Page 41 of Deadliest Desire


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“And Daniella knows to stay in, right?”

“Yeah.”

I pull out my phone and curse myself for the dozenth time because I left this morning to avoid her without thinking about the fact that she doesn’t have a goddamn phone, so I have no way to get ahold of her.

“I have guys on the front and back door.”

The only way anyone is getting to her is if they get past the doorman and the guard and Daniella opens the door and welcomes them in, which isn’t happening.

“Has Eddy been able to get anything from Enrique’s laptop yet?”

“Get this.” I chuckle and sit up, leaning toward him. “While Eddy was doing his thing, Enrique popped up and tried to remotely wipe it out.”

Dominick whistles. “You can’t say this guy didn’t come to the battle prepared.”

“Yeah, but he underestimated us. Eddy locked his ass out and sent him a digital note, telling him he’d better run because we have access.”

Dominick chuckles.

“He’s going to send everything over to you soon so you can sift through it.”

Thanks to my dyslexia, it would take me months to try to read through it all, and even once I did, I wouldn’t know half the business jargon Dominick would understand.

“Good shit.” Dominick nods. “What are you up to this afternoon? Want to come to my place for lunch?”

“Nah, I have a lunch date with a certain cabin in the woods. My guys and I are going to roast marshmallows.”

Dominick just shakes his head, but doesn’t argue. He already knows I do what I want. Is blowing up Enrique’s house a bit much? Maybe. But after what he did to Dani, the only thing that would be better than destroying his house would be burning it with him in it. Especially if our theory is true and he killed Lorenzo and Dani’s parents in a fire.

Some prefer to let karma do its thing.

Me? I prefer to be karma.

16

Matteo

“You knowthis house isn’t his, right?” Ian points out. “He’s renting it.”

We went by the cabin, and it was vacant, so we grabbed anything of Daniella’s we’d missed the last time and then burned it to the ground. We’d found the tablet she had been using and destroyed it in case there was any way of tracking her from it. Which made me think about her old phone. I had Eddy run a location on it, but of course, the fucker had covered his tracks, and it’s off. Eddy canceled her account, and I went by the store to pick her up a new phone and tablet on my account. And then I made sure her location was on so I could track it.

Afterward, we went to the house they had rented in North Harbor Point to get the rest of her shit. We have eyes on the house he’s renting in North Harbor Point, but he’s yet to go by there, telling me he has somewhere else he’s using as a safe house. We did a search for his name in the property database, and nothing came up.

“It’s the principle.” I shrug. “He burned down their family home, so I’m burning down all of his. And don’t worry. The owners will be fully compensated.”

Ian chuckles. “All right, man, let’s do this.”

He goes inside for a few minutes, and when he comes out, the place catches fire.

“Nothing more beautiful,” he says, coming to stand next to me.

“You’re such a pyromaniac.” I laugh. “Let’s go. I need to get home, and I’m sure you have shit to do.”

“Wait.” Finn comes over. “I got something for the occasion. Forgot about it when we burned the other place down.” He grins like the psycho he is as he pulls a bag of marshmallows out of his back pocket. “Love a good bonfire.”

Ian snatches the bag from him and opens it up, popping one into his mouth. “So fucking good.”

“You’re supposed to roast them,” Finn grumbles.