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Wow. Just fucking wow.

Tears fill my eyes and I wipe them away before they can fall. The worst part is, as soon as I give him the information, I was planning to tell him over the phone, he’ll never believe that I’m not a part of this.

I’m truly screwed. Not only that but I’m carrying his fucking child, and I don’t know how he’s going to react if his brother doesn’t make it through this.

What now?

Overwhelmed by my thoughts, I finally say, “I saw them take him to a building behind the house.”

“Why?” he rasps, and I bow my head. I can’t bear the disdain shining back at me and although I’d like to rail at him for his actions, I’m stuck in a car speeding down the highway.

I can’t risk angering him further.

“Minnie!” he barks, and I suck in a breath before imagining a blank fucking wall and raising my head.

“Because he’s a cop.”

I don’t need to say more. The writing is on the wall. Hudson risked his life everyday pretending to be loyal to that soulless fuck. Now he’s paying the ultimate price. The irony isn’t lost on me.

We wouldn’t be here right now if Cooper hadn’t used my sister against me, but I suppose I should be thankful. Now I know just how delusional Cooper is and if I manage to escape this unscathed, I can leave with zero doubts about the decision.

Cooper and his self-righteous rage can go fuck himself.

“Fuck!” Cooper says before whipping out his phone.

When he stares at me with a stone-cold expression, I look away and meet Beast’s matching glare in the rear-view mirror.

This is not how I expected this to go down but Cooper’s words from the other day ring in my head and I acknowledge my stupidity.No one knows, Minnie.

Except for me, supposedly. I’m the one who fucked him to get into his inner circle, to ruin his career after all.

Asshole.

“It’s me,” Cooper says to whomever over the line. “He's been compromised. We need to get him out.”

I hear the faint rumble of a man’s voice responding and cock my head. Who the hell is he talking to?

Does it matter? How did I end up here?

Oh yeah, trying to save my sister who’s even now sleeping with the enemy. To make matters worse because I clearly have terrible judgment, my skin burns to be closer to the man who’s basically accusing me of exposing his brother.

I know we said and did some awful things to each other, but this feels insurmountable. It’s clear he doesn’t know me at all and while I wish that wasn’t the case, the hard cold reality is we never truly knew each other.

I thought he was a decent human fucking being and he thinks I’m not. Ha!

“Are you fucking kidding me?” he barks, and I glance at him sideways.

Who’s he talking to?

When he hangs up without another word, Beast says, “What?”

“They don’t want to blow this if I’m wrong,” Cooper sneers.

Who? Oh shit, the police? This is bad. This is very fucking bad.

“So…what? They do nothing?” Beast says.

“Fuck.” Cooper slams his hand against the seat before him and I flinch. I can’t help it. I’ve seen Cooper fight in the ring with less passion than he’s displaying right now. And the fact that he blames me creates a web of fear slowly building around my heart.

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