Chapter 280

Would he have the same outcome if he trusted his instincts, too? Or was Laila’s I love you just messing with his head?

They ended the call, and Trees returned to the kitchen and dived back into Ramos’s phone. It took him less than three minutes to realize the asshole had done his best to mitigate the loss of the device. The emails had stopped delivering days ago. Half the social media accounts prompted him for new passwords, which he didn’t have. That was fine. It might take a few minutes, but he could hack in. Even without doing that, Trees would still be able to see everything Ramos had downloaded and saved to his cloud. At a glance, it looked like plenty—locations, past operations, future plans for taking over Montilla’s “throne.”

Just like Laila had told him.

If she’d been honest about Ramos’s scheme…maybe she’d been telling him the truth about everything.

Trees wanted to roll with that theory so bad. But his feelings for Laila tangled his logic. If he ha