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Well, not quite. I could kill O—and fuck me, the thought of snapping the neck of the arrogant cunt almost gives me a hard-on—but that creates an enemy out of the entire Agency network. And I don’t even know how big or how deep the organization runs. All I know is it's extremely powerful. And not an enemy I need right now. Not while Raine lies comatose in a hospital bed.

Which leaves me no choice but to agree to this absolute bullshit condition.

“Fuck!” I uncurl my fists. “Okay!”

O’s eyebrows raise. “Okay?”

“Yes.” I swallow. “Okay.”

“You fucking say it, Soren.”

I take a few deep breaths, mainly to stop the anger from taking over my body. My body goes completely still as I utter five words that rip my soul apart.

“I won’t see her again.”

“Soren,” O says, voice laced with pure threat. “If I find out you do … I’ll find her and take my time with her. And I’ll make you watch. In all the ways you don’t want to watch another man with your woman. Do you understand me? I will make you watch as I fuck her, then take her apart, limb from fucking limb.”

I slam my fist into the wall right beside O’s head. O flinches, but doesn’t move. Flecks of plaster and paint crumble around my balled-up fist which remains jammed in the wall.

“Fuck you.” I hiss. “You’re a fucking monster.”

I spit on O’s shoes. O’s eyes drop to his spit-covered black Hermes loafers.

A few agonizing seconds pass before O finally speaks.

“Trade granted.” O ducks underneath my arm as I remove my fist from the wall. “Oh, and Soren? I’ll be in touch.”

I stare at him, breath lodged in my throat. “Get the fuck out.”

O steps around me and drops a new burner phone on the bench. He closes the lid on the briefcase, before casually picking it up and leaving.

He’s been gone all of two seconds before my knees buckle, and I slide down the back of the door. My breath tears out of me, hands in my hair as the world I built, a life with her, a future with her, crumbles into dust.

I’ve done the right thing. Her freedom means more to me than mine.

But to live knowing she will wake and think I’ve left her? My heart shreds into thin strips as I realize I’ll have to live knowing that she will fucking hate me for the rest of her days.

And that might be a worse fate than dying.

But at least she’ll be safe.

Chapter 56

Raine

Two days later, I'm standing at the front desk, clutching Soren’s notebook to my chest, wearing a hospital-issued shirt and pants. So very Girl, Interrupted. I sign the final release form and haul ass down to the foyer.

“Hey!” a shrill woman’s voice cuts through the air.

Turning, I squint and see a young nurse running towards me. It’s the same nurse who sedated me on O’s orders. She’s not my favorite person in the world, that’s for sure. She’s out of breath when she catches up to me. I eye her suspiciously. “What?”

“There was another man with him sometimes.”

“Who? The man with the glass eye?”

She shakes her head and swallows, still struggling for breath. “No. Not him. The large, tattooed one. The man who was by your side every day.”

I raise my chin at her, instincts alert. There was someone else with Soren?