Chapter 44

Two weeks later:

Evelyn POV

Chief and Kade had come to an arrangement to take down Ricci per my request. I didn’t want to talk to him. I couldn’t. Not after everything. However, I understood as the IT gurus, we would need to work together. We also needed to keep up the fictitious story that I was being held captive by Kade until Ricci gave him instructions for the auction. I

I had no idea how Kade had convinced Ricci of the story, however, I wouldn’t ask.

Kade opened RSS up to us to use as the clean up crew continued to pick up the rubble that was once Domino’s Gym. It felt like some cruel joke. As if the rubble was a physical representation of my heart.

It was our first team meeting since the explosion. Chief still was wearing a sling and had some cuts on his already burn-scarred arms that were finally starting to heal.

Badger refused to let smoke inhalation bring her down. Although she wasn’t 100 percent better. She still volunteered at the local women’s shelter and taught self def