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“Maybe you didn’t send a clear enough message,” Archer says. “Getting too soft, Doyle?”
Cullen makes a move and Laz cuts him off.
Laz grabs Cullen’s shirt. “Come on, man. He’s trying to get you to snap.”
“Why the fuck are you naked under that apron?” Cullen asks.
“Just trying to lighten the mood, that’s all.”
“The girl I love is missing,” Cullen says. “She was taken. Fucking kidnapped.”
“How do you know for sure?” Laz asks.
Cullen breaks away from Laz. “I just know. And he knows it too.”
Cullen points at Archer.
“Aren’t you the one who just said she could have just run off?” Archer asks. “Get your story straight and stick to it.”
“It’s not fair to her,” Cullen says. “She’s been through so much already. And now this. If she was better equipped for this kind of thing. She has no… I don’t know… no training for it.”
“I should have protected her more,” Archer says. “I was with her last.”
“Youwere?” Cullen asks. “How do you know?”
“I can still feel her on my cock,” Archer smirks.
“What the fuck did you just say?” Cullen asks.
“Oh, relax, Doyle,” Archer says. “We both know how this works. She’s with both of us. She makes the call. She thought I was dead. Who gave her that idea, huh?”
“Look, I’ve got a marinara sauce cooking,” Laz says. “Can I trust you two not to kill each other so I can stir the sauce?”
“Laz, go inside,” Cullen says. “And put on some fucking pants.”
Laz wanders back into the house.
Cullen walks to the steps.
Archer walks up the steps.
They’re going to fight!
“What’s your plan, Amatti?” Cullen asks.
“Slip into the night and not come back until I have her in my arms,” Archer says. “I already know yours.”
“What?”
“You’ll go diplomatic,” Archer says. “Everyone around here will play it off. Nobody atDSCwill flinch. But they’ll know something is wrong. You’ll wait, ask, and figure it out your own way.”
“That’s control and power.”
“That wastes time,” Archer says. “Think about who can have her. Someone from her past. Someone from here. Think about what happened with Darby.”
“Fuck,” Cullen says. “You think his family…”
“If it is his family, I’ll personally kill every one of them,” Archer says. “We had a sit down and settled what happened.”
