounts are hers and the stipend will be deposited into an account I made for her in my bank.
No one has the right to touch a single cent of hers.
The Fosters will be served with an eviction notice tomorrow, and she won’t be in Chicago when it happens. I’m taking her away. Giving us a break.
Javier has his instruction, and Mariah will hold the fort down, emailing me only when it’s an emergency they can’t handle.
“How do you plan to do that?” One eye is open, and she looks adorable in her fake annoyance. “Cause the episode you missed was epic.”
“Is that so? Who fought with whom this week?” Slipping my arms beneath her body, I pick up her grumpy form off the couch and carry her into our room. Not once since moving in has she slept anywhere but beside me. “Or did the dude go to the strip club? Was he caught getting friendly with a dancer?”
“Neither.” There’s a pout in her tone, and I kiss her. Nip the plump bottom lip while she rolls her eyes. “The mother was tripping on his girl and they fought over dinner. Food and cheap wine went everywhere.”
I lower her down to the mattress, laying her back so I can crawl over her body. “How can you watch those shows?”
Boggles the mind how much she enjoys these things.
“Cheesy goodness, boo. It’s all in the cheesy goodness.”
“Do you think you can give those up for a few days starting tomorrow?” I kiss her chin, then neck, licking a path down London’s throat toward her chest.
“Why?” She arches to give me better access. “What’s going on?”
“Nothing.” I leave open-mouthed kisses across each breast, dipping my tongue between the two to tease the skin. “Just you and me…”
“You and me what?” she hisses when I drag my tongue beneath the edge of her tank and find a nipple.
I take the tight tip between my teeth and pull, sliding my teeth over the sensitive skin as I release her. “We’re just going on a little vacation to a secluded island…a few days of fun in the sun and some training. Nothing special.”
Twirl pushes me back to look at my face with a perfect brow raised. “You said what now?”
