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“You’re cold,” he says groggily. I can’t tell him why I’m shaking, so I agree.
“Yeah,” I tell him. He pulls me into his arms and holds me as tightly as possible.
“Better?”
“Yeah, that’s better.”
7
Cage
Things with Yenni have been good. She wanted a label, and I let her give us one. I don’t know if that’s the smartest move on my part, but I’m not with anyone else, so I suppose it’s fine. She seems happy enough, and that’s good enough for me.
She’s at the bar with some of the other girls and Tarek’s old lady. They talk and laugh, and it’s nice to see her happy.
“The run is tomorrow,” Ridge reminds me as we sit around the table drinking and having a smoke.
“Yeah.”
“You ready for it?” he asks. I nod my head. When am I not ready for a run?
“I’m ready. What’s with all the questions?”
“She stayin’ here?” he says, nodding toward Yenni. I shrug.
“Yenni goes where she wants,” I tell him.
“She likes it here, though, yeah?”
“I suppose so. She’s always around,” I reply, although I feel like there’s something more he wants to say. I don’t know what it is, but he needs to spit it out. “I’ll ask again, what’s with the questions?”
“Just askin’, Prez. Don’t know how smart it is to leave her alone with these assholes,” he chuckles, but I see how his eyes linger on Twitch.
“You know somethin’ I don’t?” he shakes his head but blows out a breath anyway.
“Not really. Just seen her haulin’ ass out of the kitchen the other night, followed by Twitch,” he says. Anger seeps into my pores, burning in my veins. I crack my neck from side to side as I look between them. Yenni seems to be oblivious to the fact that Twitch is even in the same room as her. But him? He keeps eyeing her like a piece of fucking meat.
“You think somethin’ was happenin’?”
“I didn’t say that. She didn’t look like she wanted to be in the same room as him,” he adds.
“Meanin’ what?”
“I don’t know, Cage. She ran out of there like her ass was on fire, brother.”
“You think he tried somethin’?”
“Don’t overthink this shit. She probably just wanted to get back to you.” I nod my head. Maybe he’s right. Maybe I shouldn’t let her ass out of the room anymore without me. Maybe I should rethink a lot of shit I’ve been letting slide around here.
I lean back in my chair as the guys talk around me. My eyes keep moving from her to him, waiting for at least one little glance from her, but I don’t see it. It never happens.
Shoving out of my chair, I stalk across the room and smack her ass. She jolts and turns to look at me over her shoulder.
“You had to do that?”
“Get me a beer,” I tell her. She moves quickly and walks around the bar while I eye Twitch from across the room. I see him glancing this way. I see the looks. But I don’t know what they are. What they’re for. Did something happen between them?
“Here you go,” Yenni says, passing me a beer. She then leans in and presses her lips to mine, but I don’t kiss her back. When she pulls away, she looks up at me and follows my gaze to Twitch. She takes a small step back when I reach for her and pull her body flush with mine.
