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“No,” King repeated, his expression unwavering as he pinned Con with frosty eyes “He’s not available”

I could see that Con wasn’t satisfied with the response, but when he went to say so else, Luca called his name and then shook his head Con frowned and there was a oing to confront King further He finally shook his head, then looked at Vaughn “We’ll need a picture of Aleks to show online,” Con said “It’s going to need to be convincing,” he said softly as he looked at me

I sed hard I looked to Vaughn because I couldn’t find my voice to ask what Con meant

“We’ve been using photoshop to et deeper in the ring People are suspicious of him because of who he is… so we’ve spent the last two yearsit look like he’s one of them with the fake pictures and posts in foru process because we also have to cover everything we do so it can’t actually be linked back to his, even though he didn’t actually do thehn explained

I nodded “The proof has to be so good that it fools even the police,” I said

“Exactly,” Vaughn said “While Luca hasn’t actually coets linked back to hi to convince, it would all be over for him”

“So you need to take a picture of me?” I asked

“Not just any picture, Aleks,” Luca said gently “It has to be of me and you and it has to shohat our relationship is”

I felt bile rise in hn “Father took pictures like that” I began shaking my head “No, I can’t No, I’ the words over and over

“Aleks,” Vaughn said as he grabbed my face and forced me to look at him “They don’t need to be like those pictures,” he said quickly

I closed my eyes “You saw them?”

He caressed e anything for me”

I kneas being ridiculous He’d seen s than those pictures, but the pictures had been a permanent tribute to what I’d been to Father and they were probably still out there for any manner of men to use however they wanted