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“Don’t lie to me,” he growls in my ear, pressing the gun harder. “Too many things started happening when you showed up. I’ve never had so many fucking pigs interrupt my meetings. You knew who I was, so why all the goddamn theatrics when you found out what my name means? All that shows me is how good of a liar you are,Litso kukly.” He says that name with a sneer instead of the usual warmth. It makes my blood run cold, and my heart cracks in two.
“I was ending it today! I want to be yours, Kane.”
“You were just a tight hole to fuck.”
“That’s a lie!” I shove back against his chest, but he doesn’t budge. “This was my first undercover case! I just graduated, and they pulled me because I was your type. Everything after that is the truth. I fell in love…” Kane shoves the gun barrel in my mouth, effectively shutting me up.
“Don’t you fucking dare say those words to me. Who’s your handler?” He pulls the gun out, so it’s just sitting on my bottom lip. “Who do you report to?”
“Kane, listen to me. They have eyes everywhere. You can’t go after them.”
“Who. Is. Your. Handler?”Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.If I tell him, he’ll be walking right into a trap, but there’s no way that I’m going to convince him not to. “Who?!”
“Captain Carls.”
Kane’s entire body starts vibrating with rage. “Who else is on the inside?”
“I don’t know.”
“Goddamnit!” Kane whirls me around and presses the gun to my forehead. I can see the anger in his eyes, but I also see sadness. I put that there, and I really want to take the coward’s way out and taunt him to shoot me so I don’t have to remember that I hurt the first person I’ve ever loved. “Tell me.”
“I swear to you. I don’t know. I was put in place to find out when you were coming and going, who your associates were, and who was closest to you. They never told me they flipped anyone on the inside.”
“Did they tell you to fuck me?”
I swallow bile and let my head hit the wall with a thump. “They told me to get to you in whatever way possible.”
“I should have known you were too good to be true. People like me don’t find the love I thought I had with you. But you not only hurt me. You hurt Eli and Blaze.”Blaze.Holy shit. After everything we just went through together, I fucked him over too. Eli was my bright light in all this fucking mess, and I know this will break his heart. “What did you report to them?”
“I just told them when you were leaving so they could put a tail on you.” My eyes flash to the watch on his wrist and back to his face. “And I placed a tracker on that watch.”
Kane rips it from his arm and shoves it in my face. “They’ve been tracking me this whole time?”
“Yes,” I whisper. “That was before I realized how I felt.”
“Do you really think I’ll believe anything that comes from your mouth?”
“Kane, I really was going to tell them to shove this job up their ass. I really have been settling my father’s estate, I really did have a shit stepfather, and I really do love you.” Without thinking, I place my hands on Kane’s chest. “If you let me, I’ll spend the rest of my life proving it to you.”
Kane slaps my hands away and dangles a key in my face. “Unlock the collar.”
“Kane, please don’t do this.”
“Unlock the goddamn collar.” With shaky hands, I take the key from his hand and stick the key in the lock. Twisting the key feels like I’m ripping my heart from my chest. It drops, and Kane takes it the rest of the way out. He grabs the collar and slides it into his pocket. “Now, you mean nothing to me.”
A look of determination settles over Kane’s face, and I close my eyes, bracing myself for what comes next.
Kane pulls the trigger seconds later.
CHAPTER22
ELIJAH
I’m still trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Blaze came busting into the bedroom where I was getting dressed and fucking exploded. He yelled and ranted for a good forty-five minutes, then he hasn’t said anything since. He just sat down on the bed and started staring into space.
“Blaze, baby. Can you please talk to me?” He turns his head to look at me, and I have to control my reaction when I see his eyes. They’ve been clear for the past two days, and he was truly free. Now, they’re wild, and I know he’s being overwhelmed with the voices. “Blaze? What’s going on?”
“They said I have to kill him.”
