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The vehicle rolls to a stop and kills the headlights.
What the fuck?
Ice threads through my veins. The Silver Estate logo emblazoned on the side of the Range Rover is clear as day, illuminated by the moonlight.
The door opens, and one long leg steps out, followed by another.
“Dax?” A whisper-shout. She’s uneasy, being here in the dark. It’s in her voice. And she fucking should be. What the hell is she doing?
She leaves the Range Rover and walks over the oil-stained concrete floor, her over-the-knee boots making her footsteps echo around the yard. She’s glancing around, not paying attention to where she is, to who could be watching her.
“God!”
Her eyes widen as I pull her down the gap between containers and push her up against the cold metal of one with my hand over her mouth.
“What are you doing here?” I crowd her body with my own, pressing right up against her, one hand still over her mouth, the other pressed flat against the container next to her head.
“Fuck, Rose. What am I going to do with you?” I grasp her neck and press my thumb to her pulse. It’s pounding beneath her soft skin as her chest rises and falls quickly between us.
“You shouldn’t fucking be here,” I hiss, letting go of her mouth now that she’s seen it’s me and she’s not going to scream.
“I…” She stops and tries to catch her breath.
“Breathe.” I cup her cheek with my other hand as I lean toward her, embracing her scent as it washes over me. “Breathe.”
She nods, her face relaxing as she breathes in deeply and then lets it go. “I was worried. When you said Julian Young was going to be here. I thought—”
“You thought I was going to do something to him?”
She nods, and I clench my teeth, tension rippling through my body again as I glance over my shoulder.
We’re still alone. For now.
“If I could kill him and not go back to jail, I would.” I look back at Rose. “But I would never do anything that could take me away from you. You understand?”
“Then what are you doing here?” Confusion clouds her gaze.
“I’ve been working on taking him down.” I glance over my shoulder again, shielding Rose with my body. We haven’t got long. He could arrive at any moment. And I doubt he goes anywhere without carrying a gun. Not when you get to his level. I’m one in a long line of people who would happily have his head. His operation stretches across the entire southeast of the country. It would be worth a lot to anyone who could take control of it.
But that’s the last thing on my mind.
My motivation is purely personal.
“That’s what you’ve been doing every night?”
“Yes. I’ve been working for him, for his drug operation. But he doesn’t know that.”
She stares at me, her brows pulling together as her mouth drops open.
“You’ve—?”
“Been preparing to finish him from the inside.”
The disbelief in Rose’s eyes has acid churning in my gut. Now she knows. She’s finally seeing it with her own eyes. Seeing the man I really am. One scarred by his past. One hell-bent on revenge. One who needs to finish this so that I can love her in the way she deserves.
“But what changes tonight? You said it all finishes tonight. Dax, what are you going to do that—?”
I clamp my hand over her mouth again and move us further into the shadows of the container.
