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He swung open her door.

“Did you drug me?” she teased.

“You fell asleep. And you snore, by the way.

“I do not.”

Once the woman appeared in his shadow, Skye shut her mouth. He helped her out of the car, then introduced the woman as Victoria.

“Like I was saying,” Galen said. “There must be a reason Seth was at that house. Any information you have, I need to know.”

Victoria placed a dainty hand on Galen’s biceps. Skye’s entire body stiffened. “We haven’t been together for months. He changed. Became distant.”

Skye’s blood burned with a possessiveness she had no right feeling.

“Distant how?” Galen asked.

She shrugged. “Late nights. Secrets.”

“Was he seeing someone else? Viko says he wasn’t involved with the dead woman.”

“And, of course, Viko knows everything, doesn’t he?”

“Tell me something, Victoria. I didn’t drive out here for nothing.” Galen wasn’t as patient with her as he was with Skye. This made her happy.

“I spent a night with him.”

“With who? Fucking Viko?”

“He’s hard to refuse. Didn’t want to see me after one night, but that’s nothing new for him.”

“Seth know about it?”

“So it seems,” she said.

Galen slammed a fist against the SUV, making Skye flinch. “This is bullshit. Seth was probably there to fuck with Viko. To give him a taste of his own betrayal.”

“It’s just a theory, Galen,” Victoria said. “Viko isn’t that stupid.”

“So, if Seth was there on business, what about the woman? Just one of Petrov’s sluts?” Galen was pacing now, ranting, and spouting off every thought in his head.

“He had a lot of mistresses,” Skye said. “It’s very possible.”

“So, she witnessed him kill Seth, then he smokes her, too,” Galen said. “Could make sense. But Viko won’t want to hear it.”

Skye hated being in the middle of this. “If Seth wanted to do business with Petrov in revenge for Viko sleeping with his girlfriend, why would Petrov kill him?”

“Because he’s still part of Circle of Monsters. Maybe he thought it was a trap, I don’t know.”

Then the most important question that nobody seemed concerned with. “And what about me? What more does Viko think I know about this? Why is he playing with my life?”

“Petrov wanted you dead. That makes Viko nervous. He probably thinks you know more than you’re saying. You’ve been in the dragon’s den, so you’ve seen a lot of shit,” Galen said.

“Not really. I minded my own business.”

“Were you fucking Petrov, too?” Victoria asked.

Skye whirled to face the other woman, realizing how much taller Victoria was and not caring. “I don’t sleep around, certainly not with my boss.”

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