Page 66 of Rebellion

“Do you think Callahan had anything to do with this?” Colm asked.

“They never mentioned him,” Miller said.

Sofia shook her head.

Step Callahan.

Leader of the Seven Sinners.

She swallowed heavily. Thankfully, he’d never been on her radar until recently. He was the last person she wanted to see.

Well, other than Oleg, she guessed. Oleg had recently arranged for Miller to talk to Step Callahan at Solynshko.

Well, forced might be a better word for it.

Sofia didn’t like that. She was in charge of keeping her staff safe, and that bastard had just waltzed in and done what he wanted.

Typical.

Wait. Calm. Don’t let your anger slip through.

“I think Arnie acted on his own with Oleg,” Miller said. “Arnie didn’t care about the ransom money. That was Oleg’s thing. Arnie just really wanted you dead. He was driving the car that tried to run you off the road,” she told him.

Rogan rubbed his hand over his face. “Thank God you left a note. If we hadn’t had that time advantage...”

“Did you see the tattoo on his arm?” Sofia asked quietly. It was playing over and over in her mind.

The tattoo.

That damn image.

“On Arnie’s arm?” Miller asked. “You looked like you’d seen a ghost when you saw it.”

“I’ve seen something similar before,” Sofia told her.

“What did it look like?” Rogan asked.

“Three concentric circles, one white, one black, and one red. Inside the circles was a sword dripping with blood,” Sofia described it.

Rogan nodded. “His gang tattoo. The Seven Sinners each choose a sin as their tattoo. The three more common ones are greed, pride, and wrath, which is the most popular choice and the one you saw.”

“So a lot of people have that tattoo?” Sofia asked.

Crap. How had she not known that?

Maybe because you have nothing to do with the Seven Sinners. Because you avoid Step Callahan.

Although she didn’t think he knew her secret.

If he did, surely he would have used it against her. She knew that. And her world would have collapsed.

But she didn’t believe in tempting fate.

Sacha would never have allowed the Seven Sinners to get close to her. Although he couldn’t have factored in Oleg’s betrayal.

Perhaps if she had seen that tattoo before now, she might have...

Might have what? Pieced things together?

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