Miles Away (Carrion #1)(95)

Letty’s pulse quickened.

“That son of a bitch!” Letty screamed. “Knox!”

Rushing her feet through the sand as she pushed forward, Letty didn’t know what had come over her. Racing forward with her fists clenched, Letty was ready to pummel Knox to death.

“You murderous piece of shit!” Letty screamed. “Ice in your veins! Blood on your hands! You heartless son of a bitch!”

Despite Letty’s outbursts, the man didn’t turn around. He just stared at the ocean waves with his hands buried deep in his pants pockets. Letty’s pace quickened.

“Did you hear me, you bastard?” Letty demanded to know. “Face me! Face me you coward!”

Just as the man was turning to face her, a familiar voice rang out behind her.

“Letty, what are you talking about? I’m back here,” Knox Capadonno said in a charming tone of voice.

Turning around, Letty was dumbstruck when she saw Knox standing there on the beach next to Dustin and Landon. He wore a warm smile. As Letty gawked at Knox, he winked at her. Snapping back around, Letty’s eyes returned to the man in the suit. Utterly confused, Letty stared at the man in the suit. Slowly, he turned around.

A gasp rattled from Letty’s mouth. “I do not believe it.”

With a charming smile on his face, Miles Capadonno stood before Letty, clean-shaven and wearing one of his brother’s work suits. Spreading his arms wide, Miles gave an open invitation to Letty to return to him. Letty rushed him before she even truly understood what was happening. Crashing into him, Letty buried her head on Miles’s shoulder. Her hands navigated his shoulders, arms and chest, as if double checking to make sure that he was real.

“I don’t understand! I don’t understand how this is possible. I saw him shoot you! I saw that son of a bitch shoot at you three times! I—” Letty went on and on until she was interrupted with a wave of Miles’s hand.

“There are three bullet holes in the back of that jackass’s precious Benz.”

“But you all set him up…” Letty said, clearly still wrapping her head around the situation.

“There was a set up all right,” Landon said. “But it wasn’t Miles we were setting up. We had to go up there so you could get your son and your father back.”

Letty’s breathing was irregular as she tried to fit together all the puzzle pieces.

“I told you I had a plan,” Miles said with a smirk.

His clean-shaven face was even more handsome than Letty had remembered it. As Miles reached for Letty’s hand, he admired her engagement ring that still graced her ring finger. Turning her hand over, Miles brushed his lips against Letty’s palm as goosebumps rose from her skin. Barely able to control herself, Letty laced her fingers around Miles and rushed her lips against his.

“Now, we can leave.”

“Come on,” Landon said. “Corina is waiting for you in the parking lot.

“Where are we going?” Letty asked, her mind still reeling from the events.

“Poconos. My mom’s old place. You remember it?” Miles asked.

Letty nodded in recognition. “And what about G?”

“We wouldn’t go without G.”

“And my dad?”

“It would look better if he stayed put. He’s not in any danger anymore,” Knox admitted.

“Everyone thinks he’s dead, Letty. You can slip out of town undetected now,” Dustin said with a confident smile on his face. “I’m sorry for everything we put you through. We couldn’t take the chance that the plan would fall through. Landon didn’t even know the whole plan until a few days ago.”

Breaking away from Letty for a moment, Miles approached his brothers. Miles shook Dustin’s hand, giving him an appreciative smile.

“Thanks, man. For everything,” Miles said to Dustin as he brought him into a bear hug. Dustin slapped Miles hard on his back.

“Whatever you need, you know where to find me,” Dustin said with a smile.

Moving on to Knox, Miles held his hand out for Knox to shake, but instead Knox pulled his brother into a huge bear hug. Kissing Miles on his head, Knox whispered, “Fucking love you, bro.”

“But wait, I don’t understand something…” Letty said with a bite. “Knox was one of the people that framed you, is he not?” Letty asked, clearly remembering the night of Miles’s arrest.

Miles chuckled. “Knox wrote to me in prison. He actually saved my life. I was a kid, then, Letty. They would have got me for sure.”

“You framed him to save him?”

“Yeah, otherwise the old man was just going to continue, attempt after attempt, to kill Miles,” explained Knox.

This certainly put things in a different light for Letty. Dropping her guard, Letty reached out to hug Knox. Holding on to him tightly, Letty whispered in his ear, “I’m sorry I ever doubted you.”

“You were supposed to doubt me,” Knox said as he winked at Letty. “I have a reputation to uphold.”

Miles cut away from Dustin and Knox as he approached Landon who was now sitting on the steps of the boardwalk with a pleasant smile on his face.

“You…” Miles said warmly as he pulled his youngest brother into a bear hug. “My right-hand man. You make sure you visit me, okay?”