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"Jealous?" I ask, quirking a brow.
"Fuck yeah. It's been…"
"Whatever," I say with a laugh, cutting off his thinking. "We'll be done in a bit. Gather the others. We need to start planning."
"Planning what?" he asks hesitantly.
"We're taking over this fucking town, man. You ready for a wild ride?"
"Um…"
"Glad you're on board." I push the door closed and turn to Mia, who's sitting in bed with the sheets pulled up to her neck.
"Shower?" I ask, holding my hand out for her.
"Thought you'd never ask."
* * *
"About time,boss," Alex announces when Mia and I walk hand in hand into the kitchen almost an hour later with satisfied smirks on our faces.
Flipping him off, I pull a chair out for my girl before dropping down beside her.
"What's the news on Channing?" she asks.
"He's good. Still medicated, but they're gonna start bringing him around later."
"Phillip?" I ask with just a little less concern than Mia did for Channing.
"He'll live," Brandon shrugs.
"Got Mom chasing around after him like he's the fucking king," Ashton mutters, placing mugs of coffee on the table for both of us.
"Thank you," Mia says, smiling up at him.
I can't lie, I still don't trust the motherfucker, but my girl is fighting for him, so I agreed that he could come back here with us all last night and that we'd see how it goes.
"He's called us all in for a meeting at the house this afternoon," Brandon says. "He wants to debrief after yesterday."
"Great. Well, I've got a few things I want to say as well. Can you call Sasha and see if she'll peel herself away from Channing's side long enough to be there?"
"Pfft," Brandon scoffs. "You'll be lucky."
"This is her future just as much as it is ours. I really want her there."
"I'll see what I can do."
"So what the fuck was going on with Lincoln Kingsley?" Tim blurts out, addressing the elephant in the room.
"Baby," I say, resting my arm across the back of her chair and allowing her to tell her side of yesterday's events.
"Gregory groomed Cade… Abused him. Made him into his image. After he died, Cade got a letter. He thought it was his dad. It told Cade what Q had done and began prepping him to take over, to get revenge. But it wasn't Gregory. It was Lincoln."
"Why? What's Lincoln got to do with anything? He's got his own chapter. He was happy doing his own thing."
"He wasn’t.” She shakes her head. “He wanted power. He wanted Q. Everything." They all stare at her as she explains the whole story that she laid out for me last night." Cade's been abused, brainwashed and corrupted almost since the day he was born by men who should have been caring for him. He—"
"That's why you let him go?" Ashton asks, looking more shocked than anyone that she did what she did.
