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What? Shit. She’d thought he hadn’t seen her. So much for an excellent hiding spot.
“I didn’t mean to scare her,” Butch explained. “I was just trying to get her to safety, but she started to fight me. Hack put me in charge of her.”
Reyes nodded. “All right. Emme, you need to stay in here with Greer for a bit longer. Butch, I need you to come with me and help settle things.”
“Fucking Rykers,” Butch muttered. “What were they even doing here? Who was in the trunk?”
“Johnson,” Reyes said. “He was beaten up pretty bad. Those three idiots who arrived here earlier failed to mention that not only was Johnson with them, but that he hadn’t returned with them.”
Butch started swearing. “So much for loyalty.”
“Oh, I’ll be having words with them. Seems they were out riling up the Rykers on the edge of their territory. Or what was once the boundary. The Rykers are desperately trying to grab more area. It’s a fucking mess. Anyway, our guys fucked up and left Johnson. So the Rykers decided to send a message to us not to fuck with them.” Reyes ran his hand over his face.
“Are we in danger?” Emme asked worriedly.
“Nothing for you to worry about,” Reyes said. “I’ll just have to soothe some ruffled feathers and knock a few idiotic heads together.”
“Guessing that’s where I come in,” Butch said, cracking his knuckles.
“Yeah, but it would be good if you got that slime out of your hair first. You look like a Smurf.”
Butch grumbled something before stomping off.
Reyes gave Emme a stern look. “What have I said about pranking people? You’re going to get yourself in real trouble one day.”
“But you’ll always protect me, Daddy.”
“Course I will. But I expect you to behave yourself, understand?”
“Fine, Daddy. I’ll try.”
Letting Emme go, he surprised Greer by coming over to crouch down in front of her.
“Hi, Greer. I’m Reyes.”
“Hi,” she whispered.
“I’m going to get Hack in here as soon as I can, all right?”
Huh. She kind of expected someone as tough looking as he was to tell her to harden up.
“I’m all right.”
Reyes studied her. “Course you are. I just need you to hold on a bit longer and I’ll get him in here for you.”
“Thanks.”
“Emme, look after her.”
“Course I will. Don’t worry about us, Daddy. Anyone comes in here and I’ll use my super-duper crave maggie moves on them.”
“Course you will. But I’m going to lock this door anyway.”
Emme sighed. “Darn it. He’s always one step ahead of me.”
Yeah. Daddies normally were.
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