Page 71 of Bound by Adoration

“Sounds good to me. But they stink. We’ll have to wear gas masks,” Liam said with a smile on his lips.

“Do you understand what’s happening here?” Cruz asked Thompson who glared at Cruz, not taking anything we were saying seriously.

Cruz shrugged. “Guess he needs to know why he’s doin’ this shit.” He turned to Micah. “Show him.”

“Gladly.”

Unsheathing my knife, I flipped it end over end, catching it with ease. It was about eight inches and sharp as hell. It could cut the flesh off so thin one could see through it.

Thompson watched me as I flipped it a few more times, a whistle leaving my lips. This fucker had been keeping track of Nyx all these years. He was one of the reasons she had to hide from everyone. No matter what happened here today, he’d pay for that one.

May not be death. May not heal in a few days. But he’d pay.

Moaning could be heard, and truthfully it made me sick to my stomach because I knew what was playing, and I didn’t want to see that shit. Thompson had a dirty little secret.

“Did you know that all the Hamiltons’ interests went to Hawk?” Micah asked, not using her name now. Not that he couldn’t find out since she’d come out of hiding, but fuck giving him any other information. Nightbot was a fucking dream.

His head shook.

“And while going through their shit and your lovely computer. Guess what we found?” Micha said, smiling as Deke came over next to him.

“We found the blackmail he had on you and a fuck ton of other people. It’s all in our possession now. Which means all your dirty little secrets that the Hamiltons had over your head now belong to us. All the secrets they have about Runnerband are ours as well.”

His eyes widened.

“So you know what this is?” I asked, flipping the knife again.

He groaned through the fabric and tape.

“Yes. Gotcha. So you know that if this little video gets out, you’ll be behind bars for a very fucking long time. Then, if the other information we found gets leaked, you’ll die inside there. And we have friends in prison. We’ll make sure you have a very happy time,” Rhys said for the first time. Sometimes that man was so quiet, no one knew he was there until he made his presence known. It was why he was so good at everything.

“Same goes for the governor. You go down. He goes down. You’re in the same league. One of you fucks up, you both go down,” Cruz told him.

“And don’t even think of trying to get this stuff. It’s saved in so many places, and that shit hops all over to other accounts,” Micah told him. “If anything happens to Ravage or anyone associated with Ravage, that shit goes to the FBI. We want that shit big, and we know more people in the feds who’ll help out. Killing you would take all the fun out of watchin’ you suffer.”

“And you can tell all your little buddies that you know Hamiltons had dirt on that if anything happens to Ravage, it’s the same for them. They’re going down. We’re not puttin’ up with anyone’s shit,” Deke tossed in.

Micah started clicking on his computer, and more videos came up. Judging by the look on Thompson’s face he didn’t know Hamilton had these pictures and videos. Good. It’d leave him guessing on what else we had.

“Now. I’m gonna remove your gag,” Cruz said, nodding to Nox who was actually going to do it. “If you’re a pussy, you’ll scream. If you’re a man, you’ll take it like a man. So let’s see how big of a pussy you are.”

Nox grabbed the corner of the tape and ripped it off Thompson’s face. It was so hard a layer of skin came off as well and started to bleed. Nice.

“I’ll end you,” Thompson started.

Liam interrupted, “No. You won’t. You have no power left. You’re trapped like the rat you are.”

“Who the fuck are you to call me a rat? We worked together,” he growled low, glaring at Liam.

“True. But the difference is I’m not a dirt bag piece of shit who’s only looking out for himself and doesn’t give a fuck what happens to those around him.”

Thompson pulled on the restrains but didn’t get anywhere. Sandy had some talent when it came to tying up men.

“I’ll take every single one of you down with me,” Thompson ground out. “The fuck I’ll bow down to you.”

A chuckle left me. “You want to do this the hard way then? I’d thought you were smarter than that.”

“No. He’s not,” Liam replied. “His ego appears to be bigger than his brain.”

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