The Billionaire's Mistake

Chapter 72

MISTAKE 72

Chapter 72: Tension

A knot of dread solidified in Jimmy's stomach; he was finished.

Escaping was one thing. What happens afterwards?

"I can't exactly walk away without paying up the list, Jon." Jimmy's voice took on a grim edge as he unconsciously glanced around his surroundings. "You know what they do to guys who take a job and leave, right?" Jon's disgusted snort crackled over the line.

"I'd say your odds are better paying the list than sticking around for the end you will definitely experience once the Shaw family finds your ass. At least with them, you've still got your damned life to run with."

They both knew the penalty for violating the list's rules regarding targets and clientele contracts, but that was the Shaw family.

The list could be bargained with for the right price, and if one had the right power, but offending the Shaw family had but one end.

Somehow, Jimmy couldn't decide which fate was the more palatable one to meet.

"Look," Jon sighed. "You still got a chance to get out of this mess if you leave now. Shaw... his family is bad news on a scale you cannot comprehend, man. The kind of bad news with deep. pockets and an army at their disposal." The line went abruptly dead, plunging Jimmy into silence so loudly that he could only hear his heart drumming wildly.

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Scrubbing both hands over his scarred face, he peeped through the cracked blinds out the window with red eyes.

Just a few hours earlier, he'd dreamed of the payout awaiting him once Anya was delivered to the anonymous client.

Now, the thought of that same payday seemed terribly stupid in the presence of the Shaw, whom he had foolishly provoked.

At this moment, Jimmy could almost smell the wood sipping from his future coffin. He had to escape!

Jimmy began to mechanically stuff his belongings into the battered duffel.

He barely walked out the door when he came face to face with an army of guns.

A voice

A gun went off.

with surgical precision, burying at

any longer,

think you could make a move on the Shaw family

their literal meaning. He was done for.

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off and everything went

that Jimmy never arrived at the docks, and cursed out loud. He needed no one

a deep breath to calm himself before

the list; Jimmy failed to grab

poison her?" the person on the other end asked,

standard procedure when a mission failed to have the list updated.

was not reported in, his family would be held till things were cleared up. Families

the mission

her, then yes. Jimmy is quite good at covertly

the other end said, and the

sat behind

endless stream of emails

his days lately. He stole a glance at Anya, sprawled across the couch in his office, her soft breathing a stark contrast to the whirlwind of activity around him.

peace amidst the chaos. Even in sleep, she exuded an

break, Daniel punched a few buttons on his phone, ordering lunch to be brought up to his office. With a gentle shake of Anya's shoulder, he woke her from her slumber. "Baby,

shuffled and refused to get up. "I am sleeping," she

ass

announced, a smile playing on his lips

momentarily clouded with sleep before clearing as she sat up, stretching her arms above her head, "Mmm, what

as he brandished the containers of Thai takeout. "Your

my favorite?" she asked suspiciously. She did not recall

know everything,"

of Anya's lips as she threw him a stubborn side glance with pouted

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