Total pages in book: 115
Estimated words: 110824 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 554(@200wpm)___ 443(@250wpm)___ 369(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 110824 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 554(@200wpm)___ 443(@250wpm)___ 369(@300wpm)
“Gia isn’t a client. She’s my woman. She means everything to me, and as soon as I can convince her, she will wear my ring. You put that in danger with whatever bullshit you spewed last night.”
“You said you were seeing her, that didn’t sound serious to me. Plus, I didn’t know she was the woman you spoke about. I thought she was the woman you said you were protecting.”
“I am protecting her, but she’s not a fucking job. She’s my world. If she wasn’t, I wouldn’t have asked you to search out the information I needed so I could make sure she was safe.”
“I…I’m sorry, Victor. I didn’t know. I didn’t lie to her, though. You and I did mean something to one another. You even kept my phone number in your contacts. That has to mean something. You can’t deny we had something great once, Vic.”
“Let me go” I whisper.
He refuses, not with words, but by the look on his face and the increasing force in his hold. “Morgan, I haven’t seen you in over five years. How could you even think I’d want to restart anything with you? We slept together twice and it was just sex. I valued you as a professional. We were friends, but it never went deeper for me. I am also sure I made that clear when I left.”
“I see. Well, I have your message loud and clear now.”
“Good. If it needs to be said, don’t bother looking me up in Phoenix or anywhere else. I’m not happy that you would lead Gia to believe that we shared anything remotely personal last night. All we talked about was business, and I told you straight out when you tried to move the conversation into a more personal light that I was seeing someone and happy.”
“Understood. You know how to reach me if that changes,” she says, and this time anger fills me for a different reason. Victorio is making himself clear, and even if that doesn’t get him entirely out of the doghouse, it does mean something to me.
“It won’t. Gia will be my wife and the mother of my children. She’s everything to me. I more than love her. I’d die for her.”
He says these things with the phone in his hand, the speaker pointed toward him, but his gaze never leaves mine. His eyes are heated and his hold on me possessive, and I know that what he said might have been said aloud for her to hear, but the words are for me. For me. Then, before she can so much as say goodbye, he hangs up.
“Victor…”
He hands me the phone. “Delete her name out of my contacts, Kitten.”
I look at his phone and shake my head no. “I d-don’t need to do that.”
“I need you to.”
For some reason, I still shake my head in denial. With a sigh, he proceeds to do what I wouldn’t and deletes her from his phone. He puts his phone back in his pocket. “I’ve never lied to you, Gia.”
“What about Phoenix?”
“That’s where Marco’s girl Helena is right now and it’s where the Titan MC is based. EZ is going to help me find out some information and I knew you wouldn’t like me doing it, so I opted to keep you in the dark. I was going to hire Morgan to help with that because she is a very good private investigator. That’s all it was, Gia. I can see where I made a mistake, but to be honest, I never thought of Morgan in that light. She wasn’t an ex, sweetheart. She was an itch I once scratched after being on the job for six months without a break. You know I wasn’t a saint before we met. I’ve never claimed to be. I can promise you that since you came into my life there has never been another woman for me. I’ve never looked at anyone since meeting you and I never will.”
“You’re going to look into my attack.”
“I am. Whoever did it, doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as you. I don’t want the moon shining down on them and you at the same time. They need to pay and I’m going to be their executioner.”
“I’m still here,” Sam reminds us. I turn to look at him, stricken. I forgot anyone else was around but me and Victor. Worse, I don’t want to discuss my attack with him. For that matter, I don’t want to discuss it with Victor either.
“Feel free to leave,” Victor replies, full-on snarky. It’s a side of him that I haven’t really seen.
“Stop. I love Sam and I haven’t seen him in a long time.”
“I told you how I feel about you using those words about anyone who isn’t me, Kitten.”
“You’re being crazy. Besides that, you and I have a lot to discuss. I don’t like you keeping secrets from me. I don’t deserve that. I’m not weak, you know.”