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“Interesting,” Savva mumbles, and I hear the scratch of him rubbing the stubble on his chin.
“What’s interesting?” I ask, finally daring to look around him at what’s in the room.
I gasp when I see the safe the size of a loveseat sitting in the middle of floor. There’s nothing else in here. It’s just us and a huge safe.
“What do you think is inside?” I ask, jumping out and placing my hand on the cold steel box.
“Probably valuables,” Savva replies. “Angus never kept his money in the bank. I figured he spent most of it on the bar payments and motorcycles, but it’s entirely possible he was collecting cash in this safe. If it’s hidden like this, maybe there’s something good inside.”
My heart slams in my chest. This feels like the universe apologizing to me for putting me through so much shit. I passed the test, and this is my reward.
Well, one of my rewards. I still have Savva.
And the baby. He’s going to need to know about that eventually, but I want to see what’s inside the safe first.
“I’m sure it’s locked,” I say, squatting down in front of it while Savva holds the light over it. I pull on the handle, and sure enough, it doesn’t budge. There’s a dial on the front, but I have no clue what the code could be.
I sigh. “Unless Angus left the code somewhere obvious, we’re probably going to have to pry this thing open.” I look up at Savva. “You think it’s something obvious?”
He shrugs. “Try some birthdays, but I think we’re going to have to have Greg come down with the van and help us take it back to my house. I have some equipment there that might be able to break it open without destroying the contents.”
“That’s a good idea,” I say, spinning the lock in few directions as though I know how to crack the code just by listening to the clicks. A few tries reveal nothing, and I give up quickly. It’s better to break it open at Savva’s house.
So, as much as I’m excited about getting the safe open, I step back from it and return to the front of the bar, waiting there with Savva until his men arrive.
When they get here, Savva orders them to carry the safe to the van Greg brought first, before anything else. Once loaded up, he puts me in the passenger seat and has a short talk with Pasha before coming back to the van.
Savva starts the van and pats my leg. “It’s a couple hours to my house. Maybe you want to take a nap or something.”
“Are you kidding me? I’m probably not going to be able to sleep for a week,” I reply with wide eyes. “You’re going to have to deal with me for the entire ride.”
He chuckles, shifting into drive and pulling out onto the road. “I don’t mind.”
I lean back in my seat, holding the bear he bought me and thinking for a moment. “What were you talking to Pasha about?” I ask.
He glances at me, then pulls his fingers through his thick hair. “Um, just something I wanted to tell him.”
“Like?”
“I was apologizing,” he says with a nervous laugh. “Just because he was really insistent that the Triple Six Angels posed a severe threat, and I wasn’t really buying it. I mean, I guess we had it covered in the end, but it was a close one. I should’ve taken him more seriously.”
“Listen to Pasha next time, idiot,” I say, pinching his thigh.
“Hey, I’m the boss. I can’t let other people take over. I have to be the one making all the important decisions, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to be right a hundred percent of the time. The best a man can hope for is ninety.”
“Ninety sounds like it’ll eventually get us killed,” I reply with righteous skepticism.
“No, I don’t think so,” he says, but I hear the doubt in his words. After almost losing me to Stone’s wrath, he’s probably rethinking a lot about how he’s been behaving.
“Well, you know best, right?” I say with a teasing tone.
He groans. “I just want to do the right thing. You’re making me want a goddamn cigarette, and I haven’t smoked in… well, in like a day.”
I laugh. “No cigarettes. I’ll get off your case for now, but you need to take care of yourself. That’s all I’m going to say. It’s important for our future together.”
Ourfuture. It sounds so good when I say it.
He nods, seeming to take my words to heart.
