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“Shut the fuck up, and then maybe I’ll bring her to you.”
“What do you mean, maybe?” I demand.
Angelo narrows his eyes at me. “Just what I said.”
I get up off the floor and sit on the edge of the plush king-size bed.
“What have you done with her?” The stress of the day has finally gotten to me, and I can’t help the tears that course down my face. “Why won’t you just let me go?” I ask, my breath catching, as I try to speak through my crying jag.
“Because that wasn’t the deal that was struck between Father and I,” he yells, and I cower against his voice for the first time. “You were promised to me on his deathbed. And I haven’t claimed you yet. But soon, you will be mine.” His eyes run lasciviously over me, and a shiver of revulsion runs down my spine.
He gets to his shiny loafered feet and walks to the door. “And when you’ve finally come to terms with the inescapable fact that you’re mine, only then will I let you see that brat. Until then, she’s in excellent hands.”
“You can’t just keep me away from my child and locked up,” I scream at him as he opens the door. He turns and looks back at me with retribution in his empty eyes.
“You even think about trying to escape, the kid will be gone,” he threatens before moving through the door and closing it behind him.
When I hear the lock engage, I slump back against the bed, curling into the fetal position, and cry myself to sleep.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Ky
I walk into the house I built next door to Chains and Zoe, and frown when the quiet hits me, and I realize it’s empty.
Where the fuck did she go?
And where was Finn? I furrow my brow as I search the house. I should be out there searching for Sera and her kid, but Ink and I had almost gotten into it again, and as my pops’ Sargeant-At-Arms, his rank trumps mine, so I was told to stay behind to wait for Kon’s arrival and to look after my kid and Mariah.
Opening the door to the bedroom Mariah used, I was expecting to see her inside, but the only one there was Finn, who seems dead to the world. I rush over and try to shake him awake. I fight down the panic threatening to overwhelm me as I scramble for my phone and call Everleigh. Dad said she was home resting, and I hated to bother her, but this was an emergency.
She answers on the third ring, and I thank whoever was up there looking down on us for watching over my boy.
“Hey, Ky, what’s up?” she asks, I could hear the exhaustion in her voice, but I needed her help, she could rest after I’ve woken Finn. I don’t beat around the bush, fighting to keep my voice calm.
“Hey, Eveleigh, I’m really sorry to be calling you, but I can’t wake up Finn.”
“What do you mean, you can’t wake him up?” she demands, more alert than she was just minutes ago.
“Everyone’s gone to search for Sera, and I’ve stayed back to watch over Mariah and Finn. I’m here at the house, there’s no sign of Mariah and Finn is asleep. I can’t wake him up. You don’t think the bitch has given him something?” I wouldn’t putit past Mariah to drug me, but to do it to her own son. It was unthinkable.
“Put him in a cold shower. I’ll be there in a few,” she replies before ringing off.
Swiftly, I lift him into my arms, my panic intensifying as I realize how limp and lifeless he feels against me. Rushing to the bathroom, I turn on the cold water in the shower and step underneath, uncaring that I’m fully clothed.
Mere minutes later, Everleigh bursts through the bathroom door, the sound of her hurried footsteps filling the room. In my arms, Finn sputters and then gazes around with confusion before breaking into tears. I never thought I’d want to hear my boy crying, and my knees suddenly go weak.
Everleigh spreads her arms expecting me to hand him over to her, but I don’t, I need to feel his tiny body in my arms.
“Lay him down on the bed,” Everleigh instructs, and I do just that, but I lie next to him as she looks him over, his tears gradually subside.
“Whatever he ingested doesn’t seem to have left him with any lasting damage.” My relief at the news was instant, but my rage against the woman that did this grows exponentially. If she returns from wherever she’s been, I’m going to fucking ring her neck, and I’m going to enjoy it.
Just then, the woman herself walks through the door, without a care in the world, carrying Sera’s little girl, Willow. A look of shock that Everleigh and I are in the house, on her face.
I open my mouth to let rip on her, but snap it shut, knowing the kids were going to hear everything. Turning to Everleigh, I pin a tight smile to my lips.
“Would you mind taking the kids back to your place? I need to have a little chat with Mariah. You can take some dry clothes for Finn from his dresser,” I tell Everleigh without taking my eyes from Mariah.