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Then Angel shakes his head and pinches the bridge of his nose. “Can you two deal with your shit after we handle this guy?”
Talk about deflating a moment. “I don’t think you should. In this, Mia is right.”
Now she’s looking at me like I’ve grown an extra head.
“In what way? This is our club,” Reaper says, “and we keep it clean.”
“Get that, but if this ties into other De Luca business, then,” I shrug, “keeping this guy around is a smarter move.”
“Not if it hurts Mia.”
I hold Angel’s gaze. “I’m not about to let anyone hurt her. Not ever again.”
He finally nods. “That goes for you too.”
“Wouldn’t have it any other way.”
The rest of the day passes in icy silence from Mia, and my temper rises by increments.
After the talk that morning, she heads out onto the club floor, and the rest of us agree to keep an eye out.
I’m staying to watch over her. I’ll be moving into her place whether she likes it or not, and the rest? Yeah, I’m keeping her safe.
I don’t care. I let her get hurt once. Never again.
And this, I suspect, is a lot bigger.
I quietly let Angel know how we all need to keep on good behavior and our best watchful faces on.
But it’s agreed without a single word said, if anyone even thinks of harming or touching Mia, we will come down on them and destroy them.
I make all the calls I need, to my sister, Theo, Leo, and to our most trusted men.
Then I lean on a wall just inside the club near the hall leading to her office and watch.
Not the shit on the stage. I can get tits and ass anywhere, any time, and though it’s beyond fine, we’re talking premium quality with the moves and faces to take it into another realm. I’m not interested beyond a primal going over visually.
No, Mia holds my interest. The way she moves. The sensuality she tries to hide, and the way she keeps herself separate from others.
It pisses me the fuck off she tries to hide her scarred side when she talks to people. I don’t even think she knows she does it. There’s no shame in those scars. They add to her, instead of detract.
But my temper is rising because she’s fucking flirting. With men. With trouble in the form of that bouncer, Frank. I’ve already got people digging into him. But Mia insists on needling him.
I can’t hear what’s being said, but it’s clear what she’s doing. The glances from the hot blonde tending bar to the pained expression on Andrew’s face, an expression he can’t hide.
Andrew likes her, I suddenly realize.
As in he wants her. Probably thinks he’s in love with her.
And if I thought for a moment he’d put a hand on her, I’d kill him and not think twice. But I don’t think he would. So, he can breathe, for now.
Mia catches my eye, and a man slides an arm around her waist.
My heart starts to beat hard and fast.
Not just because he’s touching her, but because she smiles that mean little smile at me and then sways into him.
I don’t even realize I’m doing it until I’ve crossed the floor, pushing people out of the way. I grab her arm and pull her away, not giving her a chance to pull free.
