AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I just added Mario Zaccaria to my kill list for touching what’s mine.
When Silas called me earlier to say that Semenov had sent a car for Ada, I was out of Encore’s front door, telling Viper some bullshit excuse about going for pizza without realising Bambi had snuck into my backseat.
As punishment, I made her hack into the club cameras.
I saw everything unfold from a parked car in the next street, until Bambi worked her tech voodoo and set off every alarm in the place.
I found Ada sitting all alone in a booth, her head tilted back, water sluicing off her flawless skin.
This time, she saw me in the light.
She saw the scars, the tattoos, the man I’d become, and she didn’t flinch away.
My phone vibrates. It’s Silas again:
I’ll have more info on your son tomorrow.
I type out a quick reply.
Get me pictures.
“Do you want me to turn the alarms off now?” Bambi’s giving me that shrewd, all-men-are-batshit-crazy look as I swing into the driver’s seat.
“No. Disable their systems. Make sure you close that fucking club down for a week.”
She grins, pops another tab of bubble gum in her mouth and sets to work.
Swiping my hand across my jaw, I try to get a handle on my anger. “Do you always bring your gear with you when you go for pizza?”
“Yep. I bring it everywhere. Viper’s rules. Always be prepared.”
She sounds weary as she says it, though.Too weary.Like a kid who wants to swing from her roots for once, instead of moving with the breeze.
“Stolen anything today?”
“Nope. Killed anyone today?”
“Didn’t have the chance to.” I watch her flick through various black and white screens of codes. “How come you can dothis, but not trigonometry?”
She shrugs. “My brain’s wired wrong.”
“Your brain is wired fine.” I glance at my watch. “Call Viper when you’re done. We’ve been gone for over an hour. He’ll be getting antsy.”
“Hey,” I hear her say, a couple of minutes later. “So, the pizza place looked like a mice-infested sh-craphole, so I made Frankie take me somewhere else…Yeah, I snuck into his car…Uh-huh. That restaurant I told you about.”What restaurant?“You will?” She perks up. “That’s awesome. We’ll see you in thirty minutes.”
Cursing inwardly, I switch the engine on. All I want to do is sit here and simmer. Still, I owe Bambi for what she did for me tonight, so I’ll go wherever the fuck she wants me to go, even though I’m looking like I just took a shower with my clothes on.
“Don’t be cross,” she pleads, hanging up.
“I’m not cross.”
“I gave you an alibi. Viper doesn’t want you near your dance lady, right?”
“Not for the next six days.” I stare straight ahead, all the while wondering how I’m going to survive that long knowing how precarious Ada’s situation is.
There’s a pause.
“You know for this big scary mafia guy you feel alot.”
