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His eyes hit me in a way that told me he was surveying both my physical and mental well-being. He seemed okay with what he saw, which assured me I did not look nearly as freaked out as I really was. Then he looked at Daisy.
“Daisy,” he murmured.
“Lee, sugar bunch, lookin’ good, as usual.” She winked at him.
His lips twitched.
“Let me guess,” Marcus said to Lee. “This one has your protection too. What? Are you building a harem?”
Lee shook his head. “I’m running this errand for Eddie.”
Marcus, who seemed to have accepted his fate, went scary tense again. I had the feeling he didn’t like Eddie.
“What’s it got to do with Chavez?” he asked Lee.
“Jet,” Lee replied, and he wasn’t talking to me. He was talking to Marcus. My name was the answer to Marcus’s question.
“Shit,” Marcus muttered and looked at me likeIwas now a pain in his ass. His eyes swung back to Lee. “You tell Chavez I want my fifteen grand.”
“Take it up with McAlister. And some advice, Marcus, keep Jet out of it. It took a lot to talk Eddie from comin’ here himself with a couple of uniforms. You don’t want that kind of trouble.”
“I got trouble with you over this?” Marcus asked and the tenseness was still there.
“Keep Vince under control and your focus on McAlister. If he makes good, keep him away from your tables. You do that, you have no trouble with me,” Lee answered.
I looked at Daisy. Daisy was watching this like a hawk.
She caught me looking at her and she came forward and hooked her arm through mine. “I’ll walk you to the door, sugar,” she said and propelled me out of the room.
“I’m sorry you got woken up in the middle of the night,” I apologized as we walked from the big room down the hall.
She waved her hand. “Happens all the time.”
Um…eek!
Then she went on, “You must’ve just come off shift and no doubt dead on your feet.”
I nodded.
She stopped at the front door and her face got serious. “No harm will come to you, I’ll see to that. But your dad better get his shit together. I’m not sayin’ this to scare you, sugar, I’m tellin’ you like it is.Comprende?”
I nodded again.
“Maybe I’ll pop by Smithie’s sometime,” she said in another quick change of mood.
“I’m working tomorrow night.”
Now, why did I tell her that? I didn’t want to become friends with Scary Marcus’s wife. Did I?
“Sounds good to me,” Daisy replied and her eyes slid sideways as Lee joined us.
“Don’t be a stranger,” she called after us when we left and I didn’t know if she meant Lee or me.
Lee put me in his silver Crossfire and I buckled up.
After he got in, I turned to him. “They knocked Tex out just outside my building.”
“Stun gun. He came to and called me. He’s fine.”
