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“Yes.” I turn around to the wobble in his voice. He has tears in his eyes, and he looks seconds away from breaking down.
“I’ll find him, Sweetheart.”
And kill every motherfucker that gets in my way.
* * *
“How the fuck could you let this happen?!” Kane’s voice booms around the room and Diego flinches. The ride to Diego’s was tense, both of us were too pissed off to say anything. Jaxon may have betrayed us, but that still doesn’t mean anyone is allowed to touch him. “You said you put in extra security.” Kane advances on Diego, and he backs up. “Someone came onto your territory and took what’smine,” Kane growls and bunches his fist in the front of Diego’s shirt.
“I did, Kane. They came in twenty deep.”
“Where the fuck were you?” I ask, stepping to Kane’s side. The voices are so loud that I can barely hear myself talk. I’m struggling to keep my temper in check because all I can see is Diego’s throat lying wide open from my knife.
“I was watching Lev like I told Kane I was going to.”
“Are you saying this is Kane’s fault?” Kane steps out of my way, and Diego shrinks against the wall.
“No! I’m just telling you where I was. We never even saw him move.”
“Did you have something to do with this? Are you in it with Lev?” Kane leans against the dining room table and crosses his arms over his chest, letting me handle it.
He doesn’t trust you.
He’s waiting for you to fuck up.
He’s going to kill you.
“What? No. I like Jaxon.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Kane says in a deadly voice.
“Just that I’d never throw him under the bus. Look, we’re wasting time here. I fucked up, but we need to find him. You can kill me after we do.”
Before Kane can open his mouth, his phone starts ringing. He fishes it out of his pocket and looks at the display with confusion.
“Hello?”
“Are you missing something?” Kane’s entire face changes to anger.
“What do you want, Lev?” Kane flips his phone to speakerphone about the time someone screams in the background. Kane’s back goes ramrod straight.
“Does that sound familiar to you?”
“Lev, I don’t even have to tell you what I’ll do to you if that’s Jaxon.”
“You won’t do anything because I have the upper hand.” Diego starts gesturing to Kane to keep talking. One of Diego’s guys runs into the room with a laptop and starts typing like crazy. “I have demands you’re going to grant, or I’ll kill your pretty boy. He’s already halfway there, so choose your words wisely.” Jaxon screams again in the background, and the voices are speaking at full volume. I can’t even figure out what they’re saying. I just know that I’m fuckingpissed.
Kane’s hand tightens on the phone so hard that it looks like it’s going to crack. “What do you want?”
“Full control of my territory without you breathing down my neck. Pull your watchdogs and leave me the fuck alone.”
“What else?”
“I want five million dollars and Lyubava’s.” Kane starts speaking rapidly in Russian, with Lev answering the same way. I pick up on a few words, but Russian isn’t something I could ever learn in full.
Because you’re useless.
You’re fucking stupid.
