Cade’s words wouldn’t leave my head.
Pussy makes men stupid.
The bastard said it with that smug grin, like he already knew he’d planted a crack in my armor. Maybe he had. Because the second he said “leverage,” I wanted to kill him. My own brother in arms, the man who’d bled beside me more times than I could count. And all I could think about was putting a bullet between his eyes for daring to say her name like that.
Elena.
The girl who was supposed to be my weapon. My ticket to tearing down the Hart family and the poison they pumped into the streets. She was supposed to be my way in. Nothing more.
But she’d become everything more.
I sat in my office long after the shop closed, cigarette smoke curling in the stale air. Ledger books lay open in front of me, pages of numbers, routes, co
