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“You’ll see. It will be an entertaining watch.”
My phone buzzes in my purse. I know who it is without even looking. I was thinking about how quiet he’s been. My gut always knows. I pull it out, and there it is. Levi’s name flashing back at me.
“Why is he calling?” Colten asks.
“I’d have to answer that to find out, and I don’t plan on it.”
His jaw tenses and he grips the steering wheel harder. “Answer.”
I shrug and click accept, putting it on speaker. “I don’t have time for your bullshit, Levi,” I say, unamused.
“Always was a pretentious little princess,” Levi spits.
“Fuck off. Have you showered and brushed your teeth yet?”
I see Colt’s mouth twitch in response.
“We need to meet, Gianna. I have some information that I believe you require.”
“I don’t require any information from you,” I snap.
Levi is known to be a liar who makes a quick buck. It’s his signature move. He pretends he has intel then you pay a price, to find out the most useless piece of information known to man. And I assume business has been dry since we cut him off.
He laughs. “Trust me. You’ll want to hear this one.”
“Of course. And let me guess… this information comes at a price?”
He’s so predictable it’s painful.
“Obviously.”
“How much?” Colt cuts in.
“Half a mil should do it.”
Grabbing Colt’s bicep, I shake my head. The fact that Levi doesn’t even question Colt listening in, when Colten threatened to kill him a few weeks ago, just shows how desperate he is.
I scoff. “Get your head out of your ass, Levi. Nothing that comes out of your mouth is worth anything above ten thousand.”
“Then good luck out there, G,” he says before cutting the call.
I toss my phone back in my purse, tipping my head back against the leather headrest. “Am I going crazy, or did that sound like a threat?” I ask Colt.
What if this one time Levi does know something? He’s a rat that does hang around other rats who might want me dead.
“Yes, baby. That very much sounded like a threat.”
Running my nails along the tattoos on my thighs, I let the cogs turn in my brain. “So…” I say.
“You want to track him down and get the answers for free?” he finishes my sentence for me.
“How did you know?”
I love how he’s always on the same page as me.
He picks up my hand, brings it to his lips, and kisses each finger. “Because I know how your sadistic, beautiful mind works, viper.”
He takes a turn, and I swear to fucking god we’re going round in a circle.
