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“Okay, fine. Don’t worry. He’s working, so I doubt that he’ll even notice anything. I’ll text you once I’m done counting dicks. See you later.”
“Bye, girl.” She answered before hanging up.
I peeked into the living room and saw Matt completely concentrated on whatever he was doing, so I figured now was the best time I would get. I ripped the tape off the box and flipped it upside down on my bed, completely covering it with all sorts of sex toys. I put my hand over my mouth to stop my laughter from reaching Matt. Jesus Christ, the sheer amount of sex toys that woman had bought was outrageous.
There were dildos, vibrators, cock rings, whips, fluffy handcuffs, and so many unidentified funny-looking objects I lost count. And I thought having one vibrator was embarrassing. Along with all these things, I saw a couple of deep red silk bags, probably where we would be putting all these goodies for the goodie bag, as Alison called it. Just as for a kid’s party, but instead of candy, we had sex toys.
I wondered how I was going to count these things if I didn’t even know what half of them were called. I’d have to google it. Hopefully no one will be checking out my internet browser, or they’ll think I’m some kind of a pervert. I had this pink rubber thing, with spikes all over it, in one hand and a huge dildo in the other, looking at both and wondering what the hell…
“What are you doing?” I heard Matt’s deep voice behind me. I immediately jumped out of my skin, yelling from the fright he gave me. After that, I couldn’t stop the fit of laughter that came over me. Tears already running down my cheeks as they turned all shades of red. “Oh my God, what the hell?” He exclaimed with his eyes wide open, looking at all the stuff that completely covered our bed.
That just made me laugh more, to the point that I couldn’t even speak. It was even hard to breathe as my laughter increased when I saw the shocked look on his face.
“Do you really need this many?” He asked, making me laugh harder. Soon, his expression changed to a smug, cocky look before he said what was going through his mind. “Does it take all of these to substitute me?”
“N-No.” I tried to talk between my loud laugh. “I was thinking that for just a little bit of sausage, it isn’t worth having to deal with the whole pig. I’m going vegan.” I replied just before a new fit of laughter came over me.
“A little bit of sausage?? A LITTLE bit? I’ll show you what’s little.” He playfully grunted, picking me up and throwing me on the bed. I landed on top of all the toys, the boxes squishing under my weight while Matt tickled me to no end. I couldn’t breathe from all the giggling and his relentless attack on my stomach.
He tried to clear the bed of all the sex toys, my list going flying right along with all the strange things that were in that box, which he also pushed until it fell on the floor. As soon as it hit the ground in front of him, Matt froze, immediately jumping off of me.
“What? What’s wrong?” I asked, my laughter ceasing at the sudden uneasiness that filled the air.
“When did this arrive?” He asked me in a dead-serious tone.
“Today. Max just brought it up. Why?”
Matt turned to me, holding a small white envelope between his fingers, his face completely morphed into a mix of worry and anger.
It had been a month since I received the last note. A month since we handled Gio. Did it take them that long to find us, or have they known all along?
“Open it,” I told him as I swallowed a huge, unmovable lump in my throat. It was as if time had stopped until he could finally open it and read it. An eternity seemed short compared to these couple of seconds.
“Any day now, Honey. I’ll always find you.” Matt read it out loud. The same symbol that had been printed onto the other notes, staring right at me as he read the other side.
“Fuck.” I hissed. My heart kept hammering in my ears as those words registered into my brain. “Why? Why do they want me?”
“I don’t know,” Matt said in a strangely calm manner, stepping closer to me and pulling a strand behind my ear before he gently caressed my cheek.
“But they are right, you know? I can’t keep hiding. The only thing I can do is carry on with my training, try to get as strong as I can, and be careful. Nothing else. They will always find us. We can’t hide forever.”
“Francesca, we can’t risk it–”
“No. I refuse to live caged just because some psycho is threatening to come for me. We can’t carry on like this, Matt.”
“We are getting close to finding out where Hiro is hiding. It’s just until we do.” He tried to convince me.
“And then what? You know this is our life. This will never end. We will always have enemies and people chasing after us.” By the expression that briefly flashed across his face, he knew I was right.
“I know. But the Yakuza are a completely different kind of threat. They aren’t like us, Francesca. Fuck, they’ll cage you up and sell you to the highest bidder! That’s the kind of fucked up they really are. They don’t care who they are hurting or who they have to fuck to get what they want. I don’t see any other reason why they would be coming after you specifically. If they wanted to hurt me, if they wanted me dead, Gio had a perfect fucking opportunity to do it. It’s not about me. It’s about you. I just have to figure out why.”
“I don’t care. I can’t live in the shadows for the rest of my life. Plant a fucking GPS device in my arm if you need to, but I’m not going to let my life be ruled by them.” I blurted, not leaving any room for discussion.
“Francesca…“ He started to contest, but I widened my eyes, showing him that it wasn’t up for debate. “Fine. But you’ll be having Max and James with you at all times, no room for negotiation.”
“Fine, as long as they don’t mind going for drinks with the girls,” I said with a victory grin on my face as I wrapped my arms around him, trying to make him calm down a little because my next words would surely make him angry again. “You should hire Victor back.”
“No. Fucking. Way.” Matt replied straight to my face, a thick vein popping out on his temple while he clenched his jaw.
