AllFreeNovel
Share Us
My brothers didn’t seem particularly at peace with it, either, but we all agreed it was necessary. After Grey told us Becca had nothing to do with the texts that had Ava Jade wound up tighter than a top, we agreed on the need to know whodid.
It was always the plan to stop. Always the plan to have Ava Jade leave the Rover and leave her phone behind.
Grey was ready with his laptop—the software he’d need loaded up and primed for use—along with a micro-usb cord to connect it all together. It was all beneath the passenger seat.
It would take him some time to decrypt the deleted messages recovered from her phone’s drive, but he had what he needed now so it was only a matter of time.
She didn’t know it yet, but whoever was trying to fuck with her was a dead man walking. No one fucked with the Crows.No onefucked with our girl.
I winced as my lip ring tore through skin, the coppery tang of blood filling my mouth. I hadn’t noticed I was biting on it.
“Think you can still get a movie in?” Grey broke the silence, turning down The Edge as he drove off the main road and up towards Briar Hall.
Ava Jade shrugged. “Maybe. But Becca went out since I wasn’t coming, so…”
She shrugged again.
My phone buzzed in my pocket at the same time Grey’s chimed and Corvus’ chirped. It meant only one of two things and my blood sang in hopes of one over the other.
Please be Julia.
Diesel: Corv, I need you. Grey, Alicia needs help with the month end shit from September. Go give her a hand before she has a fucking aneurism.
It was sent through our group chat, and I jammed the side button on my phone after reading it in disappointment. Would’ve been fun to take my Ghost to a strike two.
Ooooo,or a strike three.
I wondered if she would join me in the shed like Corvus. Watching over my shoulder as I worked.
I peered at her from the corner of my eye, trying to judge if she’d stay or if she’d run. If it would make her sick...or if she’d want to help.
The prospect of the latter made my cock harden in my jeans and I rolled my hips, savoring in the pleasure that image brought.
“Dies needs us,” Corvus said from the front.
Grey shifted. “For what?”
“The books, for you,” he replied. “That new one he hired is useless.”
Grey didn’t disagree. “What does he want you guys for?”
Corv shook his head. “Just me, and I’m not sure why.”
Corvus thumbed out a message to Diesel and my phone buzzed again as it was received in the group chat.
Ava Jade, no longer staring out the window, sat up straighter in her seat.
“Should we bring her to Sanctum with us?” Grey asked and I snorted, rolling down the window to rest my arm on it, feeling the cool breeze on my neck as I dug deep into my pocket for the cigarettes there, lighting one up.
“He doesn’t need me,” I said, ashing my smoke out the window as they shared a look.
“I don’t want her near Dies. Not right now,” Corvus said to Grey. I might as well have not even bothered speaking. Not that I cared.
“Can’t Rook come stay with me at Briar Hall tonight?” Ava Jade asked, and I tipped my head to one side, considering her in the moonlight. It was a simple enough question, but not one I’d ever expect her to ask.
She watched me string up Billy. Watched me beat him. Carve him up.
She was there the night outside the shed with Frank, too. Grey hadn’t admitted it, but he didn’t have to. Corvus and I both knew where he got that too-perfect cut on his arm. We knew who’d given it to him. Who was watching from the shadows as we unloaded poor Frank, stinking of piss and stale beer, and dragged him to my shed.
