us down. She wouldn’t hurt us like that. It would hurt her. She can’t stand hurting people or seeing people hurt. She wouldn’t let us be killed.”
Scrubbing a hand through his hair, he turns his back to me, exhaling heavily. “I don’t think it’s Evie, but I had to ask. You’re the closest to her. I just don’t understand who it could have been. We need to stop him from getting information, Wyatt.”
“But that was the only information he had. We had that large shipping order a few weeks before that could have cost us our business if something had gone wrong. He couldn’t have known about that. If he did, he would have sabotaged the whole thing,” I muse, leaning against the metal railing.
He turns back to me, a relieved look crossing his face. “You’re fucking right. Liam got in my head when he threw around the idea that it could have been an inside job. It kept going over and over in my mind. Please don’t tell her I said anything.”
I chuckle, smacking his shoulder. “I won’t,” I promise. “But it’s worth a shot to speak to the Franklin siblings and see if they spoke to anyone prior to the fire about us being there.”
He nods, letting out a weary smile. “I will. I’m sick of waiting for him to come at us again. I want to rip his head off, but I can’t risk leaving Lily vulnerable if I get caught. We need to do something. He can’t keep thinking he can get away with it. Burning that warehouse down isn’t close to justice or payback.”
“He’s going to regret ever fucking messing with us, Jaxon, I swear to you. But you need to take care of Lily.”
He forces out a laugh, dropping down on the doorstep. “Trust me, if it weren’t for Lily, I would have killed him and burned his empire to the ground. We are better than this, Wyatt. He’s making a laughing stock out of us. We can’t keep being on the defence.”
I take a seat next to him on the step. “No, he fucking isn’t. Men like Black won’t care if we burn a few buildings down or kick the shit out of them. They can rebuild and heal. Hell, he would expect it and has probably got a plan in place to get us arrested.”
“I know you’re right, but it fucking kills me, Wyatt.”
“I know,” I agree, giving him a blank expression. “Which is why Eli and I are planning to hurt him in the only way a man like him can be hurt.”
Intrigued, Jaxon sits forward. “And how’s that?”
“Take everything he holds dear and destroy it,” I tell him solemnly.
“Does he care about anything?” Jaxon asks doubtfully.
“Yes. Image, power and money. Take all that and what does he have left?”
Jaxon grins. “Fuck all.”
I grin back. We have kept this under wraps in case we couldn’t pull it off. But the more we’ve unravelled about Black, the easier everything fell into place. I just feel like we’re missing a part of the puzzle when it comes to him.
“Exactly. He has a thing for cheating on his wife. If I were to take a guess, I’d say she isn’t oblivious to the fact, but she stays for the lifestyle and image. I’m willing to bet she didn’t divorce him because it was never public knowledge; therefore, she could keep her lifestyle and do it without the embarrassment or scandal. He also has two kids that took us longer to find since he has covered their tracks. I guess he didn’t want people to know about them. But who would with enemies at every corner?
“Once his power over people is destroyed, he will crumble, Jax. But first, we need to ruin his image and destroy his company, or at least wreck it to the point his daddy announces another heir.”
“I feel like a fool. Here I was, thinking none of us were doing anything, but you and Eli have been planning this all along. I’m the oldest. I’m supposed to be doing this.”
I smirk, shrugging. “We also don’t have a pregnant wife at home to worry about.”
“Let’s take his family away from him and ruin his image,” Jaxon orders, getting up and dusting his combat trousers off. “It’s only fair since he nearly took mine from me.”
“Consider it done,” I reply, getting up. “Now, can I go fuck my girlfriend?”
He chuckles, slapping me on the back. “She’s your girlfriend?”
“Well no, that was a slip