Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 27214 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 136(@200wpm)___ 109(@250wpm)___ 91(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 27214 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 136(@200wpm)___ 109(@250wpm)___ 91(@300wpm)
Elias found out, and he gave Mansell a chance. He could work for him, he would never require him to go against his oath, and he would be his personal doctor. No one would ever discover his past, and he would remove the cartel without a problem. A deal was struck, and their friendship had begun.
Mansell had fixed him up on more than one occasion. He had also gotten him to help with some of his men when needed. He was his emergency contact and the only person he trusted. The only man he would ever trust near his wife.
“Winnie is not just any woman.”
“No, she is your wife. You did tell me you were married, but you didn’t exactly say your marriage was real. This is a surprise to me.”
“It was always real, you just failed to see it.”
“I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing for you,” Mansell said.
“What do you mean?”
“You have never been a man with a weakness, Elias. I don’t need to point out the obvious.”
He ran a hand down his face. “I’m not giving her up.”
“I’m not telling you to give her up, but I am warning you that you have to face the consequences of what being with a woman does to you. What it will do to your enemies.”
Elias didn’t need the details. Winnie was a risk. For the past four years she had been a risk. He couldn’t kill her and didn’t want to. He loved her.
Holy fucking shit. This was a revelation to him. He loved his wife, and that was not something he ever expected to think or feel.
Love. He had never loved anyone.
“Have you ever heard of a pimp called Bozo Robins?” Elias asked.
Mansell did a lot of street work after Elias had freed him from the blackmail of the cartel. He left his high-paying job and took to the streets where he helped men and women, even kids that were runaways. He tried to help them in any way possible.
The good doctor let out a growl. “Yes, I have heard of that piece of shit.” He let out another growl.
“He’s bad,” Elias said.
“Yes, he is. He … one of the girls that worked for him didn’t want to give a customer a blowjob. Do you know what he did to her?” Mansell asked.
Elias looked at him.
“He removed all her front teeth. Yep, just tore them right out of her mouth, and then forced her to suck the cocks of ten men, with blood pooling out of her mouth, and in pain.” Mansell took a deep breath. “She came to see me, and I tried to reason with her. I found out she killed herself a week later.”
“I’m sorry.”
“She was sixteen,” Mansell said. “I was trying to reconcile her with her parents. She was just a spoiled kid who got into the wrong crowd. She never saw her seventeenth birthday.”
Elias hated Bozo, but the man had gone into fucking hiding and disappeared. All his homes were empty. The man had vanished like a ghost.
“He wants your position,” Mansell said.
This made him look toward Mansell. “How do you know this?”
“The girls are nervous, and seeing as I do most of my work in silence, they talk. They’re scared. They want to come to you, but the girls that have tried ended up dead.”
“No one has come to me,” Elias said.
“That’s because someone close to them is a rat. Bozo finds out, makes an example of them.”
“And you didn’t think to come and tell me?” he asked.
“Elias, I have a busy schedule, and if you check your cell phone, you will see a couple of calls. I only found out this past week.”
He didn’t need to pull out his cell phone. Mansell had tried to call, but he figured he would see the doctor when he needed to. Now, he was pissed off.
“Trust me, I have been trying to reach you.”
“I’m going to kill him,” Elias said. “The moment he slips up.”
“He is coming for you, Elias, and you have never showed a weakness until now,” Mansell said.
He looked toward his wife, and he shook his head. “I am not going to use my wife.”
“You might not have a choice,” Mansell said. “You haven’t been able to stop him, and the only way might be to lure him out by using her. He doesn’t know what you’re capable of, or that you wouldn’t let anything happen to her, but it will help you remove the problem quickly, rather than waiting around. Do you think the person who tried to shoot you tonight did so without cause? I would put money down that Bozo is the one who did it.”
Elias had no doubt about it as well.
“I’m not going to hurt her or put her life on the line.”