Katie's POV

Chapter 182

Katie's POV

“I see it as more of a protective arrangement for both of us. There are legal protections for each of us… incentives to keep one another’s secrets.”

I fixed him with what I hoped was the most vicious look I had in me. “I never went to the cops after you kidnapped me, didn’t go running to my parents begging them to find someone to break your kneecaps, and you thought you needed some other way of getting me to keep your secrets?”

“It matters…” I can hear the anxiety in Mack’s voice. Something is very, very wrong.

“Why does it matter? She was nothing before this whole incident and will be nothing after everything takes place. She’s clean. I know it.”

Cephus sounds confident, and though I know I have done nothing wrong, if Mack convinces him I did something, I know I am as good as dead.

“It matters because I know she’s not clean. After Jared called me and told me what Luccio said, I did a little digging on her and found some shit out.”

Horror fills my mind. What i