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I didn’t tell my twin. I didn’t tell my two best friends. I kept Luke’s cocaine with me, knowing he won’t care in the long term anyway.
I guess I did precisely what they always accuse me of: disappearing. But I want to forget about my limited time out of Viktor’s clutch. I want to forget about Sam’s chokehold on my thoughts. I want to forget about the fear and anxiety that comes when I think of Rachel’s situation. And I want to think about anything but the promises Sam made about me crawling back for forgiveness.
Fuck them.Allof them.
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DELINQUENTS- Call Me Karizma
I grab Xi as he falls on me, turn him around, and push him back to the middle of the circle. Not before slipping a ‘come on, brother, fuck him up’ in his ear. The crowd in the backyard explodes into screams of cheering, and some, disappointment.
Friday night fights are standard on the North Shore. Even between members of the same crew. There’s always tension, always someone who thinks they can take over the leaders. We don’t want to end up killing each other, or worse, betraying our crew. So we release that tension in a good no-rule fistfight. The last one standing wins whatever argument they had. You’re not allowed to kill your opponent.
Some insignificant small dealer named Logan called out Xi on a shitty decision he made when he retraced our territories following Bianco going to prison. It’s been a difficult situation not having the Cosa Nostra’s protection while the Wolves back up our enemies. They’ve been eating away at our turf a little more every month and Logan believes it’s because we willingly gave them too much territory when Bianco left for prison. We didn’t. We gave back what we had stolen, but it’s too complicated for Xi to justify his actions, so it’s better to solve it all with fists and a bit of blood.
We just didn’t expect Logan to have a deadly hook. I twist the golden ring pierced to my nostril, rolling it around in an anxious gesture. If Xi loses this fight, our whole hierarchy will take a hit. We can’t afford civil war when we’re already struggling against the Kings’ Crew. Our gang is fragile at best, and Xi losing a fight against a meaningless dealer is something we don’t need right now.
Under the rain, the hits resonate loudly, and the two bodies keep slipping in the mud of our shitty yard.
“Hey, Xi,” Logan calls while my brother tries to take a breath by bouncing on his feet. “If I win this, do I also get to fuck your brother’s tight ass?”
I bet he wouldn’t think my ass is tight if he knew the size of Sam’s dick.
The crowd laughs, forcing me to roll my eyes at their lack of respect for their boss’s brother. Aka me. We’re mainly surrounded by our drug crew tonight, and that’s who Xi handles. While Emma takes care of the big deals like firearms and money laundering businesses, Xi is happy to stick to what he knows. He makes these kids tons of money every day, and they owe him respect, at least for that.
I wish Sam were here, and I hate thinking that. But while he would never get involved in such a petty fight, people wouldn’t try anything. They know who he is, what he does, and who he used to work for. They’re nothing compared to his skills and strength, and I would have been able to enjoy my night without all this bullshit. This is the first party I’ve been to in a while.
“Sure thing, Logan,” I tell him over the crowd’s shouts. “And why don’t you let Sam know your thoughts as well.”
He turns to me, a smug smile on his beautiful face. “Eh, he can join us. The more, the merrier.”
That slight loss of focus just cost him his win, and I’m surprised he didn’t expect that. Xi gets him with a jab to the mouth and an uppercut that knocks Logan out cold.
Well, that’s that.
I grab my phone to check if I’ve got a text from Sam. Nothing. He went to Rachel’s engagement party. Not that we were invited or anything, but getting past security guards is not a problem we’ve ever had. He was worried for her, especially after seeing what he’d done to her the last time she spent the night away. He wanted to stay close in case Conor became out of control. He also knew the likelihood of Rose being there, and he wouldn’t have missed that for anything in the world.
The crowd finally disperses, leaving Xi, Emma, Billie, and I behind.
“Fucking hell,” Xi growls just before he spits blood on the floor. “Remind me to send you next time Logan is feeling rebellious,” he tells me.
“I’m not using sex to calm Logan,” I snap back.
“I meant to fight,ya hmar,” he glowers, calling me a donkey in Arabic like our mom always does when we’re being stupid.
“Right,” I laugh. “My bad.”
“I’m not gonna lie, that was pathetic at best.” The fact that Billie feels the need to chime in after everything she’s been putting us through lately when it comes to the Kings raises my hackles.
“You know what,” I snap at her. “Don’t even open your mouth. Why are you at our party when you could so easily be with Caden King, huh?”
Instead of getting angry, she laughs at me. “I don’t think you want to talk to me about hanging out with people you shouldn’t. Your Stoneview girlfriend is coking herself up with Tamar in our bathroom.”
“What?” I choke. She has to be lying. I turn to Emma automatically, knowing she’ll tell me the truth.
She nods. “She arrived mid-fight.”
