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His hand flung out and wrapped around my neck squeezing tight enough that white spots instantly flared in front of my vision.

"I better be fucking wrong Faye. I don't like being fucking played with. I suggest you figure out a way to prove to me that you're not part of this so-called plan because if I find out any different, you're breathing your very last breaths."

I coughed hard when he let me go and watched as he walked over to the closet, pulled out some clothes and slipped them on. He was out of the room before I could even finish catching my breath.

Just that quick he changed.

Moments ago he was washing me, making me feel like I was the most important thing in his world only for him to turn right around and threaten to end my life over a plan that I'd nothing to do with.

He was the one who pulled me deeper into his world. The one who demanded that I stay married to him even after he figured out who I was. How the hell was I going to benefit in any way from what my sister was doing?

I dropped my head and wiped the tears that had made their way down my face.

I don't think I'd ever felt so stuck in my life. There was one thing I knew for sure if I didn't get to my sister first Dominic would. I told him that he'd never find her but I also knew my sister wasn't as smart as she thought she was.

She may have left me here to die but I didn't think I had it in me to look the other way as Dominic delivered the same fate to her.

No, whatever she was about to try and pull off was something I needed to stop.

But first I needed to find a way to get out of here.

CHAPTER 23

Dominic

I should've known getting mixed up with Faye was going to come and bite me in the ass.

Here I thought I could give in just a little bit. Maybe let down my guard and let her into my life, only to find out that her sister had her hand in whatever the hell was happening in my life.

I knew better.

No one could be trusted.

I didn't have the time to figure it out anyway, not when I had to make sure that my brother stayed alive.

I stared out the window as the car drove smoothly down the road and tried to force myself not to dwell on the fact that I no longer could trust Faye or anyone else for that matter. In fact, right now the only person I felt like I could trust was in the hospital fighting for his life.

I needed Lionel to get off his ass so we could get this shit under control before whatever plan Farrah and James were part of took hold. The car comes to a stop in front of the hospital and I slowly get out, making sure to take in my surroundings. The last thing I wanted right now was to be caught off guard, probably the same way Lionel was.

When I didn't see anything out of the ordinary I walked into the hospital and rode the elevator up to my brother's floor. Instantly I knew that my father was here. Not so much because I could hear him but because I could see his guards lounging around walking back and forth on the floor.

My father never went anywhere without at least a small gang of his enforcers. Always someone around to watch his back. I always told myself that I wouldn't need to do that but at the same time after what happened to my brother, I'm thinking I may need to find a few more people besides just Yuri.

The people that work for me are around if I need them to handle things or provide muscle but I don't think I'd trust any of them to watch my back if I were in a shoot-out. In fact, as of right now, I'd be more worried about them being the ones that are shooting at me.

Making sure to clock each and every one of the guards that I could, I walked into the hospital room only to see my brother still unconscious, with tubes and wires coming off his body.

I don't know what I was thinking.

I prayed that he'd wake up and be able to tell me what he knew. It wouldn't happen today.

"Took you long enough to get here. I hope you punished that little wife of yours for what happened to my man." My father's voice echoed from the corner of the room.

He'd told me that he was going to be coming to the hospital to see my brother but I hoped that I'd be able to miss him. I didn't really want to deal with him tonight.

"What I do with my wife is my business, Father." I sighed out and walked to the other side of the room to sit down in the chair and stare at my brother. I was here for Lionel not to shoot the shit with the one man that I wasn't completely sure I could trust any longer.

"And all your business is my business. Like I said, she needs to remember her place."

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