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My heart screams in horror when I see Ace escorting Dmitri down the steps at gun point. His face is busted and there’s blood all over his clothing. When his gaze lands on me, they narrow viciously.

Ace kicks Dmitri in the back, sending him tumbling down the remaining flight of metal stairs.

“Daelyn,” he grunts, staggering back to his feet. Blood pours from a fresh cut on his head.

“Your sister’s dead, Dmitri.” Kaleb whirls on him with that awful smile. “Daelyn killed your little Addie.”

“Addie.” Dmitri stumbles forward, loses balance, and falls to his knees again. Vomit flies out of his mouth. I think he’s concussed. Or drugged. Maybe both? Dmitri looks me dead in the eyes asks, “Is she dead?”

I don’t know if I should lie or tell the truth. Which will help him more right now?

Before I can answer, Kaleb shoves me, tipping me and mychair over. I crack the side of my face onto the floor and cry out.

Then all the cell phones go off with this horrible noise and large projection screens slide down from their wall mounts.

Tick, tick, tick…

BOOM.

Chapter 40

Dmitri

The concussion I’ve got is bad, but I’m not surrendering anytime soon. Not when the show has finally started.

I owe Vault and Silas for this one.

With confusion plastered on his blood-splattered face, Kaleb looks around the dead bodies who have their cells going off. Then he glances at Ace and Casey, before he digs his cell phone out of his back pocket like they have theirs. The projection screens lower down in unison and an image appears on each of them.

Daelyn clumsily stands up and laughs when the video starts playing.

My girl’s strapped to the St. Andrew’s cross at the Monarch and I’m fingering her.

“Who owns you? Say his motherfucking name.”

Daelyn’s groan is loud on the speaker system.

“Better keep me inside you,”I say.“Or I will stuff this pussy with my cock and fuck you until you taste my cum on your goddamn tongue.”

Daelyn explodes, her orgasm loud in the warehouse.

“Dmitri!”she screams as she comes undone.“His fucking name…”she sobs through the surround sound,“is… Dmitri.”

Her confession ricochets around the Scrapyard’s concrete interior.

When Daelyn mentioned this clip from the surveillance videos would be Kaleb’s downfall, I didn’t believe her. But I did trust her. And seeing the glorious shades of red Kaleb’s face has turned, I feel such pride for my girl coming up with this idea. I’m just sorry I wasn’t able to save her from the consequences like I’dplanned.

She’s right about something else, too. Kaleb definitely thinks two steps ahead.

When I claimed I wanted to take everything away from him, Daelyn said I already had because I’d takenher. She wasn’t wrong.

“You wanted this,” Daelyn says, walks slowly towards him. “You asked for it. No…demandedit.”

Kaleb’s jaw ticks, his eyes are so fierce they could knock a grown man to his knees. But Daelyn’s stronger than most men. Speaking of which…

Silas appears at the front entrance and nods. I’d worked with him while Daelyn slept during our last night together to create this nightmare for Kaleb. Silas’s cooperation and expertise only cost me most of my savings. The rest of it I’d marked to go to Daelyn for her and Addie, in case I didn’t make it out of this alive, which someone at the Monarch will find in my room.

My boys will be pissed that I didn’t drag them into this Hell with me, but they can’t do shit about it after I’m dead. I just hope they forgive me and understand that I’m willing to die, protecting them, too.

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