Page 238 of A Lick and A Promise
“She fucked me, son,” Mr. Chambers told Knox.
Knox’s dad’s full body jerked when Lee caught his jaw in a supremely ungentle hold and forced his attention back to him.
“I change my mind. He ceases to exist for you now,” Lee gritted. Then to Knox, without taking his focus off his dad, “Take Luna and go.”
Knox started to lead me out.
“She was with Vincente all this time!” his dad shouted.
Ah hell.
Knox stopped us.
“Go, Knox,” Mace ordered.
“I wanna hear,” Knox said.
I had my arm around him too, and I held tight.
Mace hesitated, then jerked up his chin and stepped aside.
Lee let his father go and stepped aside too.
“She left me for him, boy,” Mr. Chambers said.
“All this time, she was with him?” Knox asked.
Mr. Chambers nodded. “In Mexico.”
Well, that explained how she could drop off the face of the earth.
“So she left a petty pusher for an up-and-comer in a cartel,” Knox drawled.
And that explained the nice outfit and BMW.
His father’s jaw clenched.
“Guess it wasn’t about the whole non-law-abiding thing then, yeah?” Knox asked.
“They sent in Rocco,” his dad said.
Oh God.
I held onto him tighter.
“She played the long game, Knox. She sent in a mole. It was Cynthia’s idea all along to get you kids back,” he continued. “Rocco works his magic, folds you all in Vincente’s dealings.” He paused, then admitted, “They took my shit before they took off, and they could get my shit because Crew and Poe went with them.”
“So this was the reason Gypsy was pushing me to join up, so I could go as well.”
“I wanted you back too,” the man asserted, though I figured, from all he’d spewed earlier, this was a lie.
Knox ignored that. “Family reunion with our drug lord stepdaddy.”
Mr. Chambers fell silent.
“She could have made a play a thousand different times since she left,” Knox remarked. “She had access to money. She sure had enough firepower to subdue you if you kicked up a fuss.”
Yup.
