Page 53 of The Echo of Forever
“That should make me feel good, but it doesn’t. I’ll kill her right now if that’s what you want, my forever.”
Such a reckless man.
“What does she get out of helping you?”
“Revenge against the Carroways.”
Millicent had been engaged to Jayden before me, which I did remember. But it fell through, and word circulated that she decided it was best to focus on EG and not tie another family into it.
There was obviously more to the story.
“Jeremiah raped her, but she was drugged and can’t remember all the details. She skipped going up the food chain because we both know without hard proof they’d never let her kill him.”
It was starting to come together in my head.
“So she came to you.”
He nodded.
“But not before threatening to ruin Jayden’s political aspirations. He funded the hit, and I got paid.”
Our eyes met, and I almost leaned in to ask for a kiss. He was so beautiful to me; his lips, too.
“You want to kill them for me, right?”
He nodded, and we somehow drifted closer to one another.
“Everything I’m doing is for you and me.”
I licked my lips and wrapped my fingers around the door handle.
“I’m gonna go, but can we—”
“There’s something I want to give you,” he cut in, opening the center console and pulling a phone from it. “Anytime you left on a job, you’d leave this behind. It was your way of protecting us.”
He held it out for me to take and squeezed my hand when I did, keeping us connected.
“Mine is still active, and it’s the only number saved in this one. Both lines are secure. So, if you want to see me again, use this.”
He let my hand go and tipped his head toward my car.
“Go ahead, I’ll follow until you pull into the parking garage.”
“You don’t have to,” I told him, pushing my door open. “But it’s appreciated.”
I stood just outside his truck now but dipped in to tell him one more thing.
“Thank you for being patient with me, Demetrius.”
He smiled and shook his head.
“Echo, baby. Call me Echo.”
I shut the door, popped the lock on my pretty Corvette, and slid inside.
“Call him Echo,” I murmured, pulling onto the street and driving in the direction of my apartment. “Such a weird name and an even weirder man.”
But true to his word, he followed right up until I pulled into the parking garage.
