“Understand me?” he repeated in a firmer voice.
She nodded. “Yes.
“And if any of them even look at you funny, they’re dead,” North said casually, not even looking up from his phone.
From anyone else it might have been a throwaway comment, but she’d been around North long enough to know that he actually meant what he said.
“All right,” she whispered.
And then she went back to her lines.
Jared attemptedto go back to his work. But he first had to control his anger.
What the fuck had his family done to her?
It was obvious that she was scared of the people that she’d named. They were scum just like his father, which is why he’d had them taken out.
“Is there anyone else?” he asked.
“What?” She glanced up, startled.
“Other than the men you named, is there anyone else that you’re afraid of?”
She stared at him, wide-eyed. Then she glanced over at North.
“Tell me,” Jared urged.
“I don’t know . . .”
“You will tell us now,” North told her. “Or I shall simply take out all of them.”
It would be a pain in the neck but it could be done. Jared nodded calmly as she gaped at them both.
“Antony.”
Unsurprising. His cousin had always been borderline, but he had a young family and a wife who had seemed to care about him. But maybe that was all lies.
He’d been here yesterday. Thank God he’d sent her to her room.
“He hurt you?” Jared asked. “They all hurt you?”
“They didn’t all hurt me. Robert . . . he was the worst. Some of them just watched. Antony was a watcher. But I . . . I saw him once with his wife. He shook her so hard that her head snapped back against the wall.”
Fuck.
He hadn’t realized that. He shot a look at North who nodded. Antony would be taken care of immediately. Sarah and the kids would be looked after.
“No one else?” Jared pressed.
“No. Are you . . . are you going to . . .”
“Kill him?” North asked. “Yes, of course. But don’t feel any guilt over that, Jared would have had him killed for taking his hands to his wife.”
“Absolutely.” Fucking bastard.
He blamed himself. He should have taken Sarah aside and talked to her privately. But there had been so much evil to clear out and Antony hadn’t been the worst of it.
Still no excuse.
