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To Luca’s credit, he didn’t try coming on to me again during the short drive across Providence. We talked about an upcoming fight and a possible training schedule, then my phone rang, Vaughn’s face on the screen.
“Hey,” I answered. “Did you get through to Brooke’s rehab—”
“Are you with Luca?”
I frowned at the panicked tone. “Yeah. My car broke down, so he’s driving me home. Why?”
“What? Fuck!”
I winced at the volume of the shout. “What’s going on? Are you okay? Is Rebel? Has Fang got another concussion? Fuck, that man really needs to learn how to protect his head better.”
“Kian, shut up and listen to me for a second. School your face so it looks neutral or something.”
I opened my mouth to ask what the hell he meant by that, but he didn’t give me a chance to respond.
“Luca isn’t who you think he is. He’s not just some fighter you met at the gym. He’s part of a very long line of crime families.”
I glanced over at the man on the seat beside me. True, he’d been wearing an expensive suit the first time I’d met him, but that hardly meant he was some crime lord. He seemed pretty fucking regular, just sitting over there in a T-shirt and jeans. “I think you have the wrong—”
“Kian! I don’t. Brooke named him as part of the group blackmailing her.”
Which would make Luca the one putting white notes through our mail slot.
And the one who cut off Brooke’s finger.
I glanced at him again and then back at the road just as quickly.
I didn’t recognize it. I hadn’t noticed we’d actually missed the turnoff to my place and were now somewhere on the other side of Providence, the woods looming up ahead of us.
There were millions of acres of trees and thick undergrowth within those woods.
It would be real easy to lose a person in them if a crime lord so chose.
Fuck.
“Kian? Did you hear me?” Vaughn asked.
I didn’t answer him, instead forcing my voice to try to remain calm. “I just realized I never told you my address, Luca. It’s—”
“Don’t need it,” he said calmly. “You aren’t going home.”
For the first time since Vaughn had called, true fear lit up inside me, but I tried to stay calm. I laughed it off, though I was sure it didn’t sound natural. “Come on, man. I told you my family is waiting for me. Got no time for a stop off.”
“Then tell Vaughn to meet us at my place. I think we both know we have some unfinished business to take care of. That is what he’s telling you about, right?”
Vaughn had gone silent on the other end of the phone, no doubt listening to everything Luca was saying.
I didn’t know about him, but I’d suddenly just realized the extent of the danger I was in. If Luca’s family truly was as connected as Vaughn claimed, then going to their home didn’t seem like something I wanted to do.
“And if I refuse?” I asked Luca quietly.
He stared over at me and patted me on the thigh. “That wouldn’t be smart of you. I really wouldn’t want to have to threaten your cute little girlfriend.”
I pressed my lips into a tight line.
“That’s what I thought. Tell Vaughn to meet me at my house. You can text him the address. Leave the biker boyfriend and the woman at home.”
He pinned me with a cold stare. “This is a private chat, just for the three of us.”
