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.

somewhere?" A voice

A gun went off.

of motion before the blade punched home with surgical precision, burying at

weight any longer, Jimmy fell

you actually think you could make a move on the Shaw family and

their literal meaning. He was

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off and

his men that Jimmy never arrived at the docks, and cursed out loud. He needed no one to tell him that Jimmy

to calm himself before picking up the phone and making a

the list; Jimmy failed to grab the

poison her?" the person on the other end asked, and Jon paused with a slight

when a mission failed to have the list updated. What he

Jimmy. If the failure was not reported in, his

the mission than

Jimmy is

the person on the other end said, and the line

behind his

in the endless stream of emails and

across the couch in his office, her soft breathing a stark contrast to

ability to find peace amidst the chaos. Even in sleep,

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

she shuffled and refused to get up. "I am

ass

a smile playing on

blinked up at him, her eyes momentarily clouded with sleep before clearing as she sat up, stretching her arms above

the containers of Thai takeout.

favorite?" she asked suspiciously. She did not recall

know everything,"

tugged at the corners of Anya's lips as she threw him a stubborn side glance

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