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Chapter One

“I’ve already cleaned up one of histo have to take care of this one,” Rick Denton said as he sat down at an Italian restaurant in the heart of London It was a rare hot summer’s day, and his as due to arrive any minute He hadn’t seen Mandy in over a year Not since Landon decided he wanted to kill his father and then start a blood bath all around the city Ruan and he’d decided he’d cleaned up enough of Landon’s issues and needed to see his wife

“We need you home,” Jacob said

“Listen up, fuckwad, I am home I don’t live there anyh shit in the last year I want some time alone with my woman Surely you can contain your little brother until then If not, then you really need to think about if you should be head of the fucking house or give Gabriel a turn” He hung up, pissed off, even angrier than before

He’d taught Landon a great deal in the past couple of years With Sarah’s help, he’d been able to taest Denton boy, but now, he was a monster unleashed

Rick ran a hand down his face He knew he didn’t have tiacy to be with his wo If it hadn’t been for her, he would’ve been nothing short of the devil Killing left hiuilt, no remorse The fact he was now a doctor was kind of apeople up Now that he was a doctor, his skills in torture had improved

He was no longer the fah, Abel was, or at least from what he saw, Landon had soon taken the lead

This was all fucked up and Maddox, his now-dead brother, was to blame He shouldn’t have killed Sarah Landon’s wo hi him in control

He’d already caused a ith the Castillo family Maddox, Landon’s father, had killed Sarah in order to free Landon up to otten through all the security and kidnapped her The girl hadn’t been seen in months, apart from one phone call to her parents, and of course to his brothers A single screa for him, he would start to tear her apart, piece, by piece

They hadn’t stopped looking

A piece had been sent to the faer, but it hadn’t been sent with any way to guarantee it was hers The pad of the finger had been cut off Just a single ring that a Castillo wore had been left on the finger

It was fucked up

With anyone else, he’d have been proud, but this little shit washim work twice as hard Away from his woman, he didn’t exactly do his best work If it wasn’t for Landon constantly waving a green flag to piss people off, there was also the proble all evidence, burning the body, andit look like Maddox Denton had disappeared hadn’t worked Nope Rick still didn’t kno his brother ed to do it, but Maddox had a bounty put on the person whoafter Landon No otiated with, this bounty was blood-deep This was the result of a bunch of favors owed to Maddox Denton Rick had no doubt his brother only created this kind of death sentence as a way of avoiding dying, but he clearly hadn’t dealt with abecause of Maddox’s greed and now had to pay the price They were all paying it

He needed to be around Mandy to think

“Welcome to this shitty restaurant How may I serve you?”

He’d been so deep in thought he hadn’t heard the wo up, he saoman with black hair, deep brown eyes, and daht at Sarah No, that couldn’t be Clearly, he ay too tired, probably jet-lagged

“What’s your name?” he asked

“I don’t have to give you e but he saw it It didn’t say Sarah on the badge Tulip was her name

“Sarah, is that you?”

“I don’t knoho you are, sir, but you’re kind of freaking me out and you know, I don’t have to serve you”

“I’ot no choice but to do as the custo out a couple of twenties Tulip raised her brows, and he watched as she smirked

“Dude, seriously, you think you’re the first guy to ask for a little extra on the side? The strip club with the es is a couple of streets away You’ll find what you’re looking for there”

“I’ toward him She kissed his lips and he watched Tulip