“It’s gone. Everything’s gone.” Kent wasn’t telling Sykes anything he didn’t know. That little b***h had ruined everything. Not only his plans to sell her to the highest bidder but his club. His business. His livelihood.
Some would say it serves him right. You reap what you sow. He’d gotten too greedy. He disagreed. He didn’t deserve to have his business burned to the ground. Sykes was a businessman. It wasn’t anything personal.
He’d been running drugs and women out of that building for years and never had any problems. Shay had been the perfect hostage. Kept quiet and did what she was told. Who knew a tiger laid under that mouse. If she weren’t worth so much money, he’d hunt her down and kill her.
He’d had to flee like a rat in a sinking ship once the sprinklers started. He and a fe
