BLAME IT ON THE PAIN : EPISODE 51 – 60
EPISODE 57
Luckily, you saved her by denying he was the owner. I’ll never be able to thank you enough for that.” He pauses.“However, If you know her well enough, you know that she can be reckless at times.
She’s not always mentally with it. Just look at how the sx tape came to be…she actively chose to sleep with her step-father’s opponent’s son.
I’m not saying that it was her fault that he filmed it…but it was still her own thoughts of revenge that put her in the position in the first place.
She puts herself right into the eye of the storm without thinking about the consequences.”
He looks at me, but I stay silent. I hate what he’s saying but a small part of me knows it’s true. She did defy me and show up at the fi ght club when I told her not to.
DeLuca aside, because she has no idea that he runs it …she knew there was a chance that she could get attacked at the fight club by any guy because it happened before.
And she still showed up there, all by herself. She was so determined to see me and have it out with me…she didn’t care about the consequences and took that chance.
“She showed up at the fight club last night…even after I forbid her from going there. Even after she promised me that she never would.”
He points at me. “See? You know how she is. You’re perfectly aware of how stubborn she can be. Now do you see where I’m going with this, Jackson?”
I nod, my heart crashing to the floor with the realization. “So what you’re ‘deal’ really entails is me breaking up with her.
And if I don’t, you’ll bust me for being apart of an underground fight club.
And DeLuca will ki ll me anyway once he finds out that I led the feds to it.”
I pun¢h the wall beside his head, hating the fact that no matter what corner I go down, or how much I try…there’s always something waiting in the shadows to break Alyssa and me apart.
I just want to be happy with her. I just want to wake up next to her every day of my life with her safe in my arms.
I just want her to be my wife and the mother of my future child.
I want to have lazy Sunday’s in bed, make love to her at night, see that favorite dimple of mine every day, and spend every second of my life loving her.
He gives me a weird look and I’m not sure what to make of it, until he says, “No. That’s not my deal.
Alyssa’s far too much in love with you for that to even be effective. She’ll just chase you…and I know all too well how hard it is to resist her.
And seeing as you’re tied up with DeLuca, the chase will most likely end with her getting ki lled.”
He sighs. “What I’m offering you is an actual chance at a life.” He closes his eyes. “With her.”
My ears perk up at that. “You mean like witness protection or something?”
His eyes open and narrow into tiny slits. “No, something much better than that.
DeLuca would find you eventually in witness protection, and it would only piss him off that much more knowing that you tried to run and hide. Why do you think I never put Alyssa into it?”
On some level, I guess it makes sense. “So what’s this deal then?”
“I want you to ki ll DeLuca.”
I must be hearing things. “Yeah, because it’s so easy to ki ll one of the most powerful mob bosses who ever lived.” I snort. “Wow, I assumed that you were still way too young for senility to be setting in.”
He gives me an eye roll before his expression turns serious again. “I would set it up.
It would take a few weeks, but I’ll make it happen. There would be no witnesses…other than me.”
I push my shoulders back. “If that’s the case why don’t you just off him yourself?”
He sucks his teeth. “Because I’m an FBI agent, Jackson. If I’m the only one at the mu rder scene…it will all point back to me.
And if it all points back to me, I won’t be able to get you cleared—”
“And what about me?” I interrupt. “I’m tied to DeLuca. And if I’m the only one at the murder scene it will all come down on me.
Not to mention the fact that his bIood will be on my hands. How the fk can I ever walk away from that alive or without spending the rest of my life in jail?”
He runs a hand through his hair. “Because you won’t be the only one there…I’ll be there with you.
I will protect you and you won’t go down for it. It will be pinned on someone else who I’ll set up to be there.
Someone who I have a special arrangement with. Someone who has more motive than you could ever imagine.”
Chills creep up my spine. “If you mean Aly—”
BLAME IT ON THE PAIN : EPISODE 51 – 60
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