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“Why are you after me?”
“Because you’re with the kid.”
“So?”
“She’s off limits,” the man said, yelping when I bent his hand backward, snapping the bone.
“She’s off limits to everyone, including you,” I hissed. “You don’t follow her anywhere.”
He struggled to get free, but couldn’t outmaneuver me. “I was just doing what the boss asked.”
“Who’s your boss?”
“Same as you, man.”
Baz. He was having her followed. “You tell the boss that if he wants to have words with me, he comes to me. He doesn’t follow around Skylar or the kid.”
“Are you fucking serious? Do you have a death wish?”
“What I have is the fucking sense to spot some ass like you, thinking you’re following me around discreetly.”
I yanked hard on his arm, dislocating the shoulder. He whimpered in pain, nearly collapsing to the ground. I spun him, slamming his back against the wall, then yanked off my sunglasses. “You tell Baz that this is my message to him.” With a kick to the side of his knee, he collapsed to the ground, crying out in pain. I heard someone ask if he was alright, but I was already disappearing back into the crowd.
“Is everything alright?” Sky asked as I joined them in the monkey cages.
“It’s fine.”
Parker was pressed up against the glass, mimicking the monkeys inside. We had a few minutes to ourselves, but then we needed to get the hell out of here.
“Jack, don’t keep things from me. If you know something?—”
“Baz has guys watching us.”
“Watching us?” Her eyes flicked to her son, then back to me. “Why?”
“He’s testing my loyalty.”
“I thought you said you had nothing to do with Baz.”
I could see the need to run clear in her eyes. “I’m not, but that doesn’t mean he thinks the same thing.”
“Jack—”
“I’ll handle it,” I promised. “This won’t come back on you.”
“You shouldn’t be with me. If I had known…”
“Sky, all we’re doing is giving your son a good day out after this shitstorm of last night. If he has a problem with that, he can talk to me like a man.”
“But—”
“End of story, Sky. I’m not talking about this anymore.”
She nodded, glancing at all the animals I was holding. “Did you discuss this when you had stuffed animals in your hands?”
A small smile tilted my lips. “No, I set them down. I was just lucky it was all still there when I was done.”
She grabbed my hand, looking at my knuckles for damage, but she wouldn’t find any. “Just promise me you’ll be safe.”
