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He went back and closed the door before getting the tray and joining me on the bed. “Trinity had a mini breakdown when she found out where we’d been. Huck didn’t tell her that you’d been taken until we had you back safe. This is how she deals with her emotions. She cooks,” Gage said as he set the massive amount of food in front of me.
“Wow. There is some of everything,” I said in amazement.
“Yeah, there’s a fucking buffet downstairs. You want more of something, let me know,” he said, leaning in and pressing a kiss on my lips.
I reached for a strawberry and popped it in my mouth.
“Eat all you want. Your uncle will be here in an hour to check your head. I’ll try not to fuck you so you have time to eat before he arrives.”
I swallowed and looked up at him. “Why is he coming to check my head?” I asked because I hadn’t said anything about being hit on my head.
Gage looked at me as if that was a dumb question. “I would think that was obvious.”
Yes, but only if he’d known about the hit I’d taken to my head. I continued to look at him, trying to remember if I’d said something last night about it and not realized it.
“Baby, the security footage at the service station next door to Carmichael’s office showed everything. I saw the son of a bitch hit you in the back of the head with a motherfucking board, then throw you over his shoulder and toss you in the back of a fucking van. He was the first one I killed last night when I walked into the shithole.”
I blinked. I hadn’t thought to ask him how they had found me. When they had shown up like the cavalry, I had been so shocked that I wasn’t about to die that I didn’t consider how they had known where I was. Destiny had been so sure they’d find me. She understood more about the family than I did.
Gage leaned over and pressed a kiss to my temple. “It’s why I was so fucking gentle with your hair last night. There’s a lump the size of an egg back there. Not sure I slept at all last night. I watched you breathe and woke you up several times just to see your eyes.”
I didn’t remember him waking me.
He smirked. “Keep looking at me with those blue eyes like I’m your hero, and you won’t get to eat before Carmichael arrives.”
Normally, that wouldn’t be a threat. It would be a temptation, but my stomach growled, and I turned back to the food. I was starving.
Gage picked up a piece of bacon and held it to my lips. “Eat.”
I obeyed and let him feed me. My thoughts went back to last night as I finished the bacon, and then he held up a fork to my mouth with a piece of cinnamon roll on it. I started to open, but stopped. I remembered something else about last night.
“The college kid there last night,” I said, turning to Gage. “Levi called him little Hughes.”
Gage nodded. “Blaise’s younger brother.”
“He’s so young.”
Gage chuckled. “Baby, he was born to the Mafia boss. It’s in his blood. Blaise had already seen some bad shit by the time he was Trev’s age. It’s past time that Garrett put his youngest out to train.”
This world was going to challenge me and shock me at every turn. I studied the food in front of me. Thinking about how the boys born into this family had no choice. It was what they did.
“You chose this life.” I looked up at him.
He nodded. “I fought for it. Had to prove myself to Garrett. I wanted this.”
I didn’t understand why.
Gage looked at me for a moment, and I could see the turmoil in his eyes. “This is a story for another time. Just let me feed you,” he replied.
I appeased him by letting him feed me the rest of the cinnamon roll. Then, he moved to an egg dish I didn’t recognize, and I managed to eat a few bites of it before I shook my head. I couldn’t eat any more.
He put the bite in his mouth instead and winked at me. As much as I wanted to crawl on top of him and forget everything but how good his body felt, I wanted to understand him and this life he was in more. I needed to understand it. After watching him kill a man, I had to know why Gage wanted to live this way.
“Please, tell me why you’re a part of this. Why did you want this?”
For a moment, I thought he wasn’t going to tell me. He seemed tense, almost angry that I’d asked. I hadn’t meant to mess up our morning, but there were things I had to understand. I knew so little about him, about these people. We couldn’t live in this room and fuck all the time. Facing the reality of our situation was important.
“The family I had been born into was one I didn’t want to keep. My mother died from a drug overdose when I was four years old. My father was likely the cause of her addiction. He began beating me when I was six. The older I got, the worse the beatings were. When I was eleven years old, I hit a growth spurt. This fucking face I have now began to mature, and women noticed me. I came home from school one afternoon, and there was a woman with my father. She paid him for my virginity. It didn’t end there. Others came, and I either took the beating or fucked the women.”
