Chapter24: The Switch

[Dante] I took the stairs two at a time, my pulse as calm as it often was. In fact, when was the last time something had made my heart race?  'I'm not sure I recall.'  Keith's apartment was in a part of town that reeked of bad decisions. Most tenants had either turned a blind eye to crime or were involved in it themselves. The fact that Keith had gotten himself tangled in drug peddling—stealing and reselling from my company, no less—only confirmed what I already knew. He was a pathetic excuse for a man. No, Keith was still just a boy in my eyes, but his father was someone worth respecting. That was the only reason I hadn't discarded the brat yet. Stealing from my company was one thing but making one mistake after the other was beginning to get on my nerves. As I rounded the final flight, a thought crossed my mind. 'Did he fuck her?' The question stopped me in my tracks for half a second.  No. Bianca wasn't that desperate. The only way Keith could have touched her was if he'd drugged he