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“I know why you’re here.”
London turned on him, staring into Julius Harmon’s eyes. “Good, I was never one for pretense. Now, tell me where and when you’re getting Haelstrom out of the city.”
There was a curl of his lips. Hate seethed in his stare. “You’ll never get away with it.”
London leaned down, so close he could almost breathe the same air. “If you think I give a fuck about what happens to me after this, you’re dead wrong. I want Hale…and you’re going to give him to me, otherwise I’m going to make a call…and you can listen to my son kill everyone you’ve ever loved.”
“He’ll be gone before you even scream his name.”
London’s lips curled. “Try me.”
Rage burned in both their stares until, with a snarl, Julius spoke. “Edgemont crossing.”
Surprise claimed London’s stare. “The river? He’s escaping by boat?”
But Julius leaned back in his chair. “I’ve told you what you wanted. Now let us go.”
London glanced at me, then grabbed his phone. “What time?”
Julius was silent.
“I said WHAT TIME?”
“Nine p.m.” The answer was a mumble as he stared daggers at the man I loved.
I clenched my fist around the gun in my hand, consumed with the need to put a bullet in his skull. “Don’t fucking look at him like that.”
London stopped typing on his phone, lifting his gaze to me.
But I couldn’t stop the wall of anger that slammed into me. I lunged across the room, grabbed that foul, fucking excuse for a man by his crisp white shirt and yanked him toward me. He smirked at my outburst. I knew I was letting him get to me, but I couldn’t stop it. “You don’t look at him like that!” I screamed in his face.
“Pet?” London said carefully.
I sucked in hard breaths, trying to come back down from the rage. They didn’t get to look at him like that. Like he was the monster here. Not after what they’ve done. “Do you even know what they did to us?” I whisper. The rage hadn’t left me, but this wasn’t the blistering burn. No, it sank deeper and as it did, it grew colder. I glanced at my fists, clenched tight around his shirt, then met the amusement in his stare. “Did you know they used to force us into that room? Down into the dark and the cold. Down where the rats waited. Did you know they hurt us there? That they made us do vile things to them and each other? Did you also know that’s where we found them?”
“Vivienne,” London warned.
But I was past the point of caring. I wanted this man to know exactly what they did there. “All the Daughters. The women your new friend Haelstrom Hale created to traffic and abuse. They forced them down into that room and they made them stand against the wall. They would’ve been terrified, crying, holding onto each other as the man you think so highly of had his guards lift their guns and murder all of them.”
That smile faded on his face.
“We found them still clinging to each other,” I whispered. “Their faces barely recognizable from the bullet holes Hale’s men left behind.”
There was no more amusement now. Not even a hint of the sneer he’d carried seconds ago.
Instead, he swallowed, his voice a croak. “You’re mistaken. Haelstrom wouldn’t do something like that.”
“You have no fucking idea what Haelstrom would do,” London snarled, finishing typing before he rose. “He’s using you. Just like he uses everyone. He has no loyalty. He has no soul. He cares for only his sick, twisted needs, and you...” He glanced around the table. “Almost helped him escape.”
London lowered his boot and straightened. “Never mind all that now.” He glanced toward the men we’d come with. “My men here will stay and keep you company. After all, we can’t have you making any calls and disrupting Haelstrom’s desperate plan to escape justice.”
He glanced my way, then lifted his hand for me. “Pet?”
I released my hold, shoving the piece of shit back against his seat. “You need to choose your friends more wisely.” I looked down at him. “Or the next time we see each other I might give you a firsthand taste of the depravity your buddy likes so much.”
Something dangerous slithered across his stare.
Something that made me flinch. Maybe Julius Harmon knew exactly the man Haelstrom Hale was? Maybe he more than knew. Maybe he was one of The Order? My pulse raced at the thought and my mouth turned dry.
