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“Granger was at his usual place at the bottom of the stairs leading to your cage when I got there tonight. Didn’t look like a lot of distance.”
Granger’s got it coming to him in more ways than one, and it would be nice to include Tanner and Gabe in figuring out just how to destroy him.
But Blue’s a secret.
So, dealing with Granger is for me alone.
Blue shrugs.
“Like I said, he thinks he’s watching me starve. But he can’t stop me from walking out of my cage anymore. Club rules and all that.”
“That doesn’t work for me either.”
“What doesn’t?”
Her long blue hair falls over her shoulder when she pulls her attention away from examining the kitchen again to look back at me.
“You leaving your cage. That’ll be part of this deal, too. You have no reason to go to the back rooms with the amount I’m paying you.”
“Possessive much?” she jokes.
I fail to smile. “Very.”
Even though I don’t want a relationship with Blue, I still can’t handle the thought of needing my escape one night only to get there and find her missing from her cage while she’s back entertaining another guy.
I can’t stand the thought of another man touching her.
Laughter shakes her shoulders.
“Well, damn. Am I allowed to date?”
The urge to say no is hard to resist. But what she does outside of the club is none of my business.
It can’t be.
Especially when I have nothing to offer her.
“That’s on you. I don’t really care, as long as you’re where I need you at night.”
Her expression falls, but just for a moment before she pulls her usual mask on again.
“Deal,” she says.
I never see the need to ask Blue for a favor. I’m just offering this to keep her in place. But there are still rules that come with the deals the Inferno makes.
“You remember the rules, right?”
“Yeah. One day you may ask me for a favor, and if I don’t follow through with the favor, something super awful will happen to me. How very mafia of you.”
She has no idea.
While the guys and I aren’t planning on becoming like our dads, we do plan on taking over their businesses. And with that comes the agreements they have with city officials and cops, with congressmen and governors.
I have no interest in keeping that shit running. It’ll ultimately be up to the rest of the guys. As far as I’m concerned, they can burn it all to the ground and pretend like our fathers never fucking existed.
But still, while our fathers aren’t the mafia, their setup might as well be.
I need to take Blue home. Just having her here is making me antsy, the fear that Ezra may show up and my secret becomes known.
