Page 47 of Matteo

Seeing that it was Jason calling, I debated on letting it go to voicemail. “Look, I’ve gotta go. But this was nice.”

Rain rolled her eyes just as the phone stopped ringing. “Agent Zac…”

She took a breath and said my name for a second time. “Matteo, please have a good rest of the day. I’m sure I’ll see you around.”

By the time I was getting in my car, my phone started ringing again.

“Hello?”

Jason sounded as if he was in the worst mood. “Do you know how to answer your phone or what?”

Taking a deep breath, I ignored him. “What’s going on?”

“The analytics just came back off Cassie Ito’s phone.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I had a contact at Deluca Tech and reached out. They were able to get together with our forensics. It’s looking like Kenji Ito might have had a reason to kill his sister.”

My stomach dropped at the mention of Kenji Ito’s name. It wasn’t like I could tell anyone what he had inside of him. What I had inside of me.

“Look meet me at the office in twenty minutes,” he huffed. “I’ll fill you in on all the specifics.”

“On the way,” I sighed before ending the call.

As I drove away from Rain’s apartment complex, thoughts of her spun around in my head like a spider’s web. Her tarot cards had offered me up a warning and I wondered as the image of The Tower card flashed in my head, was I heading into danger?

Walking into the office, dressed in my civilian clothes I badged in and headed straight for the briefing room. Jason was waiting with a stack of files a mile long piled on the table.

“This has better be good,” I remarked staring at manilla folders, each one seeming to be dated, and named.

“It is,” he reached over and handed me a file containing print outs of the text between Cassie and Kenji.

Scanning the text, I frowned. “Am I reading this right?”

He nodded. “Yep.”

Sitting down I continued to read.

You raped me,the text read.And I got pregnant.

You wanted it, and we both know it,Kenji had replied.

Cassie had replied with,I aborted it.

My eyes roved over the words in shock, and disgust.You’d better not fucking tell, Cassie. I’ll been in town shortly.

My stomach twisted into a knot because there were more text messages to comb through. That sick fuck, the same one who’d had his nasty fucking hands all over Rain.

Our woman,my Corsican purred.

He was a rapist and more than likely a murderer.

“We’re gonna have to turn this over to the local authorities,” Jason remarked.

“Damn,” I shook my head leaning back in shock.

“And that’s not all…it looks like he’s a huge supplier in the designer coke that’s been hitting the market. He supplied Cassie as a way to keep her quiet about what was going on between the two of them…”

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