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I turn my head. “Get what…?”

“Sorry, doll,” he growls.

Before I can even blink, there’s a needle in my arm. My mother makes a noise and I see there’s a needle in her arm too.

I open my mouth but can’t speak Peri’s name. I manage to blink once and I turn my head to the right. Everything is getting blurry. I’m woozy.

I…

Wait…

Is that my father walking toward us right now?

ChapterThirty-Five

PERILOUS

“They’re not dead,”I say to Holom as he looks at the back of the van.

“This feels all fucked up.”

“It is fucked up. You caused this. Not me. You.”

He looks at me, his lip snarled. “I could fucking kill you right now, Perilous. I’mLegion.You’re not.”

“Yeah? And I’m the one saving your ass.”

“That’s because you want a promotion.”

“And why exactly did you pay me to kidnap your daughter and ex-wife?”

Holom stretches his neck and stares forward. The guy is sweating like crazy. He’s scared out of his mind. He should be. This is it. The big moment.

“Look, I had to kill Molly,” I say to him. “She knew too much. And you let her in on shit. No offense, Holom, but what the fuck?”

“She came after me,” he says. “She wanted it. I don’t know. Poor thing. It was like taking care of a sick animal.”

“That you wanted to fuck?”

“Hey! Easy.” He rubs his face. “This is going to work. We’re going to hit theLegionhard. Throw them off balance and… yeah…”

There’s a bright light shining from Holom’s eyes. He looks like a scumbag gambler, who already lost two months’ worth of paychecks and is about to bet the house.

And for the record, yeah, I injected both Annika and her mother with something special to knock them out. And, yeah, I meant to do it. No, they aren’t going to die.

And if you think for one second I’ve turned my back on the woman I love, you must be fucking insane.

How else was I going to get Holom to come crawling out of his cave? With the death of Molly on my hands, he knew he was next.

I staged a fight between myself and Ty, Vic, and Demo. I flew Annika’s mother in. I got in touch with Holom and let him know that I had both his ex and his daughter and I was fed up with all of this shit.

It didn’t hurt my case that Holom knew all about me. What Luc had me doing for so long.

Or the incident with the SUV…

Holom is so fucking weak and scared, you pat him on the shoulder a few times and he’s like a desperate dog looking for a belly rub.

My grip on the wheel gets tighter.

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