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My question was cut off when she pulled a Glock out of her handbag and racked the slide to load it. Then, she was opening the door to the balcony. I watched speechless as Maria pointed her gun towards the billboard and shot the firearm until it cocked empty.

“There,” She breathed out, more relaxed. “Much better.”

I stared at the now broken, black billboard, cracked in several places from the bullets – Zach’s message erased.

That’ll cost him at least three hundred thousand.

“What are the owners going to say?”

“He’ll handle it,” Maria waved it off, placing her Glock back in her handbag, before turning to me. “So, where should we go for brunch?”

Chapter 47

Present

“You didwhat?” Matteo asked in shock as we walked out of the elevator and down the hall of Zane’s underground warehouse.

Zach’s jaw clicked with tension, not even sparing his brother a glance.

“Bought a billboard,” I supplied for him. “And she shot it down.”

“As in called the company to take it down?”

I breathed out in amusement. “As in sheliterallyshot it down with her gun.”

A moment of silence passed before Matteo burst out into a fit of laughter. “I take it back. I like this chick for you after all. Her crazy matches yours.”

Zach pushed through the door to a room filled with monitor screens. One checking around every security camera in the city. Another with a face recognition program, flickering with a different person’s face every millisecond. The third, a black screen with green, cyber font as Zane discussed with yet another assassin connection from his past, regarding the situation.

“What do you have?”

“Not much,” Zane replied, distracted, as he searched through the data.

“That’s not good enough.”

Zach had every single one of the Cartel’s soldiers, my family’s men, and Zane’s associates cooperating to put an end to this madness. He’d been working non-stop for the past week, trying to find Ruiz and eliminate her.

“She’s been dealing with this shit since she was sixteen. I need to permanently end it for her.Now.” Zach’s voice carried tension, and everyone in the room could tell he was losing his patience.

He didn’t want to kill Ruiz for being a rat anymore.

He wanted to kill Ruiz to avenge Maria. For all the times that she had no one to fight for her. He wanted to be the one to get rid of her problems.

I knew he hoped that would make her forgive him. I didn’t have the heart to tell him she probably wouldn’t.

Five hours later, we still had nothing.

Trying to find someone who was technically dead, and probably hiding away in some basement, was close to impossible. Not impossible, but definitely close.

“Alright.” Zane glanced up from his phone. “She said she’ll be there in half an hour. Good luck.”

“Thanks, man.” Zach shook his hand. “Appreciate it.”

Zane raised a brow. “Don’t fuck it up.Again.”

“Won’t.” He grumbled back.

I had no idea how Zach convinced him to text Maria and get her to come to the warehouse location in Brooklyn. The only explanation I could come up with was that Zane felt bad for the guy since he genuinely loved Maria.

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