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What had gotten into me?
‘Oh shit,’ Alfie said, snapping me out of my obsessive thoughts.
‘What?’
Following his gaze, I saw him watching an older guy stroking his fingers over Molly’s thigh. She didn’t look upset by it.
‘Don’t you know who that is?’
The guy looked vaguely familiar, but I didn’t recognise him. ‘Don’t think so.’
‘Edwards. The guy who tried to force himself on Valentina at Rosenhall.’
Cold swept through my veins. Edwards had tried to assault my sister-in-law. Logan had beaten him to a pulp. He’d been banned from Alfie’s highland playground and lain low ever since. What the fuck was he doing in my club?
I approached the two of them, and Molly looked up at me with surprise.
‘Take a break,’ I ordered, barely keeping the rising anger from my voice.
‘But we are just—’
‘Go. Now.’
Molly’s brow crinkled as she looked from Edwards’ face to my own before standing. With a sigh, she smoothed her hands down her dress and walked past me, making her way toward the staff break room.
‘Ewen McGowan,’ Edwards said, standing up and holding out a hand.
‘Keep your pleasantries. It’s time to go.’
He was with a handful of other men who sat around a round table, each watching the interaction with what I could only describe as hunger.
‘You’re throwing me out?’ A smirk crossed Edwards’ face as one of his men stood up and flexed his knuckles.
‘We can do it quietly, or we can do it the hard way. If you go the hard way, remember that you were all checked for weapons coming in. I have to go through no such rigmarole. I’d rather keep the atmosphere as it is in my club, but I’m not going to have a rapist in it.’
‘And you think you McGowan’s are any better? I saw Logan fuck your whore of a sister-in-law on the fucking lawn, moaning like a little she-cat while taking his dick. She didn’t deserve respect. If you go around offering your cunt to whoever is desperate enough to take it, then you can’t be salty when someone does. She sat her ass in my lap and took my fingers quite happily befo—’
I cut him off before he could finish his dressing down of Valentina. My fist connected with his jaw, a resounding thwack crackling through the soft music. Within seconds, his men were on their feet, standing around Edwards, who had crumpled back into his seat. My fingers ached, but it was worth it.
I felt my bouncers behind me before I saw them, their muscled frames looming. ‘See these men to their vehicles, please.’
Both were adequately armed and towered over Edwards and his men. Despite the anger radiating from them, they knew they were out-armed. The men followed after one of my security guys while the other trailed behind them.
Edwards turned a few paces from me and spat at my shoes. I neither flinched nor made to move away. ‘I’m going to make you fuckers pay. Every single one of you. Someone should have finished you off when you were all fucking newly whelped out of your bitch mother.’
I envisioned walking over to him and thrusting my knife right into one of his watery eyes. The satisfaction it would bring to hear him scream out for his own mother while I slowly skinned him from his limbs inwards until he bled out.
Not in my club.
Too many witnesses.
Too messy.
I’d deal with him later.
Amped up after my interaction with Edwards, I found myself on the street across from Cora’s window within the hour. Ruby had gotten into her boyfriend’s car thirty minutes previously, and despite my body numbing at the edges, I waited.
Cora moved about the flat, a dark shape against the yellow lighting beyond. Just seeing her set my head straight, sending a calming balm to my insides.
