Page 88 of Imperial: The Corvidae Family
My eyes snapped up. “What does that mean?”
She shifted on her feet. “You know,likehim. You do what he does?”
I kept quiet but grilled the fuck out of her. Sea’an’s expression changed, like she suddenly realized she was alone with a killer.
“I…I don’t know anything,” she stammered. “I don’t want to be part of this. Can you just leave?”
“Where is he?”
“I don’t know.”
She swallowed hard. “I really don’t know.”
I waited and her hands clenched into fists at her sides. “He got weird a couple months ago. Said he was ruined. He wanted to end things, but men like him had to die with honor. He also started acting weird. I think something wasn’t right up here.”
She touched her temple.
My jaw tightened. What the fuck was that about?
“He said he couldn’t recover from how you messed up his life. That he was in too deep. I didn’t understand it and I didn’t care. He just kept telling me he was going to die with honor, but when that happened, it would hurt you more than him.”
“What else?”
“He was willing to die to make that happen because killing you would be too easy. He said you needed to live and suffer the way you made him suffer.”
My brows slammed in. Trent must have lost his damn mind for sure.
Die with honor? Ruin me?
That didn’t make sense.
“That’s why I tensed when I saw you. He said you were going to kill him.”
I ran my tongue over my teeth, processing what she was telling me.
“I don’t know what he’s doing and I don’t care. What we were only existed in this room. He was weird, but he paid a lot of money for me to listen to him complain about things I didn’t understand.”
“And you sucked his dick while he complained which isn’t too fucking stable either.” I angled my head to the side and she narrowed her eyes as if she was offended.
“You don’t have the right to judge me. You kill people for a living.”
I dropped my chin and gave her a deadly glare that had her taking a step back. I almost fucking laughed.
“The sum total of your relationship with Trent was that he hated me and cried to you about it while you unsuccessfully got him off.”
“Yes.” She locked her arms over her chest indignantly.
“What else did he say?”
She shook her head. “Nothing. I promise. I’m giving you my word. I don’t know anything, and when you leave, I promise not to know anything about you either.”
She was scared. But she wasn’t lying.
I stood and headed to the door.
“You’ll get a wire today and one in a week. If you keep your word, you won’t see me again.” I met her eyes. “If you don’t, you will. And trust me, you don’t want to see me again.”
She swallowed hard.
