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While she cleaned herself up I made my way to the kitchen. Opening the fridge, I pulled out two bottles of water. I drank mine and scroll through Facebook on my phone until I heard the soft patter of feet. I really didn’t think she could look any better than she did earlier. But she was standing there, hair thrown up into a bun and a smile that was mesmerizing. She was back in her jeans and shirt.
“I should go,” Anna said.
“You could stay,” I replied.
“No, I can’t leave Luna alone all night.” I’m not sure if that was all of it, but she didn’t seem like she was comfortable staying any longer, even though I wanted to ask her to.
“Will you call me?” She seemed nervous.
“Yes.” And there was no hesitation. There was something special about this girl. Maybe just for a little bit, I could have something good in my life. Something innocent.
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A text from Anna relaxed me as I prepared myself for the task ahead. I followed Dunne from his mother’s nursing home to a shit-hole motel.
I slipped my black leather gloves on and let myself silently into the room. It was second nature at this point to catch people unaware. Dunne was standing with his back to me.
“You tried but you didn’t hide good enough, Dunne.”
Dunne spun around. “Wilder. What the hell?” He was nervous. Shifty. He started fumbling around with the keys in his hands and his eyes darted to the door.
“Loyalty is an important virtue, my friend. It goes hand in hand with trust.”
Dunne’s eyes widened a little more as he looked at the ground. He knew what was coming. His shoulders slumped as he seemed to have resigned himself to his fate.
“Come sit down. I think we need to reevaluate the definition of loyalty, my friend.” A look of sadness spread across his face. I rested my gun on the table and kept my hand on top of it, the barrel pointing toward him.
“My ma got real sick. I needed to pay for her care. You know how it is. I had to take care of her.” He mumbled staring at the gun.
“No, I’m afraid I don’t know how that is. I take care of the Kavanagh family first. As you should have been.” I said coldly. The thought of my mother produced a nauseating feeling.
I expected him to continue explaining, maybe plead for another chance, maybe even cry. But he didn’t try any of those things. I watched as a smile slowly widened across his face. He looked up at me.
“You’re right, Wilder. You wouldn’t know how that is. You will never have a mother to take care of. I remember the night your mother left.” I could feel my muscles tightening. I wanted to kill him. I was going to kill him, my plan changing from quickly to slowly and full of pain. “But did she? I know what happened that night. Do you?”
“What are you talking about Dunne?” I paused for a moment, my mind coming back to the present from all of the ways I was thinking of torturing him.
“I know what happened the night Kathryn left. Do you remember the storm that night? How hard the wind was blowing. And how your mother pulled you out of bed?” Dunne stood and walked solely toward me. I did remember. But I stared silently at the man.
“I can tell you. I can tell you how Kathryn never left. In exchange, you let me walk out of here.” Dunne was clearly enjoying the new path to freedom he found.
I leaned back in the chair and stared at the cracked yellow plastic of his old kitchen table, unsure if this was the ramblings of a man trying to save himself or if he really knew something I didn’t. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Dunne reaching behind his back.
I pulled the trigger of my gun before he had a chance to pull his out of his waistband. He fell to the floor, the smile gone from his face. But now I didn’t know what to believe.
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Chapter 11
WILDER
Levi wouldn’t believe it if he could see me now. I was sitting on a couch, watching Criminal Minds with a normal girl. She thought I was a good guy. And I didn’t want her to find out differently. I had been careful since our first date. My men stayed far enough away that she never caught sight of them.
At first, I was just going to sleep with her and get her out of my system. That first night wasn’t enough. It didn’t satiate my need for her, to feel her soft curves against the callouses on my hands. And I couldn’t stop thinking about her. If anything, now my dreams had reality to base things on.
Could I possibly have something good in my life? I knew that my world was always creeping on the edges of danger and that this couldn’t go on for much longer. But I couldn’t give her up yet. I was still wound the fuck up from my encounter with Dunne. And I was trying to hide it and just being near her helped.
