New Ways to Hurt Me

Ace POV

Half way to Alvarez's Daniel finally cracked. We were silent the whole time but I knew he was disappointed with how I treated Derek. He didn't understand what it meant for Alley though. The path Derek was walking would lead to only two possibilities.

He would piss my father off and get himself and whole family killed or he would piss me off and I would kill him. Either they were both dying or he was dying. There was a no-win situation in any of this but I was going to make damn sure Alley was untouched.

"Christian, I know my place but please hear me out. Derek is her brother. She loves him."

"I know and even though it doesn't seem this way I'm doing this for her."

"How?" His face had so much disgust in it for me I wanted to punch him.

"I'm allowing him to make his money and leave. He can't stay here Daniel. He'll wind up dead or my father will catch on and go after his whole family. That means Alley. I will sacrifice everything for her and trust me we don't want to go down th