Total pages in book: 106
Estimated words: 102833 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 514(@200wpm)___ 411(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 102833 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 514(@200wpm)___ 411(@250wpm)___ 343(@300wpm)
“Since you don’t know who it was, the best I can do is send a guy around to watch over your place.”
Peter swallows thickly and nods. “Okay, I’ll fix it.”
“Smart man,” I say, standing. “Today. I want the gym back open today.”
“Okay,” Peter says. “I have to go to my daughter’s school for Career Day, but once I get back, I’ll submit the paperwork.”
Since he’s leaving as well, Peter walks us out and heads in the opposite direction, to what I assume is his vehicle, while Kevin and I head toward ours.
I’m shaking Kevin’s hand and thanking him, even though he didn’t really do shit, when a loud explosion rings out.
Kevin drops to the ground, and I pull my gun out, scanning the area for any threats. And that’s when I notice the car that blew up—Peter’s.
Kevin stands and shakes his head in shock. “I think someone was trying to send a message.”
“Yeah.” I sigh. “And they sent it before he could fill out the goddamn paperwork.”
“That shit was personal,” I say to Dominick.
After calling Eddy and having him check the cameras, only to learn someone had hacked into them and wiped them clean, I went to Dominick’s office to discuss this with him. He’s the stability to my chaos, and before I go off, I always go to him. He’s not just my brother and business partner. He’s my best friend.
“Enrique?”
“Okay, but why?”
“He knows you have Daniella.”
I shake my head. “He made it personal when he went after the gym before I took her. It’s one thing to put me behind bars, but to fuck with the gym that might as well be my second home? I think there’s something we’re missing.”
“Anthony’s dead,” Dominick points out. “It could be the mayor. He pulled strings for Anthony, so he could’ve done it for Enrique. But again, why?”
“I don’t fucking know,” I hiss.
“And Daniella knows to stay in, right?”
“Yeah.”
I pull out my phone and curse myself for the dozenth time because I left this morning to avoid her without thinking about the fact that she doesn’t have a goddamn phone, so I have no way to get ahold of her.
“I have guys on the front and back door.”
The only way anyone is getting to her is if they get past the doorman and the guard and Daniella opens the door and welcomes them in, which isn’t happening.
“Has Eddy been able to get anything from Enrique’s laptop yet?”
“Get this.” I chuckle and sit up, leaning toward him. “While Eddy was doing his thing, Enrique popped up and tried to remotely wipe it out.”
Dominick whistles. “You can’t say this guy didn’t come to the battle prepared.”
“Yeah, but he underestimated us. Eddy locked his ass out and sent him a digital note, telling him he’d better run because we have access.”
Dominick chuckles.
“He’s going to send everything over to you soon so you can sift through it.”
Thanks to my dyslexia, it would take me months to try to read through it all, and even once I did, I wouldn’t know half the business jargon Dominick would understand.
“Good shit.” Dominick nods. “What are you up to this afternoon? Want to come to my place for lunch?”
“Nah, I have a lunch date with a certain cabin in the woods. My guys and I are going to roast marshmallows.”
Dominick just shakes his head, but doesn’t argue. He already knows I do what I want. Is blowing up Enrique’s house a bit much? Maybe. But after what he did to Dani, the only thing that would be better than destroying his house would be burning it with him in it. Especially if our theory is true and he killed Lorenzo and Dani’s parents in a fire.
Some prefer to let karma do its thing.
Me? I prefer to be karma.
16
Matteo
“You know this house isn’t his, right?” Ian points out. “He’s renting it.”
We went by the cabin, and it was vacant, so we grabbed anything of Daniella’s we’d missed the last time and then burned it to the ground. We’d found the tablet she had been using and destroyed it in case there was any way of tracking her from it. Which made me think about her old phone. I had Eddy run a location on it, but of course, the fucker had covered his tracks, and it’s off. Eddy canceled her account, and I went by the store to pick her up a new phone and tablet on my account. And then I made sure her location was on so I could track it.
Afterward, we went to the house they had rented in North Harbor Point to get the rest of her shit. We have eyes on the house he’s renting in North Harbor Point, but he’s yet to go by there, telling me he has somewhere else he’s using as a safe house. We did a search for his name in the property database, and nothing came up.