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"Hello? Mom? Are you okay? God, please tell me you're okay."
"Your mother’s still alive."
Ace's voice makes me go perfectly still. I don't even want to breathe.
"Wh…where is she? Where's my daughter?" I shout.
"Cute kid, your daughter. Don't worry. We haven't hurt her yet."
Yet.
"Please," I whisper hoarsely. "Ace…"
"We might not have to if you cooperate. See, Glitch called me with some interesting news. Said you had a picture of your daughter in your purse…course, we already knew about her thanks to his recent research. But he thought she looked kinda interesting. Wanna know why?"
I already know why. Domenic is tense beside me, and I can tell he wants to grab my phone, but he doesn't. He can clearly hear what Ace is saying, and while I'm sure he wants to take the phone and go all alpha mafioso, snarling to bring Evelyn back, maybe he can sense the big reveal coming on the other end because he waits with a furrowed brow at me.
Ace goes on. "Glitch was working that night. The one where you fucked up. Had him hacked into the feeds, so he had a nice view of you getting touchy-feely with the heir of the Caputo family. That's how I knew you broke the rules. It's how we knew you couldn't be in the Wild Seven anymore."
I close my eyes because I can't stand to see the look on Domenic's face.
"One big mistake three years ago at the Golden Flame…it was an even bigger mistake than you realized, huh? I guess I didn’t need to have Roulette break your leg to remind you, since you had the runt for that. She looks like her father.”
"Loren." Domenic's voice is quiet, hoarse, and filled with darkness beside me.
I still don't open my eyes. He knows now.He knows everything I was trying to hide.
"Are you going to ransom her?" I demand, hot tears dripping over my cheeks.
He laughs on the other end. An unpleasant sound. "We could try, I'm sure. Find out if the papa will pay for the baby he probably never wanted. Or we'll just go with what we have now—giving the kid over as leverage to the Gallo family. I'm sure you know they're another crime family, rivals of the Caputos. We've been working with one of their guys. I'm sure you've noticed his handiwork while sitting pretty in that useless room full of cameras."
The other hacker is a…Gallo? An enemy of the Caputos?
That barely registers over the rushing sound in my ears. They have Evelyn and plan on handing over my two-year-old child to a crime family. As fuckingleverage.
Ace’s voice hardens into something truly chilling on the other end. "Watch your back, Loren. Because the next time I see you again, and I will, I really am going to put a bullet in your pretty little head."
The line goes dead.
I'm furious and frozen at once. I'm terrified. And when I open my eyes, Domenic is storming away from me.
Chapter 20
Domenic
She looks like her father.
How did I miss it?
The new strand of rage coursing through me is unlike anything I've experienced before—and my family's line of work comes with rage in spades. Dealing with my father's fickle confidence in me and his wayward sense of pride for years has taught me to conceal my real emotions carefully. People know when I'm angry without seeing it firsthand.
But right now, I'm not hiding anything. I'm fucking furious, and the second I find the man Loren called "Ace," I'll feel his neck snapping as I squeeze that motherfucker's life out with my bare hands.
I can hear Loren following behind me, still sobbing but silent now.
That pisses me off, too. I hate her tears.
Bursting into the security room, I ignore the squeaks and gasps of everyone who leaps out of my way as if a rabid tiger was just released in their midst. It must be my expression that makes them shrink into their seats or vacate the room altogether.
