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“What?” I turn around, thinking it’s gonna be something sexy with Silas, but her nose is down to her phone. “What’s going on?”
“Stacey, Gentry’s wife, she just texted me. She found some bank statements he tried to hide in an air-conditioning vent.”
“Gentry’s wife? Why are you texting her?”
“We’re close now. She hates Gentry too, but she’s stuck in their marriage, so she’s trying to help me catch him.”
“Catch him how?”
“His money. His businesses. That’s how you take a man like him down.” Her eyes lift and find mine. “I promise. I’m using the law this time.”
I’m trying to make it settle with my heart in ways that don’t disturb me. What she almost did to TJ, that she planned it, but Mama G finished instead. And no, I ain’t weak and afraid to fight back. TJ deserved it. He needed to be stopped; I get that now.
But have you ever loved someone who almost committed pre-meditated murder? Try it. It carves questions into your soul you don’t want there. And she did it because of me. That’ll fuck with you too.
I trust Cade with my life, but I’ve seen her snap. I saw her last night with that Karen piece-of-shit. Cade’s not like most women. She’ll kill you with her bare hands. And I love those hands. But can I live with them? Can she even control them?
“Your new boat.” She yanks me back to the moment. “Can we go out on it today?”
“Yeah. Why?”
Silas appears as naked as the two of us in the doorway, and it’s hard to focus. Her tits and his cock, and mine wants a whole other conversation.
“There’s a couple of islands I want to check out. Gentry doesn’t know your new boat. But he knows Silas’s by now.”
“What are you looking for?” Silas asks, using the same blue T-shirt to dry himself off.
“Two missing women. That’s where you can hide them,” she answers. “I wanna invite my dad too. Between you,” she nods to Silas, “and my dad and my research, maybe we’ll find something.”
Did she just hear herself?
“You want to go out on my new boat with me and Silas and your dad?” I let that sink in with her. “That man is gonna smell this threesome from a mile away, and me and Silas will get our balls shot off.”
She cocks her head, considering our new conundrum. I expect her to cringe and agree. But she shrugs and says, “He’s gonna find out anyway.”
“Pump the breaks, NASCAR,” I warn. “We need to think about this. Are we really gonna go public, the three of us, and just expect everyone to be happier than a pig in shit about it?”
“They won’t be.” Cade puts her phone down. “I’ll be called a whore and slut for sure. You have your career to think about. And Silas, well. You’ve already lost your inheritance. What more can they do to you?”
“I don’t give a fuck about my career.” I humph, “Hell, it’ll probably help. I’ve been cashing in on that wild-sex life myth for so long. I’m not the one I’m worried about.”
“I don’t care either,” Cade echoes. “I’ve been bullied and judged my whole life. At least now, I’m having fun.”
Silas doesn’t speak. His shoulders drop.
“What is it?” I ask him.
“I’m finally talking to my mom. She’s come by a few times, and it’s good having her back in my life. She likes Cade and says she’ll like anyone I love, but you and Cade? That’s pushing it. I could lose her again.” He toes the floor. “And my dad’s been calling. Leaving messages that he wants to talk. That he’s been thinking.”
That quiets me. Cade too. My mama worships the fucked-up ground I’ve walked on. And Cade’s parents are so open, I don’t worry about them.
“Well, I don’t know about your dad, but just have your mom meet Cade’s mama.” I wanna cheer him up. “She’ll teach her to chill real quick.”
That makes Cade chuckle, and me recall, “Like that time when we got caught fucking on her balcony, remember?”
Cade starts laughing, and I tell Silas, “We got out of school early for senior exams, and every chance I got, I was fucking Cade, of course.”
“And I was fucking you,” she chimes in. “Don’t make it sound like I was the virgin and you were the stud.”
