Any Means Necessary by Lila Herron

Author:Lila Herron [Herron, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen: Callum

I fucked up. I let Eric live. I’ve never let a loose end go unfinished before. It goes against everything I am and how I’ve built my reputation. Callum Russo never had so much as a wrinkle in his plans. I was the Fixer who never has loose ends.

Until now, because I fucked up.

Letting that date-rapist go isn’t the problem. It’s her. I’m not an assassin or a serial killer, but there’s plenty of blood on my hands. I don’t hesitate to eliminate threats when the situation calls for it. It’s the cost of doing business, a necessary step to effective problem solving. And my work is impeccable.

How many times have I been begged for mercy when my gun was pointed at someone’s head or my knife pressed against their neck? And I never batted a fucking eye. I pulled the trigger without hesitation or remorse.

Until she asked me not to.

Lexie looked up at me with those bright blue eyes pleading, and I broke my own goddam rules like I would do anything to please her. I’m fucking pissed. Because in that moment, while lowering the knife and seeing the relief on her pretty face, I realized it’s true. I will do anything to please her, give her anything that makes her happy.

Going after the son-of-a-bitch from the dating app was bad enough. He wasn’t part of a job, I’d found him for personal reasons. Finding out he’d been flirting with my pretty pink nurse, that he thought she could ever be his, sent me into a jealous rage. Tracking him down was an action born solely from an emotional impulse—something I thought I’d gotten a handle of a long time ago. I wasn’t planning on hurting Eric, the idea was to threaten the cheating bastard and make an example of him for Lexie. But then I found the little baggie of pills in his wallet—pills meant for Lexie—and I’d seen red. When he admitted what he wanted to do to her, my knife was suddenly pressing against his throat.

I won’t lie, it felt good to slice him open for what he planned for Lexie. My Lexie. Even now I’d do it all over again. But this time I’d finish the fucking job, instead of letting him live to see another day. Allowing him to survive is a threat to everything I’ve built.

But I did it for her.

Hurling my tumbler, it shatters in an explosion of glass and whiskey. Lexie. Just the thought of her name has my head spinning with messy emotions, my body buzzing with hormones. She is good, and decent, and simple. She’s also stubborn, judgmental, and guarded. She thanks me for protecting her, and lectures me about violence against her attackers in the same breath. She’s beautiful, and fun, and emotionally unavailable. She’s complicated and wrong for me, and I’m completely obsessed.

The anger surging in me shifts towards panic, the realization unsettling every part of me. Lexie has me, and she has no idea. She’s taken me without even trying, without meaning to.

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