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“Yeah. Pleasure for me too.” He grinned back at Pinky then he watched with appreciation as she walked away. When she got back into her car, Derringer turned to Prosper. “Thought you were one lucky bastard twenty-five years ago and still think that today. You got yourself one rare and beautiful woman, my man.”
Prosper glared at Derringer and nodded to the warehouse. “Don’t you got shit you need to finish up in there?”
“Nah. Cocksucker’s heart gave out. No sense of carving him up after that— I got my standards.” Derringer clapped Prosper on the back and grinned at him. “Guess we’re gonna need that cleaner after all.”
Prosper snorted.
“I’m outta here, Boss.” Hal swung a leg over his bike, and turned over the engine.
Prosper nodded. “Take D and Reno with you. Gianni will be here in a few hours. I plan on having his girls back by then.”
“Not even a question, Boss.” Hal strapped on his helmet. Diego and Reno checked their weapons. Then with a twist of hard throttle, the brothers were off.
After the phone call to Gianni, Rooster separated the girls. Despite their crying, screaming, and pleading, he grabbed the women both by the hair and threw them into different bedrooms. Now, Valentina sat with her legs pulled up to her chest and her chin rested on her knees. She wondered if she would ever see her father or her uncles or Hal again.
Hal
She really hoped that the short beginning they had shared would not be the end of them. Valentina knew Hal would be out of his mind with worry about her. She also knew that he had his own things to deal with—dangerous things to deal with— and she knew that he needed his mind clear to do those things. Valentina had agreed readily to the safe house because she had not wanted Hal to have the extra worry of her safety on his mind.
Best laid plans…
Valentina wondered if her father had understood everything she had said to him. She hoped he had heard her…she had had to speak so low and quickly. What if, in his shock and surprise, he hadn’t quite been able to register everything she said? Had she remembered to tell him about crossing state lines? Did he understand that Gia was with her? On and on like that Valentina fretted and worried. She kept her eyes pinned to the door as if it she was waiting for it to perform some sort of hat trick. When the door opened again, Valentina jumped to her feet and thought about rushing at it, but she knew she was no match for him.
As if he could read her mind, Rooster gave Valentina a slow, knowing smile. He looked at her as if he was a large, hungry hawk, and she was a tasty little rabbit.
“Good call. You never would have made it. Although, it would have been fun as hell for me if you tried.”
“Why are you doing this?” Valentina’s voice shook and she hated how weak it made her sound.
“Why does anyone do the messed-up shit they do?” Rooster shrugged. “Money, power, and everything that comes with it. The man who fucks with both Gianni Abruzzi and Sebastian Abiatti and wins? That man can write his own ticket with the Colombians. A million bucks can buy a lot of poppy seed fields. Set my mother up for the rest of her life.”
“Yourmother?” Valentina looked at him in surprise.
“Yeah. Mymother.” Rooster confirmed. Then he frowned at her. “Even assholes like me have moms, Valentina. Nobody is all good or bad, and I would think coming from where you do, you’d know that. Lupus is a horrible fucking disease, and my mom don’t deserve it. Came out here to earn with the best, so I could set her up. Prosperisthe best. But they didn’t want me. Shoved me off on Brute’s crew. That would have been okay too— I got nothing against Brute. But then they gave me that extra damn probate time and that delayed my right to earn. Knew Abiatti from my time on the west coast. Honestly, he’s a cocksucker so I have no problem screwing him over and 100 K for murdering two women? Nah. That’s bullshit. Just hope your father comes up with the green.” Rooster shrugged.
“A million dollars? That’s a lot to ask.”
“Yeah well, you’re worth it. He can get it and what’s the point of dicking around?” Figure we’ll all probably end up dead after this anyway, so why not go for broke?”
“So, you’re going to kill us either way?” Valentina forced herself to ask.
Rooster gave her a long, slow, appraising look that made her blood run cold.
“I guess that depends on you. Or more precisely, what you are willing to do to keep yourself and your cousin alive.”
Valentina could read the lust and anticipation written all over his face. When she cast her eyes downward, the bulge outlining Rooster’s rock-hard length was hard to miss.
This whole kidnapping thing was getting him off
Of course, it was.Valentina let out a resigned sigh.
Because her life hadn’t been enough of a shit show so far, why not throw in a little rape action from a rogue biker? Valentina would rather hang from the highest tree than let Rooster touch her, but it wasn’t only her life that was at stake. She was tired and hurt and pretty much at the end of her rope. She would almost welcome a PTSD episode right now to take her away from this horrible predicament. But it seemed that irony had come to bite her in the ass because Valentina remained painfully rooted in the present.
Wonderful time for healthy mindfulness to kick in.
“Hey look, I saw what happened to you at the club house with that shrieking and shaking and blackout shit.” Rooster’s eyes darkened as they met hers. “Honestly, I don’t have the energy to control that kind of freak out from you right now. So I’m gonna make this easy for both of us. We’ll save the blow jobs and other more intimate shit for after we get to know each other a little better.”
Rooster grinned that terrible grin again. “This time, I’m just gonna fuck you plain and simple. I like my women willing so if you play along I won’t have to go rough on you.”
