Lorenzo looks over at me. Our eyes meet and his expression softens, only for a second, but then it's gone.
He slips his phone into his pocket and walks toward me.
I already know, this is the end.
Chapter 27
Lorenzo
Quinn is watching me as I cross to the bed, she doesn't say anything, but she knows what’s about to happen. She's been reading me long enough now to know what I’m thinking and feeling. I think she could see right through me from the very first moment, or at least see some part of me.
When I reach her, I put my hand on her face, and I look at her for a moment. God, I fucking love this woman. I never thought I could love anyone, but Quinn came into my life and knocked me on my ass. She’s in this hospital bed, and I could have lost her. That’ll never happen again. Today, I’m going to ensure the biggest threat to her ends.
"I'll come back," I promise her.
"I know," she says.
I press a kiss to her forehead and my lips linger there, reveling in the touch of her. Then I straighten, nod once to my father, and walk out. Ciro falls into step beside me in the corridor without being asked.
The phone call I received wasn’t one that I had been expecting. It was from Danil Morozov. He had information for me. His brother, Rurik, has Daire’s location. He gave me a meeting point, letting me know we won’t be alone, that he’s called Daithí Delaney and Prior King also.
The meeting point is in an abandoned library and I glance around as I walk toward the men. I can’t help but think that both Quinn and Valentina would be in absolute heaven at the sheer amount of books that are still in here.
Everyone is here already, Danil, Rurik, Prior, and Daithí. They’re all seated at a table, I sink down onto a seat and Ciro takes the chair to my right.
I don't waste time. I want to get back to Quinn as soon as possible, but I need my wife safe, which means I need to be here. "Tell me," I demand.
Rurik's gaze meets mine. "You were right."
I don't react. "About what?"
"Daire," he says as he drags a hand across his jaw. "The baby wasn't mine."
I had a meeting with Danil about a month ago and laid everything out on the table of what we uncovered about Daire and her plans, along with the way she’d whore herself out for any scrap of information. Danil was beyond pissed, especially as the bitch is pregnant with what everyone believed was Rurik’s baby. I cautioned Danil to get a paternity test.
“No wonder she’s gone to ground,” Daithí comments. “She’s got no one to fall back on.” He shakes his head and sighs. “How did you find out?” He asks Rurik.
Rurik’s jaw tightens, and he glances down at his closed fists on the table. “After the warning Danil got about Daire’s activities, we weren’t waiting around,” he turns to Daithí. “She didn’t want the test, but after what we were told, she didn’t have a choice. The results came in this morning.”
Nobody says anything, and I'm wondering if there’s anything that Daire hasn’t lied about. Christ, she’s a fucking bitch, and I’m so fucking glad that our engagement was broken. I’ve got everything I could have ever dreamed of in Quinn, and Daire’s life lies in tatters.
"She swore it was mine," Rurik says bitterly.
I feel a twinge of guilt for the man. He was played like a fucking fiddle by her, but that guilt doesn’t extend further than that. He tried to fuck me over, she was my fiancée, but fuck, I should be fucking glad that he did what he did.
"She swore a lot of things," Prior says dryly.
Rurik nods. "Yeah, don’t I fucking know it." He glances around the table and sighs. “We think she’s got someone else in our ranks that she’s been getting information from.”
That’s news to me and yet not surprising. “How did you come to that conclusion?”
“Our father and I discovered there was a leak,” Danil says, looking at his brother. “We didn’t suspect Rurik, so we planted some false leads to see what would be leaked. A group of about five of our men are on our list.”
I nod. “One of your false leads was leaked?”
“Yeah, and before we could plant more, Rurik came to me about his and Daire’s relationship and what she was trying to extract from him. Of all the things that were leaked, only two came from Rurik, which means there’s at least one leak in our ranks.”
Fuck.
