“They were our allies?”
“Yep. Lionel was a close friend of mine. I went hunting for the killers, and it led back to the Coltons at the time. Of course we didn’t know for certain that they were killed by them,” Jacob said. “Everything was a set up back then.”
“Why don’t I know about this?” Abel asked.
“There’s no guarantee. We have many enemies. Let’s go see which one she belongs to.”
“How do we know she’s not stolen Ruby’s identity?” Oliver asked.
“Because Ruby was missing, and I know for a fact our parents were hunting for her. No one could find her,” Jacob said.
“And you just stopped?”
“We couldn’t keep stretching our resources, and we figured she’d been killed, and moved.”
Oliver gritted his teeth to stop himself from saying anything. It was driving him insane having his woman in his arms, and yet not having a clue what to actually do.
The elevator doors opened, and he carried her toward his father’s office. Jacob knocked, and seconds later Maddox called for them to enter. He was sitting behind his desk, glasses on, looking over a piece of paper.
“What the fuck is this?” Maddox asked.
“This may or may not be Ruby Santos,” Jacob said.
Maddox grabbed his phone and dialed someone.
“Charlotte, baby, I need you here.” He hung up.
Oliver placed her down on the sofa, pushing a pillow under her head.
“You want to take care of her, don’t you?” Abel asked.
“Wow, it’s really a curse, isn’t it?” Gideon said.
“Shut up,” Oliver said. He wasn’t in the mood to deal with this shit. This woman, his woman, had just tried to attack him, and he didn’t have the first clue as to why. He crouched down and stared at her. She was still passed out, and he took his time to notice some bruises on her face and arms.
“Who do you think did that?” Gideon asked.
“I think she did. I believe she’s so hell bent on killing me that she trained.”
“She’s a woman,” his father said.
Glancing back to look at his father, Oliver rolled his eyes. “It’s the twenty-first century. Women do more than fuck and walk around pregnant.”
Maddox waved his hand in the air, shaking his head. “In our world, it’s what they do.”
“Don’t let Lou hear you saying that,” Jacob said, taking a seat.
“If this is Ruby Santos, then I want to know what she’s been doing for the past ten years. There’s no way a girl just appeared, or she walked out of that chaos I remember seeing,” Maddox said, rubbing the back of his head.
“You went to the Santos home?” Gideon asked.
“Of course I did. They were our allies.” Maddox looked down at the woman, and then stood back. “Where’s her ID?”
Abel handed it over, and Maddox looked it over. “It doesn’t look like a fake, unlike her other.”
“No, but we couldn’t find her,” Maddox said. “Charlotte was beside herself.”
“Why don’t I remember her?” Gideon said. “If they were so close to us, we must have mingled, hung out.”