Page 33 of Dangerous Contract: Part 2

Trevor started to shake his head.

“Or,” Raz added. “I can beat you to death right now and just tell Monique her friends didn’t make it.”

Trevor looked undecided for a moment. Finally, he nodded his head. “Deal.”

“Leave,” Orazio bit out, trying to ignore the bile rising in his throat at the thought of freeing this man. “But know this, you can’t run forever. I will find you again.”

“Sure, sure,” Trevor dismissed, though fear flickered in his eyes. “I’ll call you as soon as I’m safely away from here.”

Fuck!Instead of letting him go, Raz wanted to use his bare hands to remove Trevor’s eyes from their sockets. He wanted to break each of the bastard’s fingers and toes. He wanted to slice his Achilles’ heels so the bastard couldn’t walk.

He wanted to remove every one of his teeth and then slice open his gums until he choked on his own blood. But Raz wouldn’t let him choke to death. He’d keep him alive. He’d keep him locked up until Trevor healed from those wounds, no pain meds, of course.

Then, once he healed, Orazio would shatter his kneecaps, break his arms and legs, then cut off his tongue. And once again, he’d allow him to heal, no pain meds, until it was time to fuck him up some more.

“Did you hear me?” Trevor grunted, pulling Raz away from his fantasies of torture and blood. “Once I’m away from here, I’ll contact you with their location. First, I have to get away from here.”

Trevor stared down.Oh, right.

“Untie him,” Orazio ordered one of the guards, watching from the corner of his eye as his brother Rome stepped outside.Where was his brother off to?The guard complied, loosening the ropes that had left red bruises on Trevor’s wrists.

“Thanks,” Trevor grunted, rubbing his raw skin as he stood up. He swayed and tried to sit back down. Raz kicked the chair, sending it toppling over. Trevor hit the ground hard, groaning as he did so.

“Go,” Raz growled. “Before my anger gets the best of me.”

Wincing from the pain of his bruises, Trevor pushed to his hands and knees. His gaze darted around the room as he slowly pushed himself to his feet. His eyes were drawn to the corner of the room where Monique was. They lingered there a second too long.

“Keep looking at my woman, and I’m going to remove your fucking eyes,” Raz hissed.

Trevor quickly shut his eyes as he turned toward the exit. Then he opened his eyes and, without another word, began limping toward the door. Rome reentered the building, a devious smirk playing on his lips as he approached Orazio.

Orazio watched as Trevor slowly made his way to the exit. The room was large, and with the way Trevor was walking, it would take him forever to leave the building. With each step Trevor took, Raz mentally ticked off a reason he should just kill the bastard right now.

The weight of his decision to let Trevor go was settling heavily on his heart. He knew he’d made the right choice, for Monique and her friends’ sake, but it was a choice that left a bitter taste in his mouth.

As Trevor’s weak ass stumbled, nearly falling down, Orazio’s muscles tensed, the urge to chase after him nearly overwhelminghim. His thoughts drifted to Monique in the corner of the room, battered and bruised.

Trevor had put his motherfucking hands on her.Fuck it!He would kill this bastard now! Raz took a step forward, but Rome’s hand clamped onto his shoulder like a vice, preventing him from getting far.

“Let him go,” Rome whispered.

Just as Orazio was about to argue, his phone rang, its shrill tone slicing through the thick tension in the air. He yanked it from his pocket and answered, his eyes still locked on Trevor, whose battered body could only move at a snail’s pace.

“What?” Raz growled into the phone, not bothering to check who was calling.

“Raz, it’s Leo,” the guard’s voice crackled over the phone.

Raz frowned. “Why does it sound like you’re outside instead of in a hospital room watching over my father?”

“Because I am outside. Well, I’m in my car. Don’t worry. I’ve got someone else watching the Don. I’m leaving the location where Trevor held Monique and her friends.”

Orazio’s gaze narrowed on Trevor’s retreating form as he whispered into the phone, “What’s going on?”

“The building Trevor held them in is on fire,” Leo replied.

On fire?“How do you know?”

“I set up cameras in the old front lobby area of the building and at the exit before telling Trevor where to take Monique for the Don,” Leo explained. “Since he took her there, I haven’t checked those cameras much. I’d only been alerted to movement when someone entered or left the facility. And over the past few days, it’s only been Trevor coming and going from there. So, I had no need to keep looking, especially since he kept Monique and her friends in separate rooms where no cameras were.”

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