Page 31 of The Savage One (The Hale Mafia 3)

“What girl?”

“The girl from the file. The blonde.”

Realistically, everything happening in the casino basement is terrible, but if he was so willing to fight for me, someone he cared about, maybe that’s it in this case too.

Lucas looks deep in thought for a moment. “Our mother was blonde,” he remarks.

I close my eyes and cross my arms as an unsettling sadness washes over me. “Fuck,” I whisper.

“She looks like her… kind of,” he continues.

My heart breaks for a woman I never even knew and her boys. “We will figure this out.” I step close to him and run my hands over his back.

“We can’t do anything yet. We have to wait until Sebastian follows through with his end of the deal. If we strike now, it will do nothing but complicate things.”

“But those girls…” I start, trailing off.

As terrible as it is, I know he’s right. We can’t do anything yet. We need a plan, a solid, thought-out plan. We can’t go in there and hope for the best. That’s how people get killed.