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“I will,” he said. “Have you found our would-be assassin yet?”
He nodded at my shoulder, and the wound throbbed as if I’d forgotten it when I was with Selena.
“I’m close,” I promised.
“I have a lead for you.” He picked up a file from his desk and handed it to me. “I would’ve emailed it if you weren’t such a technophobe.”
“I don’t want to find my phone bricked and a Belladonna looming over me.” I opened the file. A dark haired woman stared up at me. She was clumsily drawn and bore only the faintest resemblance to Selena, in the same way a stick figure with the right hair and eye color would. “You got a picture of the assassin?”
“Perhaps. Anthony Tallo said he encountered a woman who wasn’t on the guest list.”
Anthony Tallo was a dead man.
“Interesting,” I said. “This will certainly help. I’ll have the guys re-check the CCTV footage near the mansion to see if they can find any evidence of her.”
Selena had taken care of my father’s security system. She was so helpful.
Gavin nodded curtly. “How’s Xander doing with my project?”
“Fine. If you really want to start a war, he can certainly help.”
“I don’t want to start a war, Aiden. But if there must be a war, I intend to finish it.” He regarded me thoughtfully. “After all, you seem intent on marrying and taking over the family business.”
Fuck. “You’ve talked a lot about how you want to retire.”
“Mm. Always looking out for me, son?”
I shrugged. “I’ve never tried to hide my ambition. But I want to be ambitious with your blessing—for my marriage and my business.”
“I’ll stop by and meet Selena soon,” he told me. He clapped my shoulder. “I want to see you happy, my boy. But bring me a body first.”
“You want to see the assassin?” Fuck, that was inconvenient. Once I’d constructed a solid story, I’d planned to tell my father the Belladonna was at the bottom of the ocean.
“Very much so.”
One body, coming up, then.
And I knew just who to kill.
* * *
I emergedinto the lobby just in time to see Selena talking to one of my father’s low-level thugs. Selena looked charming, pushing her long, dark hair back behind her ears as she smiled up at him, and my heart sped up. She didn’t need to look at any other man like that. Just me.
Though she looked at Dominic and Xander in a particular way, and it didn’t make me want to murderthem.
Then he set her hand on his shoulder. She took a step back, and he stepped in even closer. For a second, I lost sight of her behind his big body, so I couldn’t read the look on her face.
The next second, he was doubled over, and she was gripping his hand as it stuck up awkwardly, standing over him. He grit out a “bitch” just as I reached the two of them, and when he looked up at me, his eyes went wide with fear.
“I was trying to tell you my boyfriend wouldn’t be any more impressed with your lines than I was,” Selena told him impatiently.
“Don’t break his arm, sweetheart,” I told her.
She released him, suddenly, and he let out a gasp of pain as he grabbed his forearm.
He immediately turned to me and started to babble. “She came on to me, I didn’t know who she was…”
He kept talking, but I turned to Selena, raising an eyebrow.
