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He raised a dark brow and gave me a sardonic smirk. “My kind of people as in vampires?”
“Dude. I didn’t mean anything by it,” I offered. He slouched back in his chair and dropped his head.
“I understand. Sorry, I’m not exactly used to people welcoming me with open arms when they find out what the fuck I am. Trust me, I didn’t ask for this life. Anyway, so you think they’d want dick shit to do with me if they find out I was a prospect for those assholes?” His head lifted and his eyes held mine.
“Only one way to find out. We can give them a call tomorrow. In the meantime, I have a drunk-ass woman to put to bed and business to tend to beforeIcan go to bed.” My gaze found Kira where she was leaning on the bar, talking animatedly with Raptor. Finishing my drink, I shoved away from the table.
“I’ll show you where you’ll be sleeping,” offered Angel. “Wait. You guys do sleep, right?”
Calix laughed. “Yeah, man. We sleep.”
Angel raised his glass to Calix. “Cool. Cheers.” Calix raised his drink, and they both finished. I stood to collect my woman.
“I’ll meet you all back out here as soon as I get her settled.” Phoenix and Chains nodded.
“We can wait until tomorrow night if you want.” Venom offered as he stopped at the table.
A chill shot through me. “No. The sooner the better.”
Venom nodded and pulled up a seat at the table. He was talking quietly with Calix as I wove through the scattered tables to get to Kira.
My hands slid around her and palmed her flat stomach. Pulling her snug to my front, I kissed the side of her neck.
“Mmm, hey, sexy. I was just enjoying that drink you said I’d like.” Her eyes got comically wide as she looked over her shoulder at me. “It’s sooooo good,” she groaned. My lips quirked.
“Well, by all means, finish it up and then let’s go to bed.”
She gave me a deeply satisfied look, and I laughed. “Sleep.”
Pouting, she turned in my arms and looked up at me. “We were supposed to be at your house tonight. In your giant bed. The least you could do is give me a little something to make up for us having to crash in the dinky bed.”
“It’s a queen size. It’s not dinky.” I smirked. Granted, it wasn’t as big as my bed at home, but it was far from tiny.
“You’re a big guy. You make it a small bed.” That was her drunken argument. I took her hand and led her back toward my room.
“Goodnight, everyone!” she called out with a big wave. “I’m gonna get him naked and take advantage of me. Um, wait. I mean I’m gonna take advantage of him.” Her confused expression was cute as fuck.
“Come on, drunk-ass. Move.” I swatted her ass and she then led me.
I needn’t have worried, because I’d no sooner gotten her in the room and undressed before she was zonked in the bed softly snoring. Maneuvering the blankets out from under her, I covered her up and kissed her head.
“I love you, Kira Baranov.”
She didn’t answer, but a sweet, soft smile curled her lips.
We’d been working dear ol’ Gambler over for about an hour. He’d admitted that he’d convinced his Louisiana chapter to allow him to make the jump up to South Des Moines when he got an anonymous tip that I was alive and well in the middle of Iowa. They had hoped to use my ability of precognition to their advantage. As if it worked that way.
Turned out, Grishka Kalashnik had hired them to do his dirty work with Kira. They’d been watching her and that was how they’d found me, but they didn’t want to mess with me here on my turf. They thought if they helped him get her up to Chicago, it would send me chasing after her—which it had. Then they were planning to grab me up there. Dumb shits hadn’t counted on my brothers going with me.
“How’s it feel,Dad?” I snidely asked as I held the cold steel of my pistol to his temple. “You think this is how Mom felt?”
“I doubt it. Because unlike your worthless mother, I don’t care.” He spat blood out onto the heavy-duty plastic under him.
“That’s a shame,” I crooned in his ear. “Because this isn’t how you’re going to go out. Maybe you’ll care after Squirrel has a little fun with you. See, I’m not the creative one. I’m just very good at cleaning up messes.” I’d already left the marks on him to trap his soul from reincarnation. Plus, I’d had my bit of fun with him strapped to the chair. My work was essentially done.
“Can you handle this piece of shit?” I asked Squirrel and Blade, who both solemnly nodded. Rael leaned against the wall. His face was painted black and white, much like mine was, and I saw the glimmer of his reaper in his eyes. It sent a shiver skating down my spine, yet I still grinned evilly. “Good, because I have my ol’ lady to get back to.” Then I returned my attention to my sperm donor. “You have fun now, okay?”
Rael walked with me out the door. “You sure you needed me? It seemed like you had shit under control.”
