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After straddling his waist, I used what energy I had left to hurl fist after fist after fist into his swollen and bruised face. Layers of eye tissue had burned off, the blood vessels shot. I doubted that he could even see anymore.

But that didn’t matter. Because I couldn’t stop myself.

I continued to punch him until Oliver pulled him off me.

“He’s dead.”

“He’s dead?” Vera repeated.

“What are we going to do with him?” Allie said.

“Bury him?” Imani suggested.

“Burn him maybe?” Sakura said. “That will leave the least amount of?—”

“What the hell is Avery teaching you?” Blaise asked Sakura as I collapsed onto my ass.

Sakura’s cheeks reddened. “Oh, I just, um, read that in a book.”

I snarled at Spencer’s body and gritted my teeth. If anyone found out that I had just killed a man, then all my chances of being in the NHL would be ripped from underneath my feet. But I had done it to protect not only me, but also Maddie.

And not only Maddie, but also everyone involved.

Spencer had been completely unhinged. If worked up enough, he might’ve killed everyone here. And while the girls had been doing a good job with keeping him down, he had been working with someone else.

After glancing toward the fourth corner, I saw the shadowy figure was gone. “There was …”

“Someone else,” Oliver finished. “In the corner.”

“Probably left during the chaos,” Blaise said.

“Spencer wasn’t the only one who ran out of the house,” Allie said.

I winced and leaned back onto Maddie, who gently clutched my head near the swollen flesh. “There was someone in the corner. I didn’t get a glimpse of her.” I glanced over at Blaise, then Oliver. “Did you?”

“Bro, I was blacked out the entire time,” Blaise said.

“No,” Oliver said, gazing down and frowning.

“Did you see her?” I asked Allie.

“No.”

“I’ll look at the security footage later with Kai,” Imani said. “But it was a woman.”

Cursing to myself, I closed my eyes and racked my brain foranyonewho could have it out for me. I never would’ve thought of Piper, so maybe I needed to be a bit more open.

What women are close to me who want to hurt me? Who could do this? Who wants to see me and Maddie break up?

And only one person continued to pop into my mind.

Sandra.

CHAPTER61

MADDIE

“What the fuck do you want me to do with it?” João growled at Imani.

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