The men in this house could really fuck with my self-esteem if I let them.
Chapter Fourteen
Magnum
I’m an adrenaline junkie, but I don’t have a death wish. That last part might be debatable, considering my current actions.
Knowing my limits and what I’m capable of has always kept me from getting myself into a situation that I can’t get out of…
Until now.
That sexy little mafia princess completely flipped my world upside down from a few hours together and asinglekiss. That has to be some kind of world record for being pussy whipped. Maybe not when it comes to alphas and omegas.
Fuck if I know.
But this has to be a record for the craziest plan an alpha has ever come up with to make an omega his. Of that, I have no doubt.
I would have been up a creek without a paddle if Candice didn’t get herself all tangled up with the O’Connor family.
Right.
Candice is going by Charlotte these days, and she’s got a kid.
The MC found out about the boy a while ago, but seeing him with my own two eyes was a mindfuck. It’s hard to believe Blade could’ve had any part in creating such a cute kid. The fact I killedhis dad adds another layer of fuckery to the whole mess, but I had a good reason.
Blade wasn’t just going to get himself killed. He was going to take the rest of the Demons down with him. I started that chain reaction almost four years ago when I let Candice—I mean Charlotte—walk out of the clubhouse.
I didn’t know she was pregnant at the time, and I’m glad I didn’t.
I was the one who found Blade after Charlotte tried to kill him. For a long time, I was pissed that she put me in that position, but she was young. Knowing she wanted out badly enough that she was willing to murder a man to escape was a wake-up call.
After all that shit went down, I could never quite muster the same level of unwavering support for the club, which was complicated. Both my brothers and my father were members before me, and for a long time, I didn’t question anything.
Once my eyes were open to the ugliness, I couldn’t unsee it. Even being aware of how fucked up everything was, it still took time to get my shit together.
By the time I did, the Demons were in shambles. My mother called me a traitor and told me I was the cause of the club’s collapse. That’s her opinion, but the Jacksonville chapter of the Demons was fucked long before my brother and I hashed the plan to take out the old-timers.
For it to work, no one could know Johnny was involved, and I even lied to Vanessa to keep up the ruse. My older brother stayed back in Florida, just in case things went sideways. Because he was able to keep his hands clean, the remaining members voted him in as the new president.
I never planned to stick around after that, and for whatever reason, I couldn’t get the spunky omega out of my head. At first, I told myself it was because I didn’t want to travel alone, butVanessa’s tart green apples and cinnamon scent has haunted me since that day in the hotel.
I’m reasonably attractive.
Women come to me regularly enough that I’ve never had to chase one down.
Getting into Vanessa’s family’s house was one thing, but when she never came home after her engagement party, I had to take extreme measures.
Asking Charlotte to help was my only chance at finding out where Vanessa disappeared to, and it paid off, even if her alphas were pissed.
She owed me one.
I got my ass handed to me the night she nearly killed Blade. I was the one on watch, after all.
Whether the O’Connors would help was dicey for a bit, but Charlotte went to bat for me. And that’s how Charlotte and Patrick snuck me into Moretti’s mansion. Rode right in through the gate in their car, pretending to be one of their security team members.
We had a plan in place before we ever stepped inside the house, and it went off without a hitch. The trickiest part was not running into anyone who would have recognized me from the night of the kidnapping exchange at Moretti’s warehouse, but no one questioned me being Charlotte’s guard.
A very chatty woman with a baby mentioned that Vanessa was staying on the third floor and that Moretti stayed in his own room last night.
