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“What did you mean when you said Dominic wants the two of us?” Theo asks and Blaze nods.

“One of the biggest things that pissed Dominic off when your mother ran was the fact that she took the two of you. You’re his blood and his legacy and to a man like that, it means everything.”

“Are we in danger?”

Blaze runs a hand over his face again. “I don’t know if he’ll hurt you but I think he wants you back in Chicago with him and he won’t mind forcing the issue if he has to. It’s why I had Kodiak watching you.”

“We are not talking about him,” I hiss, my gaze flicking in his direction for only a second before I look back to Blaze.

“Tate, please, I’m fucking sorry,” Lincoln says from his place against the wall and before I even realize what I’m doing, I have the knife out of my boot and I stab it into the table.

“Shut up.”

A chuckle and a whispered, “Damn” comes from somewhere in the back of the room but I’m too busy directing my death glare at Lincoln to turn and look who said it.

“I would like Kodiak to stay with you until we sort all this out.”

I scoff. “Not fucking happen…”

“Done,” Theo cuts me off and I turn to him with wide eyes.

“What the fuck?”

He offers me an apologetic look. “I need to know you’re safe when I go back to Charleston.”

“We’re just trying to keep you safe, Tate,” Blaze adds and I turn to him.

“Congratulations. Do you want a goddamn medal?”

“It’s what your mother would want me to do.”

I shake my head. “Don’t you dare talk about what my mother would want. She spent her entire life lying to us and she doesn’t get a say now that she’s dead.”

“Kodiak is staying with you and that is the end of the discussion,” he growls before standing up and heading toward the door.

“Might want to invest in some Kevlar for him, then,” I call and Smith snorts out a laugh in the back of the room. Meeting Lincoln’s eyes across the table, I know I’m in for a rough time until this is cleared up but I will never forgive him for what he did to me.