Ruthless King

“I know what I said,” he snapped. “Jilly knows how I feel about her.”

“Does she? I’m surprised you’d move a woman in with you that you didn’t love.”

“Who said I don’t love her?”

“Then you need to tell her.”

“I show her.”

“Women need the words,” Victor told him.

Since when had he become an expert on women?

Regent turned away from him, but that knot in his stomach grew.

He cared about Jilly. He didn’t want to live without her. Would kill anyone who touched her . . .

He loved Jilly.

And that terrified him.

Regent still feltoff as he walked into what was known as the torture chamber.

It was a storm shelter in an old building that he owned. Not that anyone would be able to figure out he was the owner. That was well buried.

“Have we got an ID?” he snapped at Basilien as he stared at the woman swinging in the air, her hands secured above her head with a rope that was attached to the ceiling.

She was slight with dark hair.

“She lives across the street from Jilly,” Jose said. “I saw her the night the older lady gave me that bag of stuff for Jilly.”

Right.

“Sasha Andrews,” Victor said, looking at his phone. “Jardin sent me information on her when you wanted Jilly’s friends vetted. Nothing interesting came back. Comes from a small townin Indiana. Single mom raised her. Sends money back to her. Been stripping at Sexy Sins for nearly two years. Pretty clean.”

“So either no one has ever caught her or something changed. What changed, Sasha? Why did you betray Jilly? She thought you were a friend.”

“Fuck you!” Sasha spat at him. “Let me go! You can’t do this!”

“You were blackmailing Jilly. You’ve known her secret since the beginning. You had easy access to her. What I can’t understand is why now? Why not months ago?”

“I’m not telling you anything.”

“Why did you do it, Sasha?”

Still nothing.

Hmm. Give her a few hours and she’d break. His men wouldn’t even need to touch her.

“Basilien?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll get her to talk.” Basilien cracked his knuckles and stepped forward. “And Linny will gladly rough her up a bit.”

Regent nodded as though contemplating that.

Sasha let out a sob. Yeah, she’d break soon.

“Tell Jardin to dig deeper. Get Angel to help him. I want everything on her and something we can use against her.”