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“I know. I feel terrible. I should have?—”

He raised his hands. “I don’t give a shit about how you feel.”

“I’m sorry. I’m falling for you. I really am.”

“Well, whatever I felt for you has gone. When we get to Cuxhaven, you can piss off back to where you came from.” He dodged around me.

“Kane. I’m sorry. I need you to understand.” Tears stung my eyes.

“I’m done with doing things for you.” His heavy footsteps left prints in the dusty path.

“I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you. Please stop. Let me explain.”

He didn’t slow down, he didn’t even glance back. The distance between us grew, opening a chasm that bled right into my heart.

I slumped to the ground, and the gravel dug into my palms. “I didn’t know you before I took this job.”

The air seemed to still, and the dense woods added another level of suffocation to my heart.

“I was just doing my duty,” I yelled to him.

He spun to me and even with his distance from me, rage blazed in his eyes. “So I was nothing more than a mission. Is that it?”

Desperation burned in my chest as I jumped to my feet and sprinted to him. I stopped two feet away and my chest heaved as I studied his eyes. “Initially, yes. But I didn’t know you. Now I do. It wasn’t all a lie, Kane. My feelings for you are real.”

“I don’t give a shit about your feelings. What about mine? Huh?” He clenched his jaw so hard his chin quivered.

“I know. And I deserve that. My name was a lie and my job, but everything else was true and real. You still saw the real me.”

“Really? So your treasure-hunting father really is dead?” He glared at me, and I knew he already had that answer.

The blood drained from my body.

“I can’t believe Itrustedyou!” He stormed away.

A sob burst from my throat. “I’m sorry. Please. I never meant to hurt you.”

My chest heaved and tears spilled down my face as the most incredible man I’d ever met walked away from me.

CHAPTER 24

Grant

“What do you mean they got away?” I yelled into the phone.

“They got away,” Cooper repeated calmly, although he had an edge in his voice that told me he was anything but calm.

“Fucking hell! All you had to do was get Kane’s map that she mentioned in her text and then kill them.” I shoved back on my office chair and stood. “Now the cops will be after you.”

“No, they won’t. The cops are hunting them. Their faces are all over the news for the murders.”

I wanted to launch down the line and strangle the stupid bastard.

“You killed three people.” I marched to the window. “Three! I didn’t ask you to kill anyone but Kane and Lacey.”

“Gunter was an accident.”

“An accident?” I tried to swallow but it was impossible. “How?”