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I stepped closer, until we were chest to chest. Surprisingly, he didn’t back up, but I could feel his body trembling with every breath he took. He was fucking terrified. The problem was, he didn’t know true terror, but I’d be happy to give him a lesson anytime he wanted.
“Stay the fuck off my property. Got it?”
His throat bobbed as he gave a slight nod. When I turned my back on him, I half expected him to try and attack, but instead, he scurried around me like the sniveling weasel he was and practically ran to his bike. He wasn’t going to make it long on the outside if he didn’t man up.
As he drove away, I glanced at the house next to me. I couldn’t understand how a woman would get tangled up with someone like him. Not only was he the son of an arms dealer, but he wasn’t man enough to defend her. Whatever the deal was, it was none of my business.
“Pack of reds,”I told the cashier at the gas station.
She turned and grabbed one off the shelf in the back, then tossed it on the counter. I’d never smoked until I took this job. Now, it was the only thing that was keeping me from wandering the streets for a dealer. It was a disgusting habit, but I’d do anything not to take another hit.
I handed over the cash and grabbed my smokes, but didn’t get any farther than that. Two men stepped up behind me, crowding me against the counter. I sighed in frustration. I was so fucking tired of people trying to intimidate me.
“You got a fucking problem?” I asked, pocketing my change.
“Boss wants a word with you,” the guy on the right said.
I glanced at the woman behind the counter, giving a slight shake of my head. She was terrified and her hand was inching toward the edge of the counter. If she hit the panic button, it was going to cause more problems than we needed.
Turning, I spotted a couple of dark SUVs out the window, idling in the parking lot. There was only one person who could be, and I didn’t exactly have a choice whether or not I wanted to see him. Shoving past the two men, I shoved the door open and stormed out to the vehicle. The door opened just as I got to the back, and I slid inside beside the man who got me in this position in the first place.
“Nice of you to finally show up,” I muttered, not bothering to look at him.
“Cry me a river. You had a job to do,” Rafe said.
Completely unapologetic. That was my boss to a T. Normally, I didn’t give a fuck, but the way he left me hanging really chapped my ass. “You didn’t check in even once.”
He shifted to face me, his dark eyes peeking out from under the brim of his black cowboy hat. “Are you fucking kidding me? You knew the job.”
“Yeah, I also stupidly thought you’d have my back.”
“You knew what this would mean. If I’d visited you, it would have blown the op and you’d be in the ground right now.”
“I almost was in the ground,” I hissed. “Not that you care, but I was in the hospital. I almost fucking died.”
“I know,” he snapped. “Just because I couldn’t make contact didn’t mean I wasn’t keeping tabs on you. I was fucking running that place.”
I snorted at that. “Yeah, you really did me a lot of favors.”
“More than you fucking realize. Who do you think made the decision to throw you in the hold multiple times? It saved your ass and held up your cover.”
“Saved my ass?” I said incredulously. “You’ve gotta be fucking shitting me right now. Do you have any fucking idea what it was like in that place?”
“I got a good idea.”
“Yeah? Tell me about it. Tell me how much sleep you got while I was watching my back every fucking second of the day.”
“You knew what you signed up for!”
He was right about that. “I did,” I relented. “I knew exactly what would happen to me once I was on the inside.”
“Then what are you fucking whining about?”
As much as it pained me to admit it, he had a point. I knew what I signed up for, and like it or not, this was the job. I just didn’t realize how it would affect me after all this time. My hand shook as it rested on my thigh, not because I was nervous, but because the need to take another hit was racing through my veins. I pulled out my smokes and lit one, not giving a fuck that I was smoking in his vehicle.
“Put it out.”
“It’s either this or I find a drug dealer.”
