“They were there in the clinic when I tried to apprehend Samuel.”
Her pupils dilate. “They … know?”
I nod. “Everything.”
Her face contorts, almost as if it hurts her to have a weakness at all, so I tip up her chin. “They love you more than anything. Those boys would jump into the fire for you if you told them to. They will be there for you.”
“Unlike you?”
I sigh out loud. “I’m … not like them.”
She snorts. “You think I like you because you’re like them? Fuck no, I like your stubbornness, and your unwillingness to surrender to anyone.”
I don’t care that she called me stubborn and unwilling. All I care about is that one sentence before. “Youlikeme?”
Her lips part, but no words spill from her mouth, and then her cheeks get all rosy. I’ve never seen her this flustered.
“Like an old enemy I keep running into,” she adds with a playful grin.
I lean in to graze my lips past hers. “An enemy you can’t keep your hands off …”
“An enemy who’s still got all the dirt on me,” she whispers back against my lips.
I pull away and grab the papers we both found all over my office, stuff them into the trash, then throw in my lighter to watch it all burn right in front of her.
“What about the digital copies?” she asks.
“Deleted.”
“And your coworkers? Won’t they ask questions?”
“All evidence points to José.”
“You mean you planted the evidence and got rid of the real ones?”
“Everyone wants the Bones Brotherhood gone, not just you. People are happy José is caught. No one cares about the truth.”
She jumps off my desk. “I care. They’re not gone. And Samuel certainly isn’t.”
I go to my knee in front of her, and she sucks in a breath as I reach into her boot and pull out a knife, holding it up for her to take. “You want justice? Then take it.”
She slowly reaches for the knife. “You won’t try to stop me?”
“I’ve tried … many, many times …” I mutter, slipping her boot off her foot.
I kiss the same leg she just thrusted into my balls.
“Consider this my apology for hunting you.”
When she grabs the knife, she immediately pushes the blade underneath my chin. “You will find him for me, won’t you?”
I lean in closer as the blade tips up my chin and pushes my lips apart.
“I will do whatever it takes to bring you the revenge you need.”
The darkness on her face is like an aphrodisiac crushing my light. “Good boy.”
CHAPTER 49
