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“Goddamnit, I hate this shit. I should have killed him when I had the chance.”
“And I should have killed mine,” Lex says. “I could have stopped a lot of fucked up shit Viktor set in motion if I would have. But we both know that isn’t the answer. Your father craves power, just like mine did. That’s how you take him down.”
“Hot and smart,” I mutter, making Ghost choke on a laugh. Some of the tension leaves his body, and I breathe a sigh of relief. Mission accomplished. “He’s right. We hit your dad where it hurts. First, we need to take out Tink.”
“How?” Ghost asks. “He went into hiding the minute he started working for Dad.”
“Then I guess it’s a good thing you have a good fucking team behind you. You have the fucking Italian, Mexican, and Russian Mafia in your back pocket. Use them,” I argue.
“I don’t want to involve them unless I have to. I just need you guys.”
“You have us. A thousand percent,” Lex adds. “We need to put better protection around Bridget.”
“Agreed, but she’s going to claw our eyes out if we try to put her in hiding,” I remark. No way in fuck is Bridget going to let us stick her in a safe house somewhere, but the fact that Grant mentioned her by name means she’s going to be his first target. He thinks she’s weak, but he’s sadly fucking mistaken.
“We can move her into the estate,” Lex suggests, making Ghost and me laugh. “What?”
Ghost steps from between us and nods his head to the table. We get settled around it, and Ghost levels Lex with a look. “You really think she’s going to go for that? Bridget’s independent as hell. She’s not going to want to be locked up in your castle.”
“I didn’t say locked up. She can go as she pleases as long as she has us with her at all times.”
She’s been agreeable to that so far but for how long is a different matter. “We talk to her and see what she says, but I’m not forcing her to do anything.”
This should be fun.
“No fucking way, Alexey.” Just as suspected, Bridget laughed in Lex’s face, which only served to piss him off. After we decided we needed to talk to her, we came straight to her house. Ghost, Banger, and I are sitting back, letting Lex and D take the heat. We aren’t stupid.
“It’s temporary,” he says evenly. “You can still come and go as you please with any of us.”
“I already agreed to a fucking bodyguard, Alexey. I’m not agreeing to this.”
“Boginya,” Dmitri says softly. Out of the two, he’s the softer spoken one but no less fucking scary. “We just want you safe, and now that Grant has mentioned your name, you aren’t anymore. You’d have full access to the estate and anything in it.”
“I’m sure Nikolay doesn’t want me under his feet.” I have to contain a snort. Banger told me how Nik acted when he thought Bridget was hurt. Nik is cool as hell, but I’m not sure how Lex and D will react to that same information.
“Nik will be fine with it. You must remember,Moya zhizn, that’s our house. What we say goes, no matter who’s running things behind the scenes.”
“Firefly,” I say, finally speaking up. “They have so much shit to do there. It would be like a mini vacation. Two pools, a tennis court, a game room, a movie room, and a fucking sauna. We could have so many fucking sleepovers.”
Bridget laughs. “Our sleepovers changed meaning the moment we fucked, Caden.”
“We can still braid each other’s hair and talk about boys. We can just compare the boys now.”
Lex drops his head in his hand and rubs his temples. “Not the time, Lover boy.”
“Wait,” Bridget says, looking between Lex and me. “You two?”
“Yep.” I grin, and Ghost breathes a laugh. “All three of us.”
Bridget’s eyes widen. “I want a front row seat to that next time.”
Dmitri sits back in his seat with a smile. “You finally made a move, Lex. It’s about fucking time.”
“Of course, you knew,” I laugh. They know everything about each other without even talking. It’s some kind of weird twin telepathy that freaks me out but also makes me curious.
Lex slices his hand through the air. “Back on task. We need you safe, and this is our best option. Or we kidnap you and lock you in a safe house. The choice is yours.”
Bridget’s eyes narrow. “I’d like to see you try.”
