Page 36 of Merciless Sinner

It’s a small win I’ll take.

I’ll give her a free pass until I decide to claim her the way I want to, which means I’ll stay in one of my guest rooms for the moment.

But she doesn’t need to know that. Especially if I change my mind.

I wanted her in my bed so she could get used to it.

It was obviously for me, too.

No other woman has slept in that bed but her.

From my research and sorting out her debts, I know she was with some asshole called Flavio—said asshole who will be getting a visit from me when I find him.

That relationship only ended about eight months ago, so it’s still relatively fresh, and I’m sure she must still have him in her head because of the way he screwed her over.

Me, on the other hand… well, I’m a whole other story.

Months after Olivia first went missing, people started giving up and telling me she must be dead. Then those who knew I’d been with her began telling me to move on. I didn’t.

Not until a year had passed and I started giving up and believing what everyone else did.

I turned to drinks, drugs, and the fast women who frequented my clubs. Especially the sex club. It was easier there.

Then one day, Billy received note of a sighting of Olivia in France. The picture he got was fussy, so I couldn’t really make out her face, but the description he gave was so close I started believing again. That was also when I took the first steps to reconnect with Cillian, who was also looking for his family.

Of course, I didn’t find her then, but with my hopes awakened, I started a new search. That was over a year ago, so I haven’t been with a woman since.

Having the only woman I’ve ever wanted in my home is a dream I never thought I’d have again in this lifetime. So, if I need more patience, then that’s what I’ll get.

Right now, I need to stop thinking with my dick and pull my head from out of the clouds. Because I have one hell of a task ahead of me to find out who was responsible for what happened to Olivia and her parents.

It’s understandable that Olivia is freaking out about her safety. I can’t blame her for that.

But by my life or death, I will protect her, and I won’t stop trying to find the truth as well as the traitor until she’s safe.

Everything is just going to be harder than hard. Even for a guy like me who’s considered a world-class hacker with my double honors degree from MIT in computer sciences and software engineering. I finished that degree for fun because I knew I was always going to work in the oil business, but my skills in the criminal underground are a gold mine on their own.

The person I’m looking for has had two and a half years to hide. Their trail ran cold even before we knew something was wrong.

It took two days after the shit went down before we all knew something had happened. And for me to find out that Olivia never got on her flight to England.

It was Dante’s father who unearthed the disaster that had taken place.

He’d gone to visit Callahan and found all the house staff and guards dead with bullet holes everywhere. Because men like Callahan have a shit ton of enemies, all angles had to be considered—inside job or outside. Apart from my suspicions about my father, it was more believable that someone on the outside did it. But the general consensus was that the family had been taken captive.

The O’Ridian case has been investigated by the Creed and police alike to no avail. But with a traitor among us, there was no way we would have ever found anything.

My guess is we’re not just looking foroneperson. There’s at least two people or a group of them. And I also believe they have ties to people outside the Creed.

Someone wanted Olivia’s family dead. Her parents in particular.

That person waited until Cillian left for Ireland and Olivia was supposed to be in England for her internship at the British Museum.

She was only there by accident because of me.

The day before, I broke her heart with lies, and I nearly got her killed.

That’s why I have to fix this and give Olivia her life back.

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