Chapter 120

Ramon POV

If I’d gotten there sooner. If I’d answered Ollie’s call faster. If I’d never let them leave the house that morning. If, if, if.

“Stop,” Romeo said from the driver’s seat. “I can hear you thinking from here. This isn’t your fault, Ramon.”

“Isn’t it?” I asked. “I promised to protect them. I failed.”

“Samuel and Frank and this Miss A—they’re the ones who failed,” Rafael countered from the passenger seat. “They’re the ones who hurt your family. Not you.”

“I should have been there,” I insisted. “Should have been watching them better. Should have—”

“Should have what?” Marcus asked from beside me. “Known that someone with inside knowledge would help Samuel bypass security? Known that Frank would be crazy enough to stab Troy and kidnap Lake and Ollie in broad daylight? Ramon, you can’t predict every threat.”

“Then what good am I?” The words burst out of me, raw and desperate. “What good is all our power, all our money, all our reso