Page 17 of Hiding Desire


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“Watch your mouth, boy. If you want money to keep your mother in those fancy nurses, you’ll shut the fuck up.”

That hit far too close to home.

“Tell me what she paid you.” I swung back to Briggs.

“She let me break that pussy in. Nothing quite like a virgin.”

The movement of my arm was reflexive, and the bang was loud. Brigg’s face exploded, splashing blood across the screen behind him as he and his body slumped to the ground.

“Fuck. I thought you’d take him back to the warehouse,” Loch said.

He didn’t deserve to breathe any longer.The crazed beast inside me that had already marked the hummingbird as mine demanded immediate retribution. I closed my eyes, forcing away images of my underaged hummingbird beneath Brigg’s sweaty frame. The bile burned my throat. The skinny guy whimpered, pulling my attention back from those horrifying images.

“Congratulations, you’ve just inherited his business. How much of this junk do you need?” I asked him.

“M-my laptop and some of the equipment,” he stammered.

“None of the files?”

He scoffed, a flash of his irritation returning. “No. The idiot thought that piles of shit in the living room would prevent cops from searching the place. All of this is incriminating. I keep my stuff on secure servers.”

“Nothing is truly secure. Come and work for me. I’ll hook you up with my tech guy. Operate under my protection. We’ll work out a suitable cut, and I’ll put plenty of work your way.”

“My mother?—”

“Bring her with you. We have houses.”

“The nurses?—”

“Done.”

He shook himself off. “Okay.” He strode over to his old boss and kicked him. “Fuck you, prick.”

I would have laughed, but the edgy, twitchy feeling inside left me far from humorous.

“Call a clean-up crew and have them bring a spare van to fill up,” I told Loch, then gestured to the skinny guy, not knowing his name.

“Smith.”

I almost rolled my eyes at the irony of working on fake IDs with the last name of Smith. “Set Smith up with what he needs.”

Loch nodded.

“My guys will be here shortly. Make sure you tell them what you need loading, then get your shit from your house.”

Loch handed me a burner.

“Call me when you are leaving,” I said, handing the phone to Smith.

I tucked my gun away and strode out of the house with agitation crawling all over me. Loch was right. There wasn’t enough violence to satisfy the blood lust that pumped through me.I needed to smash and break things.

“You want to spar?” Loch asked, pulling his door open and speaking over the top of the car.

“Nah, Rada won’t like it if I mess up your pretty face before the wedding.” I rapped my knuckles on the roof. “Who takes a fifteen-year-old’s virginity as payment?”

“Sick fucking paedos, that’s who,” Loch spat, climbing into the driver’s seat.

“Fuck.” I glared at my hands. “We should have taken him to the warehouse.”

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