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My baby boy glared at me with hate in his eyes. “You tried to get Mueller to kill Bonnie.” His words weren’t filled with accusation. He stated it as fact, and I nodded. “But you didn’t know he was a Fed when you offered him your pussy in exchange for murdering my wife!”
I could feel the surprise emanating from Jasper because, yeah, I kept secrets from everyone. It was how I operated. “And?”
Calvin flashed a bitter, angry smile. “Even after you fucked him, he refused to do it. Pathetic.”
I laughed. “This coming from a man who fucked a drug addict and knocked her up? Please.”
“No.” Calvin shook his head. “This isn’t about me. It’s about you and the sick things you do to get your way.”
Jasper straightened to his full height at my side and shook his head. “Who Sadie fucks—or who any of us fucks—is nobody’s business but our own.”
I looked at Jasper, wondering if Beck’s little dig was true. Had he taken my advice to fuck her into submission?
“It ismybusiness if she’s using sexual favors as payment for killing my wife.”
Calvin glared at me hard. Hate turned his face and eyes red. “That’s why you had to do it yourself.” Realization dawned, and a small smile flashed. “The alleged pedophile was as big a piece of shit as…whatever.” He bit his tongue, but it didn’t take a genius to figure out where he was going.
Calvin thought I was a bigger piece of shit than Mueller. That was hard to take sober.
Someday. I told myself that his hesitation meant someday we could salvage a relationship.
“You’re right. I offered money, but Mueller wanted to fuck me instead, so I let him, but not so he would kill Bonnie. I let him because it got me the proof of what your precious fucking wife was up to.”
His eyes darted back and forth, trying to absorb the new information.
“Does that make it better or worse, Calvin?”
He sighed, shook his head, and stormed out with as much anger as he’d stormed in on.
Jasper sighed and dropped a hand on my shoulder. “We knew this would happen, Ma. We just need to power through this part.”
I stared at the glass in Jasper’s hand, glistening with condensation that turned the amber liquid a soothing gold color. A glass of Velvet Fire would help me power through.
“I just didn’t think his reaction, his anger, would bother me as much as it does.”
Jasper nodded. “Turns out, you’re human after all.”
A huff of laughter escaped at his words. “Unfortunately, it has always been my greatest weakness.”
“As long as Cal is still committed to protecting the family, we’re good. The rest will come in time. I hope.”
Sometimes Jasper was so much like Colm that I hated it. He had more focus in one day than Colm had in his entire life, but they were both cold and ruthless, which made Jasper more terrifying and more feared than his father ever was.
The only saving grace was that my son was more capable. He didn’t let his vices consume him. He drank when he wanted and fucked when and whoever he wanted, but it never, ever interfered with the business.
Jasper grew into the man I thought Colm was when I first met him.
I nodded at Jasper’s words and sighed. “He seems to be committed, for now anyway.” Anger had a way of changing one’s priorities. I knew that better than most.
“We need to find him a new woman. Fast.” Jasper shook his head angrily. “Too bad Maddie had to go and get knocked up by Ellison.”
“They’re friends. Nothing more.”
Only Jasper would think you could replace love with a warm body. “We should all be grateful for Maddie. We might have lost Calvin a lot sooner if not for her.”
“Yeah, maybe,” he growled, unwilling to admit anyone could do anything to earn his gratitude. “So, you fucked Mueller?” He grinned.
I smiled and shook my head. “I thought who I fucked was nobody’s business.”
