“I went to therapy,” Ella told her. “Took meds to help me sleep so I would stop having the night terrors. Grieving is a long process that takes time and patience.”
Olivia’s gaze shifted to me, tears streaming down her cheeks.
“I’ll go with you,” I offered. “We need to deal with Tate’s death together. Not alone, like we’ve been doing.”
She bit her lip. “I don’t know.”
“Liv, I know you hate me right now, but I need you. We need each other. Just think about it, okay?”
She nodded and left the room.
I let out a relieved breath.
There was still hope.
“Thank you,” I said to Ella. “I’ve been trying to reach her for months.”
My cell phone dinged with a new alert from Lovelace. I had her trained not to announce private information on the loudspeaker when other people were nearby. As I read through several messages she sent in rapid succession, I shot out of the chair like it was on fire.
“I’ve got what we need to take down The Lucaya Group,” I told my friends. “Lovelace followed the paper trail Mark Ruben left for us.”
Sonny moved beside me. “What do you need from us?”
Aiden was on my other side, chest puffed out, head held high. He dressed like a drummer in a punk band, but he was a good knight. So was Sonny. His golden-boy exterior might have fooled other people into thinking he was soft, but he was anything but.
“I need you to watch my back.” My fingers glided across the keypad of my cell phone. “What I’m doing right now will blow back on The Devil’s Knights if we don’t act fast.”
Aiden bobbed his blonde head. “Whatever you need. We got you. Our families and The Devil’s Knights will never be free of The Lucaya Group if we don’t fight back.”
My father taught me the skill of patience. I’d waited months for Mark Ruben to crawl out of his hiding place. He tried to take me out, and his plan failed.
I had to avenge Tate.
Typing faster than I ever had, I emptied the bank accounts of the criminal enterprise that killed my brother. All this time, Mark and his corrupt family had been funding the terrorist organization. He was the reason for every horrible thing that had happened to me and my friends.
I wanted to see the look on Mark’s face when he realized he was now penniless. Sure, he still had Titan Tech, at least until the feds charged him for his crimes. I could already see him being dragged out of his office in handcuffs by the FBI, then later removed as CEO by the board of directors. In time, his company would be mine, just as I had planned it.
Killing Mark was too kind. He deserved to suffer for the rest of his life. It was only fair, seeing as he’d taken Tate from Olivia and me.
After I finished sending the last bit of information to the FBI, I grinned so hard my cheeks hurt. He was broke and defenseless, open to attacks from his own people.
It was over.
Without money, The Lucaya Group was finished.
I dialed Luca Salvatore. He answered with an annoyed groan but perked up the moment I told him we finally had The Lucaya Group where we wanted them.
“Send Alpha Command and the Knights to deal with the cells.” I texted him a link to the locations Lovelace narrowed down across the world. “As for Mark, I want him to suffer. I already handled him. ”
Luca grunted into the receiver. “Good work, Battle.”
After I hung up the phone, my eyes drifted to Sonny, then Aiden. “I told you guys we could do this my way.”
Everyone wanted me to be the bad guy, but it wasn’t in my nature. Even Tate begged me to use Lovelace as a weapon. I wouldn’t have been the man Olivia loved if I had gone about things differently, and it was time to get my woman back.
CHAPTER 30
OLIVIA
