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“We will take care of it,” Antonio says.
I step forward, only stopping when their men move, drawing guns. We are at an impasse. They are going to tell me nothing, and they probably wouldn’t hesitate to shoot me if it came to that. Geo steps in front of me, staring his father down, and I shake my head.
“Come on,” I tell him, putting my back to the men.
They can figure it out from their end. If I have anything to say about it, it won’t be their end much longer.
“I told you I didn’t like it,” Geo says from the driver’s seat when we are back in the vehicle.
“I don’t pay you to tell me what you don’t like about what I do multiple times,” I tell him.
“I’m saying, I think they are being sketchy motherfuckers.”
“Is there a way you could get access to your father’s records? There’s something going on here they don’t want to tell me.”
“No, we don’t need to risk it. Not when we should be flying under the radar,” Geo says.
“I’ve never taken you to be a scaredy-cat,” I say, grinning wolfishly at him.
He scowls at me. “It’s called being smart, asshole; you should try it more often.”
I twirl the watch on my wrist around further, so I can see the time. Ten minutes—that’s all this took. For them to completely push me out. They don’t want me in their group, and I don’t want to be in it. I might not be moral, but I’m not downright despicable, like them. I don’t take innocent women and children from their families and sell them.
I don’t deal humans.
I won’t.
My father deserved to die for what he’d done, and so do they. I won’t feel bad about taking their lives when the time comes. But I need to have all of my plans in place; otherwise, it could all crumble on top of me.
Four to one aren’t good odds even if I have the loyalty of the second generation.
13
WRYN
“Babe, I’m going outside really quick. Will you be okay by yourself?” Ruby grins at me, her face flush and hair slightly sticking to her forehead in the damp air of the club.
“I’m coming with you,” I tell her.
She shakes her head, grabbing my hands. “No, it’s him.” Her eyes are lit with excitement.
“Rubes,” I say, warning clear in my voice.
She frowns. “Don’t say it. I know I’m being crazy.”
“You don’t know anything about him. How long have you even been seeing him?”
“Two months,” she says, pursing her lips.
She knows how I feel about their relationship, if you can even call it that.
“And his name is Aaron.”
I’ve never met the guy, but I know she’s talked of no one else for the last two months.
“I know his name, Ruby,” I admonish. I know I’m being a buzzkill right now, but it all seems off. “Did you plan this for tonight?”
“No, he’s surprising me.” Ruby has always been the most free-spirited one of us, the one who is willing to put herself out there and get hurt. Which is what I’m afraid is going to happen. “He sent his friend in—that one there.” She points, and I lock eyes with a blond-haired guy.
