Ruthless King

“Well, Lowell, I’m someone you don’t want to mess with. And, unfortunately for you, you messed with me.”

“I don’t even know you! How could I have messed with you?”

“Ahh, but you know who Jilly Crane is, don’t you?”

Lowell blanched. “This is about Jilly?”

“This is about Jilly. My Jilly.”

“I’ll give her all the money back, I promise. Just let me go! You can’t do this! I’ll be missed.”

“Aww, Lowell, that’s where you’re wrong. No one will miss you. Because no one knows the real you, do they? Kenny Malcolm?”

“You know my real name?”

“I know everything about you, Kenny. Where you grew up, who your family are, when you were born. And I even know the day of your death. Today.”

The other man started crying as Regent stepped back and Basilien moved forward.

Basilien had some rage issues.

Beating on assholes helped him work through them.

Regent worked through his rage by putting a bullet in the asshole’s head once Basilien was done.

It did wonders for his fury. And he had plenty of that at the moment.

Regent climbedinto the car a few hours later. He’d changed clothes in the basement. And washed his hands.

“You’ll tidy everything up?” he asked Victor who was sitting next to him.

“Yeah. A concerned citizen is going to make a call to the cops about a hit-and-run. They’ll find Lowell’s body and Sasha’s car down a ditch, with her unconscious in it. We’ll have the car hit him to make it believable. And some CCTV footage. Oh, andSasha is rip-roaring drunk and high on drugs. So, no one will believe what she says. Besides, she knows that if she does talk, she’s dead. And so is her mother.”

Good. Two birds. One stone.

Now all they had to do was find Patrick and things could go back to normal.

Well, as normal as it could be for the Malone family.

His thoughts went back to Jilly. He’d given her tonight’s spanking before he’d left. She had the perfect ass for spanking. Then afterward, he’d laid her on the bed and feasted her until she was begging him to let her come.

And because he was a pushover for her, he had.

He turned to Victor. “Have you noticed Jilly acting differently lately?”

Victor raised his eyebrows. “You mean how she seems to be on edge?”

Good. So he’d noticed it too.

“She’s acting strangely. She’s been dressing in clothes that don’t really seem like her. I know she doesn’t really know her style, though. So perhaps that’s something she needs help with.”

“Gracen and Aston could help her, Thea too. Could be good for her.”

Regent nodded. “True. But it’s more than that, though. She doesn’t run to hug me hello or goodbye. And she doesn’t seem to smile as much. I’m worried that she’s . . . that she’s not happy.”

“A lot has happened to her lately.”

“Yeah. Learning of Sasha’s betrayal was hard, so was Kimmy’s death. Growing up with Orlando Crane has left scars. Things I’m not sure she’s dealt with.”