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“What?” My mouth goes dry, as he pins me with his stare.
“You heard me. Reject them and choose me.Onlyme. That’s it.”
“That’s it?” I parrot back as if it’s really that simple. We both know he isn’t just talking about me joining his crew given everything he’s said to me in the past. This is so much more than turning my back on Sonny and Ford. This dangerous energy between us tells me that better than any words can. My throat closes over, I cough to clear it.
“If I let you in my crew, you have to bemygirl.” he confirms, hammering the point home.
“And Eastern?”
“What about him?” he shrugs, though I see a slice of shame cut across his features.
“You let him go for me remember, because youowedme for Monk. You said I shouldn’t trust Sonny and Ford, but that I could trust Eastern. I only just got him back and now you’re asking me to give him up?”
“It’s the ultimate show of loyalty, cutting him out,themout. Are you willing to pay the price?”
Fucking arsehole.
“Well, Asia?”
Am I willing to pay the price? The simple answer is yes, I will do anything to protect the people I love, even if it means hurting them in the short term. I need to stick to the plan and become one of the HH crew. I need information and Camden has it. That’s what I came here to do, no matter the cost to me. I need to prove to Camden he can trust me and the only way to do that is to turn my back on everyone who’s wronged him, including Eastern.
“Yes or no?” he asks.
“Yes,” I agree.
“Good. Then you can start proving your loyalty now by telling Sonny to fuck off.”
“What?”
“Tell Sonny to fuck off,” he repeats, challenging me. “After that cut all ties with Eastern and Ford.”
Camden starts to sketch something on his paper, acting like he’s not asked me to cut off my right arm. I want to punch him. Tellhimto shove his order up his arse. Instead, I grit my teeth and wait for Sonny to return. If this is what it takes to get into Camden’s crew, then this is what I’m going to have to do. A few seconds later Sonny pulls his chair out, about to sit down. I hold my hand up.
“Don’t,” I snap.
“Don’t what?” he asks, looking at me with confusion.
“Don’t sit. Find somewhere else…”
“You’ve got to be kidding me? What have you said to her?” Sonny growls, glaring at Camden who looks at him with a smile plastered across his handsome face. He might be handsome but he’s also fucking deadly.
“Sonny. Just go!” I growl, giving him a hard stare, willing him to leave. If he pushes, I might break, and I can’t afford to break. Too much is at stake.
“Asia. He doesn’t own you. Fight back,” he insists.
“I need to survive, Sonny.”Please understand.I look him in the eye, begging him to just go.
For a few seconds he just stares at me, then he picks up his sketchpad, holding it against his chest. “Fine, but remember what I said, Asia. That still stands.”
“What the fuck did he mean by that?” Camden asks as Sonny walks away. I watch him take a seat at another table in the corner of the room. He doesn’t look at me, but I know he’s just pretending to draw. His shoulders are too tense, his jaw too tight.
“That you’re not to be trusted, that you’re an arsehole of the biggest proportions. The usual,” I retort, not willing to tell him the truth that Sonny said he’ll have my back regardless… the question is, will he? Does he really mean that?
Camden grunts. “I don’t give a shit about what he thinks of me.”
“I know that.”
“But I do give a shit about what you think of me. I’ll prove to you this wasn’t a mistake.”
I frown, how can this possibly be anything other than a mistake. Camden smiles. It’s a brief smile, just a glimpse of the happy go lucky kid I imagine he once was before. Then his expression darkens. He looks at me for a long time. “You’re mine now.Mine.”
And the thing is, I can’t even deny it. I am his. I was his the second I agreed to Crown’s proposal.
