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There was no way that my life had been the way it was by just their hand. I had allowed certain things to happen when I could have said no, and I hadn’t done anything to fix it.
If I died today… then at least, I went out trying.
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James
When Becca left my office, I thought over everything that had happened. She waspregnant, and she did have a mildly large bump, but there was no way that baby was mine. I may not have used every precaution, but she was on her birth control shot when we were together. She’d told me so.
Which meant if she had been on the shot, it obviously had happened after….
Thinking about it all was giving me a migraine.
No matter how I said it, it never sounded good in my mind. In fact, it made me realize more and more there was absolutely no way that Neal could have been the one to have gotten her pregnant. Not when she looked to be more than a few months along.
Picking up my phone, I quickly dialed Neal’s number. I had spoken with him previously about what was happening, but now with this… it was clear I had f*cked up.
“Hello?” Neal snapped as he answered the phone. Still, to this day, he didn’t care to speak to me, but that feeling was very mutual.
“Did Becca make it back to you safe?” I asked him, just wanting the reassurance that she was okay.
“What? No, she hasn’t arrived yet. She was supposed to text me when she left. How long has she been gone?” Neal asked quickly with a sense of worry in his tone.
“She left about forty-five minutes ago. She should have been back to you by now.”
“Yeah, well, she’s not here, so where the f*ck is she?” Neal replied, raising his tone. The irritation and anger grew in him, something that was often sparked by me. I couldn’t blame him, though. She came here to fix things, and I didn’t listen.
“I don’t know. We got into a small argument, and she left. I saw her call an Uber, but that was about it.” The guilt was eating at me, and I realized with every second that I was more of a d*ck than usual.
“You got into an argument—” he groaned. “You’re a f*cking idiot.”
“What are you talking about? She came here pregnant just to let me know she’s been f*cking you forever,” I snapped back at him. There was no way that I was going to let him speak to me like that. It was he who messed up our relationship.
“What are you talking about? The baby isn’t mine, James. That was the whole point of her f*cking coming to talk to you.”
My heart dropped into my stomach upon hearing him.
The baby wasn’t his?
Taking a moment to reflect over the entire meeting with Becca, I could suddenly see exactly what was going on. She had been trying to tell me, and like a f*cking idiot, I dismissed her as if she was nothing.
“Shit. I AM a f*cking idiot.”
The moment that I said those words, notifications from my house went blaring. There was forced entry, and as I turned on the cameras, I could see them infiltrating the house, and most importantly, I heard a very particular scream in the live feed that made my blood run cold.
“F*ck!” I screamed into the phone.
“What’s wrong?!” Neal yelled back in panic. “What’s that noise?”
“There is a break in… forced entry,” I muttered as I stood from behind my desk.
“What? What are you talking about?”
“At my house! Becca must have gone there to talk to Tally. Tally has been talking about getting together with her for a while,” I rambled on, trying to make sense of everything as I quickly prepared myself to go into battle.
“Then, if that’s the case, why are you acting as if the world is completely ending?”
“Because, Neal, I just got a notification that people broke into the house, and guess what? They weren’t Christmas carolers.” He seemed to get my sense of urgency because I heard him scream and swear before getting back on the phone.
“I swear to God if she gets f*cking hurt because of all this. I will f*cking kill you myself!”
Hanging up the phone on Neal, I made my way towards my office door, putting the clip into my gun before shoving it into its holster. I needed to reach out to Greg to let him know what was happening—if he didn’t already know.
With my phone still in my hand, I dialed his number, and he picked up on the second ring.
“James, we already got the notification. Our guys and yours were all taken out. You have to stay where you are. We have people coming for you.”
“No,” I said through gritted teeth. “They have my daughter and Becca.”
“The girls will be fine, James. Don’t be stupid.”
“Becca is carrying my child, Greg. They will all die for hurting her,” I replied with a snarl as I hung up the phone and stepped into the elevator.
Blood would flow for this. I would watch Sergie’s life drain from his eyes as I put a bullet in his daughter’s head. No one f*cked with my family and got away with it.
Neal.
The moment James called me, I wasn’t quite sure what it was that he wanted after the conversation we had previously had about Becca. However, my heart absolutely shattered when he told me that Becca had gone to his house and people had broken.
She was once again implicated in something because of James, and my hatred for him grew even more. I understood very well that she might have been carrying his child, but it didn’t excuse the things that he had done and the shit that he had gotten himself into.
Now, because of him, there was a chance that she could be hurt or even killed.
Pacing around the living room, I grabbed my keys, ready to go after her to go to James’s house to save her if I had to. The problem was, I didn’t expect Allegra to come home like she did. As soon as she stepped through the door and saw me, she dropped her bags on the floor and stared at me with hesitation.
“Why are you crying? What happened?” I hadn’t even realized tears had been falling down my face until I lifted my hand and wiped my cheeks to reveal the wet dampness upon my fingers.
“I just got off the phone with James. Becca went to see him earlier as you know, and she left there after they had gotten into an argument, but instead of coming back here, she went to his house to see Tally.”
I couldn’t even formulate the words properly, and as she stepped closer, taking my hand in hers, she said. “Okay, so she went to see Tally. What happened from there? Where is she?”
“It would seem that while she was at Tally’s house… James got a notification on his phone…. There was screaming, I guess, and people broke into the house… I don’t know Allegra. I have no clue what is going on.”
My words were panicked and my tone even more so. My anxiety skyrocketed through the roof as the thought of losing her constantly rolled through me in waves. She had been a woman that I had slowly fallen in love with over time and not just somebody who was helping to heal the wounds that I had from my past.
Even if she wasn’t aware that she was doing it.
I hadn’t been completely honest with her, and I knew that I was going to have to be, but it was just so hard to talk about what had happened to me when I was growing up, and now I regretted not taking the moment to do so.
Allegra quickly pulled out her phone dialing numbers, and before she realized it, I took her hand, snatching her phone away as she stared at me in disbelief.
“What the f*ck are you doing, Neal? Give me back my phone. I need to call the police.”
“Do you not understand how stupid you sound right now? Do you realize that the Russians control a lot of these people? They would be tipped off, and they would kill her quicker. We can’t do that.” Snapping at her wasn’t what I meant to do, but with the anger inside me, I couldn’t stop it.