![]() I didn’t realize you were the queen on the board.” My heart is racing and my mouth feels dry. “I thought you were just a pawn, following commands, though admittedly good at it. “You know, for a long time, I thought you must have been acting on someone else’s orders when you killed Ivan St. ![]() There’s no joy in it, no actual happiness. Something in me shrinks away from that smile. ![]() Then Alec looks back up at me, smiling calmly. The FBI agent’s body is as limp and lifeless as a sack of rocks, and my stomach churns at the way Alec gazes down at it like a piece of trash. ![]() Alec glances down at Carter’s crumpled body and shakes his head before nudging him with his foot. I can feel the Kings shifting their weight on all sides of me, tense and angry, not sure what to make of this. There’s no need to even wonder if they’re all armed, since their guns are drawn and pointed right at us. He has a bunch of men with him, and they emerge from the shadows to surround me and the guys, boxing us in on the corner of the wide wooden dock as water laps at the piles below us. But what the fuck is he doing here? A second later, it becomes abundantly clear that he wasn’t lying. I know Alec Beckham as a billionaire, the man who hosted the party Julian wanted to go schmooze at, a man at the top of the pack when it comes to the wealthy players in Detroit. I BLİNK, staring at the tall man I’ve only seen a couple of times. ![]()
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