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“What a fucking slut,” Jade snorts. “Desperate enough?” she says as she looks up at me.
“Just turn it off!” I shout at all of them. “I’ll do your fucking job, Caden.”
He grabs his phone from Jade. “Hey!” she complains. “She was just about to come.”
“No need for more,” he smiles. “Billie is going to behave from now on, aren’t you, Billie?”
I grunt a vague yes, barely able to breathe through the humiliation.
“That’s what I thought.” He pats the top of my head condescendingly. “Come on, let’s get you back to NSC territory. I’ll escort you so you don’t get killed or anything.”
Ethan and Elliot release me and I’m up in an instant. Caden walks out with me, and we start the long road back to where I parked my car. I’m silent the whole time. He makes a couple of phone calls and meets some guys he knows on the way, giving them random tasks to do over town. I simply keep walking and he always catches up.
When we reach my car, he opens it for me. “You came all the way to our territory. You’re risking a lot here,” I say, secretly wishing someone would jump him and kill him on the way back.
“Gotta make sure nothing happens to you. A pretty girl like you walking alone at night. Who knows what kind of monsters could get you?”
He knows just as much as I that he’s the worst monster I could bump into. Ruthless, unhinged. I can’t think of one sweet quality to describe Caden King.
“Careful,” I say sarcastically. “One may think you care.”
He wraps an arm around my waist and brings me close. So close my nose is practically touching his chest. He smells clean, like the sea. It feels aquatic and fresh. It’s reassuring and comforting for such a callous man. Wrapping a hand around my throat, he forces me to tilt my head up.
“You’re my investment now, little Scott. You can bet your ass nothing is going to happen to you. Not until I’m done with you.”
I push at his chest, and he lets me go easily.
“Give me your phone.”
“Great,” I huff as I take it out of my pocket. “Now you want us to text and shit. Real cute.”
He smirks as he grabs it from me and calls himself.
“It’s to make sure you get your goodnight texts from me, you know.”
I shake my head, grab my phone back and get into my car as quickly as possible. I need to be away from him, then I’ll figure out what to do.
He holds onto my door, stopping me from closing it. “I want you at Sawyer’s house tomorrow at nine p.m.”
“Sawyer’s?” I choke. “The Kings will have my head before I can even reach his road.”
“Nah,” he smiles. “You’re mine now. No one hurts you. No one stops you from working for me.”
My heart somersaults at his words. It’s the wrong kind of attention, but it’s attention, and I haven’t had that in too long to be able to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t affect me.
“Nine p.m., got it? One minute late, and I’ll start to leak that video.”
I clench my jaw, then I nod. He finally releases my door and I slam it shut before leaving.
All I had to do was stay away from illegal business, and here I am, right in the middle of it.
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BILLIE
Bleed - Connor Kauffman
“Billie! What the fuck is that?” My heart jumps as my dad’s angry voice pierces through my headphones.
