Chapter 18
Secrets in the Dark
(Ezekiel’s POV)
The clock read 11:47 PM.
I sat in my car, parked outside the De La Cruz estate, gripping the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles turned white. I wasn’t sure how long I had been sitting there, but the air inside the car felt suffocating.
The meeting was in thirteen minutes.
Thirteen minutes to decide if this was a mistake.
I glanced at my phone. No new messages. No calls from Mary.
She had already given me her answer earlier, don’t trust Elijah.
But what she didn’t understand was that I wasn’t sure I had the luxury of that choice anymore.
Elijah wasn’t just making an offer. He was applying pressure. He wanted an answer, now, and he wasn’t the kind of man to accept a simple ‘no.’ Refusing him outright would mean war. One I wasn’t su
