Page 68 of The Killer Who Kept Me

I loved this moment. I sat and ate and Em read a book. By the looks of it, another one that Dafni gave him.

“What’s that story about?”

“Some unicorn warrior shifter in search of his omega. They are each half of a whole, and the warrior is weakening every day since his, like, five hundredth birthday. I don’t know more than that; I’m only halfway.”

“What the fuck?” I laughed. “Why are you reading that?”

He stuck out his tongue. “Because it’s an escape from reality.”

“Fair.”

“So, what did you do today?” He folded his book on his lap.

“Called the governor, whose son was kidnapped by Ramsey, to see if there was anything I could do. I informed him that I was aware of who took his son and that I was in the middle of trying to take Brookes down. I have a feeling Ramsey took Dre to corner him into setting me up, but I could be wrong. Ramsey could have another reason.”

“Oh, wow…set you up, how?”

“Probably if he can’t beat me on his own, he’d figure out some way to do it legally.”

Em cocked his head. “I mean, the governor has power, sure, but he’d still need to have something justifiable in order to have you arrested.”

“I’m not sure what his plan was, exactly. But I’m trying to get ahead of it.”

“Have you heard from Ramsey since you took Frazee?”

“No.” That was surprising.

“Because Ramsey is selfish. The second you took Frazee, Ramsey cut him loose.”

I finished my lunch, my brain racing with what the fuck I was missing. Ramsey was making no sense.

“Hey.” Em had his hands on my desk and was leaning over it. “There are only three things in this world that Ramsey loves, three things that if he lost would rattle him.”

“Power, money, and what, women?”

Em shook his head. “Not women, they’re a dime a dozen to him. Sure, he maybe liked Brandi the most, but she’s likely already replaced or he’s forgotten her.”

“Are you going to make me guess?”

His expression became serious. “No, Saros, this isn’t a game. You want to cripple Ramsey, find RJ. His son, the only person in existence he actually gives a shit about. His heart could literally only love one person and that was RJ. Look how he treated me, and I was his flesh and blood.”

I went through everything in my mind and realized we hadn’t seen RJ. “Where would he be?”

“The one location you wouldn’t think to find him.”

I stared at Em as if the answer would jump out at me, but nothing.

“I don’t know.”

He came around and sat on my lap. “You’ll figure it out.”

Wrapping him in my arms, I let my mind drift. The last place I would search for RJ…any of Ramsey’s properties would be pointless. Maybe Frazee’s? I mean…Oh, my God.

“I know where he is.”

Em gave me a peck and jumped off my lap. “Go get ’em, tiger.”

I raced out of the study and once again was standing in front of the cage that Frazee was in.

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