Page 34 of Ruthless Vengeance

“I took it from your room. I wanted a piece of you with me.”

“He’s not here,” Declan said from behind him. “Mancini got away.”

“Did we get Leo?” Owen asked, not looking away from Ruby’s face.

“I think I clipped him, but he’s not here.”

Owen sighed. Both of them got away.For now.

He would get his revenge for this, no matter how long it took.

“I’m sorry this happened to you,” he told Ruby, pressing his forehead to hers. He didn’t care who was around to witness this tender moment between them. He was so damn relieved to have her back in his arms that it felt surreal, and he wasn’t ready to let go. “I swear, I’ll keep you safe from now on. Whatever it takes.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too.” The words came easy as he said them for the first time.

He pressed a kiss to her lips, short and sweet, and he was ready to get away from this death and chaos. Ruby didn’t belong here.

“Sir,” Ivan said tentatively, not wanting to interrupt. “We’ve checked the crates. It’s all our missing product.”

Owen finally turned away from Ruby, keeping an arm around her. She wasn’t getting more than a couple of inches away from him for a while.

“This area of the city is now Irish mafia territory,” he told his men. There were bodies scattered around, the Italians that they took out on display for anyone to see. ForRubyto see. He wanted to wrap this up and get her out of here. “I know that the warehouse district had been under Italian control forever, but I’m done with this shit. I’m ready to take the fight to them.”

There was a cheer from his men, showing their agreement with his decision. Everyone was sick of the Italian aggression. It was time to go to war.

Keeping Ruby at his side, he left the warehouse, ready to take her to his home for good. As good as it was to have her back, he knew that this was just the beginning. More trouble was on that horizon, but they would be ready for it.

EPILOGUE

RUBY

Two weeks after her abduction, Ruby woke up in the middle of the night with a gasp. It wasn’t a nightmare about her experience that had her awaking like that. It was the damn alarm blaring through the house.

Beside her, Owen was already on the move. Ruby groaned.

“Again?” she had to shout to be heard over the alarm.

Owen just nodded with a grim expression, completely in the zone as he popped the magazine into his gun like some kind of badass action hero. He left the bedroom without a word as if he expected to go face down a league of Italians right outside the door.

The sound was one of the motion sensors he’d set up outside the house. Ever since she officially moved in with Owen, which was right after she was taken, he’d been so overprotective that she worried about his stress levels. It was sweet at first, the way he hovered over her and was so determined to keep her safe, but now it was starting to drive her a little crazy. He was just so over-the-top.

Like this outdoor motion sensor thing. She wasn’t too concerned because the last time it went off, it ended up being a stray dog pooping on their lawn.

When Owen returned a few minutes later looking relaxed, she grinned. “What was it?”

“Rabbit.”

She shook her head as he got back into the bed. “Why don’t we just get rid of the outdoor sensors? We already have a top of the line security system in the house. No one is getting in here without us knowing.”

“I don’t want anyone getting near the house without us knowing. This is about your safety and there’s nothing more important than that.”

She couldn’t help rolling her eyes at his grumpy response. Smiling, she moved closer and trailed the tips of her fingers up his arm.

“But…aren’t I safe with you?”

“Of course, you are,” he replied immediately, the look in his eyes suggesting that he believed she was truly questioning that.