Rob was dead. Lexie knew she had to be a moron to think otherwise. Anyone who crossed Devil would end up in the ground, dead.
“Lexie, where are you?” Kayla asked.
Frowning, she pulled the phone away and looked at the name. “Kayla?”
Devil jerked, looking toward her. The anger on his face scared her.
With everything that happened she’d forgotten all about her sister.
“I need to see you. It’s really important.” Kayla sounded earnest.
“Give me the fucking phone,” Devil said, taking the device off her in the next second. “Hello, Kayla.”
She didn’t know what was happening. Scrunching the pair of panties she held between her fists she tried to discover what was going on. His face didn’t say anything to her at all.
“That’s right. I got to your sister, and I’ve got to my son. I got the results back as well. Kid is mine. You also stole from me, bitch. Do you really think I wasn’t going to find you?” The anger in his voice scared her.
Kayla had crossed him, and she was about to end up in the ground like Rob.
“Twenty minutes. We settle this fucking score.” He closed the cell phone, looking her in the eye. “You’re staying here.”
“No, I’m not staying here. Not when you’re on your way to kill my sister.” She followed him as he headed toward the front door. “Devil, you can’t do this.”
“That woman, your fucking sister, was more than happy for you to be in trouble. She wanted you to take the fall. If I was anyone else, Lex, you’d be fucking dead.”
She flinched as he threw the cold harsh truth in her face. “But I’m not dead. Please, you can’t kill her.”
He turned to her, laughing. “You’re fucking crazy if you don’t think I’m going to deal with this.”
Devil grabbed his jacket on the way out of the door.
“If you loved me, you’d take me with you and you’d keep her alive.”
He tensed, turning back to look at her. “What are you saying?”
“I accept your apology, and I don’t expect anything else from you. All I ask is you let Kayla live.”
“I can’t fucking believe this,” he said, looking up at the ceiling.
“Please, Devil.”
He stared at her for a long time. “Get Judi to watch Simon and get your fucking ass on the back of my bike.”
Running upstairs she quickly handed Simon over to Judi. The young girl smiled and wished her luck.
Within ten minutes she was on the back of Devil’s bike heading toward an unknown location. She recognized her apartment block instantly. They passed the building, heading down an alley on his bike. They came out behind an old factory. She spotted Kayla smoking a cigarette leaning against the wall.
She looked terrible even at the distance of a few feet.
Her hand was shaking while she smoked. “Stay here,” Devil said.
Lexie stayed on the bike. Her heart pounded as Kayla plastered a smile on her face, running fingers through her hair.
“What’s happening, baby?” Kayla asked.
“Not going to work.”
She cried out as Devil caught Kayla by the hair and started talking to her.
“Devil, stop.” He pulled a gun out, pressing it to her head. Lexie realized in the time they’d known each other, he’d never once pointed a gun at her. Fucking hell, what kind of world was she living in?
Covering her mouth, she tried to remain silent as he completed whatever business he had to do.
“You stole my money and tried to keep my fucking kid from me.” Her face was pressed against the brick. Biting into her lip, Lexie kept her cries deep inside.
Don’t hurt her. Don’t hurt her.
“I want you to admit to your sister. The girl who took our kid in without refusing you what you hoped I’d do,” Devil said, turning Kayla so Lexie saw her.
Kayla looked petrified. “I thought he’d kill you and be done with it.”
The cold harsh truth was like a slap to the face.
“I can’t be like her, Devil.”
“I know, baby.” He threw Kayla to the ground and pointed his gun at her. A bullet went off, but it wasn’t anywhere near Kayla. “I was going to kill you. This is your one and only warning. You get out of town, and you do not speak a word of who you are. If I so much as hear the name Kayla Howard I will find you and I’ll kill you.” He lifted her up, grabbing her chin.
Lexie winced at the pain her sister must be feeling.
“Look at your sister.”
Kayla’s gaze was on her. Lexie felt under the spotlight.
“That’s my old lady. The only reason you’re still breathing is because she wants you to be breathing. Otherwise I’d have killed you the moment I saw you.” He released her. “Kayla Howard is dead. She died on this day, and she left her young son. Do you understand me?”