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Dominic looked frustrated. “It was too bad he escaped. You can’t let him go through with that, Aiden.”
“It was for the best,” Aiden corrected. “No one would ever be convinced we had a peaceful transfer of power and I had the full backing of our family if he was sitting in prison. This way, we still have a chance at a peaceful transfer of loyalties… as long as Gavin’s convinced Selena really is my girl.”
He looked at me affectionately, and a warm glow rose in my chest.
“It’s rude that this plan doesn't involve her beingmygirl too.” Dominic protested.
“Well, we’ve been so close and lived together so long… I think people would believe we’d share.”
I stared between them, surprised we were actually having this conversation out loud. Did they really want that kind of relationship with me?
Just then, Xander walked in. He looked between us all in exasperation. “So… you two decided to share her? Temporarily?”
His tone was acerbic.
“Why not?” Dominic crossed his arms over his chest.
“You’re all insane,” Xander said. “Convincing yourselves this is just temporary.”
“Let’s get to work,” Aiden cut him off.
I stared at Xander, stunned by his jealousy—and by the implication that we should all end up together for real.
Aiden said impatiently, “We have people to kill and then we all need to get cleaned up for the club tonight.”
“I’m coming,” Xander said.
“Fine, try to cockblock us,” Dominic said with a grin. “See how that works for you.”
The way Dominic looked at me, as if he could eat me up in the car, sent a rush of lust and adrenaline through my body.
“I hate for you to get your pretty hands dirty,” Aiden told me.
“You’re prettier than I am,” I told him, reaching up to muss his dark hair.
“Not the hair,” he warned me, catching my wrist. “I don’t have any plans to punish you tonight, but that could change.”
‘Given where we’re going tonight, that seems inevitable,” I said lightly.
“There are many different things we could do at the club,” Aiden told me. “And I plan to introduce you to them all.”
“I probably won’t like them all.”
“I think you will when I do them to you,” he disagreed, slapping my ass as I headed for the car.
It stunned me that I wasn’t genuinely pissed off, even if I glared at him on general principle. “Turn about’s fair play.”
I’d always hated to be touched… until I met them. It was one thing to enjoy sex. It was entirely different to enjoy being hugged, or having their shoulders brush mine when we were working, or the way they touched the small of my back.
The four of us drove together to find Patrick Foss.
In the car, the guys explained Foss had sometimes worked for Gavin Crude, but he had also worked for two other gangs that also worked the city. Calder Coolidge was a kingpin who controlled the drug trade and prostitution rings in the bad part of town. Meanwhile, Jacob Aster sold drugs and high end girls to the rich elite. Gavin Crude had stayed out of the constant turf war between them by focusing on selling guns to them both.
Though Gavin might never have come to Man's attention if that was all. He also coordinated selling guns outside the U.S. to a lot of bad actors, and he had killed innocent people who got in the way of his business.
We finally tracked down Foss to a shady motel in the bad part of town. The place was rife with drug addicts, prostitutes, and criminals. The smell of urine and garbage filled the air, making me gag. But we had a job to do. And it was easiest done in a place where no one would choose to see anything.
Aiden led the way, his gun drawn, while Dominic, Xander and I followed close behind. Aiden gave Xander a look that told him to stay close to me.
