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“There’s a neighborhood right there. We find somewhere to regroup, and we throw them off.” He pointed to the left where an empty guard shack sat; beyond it were houses straight out of old magazines and billboard signs.
“Them?” Ace questioned.
“Copperfield is hours behind us. The Stags should be ahead of us, but I can’t think of anyone else who would be waiting around waiting to fire off a round of fucking arrows at a random truck just for shits and giggles.”
I pulled my attention from the neighborhood and focused on his words. “That would mean they knew we were coming. Or we’ve been being followed this whole time,” I voiced.
“Does it matter at this point? They’re fucking with us. They have been since this started.”
“The way it’s looking now, we need to focus on getting to the rendezvous city because something tells me our hardships haven’t even begun yet,” Maliki stated, already preparing to get out of the truck.
No one disputed his words. There wasn’t anything to argue.
The Stags that had taken our family members already had a head start. Us stopping to rest and now this only put them closer to their destination and us behind.
“What about Annie’s body?” Cam asked as Maliki opened the rear passenger door.
Zane turned his head and looked back, glancing at me before staring at Annie.
“We burn it.”
Chapter Fourteen
Quattourdecim
The smoke was already rising into the sky behind us.
I took the lead, heading to the immediate right instead of going straight.
The Stags were following us. There was no doubt in my mind about that. Whoever this nark was, I had reason to believe they were still roaming free within one of our factions.
I’d keep that information to myself for now, until I had a better idea of what to do with it.
I knew it wasn’t any of the people with me because I’d been keeping an on eye them since Copperfield, and I hadn’t slept since Maliki woke me up the other night so no one could have pulled any sneak shit.
My main goal at the moment was to get us somewhere where we could think for a minute, throw whoever was behind us off our trail because they were smart enough to follow a ways back, but not far enough as to where they’d lose us. This forcibly changed things.
We trudged along, me searching for the perfect hideout house, the others all taking in the sights while lost in their own shit.
Addy was a bit behind me, cradling her acolyte’s shotgun to her chest like it was a small child.
She looked as gorgeous as she did the night she ran across my path. She wasn’t crying, and she didn’t look angry. If anything she looked blank, which was worse than either of other two because that meant something was brewing.
Not as surprised as I should have been I found no joy in this. In my mind, the only person—the only thing—ever allowed to hurt her in any way was me.
Maybe that was wrong. Maybe that wasn’t typically how people’s relationships worked, lucky for me this was my relationship, and Addy belonged to me. Who gave a fuck if she didn’t know the circumstances yet, or that she denied it?
I wasn’t going to waste either of our time with subliminal ass romance antics. If my princess wanted romance, she could sit her pussy on my face, and I’d write some poetry with my tongue.
One of my biggest pet peeves was people who danced around what they wanted.
Life had always been kinder to me when I took what I desired and didn’t let anyone get in my way.
Addy included.
I didn’t wait the past five years to woo her and hope she might like me. She was going to love me, so that was irrelevant.
It was only fair that she did after what she was doing to me.
