I paused.
Didn’t need to say everything.
“It happened. I was drunk.” My voice dropped. “I ain’t want it like that.”
Another breath.
“It felt wrong.”
The highway stretched in front of us.
“My pops walked in…”
That part still sat heavy.
“And acted like he ain’t see nothing.”
Silence.
Thick.
“That’s why I don’t touch no woman but Emily. That’s why I watch who be around my son.”
I finally glanced at Ares.
Green eyes dark.
The kind of dark that meant something was coming.
“She dies,” he said.
Cold.
Certain.
I looked back at the road as I got over to the express lane.
“Yeah.”
My voice didn’t shake.
“She dies.”
A beat.
“But not yet.”
I exhaled slowly.
“I need her.”
The car kept moving down the highway.
Fast.
Straight into whatever came next.
CHAPTER 56
