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from his late father, who’d also passed on his ties to the Mal . At best, Frank Senior had been a Mal team player, content to wash money from other Mal businesses, some legal, some not.
    Frank Junior had higher aspirations, enough funds to make them reality and the vision to see them through. He’d been the one to discover the existence of the sisters, hidden by their parents in northern Maine, one of the states with the least number of Enu or Fata in residence.
    How Frank had found the sisters, Michael didn’t know. What he did know was that Frank had been the mastermind behind their kidnapping and Michael was going to make him pay.
    “Michael?”
    Cara stared at him, her expression a mix of fear, exasperation and stress.
    He wouldn’t be happy until he wiped that look from her face forever. “I got four, Cara. I only need one more.”
     
    Cara’s eyes widened and she drew in a short, sharp breath.
    Now she knew for certain where the scars had come from. He’d killed four of the men who’d made her and her sister’s life a living hell for so many years.
    A flash of fierce happiness lit through her. The man she loved had killed four fiends to avenge her. In the eteri world, it wouldn’t be politically correct to be happy about murder. In hers, it felt just right.
    “Who?” she asked.
    Michael’s dark eyes went hard and cold. “Only Bennett’s left. And I know where he is.”
    Easing onto the bed beside him, Cara laid her hand on his chest so he wouldn’t try to get up again. Sal had said he’d probably be pretty sore for days after he woke and he shouldn’t move around much.
    “How did you get to the other four? Do you have help?”
    “No, I’ve been working alone but I made a deal for a spell with a strega — ”
    “Yes, tell me about that spell, Michael,” she interrupted. “Did you know you were dying?”
    His silence was answer enough.
    Her anger returned, a hot burst that flashed through her, making her blood boil. And making her libido kick in.
    Since they’d had sex two nights ago, she thought about sex more in one hour than she had in the entire past year. With an effort, she pushed back the heat and tried to concentrate on getting answers.
    “Okay,” she said, when he still didn’t say anything. “Then tell me what you’ve been doing since you left us. Spit it out, Michael. I need to know.”
    She could tell he thought this was the easier explanation, that she’d only ask what he wanted her to ask. Before Aron , before he’d left her, she would have let it go. But raising a child on her own had quickly given her the backbone she used to lack.
    She’d get back to that first question. And he would answer it.
    “When I left,” Michael said, “I contacted someone I’d worked with before, someone I knew would believe that I wanted to come back to my old job.”
    Cara knew Michael had been making his way up the Mal ladder when they’d first met six years ago.
    After they’d escaped, he’d told how he’d been transferred to New York from Miami to work in one of the Mal ’s import operations. How he had a way of working with numbers, making them do exactly what he wanted them to do.
    All his life, he’d been raised to believe he would work for the Mal , to put their interests ahead of everything else, subjugate his wants and needs to the Mal . He’d known no other way of life.
    Until they’d met.
    And then he’d thrown it all away for her and their son.
    “I told Roger I’d do whatever it took, whatever punishment they wanted to give me,” Michael continued. “I told him I’d fallen for a woman, but that she’d died and I went a little crazy afterward. But I was better now and I was ready to return.”
    Michael’s sneer made her shiver. He’d been a hard man before. Now he looked like a man who killed for a living.
    For some reason, that only made her want him more.
    “I managed to get Roger to meet me alone in his office in New York. And then I made him tell me what