Chapter Twenty

“Quickly, and easily. Don’t feel any guilt for their lives, Miss Lomie. They intended to take turns raping you two for hours. They were evil, sadistic creatures with not even a speck of humanity in them. I showed them the mercy of quick deaths.”

“But you…you killed them. For me.”

“Yes. I did. And I would do so again.”

“Then there was also the matter of a potential mugger, just this past month,” he said. “marcus made sure the mugger never reached his intended point of ambush. That particular individual was merely…persuaded, shall we say, to give up a life of crime.”

“Indeed,” Marcus said. “I can be rather persuasive.”

I had a hard time breathing suddenly. “What—what else did you do on my behalf?”

He answered. “Only one other matter required intervention. The last gentleman you dated. Steven dexter.”

“Steven? What did you do to Steven?”

“The Steven you knew, and the real Steven…they were not the same person.” He paused, and I heard the tone of his voice shift to address Marcus “You may