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This excites me, my heart pounding to push the adrenaline through me like a freight train. I’m going to reward them so good tonight; they don’t even have a clue.

“It d-doesn’t matter. The only way to stop this reunion is to kill me right now,” CJ says through clenched teeth.

“Do it,” I say without hesitation.

“Billie.”

“No!”

Our mothers say at the same time, both fighting for their child in one form or another. It’s admirable that my mother doesn’t want to see me turn into a murderer, while his mother doesn’t want to see him die. But I feel like this needs to happen. I won’t be free from the oath if he’s alive, and he’ll be my sacrifice to accept power. It’s really a win-win—for me. He’s shit out of luck.

But before I can urge Christian to end his life again, the basement door bursts open and a thunder of footsteps descends on us. I whip around and see a small army of FBI agents storming the basement, yelling at everyone to get on their knees and place their hands behind their heads. And everyone complies.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Only those three are under arrest. Let the others go, boys,” Dana orders, pointing at CJ, his mother, and my uncle Patrick. “Oh, look… you’re about to be arrested as a family. How sweet.”

For a bitch, she’s funny. And her joke gets her a spit in the face from CJ’s mom. Reaching up to wipe it away, Dana lets out a dangerous chuckle and shakes her head. I’m thinking that Dana’s just going to walk away, but she punches CJ’s mom right in the nose.

An agent drops the woman to her knees and cuffs her wrists, and Dana stands tall and proud over her. She’s on top of the world right now. I can’t be mad when someone wins in their life; it sure took her long enough, but who’s judging?

I turn my focus back on my parents, who are clinging to each other like they can’t get enough. A tall man with mostly gray hair wearing a dark blue FBI jacket walks up to them and shakes my father’s hand.

“I expunged what crimes I could, Mr. Lucas, and pardoned the others. On behalf of my department, I’d like to extend an apology for the time lost with your family. And we hope when you take back leadership that we can have a healthy relationship.”

Whoa.I look at Zeke, whose eyebrows are all the way up, looking back at me with shock. This guy looks like he’s a big deal and he just welcomed my father back to Reaper after wiping his record? What have I missed?

“Thank you, Lance. You have no idea what joy you’ve brought back into my life. I couldn’t have done this without your help.”

“Nor I without yours. You know who to call if you need any help to transition back into your life.”

And with that, he walks away from my father, who looks right at me and smiles. I smile back, unable to move toward him. He’s a stranger to me—a man who hasn’t been in my life since I was a little girl. We know nothing about each other anymore.

His expression falls to a hard look when my boys step up to me and wrap me in their arms. It’s obvious he doesn’t like the idea of me being with two guys, but it doesn’t matter what he thinks because nobody can ever break the three of us apart. When people see us, they’ll know we’re all together. Where Christian and Zeke are, Billie will be, and where Billie travels, her boys they will follow.

“Well, Dana, ya did it.”

I look over Christian’s shoulders and see the same tall gray-haired man talking with Mrs. Robinson. Dana laughs, nodding her head with pride as she shakes his hand.

“It took ya long enough, but you finally finished your first case. Congratulations, Agent Witt.”

She looks up with haughty eyes, smirking. “Thank you, sir.”

“And it’s with great despair that I’m afraid to inform you that you’re under arrest, Dana Witt. You are being detained for the following reasons—Sexual activity with a minor, extortion, bribery, coercion, kidnapping, endangerment of a minor times three, and sharing confidential information regarding an open-case. You have the right to remain silent.”

My jaw has never fallen open so far in my life. Dana’s being arrested after cracking her case! Holy shit!

“Whooooa,” Christian draws out with a laugh.

“I don’t know if that’s instant karma, or eighteen years’ worth of karma coming up to bite this bitch in the ass,” Zeke adds with his own laugh.

“You can’t arrest me! I cracked this case wide open! I did that!” Dana shouts, as she thrashes her arms, trying to break away from being handcuffed.

The tall man steps back as the arresting agent guides Dana toward the stairs. “I gave you several extra weeks of freedom because I knew you were so close to cracking the case, Witt. We’ve spent almost two decades on this bitch. There was no way I was arresting you before we solved it. And fortunately for you, we found Mr. Lucas almost too late. His late arrival kept you out even longer.”

This guy is taunting the hell out of her, but I can’t say I blame him. It’s actually quite fun to get under her skin. She looks in our direction and all I can do is raise my hand and give her the bird.

Fuck you, lady. Fuck. You.

“You little cunt!” she screams for all of us to hear her loud and clear before the agent shoves her into the kitchen and out of sight.

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