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The way he looked at me, it was as if he’d seen an angel—his savior from the devil that put him in this place.

“P-Please, Teegan,”he begged. “Please help me.”

Chapter fifty-five

Teegan

For the last few months, I had grown to love Levi and the man he’d become. He was changing for the better. He was changing for me.

He was controlling his anger and his impulses and working to improve himself for me. What was once darkness had turned to light, and it was evident that he was doing his best with the help he was receiving from the guys and his therapist. He showed me he was ready to make the change and put in the effort to win me back again.

“P-Please, Teegan. Please help me.”

Jacob pleaded, and I simply stared at him as the walls of Levi’s basement felt as though they were slowly closing in on me.Levi was supposed to change. He was supposed to do better.

“What happened?” I asked him, still in shock, and he let out a few more tears as he spoke, his voice filled with relief.

“God, it’s been almost two weeks, I think. It was almost like he snapped. Like he was a different person all of a sudden. He caught me off guard in the parking garage at the hospitaland just ambushed me with his gang. Before going to visit your parents, the other guys forced me down here.”

Huh.

It was hard to believe how much could happen in so little time. In those same two weeks, I was happily doing some last-minute Christmas shopping with Levi and the girls as the guys had some business to take care of. It seems as though I have stumbled upon that so-calledbusiness.

“Two weeks?” I asked, still feeling lightheaded, and he nodded vigorously.

“I-I don’t know what happened. He just came after me like I was some sort of threat. Please… I don’t think we’ll have much time. You have to get me out of here,” he pleaded, and as I went to take an automated step to help him, I paused.

“A threat?” I whispered to myself as I watched him look at me with hope, however, there was an emotion that I couldn’t quite pinpoint swirling in his eyes.

“Don’t worry, Tesoro. He will be taken care of.”

“Do you want me to take care of it?”

“I only want to keep you safe.”

“You need to trust me, Tesoro. Let me protect you.”

Levi’s words filled my mind as I looked at Jacob questionably. Alec, Dr. Harrington, Mr. John, and Theo all suffered the same fate of death by Levi.

My brother ended up in a hospital bed with a bullet in his leg, and the waiter from the restaurant is still recovering from the brutal beating from that night we had dinner.

The old Levi would have killed the waiter. God forbid, my brother would be six feet under if Levi had a change of heart and shot him in the face.

Nonetheless, theytriggeredsomething in Levi, something that made himel Diavolo, something that made him block outeverything, targeting the threat and neutralizing it to protect someone…someone that belonged to him.

Oddly enough, Dr. Wyatt was threatened with death but was never harmed. Is that why he’s still alive and well? Because he wasn’t a threat to me? Because he genuinely wanted the best for me? Is that why Levi let him live?

“What did you do?” I whispered, and Jacob looked at me, almost flabbergasted.

“What did I do?! That doesn’t matter—”

“Yes, it does,” I said, cutting him off, and he scoffed.

“Teegan! The man is mentally unstable,” he tried to argue.

I remained firm. “Jacob. Tell me what you did.”

“The man shot me in the leg, for Christ’s sake, and you have the nerve to ask me what I did?!” he yelled in shock, and Declan’s voice filled my head as well.

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