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“Isn’t it?” He leans closer, twisting a strand of my hair around his finger. “You made me a promise. You’d be good, and I’d let him live. You’re lucky I didn’t put a bullet in your father’s head the second you left with them. You owe me now.”

“I don’t owe you anything.”

He continues twisting a strand of my hair. So close I’m breathing him in. But it would be weakness to back up. To drop my chin. To so much as blink. So I keep my spine straight and don’t break gazes with Titan.

“You’ll change your mind on that.” Titan’s smile is filled with malice. “Even if I have to chain you to a table in the middle of the room and let every one of my men fuck you until you’ve finally got no more fight left. I will break you, Aimee. You know I can.”

My stomach rolls over. Fire burns behind my eyes.

“That’s enough.” Chaos steps around Titan, and the Iron Sinners start to close in.

The rage vibrating off Chaos hums in the air, but all I hear is Titan’s threat on repeat. I have no doubt he’d make good on it. It takes everything in me to regain my composure as Chaos steps closer.

“Where is my father?” I ask Titan again.

“Don’t you already know the answer to that?” His gaze slips to Chaos. “That’s why I’m here, right? Aimee is the bait to distract me while her boyfriend raids the safe house I’ve been keeping Anderson.”

I swallow hard as Titan sees straight through our plan. He’s always five steps ahead. No matter how horrible he is, he’s smart when it comes to protecting himself.

Chaos’s phone dings, and Titan grins.

“Might want to get that. I assume it’s your club calling to tell you they found nothing. No Anderson. No guns. No drugs. Steel always thinks he can stay a step ahead of me, and yet, he continues falling into my traps.” Titan turns to me now. “I told you the price for your father, Aimee. You can either pay it, or I can make one call, and Epic will put a bullet in his head. It’s up to you.”

“I’ll never go with you.”

Titan’s smile turns wicked. It sends ice shooting through my veins.

“Have it your way.” Titan steps back, and the scene shifts so quickly that I barely have time to process what’s happening.

The once busy street has emptied of anyone but Iron Sinners. A move they must have been working on while I was distracted talking to Titan. There are no witnesses. No protection from the general public.

And as Iron Sinners close in around us, there’s no time to so much as scream before I meet Chaos’s gaze, and a gun swings at the back of his head. He drops to the ground, knocked out.

“As much as I’d like to properly thank him for ruining our run a couple of years ago, I’d rather your boyfriend have to hear this story so he knows exactly how I’m going to make you pay for your disobedience.”

Disobedience.

Like I’m a dog. A pet.

I’m nothing to him.

Titan backs up, and I barely make it a step before two of his men grab my arms. Another shoves a black hood over my head, and that quickly, I’m back where I started.

34

Aimee

The hood over myhead reeks of marijuana. So deeply it’s all I smell as I sit alone in a room for however long Titan leaves me here. It could be minutes, or it could be an hour. Someone sits in front of me, shifting every so often, but they don’t speak.

Titan told me he’d put a bullet in my father’s head if I so much as moved or said anything, so I don’t bother.

Until I can see where I am and get a view of my surroundings, there’s no point anyway.

All I can do is sit and wait with my ass digging into this wooden chair, hoping that Chaos is okay.

Hoping Levi finds me.

That he doesn’t hate me for this mess I’ve gotten us into.