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

A gun went off.

home with surgical precision, burying

to support his own weight any longer, Jimmy fell to

a

their literal meaning. He was done

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then...a gun went off and everything went

at the docks, and cursed

calm himself before picking up the phone and making

Jimmy failed to grab

manage to poison her?" the person on the other end asked, and Jon paused

have the list

as a favor to Jimmy. If the failure was not reported in, his family would be held till things were cleared up.

more to the mission

managed to grab her, then yes. Jimmy is quite good at

person on the other end said, and the

behind

the endless stream of emails and reports that

days lately. He stole a glance at Anya, sprawled across the couch in his office, her soft breathing a stark contrast

at her ability to find peace amidst the chaos. Even in sleep, she exuded an aura of calm that he found both captivating

brought up to his office. With a gentle shake of Anya's shoulder, he woke her from her slumber. "Baby, wake up and eat," he

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

ass

smile playing

before clearing as she

brandished the

you know it was my favorite?" she asked

everything,"

as she threw him a stubborn

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