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“No, irmãozinho,” Dante said

I felt ht that was his answer, but relief shot through me when he quickly added, “I would never ask that of you” He glanced at Magnus and I saw the pair exchange a sun into his waistband behind his back that I finally relaxed

Until I remembered where ere

And why

I dropped Vaughn’s hand and rushed to Dante “They lost someone just like you did, Dante I need to help them We need to help them And all those kids out there Please—”

“We will, Aleks,” Dante quickly assured me He looked at Ronan I still felt like a fool for not having recognized the man at first when he’d entered the room, but I’d been too scared to really process as happening The sight of Dante pointing a gun at Vaughn’s head had pretty o to war as one tried to win out over the other

“How did you know about Stylianos?” Luca asked “We never posted his name online”

“You think you’re the only ones who kno to track who hired a bunch of assholes to kidnap a person?” Dante asked

“We also know they weren’t the only men sent to take Aleks that day,” Ronan said “The part that wasn’t clear hy the brother of the man who’d had his own men try to kidnap Aleks would stop them… and then let Aleks call hoer than ould have liked to figure out exactly who you were,” Ronan said to Vaughn “But once we did, the pieces started to fall into place And led to you,” the man continued as he stopped in front of Luca “You all are pretty good with coed “But you don’t have e do”

“What’s that?” Luca asked

“Our wife,” one of the e with short black hair He wasto the man next to him

“That’s Cash and that’s Sage,” Ronan said as he pointed first at the bigger guy, then the one with the reddish-orange hair “They’retheir first child Daisy is the one who helped us put the brakes on your plans bywith your tech” Ronan nodded toward Luca’s suit jacket and I kneas talking about the button that was also a video camera

“Once we found out who you were, we had to find out why you’d taken Aleks The picture nearly ended it all,” Ronan ad Dante fro us look harder for the truth” He looked at Vaughn “He was convinced that soo was the real deal”