Page 54 of His Coveted Obsession

But I knew he wouldn’t.

Sullysatnexttome in first class, while Khai sat behind us as we made our way to Chicago. Several boys had been kidnapped over the course of two months, and the police were useless. Dalton and Layla found the connection and the leader of a white supremacist group who would take young boys and indoctrinate them for their militia. It was a large cell, but where the boys were being held was on a small farm, so the three of us could handle the assignment.

The client was a wealthy man who had been on the inside and had some change of heart. Or he wanted retaliation. Whatever the reason, we were going to stop it. The result would be the same.

When I turned the Wi-Fi on my phone, a text appeared from Thomas. I opened the text app to find a selfie image of him while he was at work.

Thomas: I’ll miss you.

“Who’s that?” Sully asked, snatching the phone from my hand.

“Give me my phone back.”

“Nope. Is this a new boyfriend?”

“That’s Thomas.”

“He looks like a nerd.”

I huffed at him, trying to get my phone back, but his arms were much longer than mine.

“He does not,” I said.

“You need someone tough and strong like my Mal.”

“I donotneed anyone to dominate me.”Never again.

Sully scrolled through my messages, and I felt the heat of anger spreading. Sully and I were alike in many ways. We couldn’t feel love like others could, with him being a psychopath. We both loved the thrill of the kill, but Sully took it up a notch with torture, while I stuck with the plan and the job.

“Oh! Our youngPadawanis a dominant, eh? Isn’t that adorable?”

But Sully and I differed in personalities. We both wore masks, but Sully laughed and teased easily. I had to force those behaviors.

“If you do not give my phone back—”

“Enough. Both of you,” Khai hissed quietly behind us. “You are drawing too much attention.”

“I’m only playing with our boy here,” Sully pouted, returning my phone.

“No more playing. We have a job to do.”

I turned off my phone and stared out the window, looking down at the puffy clouds, before Sully elbowed me. I rolled my eyes. “What?”

“Does he know?”

Sully didn’t have to elaborate. He meant what I did for a living.

“No.”

“And what if he finds out?” The threat was clear in his voice.

I took a hard look at him, staring into his copper eyes that matched his hair. “You willnotgo near him.” I didn’t care if Sully was a brother or not. I wouldn’t let anyone harm Thomas.

“You can’t keep who you are from him indefinitely.”

“That is for me to decide.”

“No, that is for the family to decide. Every time someone new comes into the fold, it changes us.”

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