Mayhem slowly pulls back, keeping his hands framing Jade’s tear-stained face, forced to look straight into her bloodshot eyes.
“I hear you, Jade,” Mayhem whispers raspy, his own voice thick with emotion. “I hear every single word. And I swear to God, on my life, on my patch, on everything I am… I am coming home to you. But I have to go tonight.”
Jade lets out a broken, angry breath, trying to pull away, but Mayhem holds her firm.
“Listen to me,” Mayhem commands, his eyes burning with fierce intensity. “Knox set up a poison factory in our territory. He used Zara’s name to build it. He tried to tear Cobra down from the inside.”
“But –” she says.
“No, baby,” Mayhem says, gently now. “If I sit back and let him get away with it because I was afraid of the dark, then I’m not the man you mar
