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“I heard that Vinnie Lucchese hired you to kidnap the O’Connell girl.”
Shit.
A lump forms in my throat.
How does he know about this?
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Hudson.”
“Well, I’m still pretty sure you’re the guy I saw in the clinic that day. The day I was going to take her. I’m sure it was you in some fucking weird disguise or whatever.”
I shrug, playing it off as much as I can.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t been hired to do anything with any woman.”
Paranoia trickles down my spine like egg yolk.
I don’t know how Hudson has found out any information about me. I pride myself on being more discrete than that idiot, but maybe he has his own ears to the street. I have Samantha, who knows who he is working with—I doubt Samantha would work for a guy like him.
Either way, I can’t let him find outanythingabout me.
“Well, the rumors on the streets suggest that you have her, Owen, so I would watch your back if I were you.”
Is that a threat from him or everyone else?
I suppose it doesn’t really matter.
“I don’t need to worry about anything. I haven’t done anything wrong and I don’t have anyone. Thanks for the warning, though, Hudson. I appreciate it. Guys like us… we have to look out for one another, don’t we?”
I shoot him a wink, but it seems like Hudson isn’t done with me yet.
“What do you have there? Gifts for a lady friend? I didn’t know you were dating someone.”
“I’m not dating anyone…”
“Sure looks like it. Who’s the lucky lady?”
I shake my head. “No lucky lady, but Idoneed to get the hell out of here.”
Hudson puts up his hands, like he’s going to stop me. What the fuck is going on with this guy? He’s starting to fucking piss me off if I’m honest.
I step to him.
Hudson immediately backs off.
Sensing what an idiot he’s being, he throws his hands in the air, laughing.
I smirk.
He can try and make it out to be a joke as much as he wants, but I know he freaked out for a moment there.
That’s all I need.
“So, it isn’t what I suspected then? Huh? You don’t have a mob boss’s daughter captured and hidden away somewhere? That mob boss hasn’t come all the way from Ireland to take her back from you? I must be hearing it all wrong.”
I shake my head and ignore him. The more I give into the rumors, the more they’ll spread.
Hudson just needs to learn to shut the fuck up.
