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Raid’s smirk disappeared. “Won’t hurt the fucker but can’t guarantee I’ll bring him back if he doesn’t want to come. But I’ll talk to him.”

“You have to bring him back, Raid. We need to talk. He can’t just leave thinking that I regretted kissing him. I didn’t.”

He pulled me to him and kissed my forehead. “I’ll take care of it.”

Somehow, someway I believed him.

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RAID

That fucking little twit. He left knowing Nyx wouldn’t just let him go. He knew she’d try to come after him but couldn’t leave the safe house.

Did he want her to leave and get him?

Did he want her dead? Because that shit wasn’t happening.

Or maybe … he wanted me to come. I shook my head. Fuck that thought. He wanted nothing to do with me, and I was only here for Nyx. Not for his punk ass.

I was so over all this drama bullshit and his little hissy fit of a tantrum. What did he expect from me? My dick had been inside her. He knew how I was with the things that were mine. It shouldn’t be a shock. Yet, here we were.

I went out the hidden path that Liam didn’t know about to cover my tracks. When this house was built, we put a lot of contingencies in place. Different routes to go in and out. Hidden passages. Not just one.

The whole works. I could move in and out of this place undetected right under someone’s nose. There were so many underground routes I’d thought when we started building that the clubhouse would move here because it was so secure.

Alas, we did not, and right now I was grateful we had a secure place to be.

This exit came out on the other side of Sumner, completely going around the city and coming out on the main drag, which was a perfect cover.

Reeving the engine of my bike, I pulled out and made my way into Sumner, heading first to Nyx’s house, but Liam wasn’t there.

I pulled over to the side of the road, grabbed the phone from my pocket, and brought up the custom app I’d made. Plugging in Liam’s plate number, the little ticker scrolled through several images so fast it looked like a slideshow in full speed forward.

Several frames came up showing Liam’s truck as it came into Sumner. My first instinct was right because Liam first drove by Nyx’s place but didn’t stop.

He drove through town and parked in front of one of the two lawyer’s offices in town.

“Bingo.”

The next frame had my blood boiling… “Motherfucking traitor.”

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Liam

Sign the fucking papers,not giving Clara a fucking thing, and get the hell out of Sumner. The plan was to transfer everything from my father's accounts to mine, including all the houses. Why did my bitch of an aunt even need to be there? She didn’t. She had no claim. So fuck her.

She just wanted to be there to manipulate me. There was nothing she could do or had any right to.

I was done.

Done with her.

Done with my father.

Done with Sumner.

Done with everyone inside of Sumner.

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