I’m a ball of anxiety and dread, and I can’t unravel it when Torin isn’t safely within my reach.
Until Iknowhe’s safe.
“Duty,” Levi corrects her. “Go watch him while I?—”
“Can we have cheesy bread?”
“Sure.”
“And can we have pop?”
“No,” Levi and I both mindlessly respond at the same time.
Pop and Mae equal mayhem and too much running around. Something neither of us is in the mood for right now.
“Go on,” Levi urges as I steal a glimpse at him, giving her a gentle shove toward the living room. “I’ll be there in a minute.”
She goes without a fight, aware that to get on Levi’s good side and what she wants, following his orders gets her there.
Meanwhile, if I ask him to fuck off and leave my room, it’s going to spark an argument.
“You can be pissed at me,” he says matter-of-factly, in a tone that barely reaches my ears. “But I just gave up my position for that fucker. Give me that.”
I scoff, expressing how unimpressed I am. “And I told younotto do that. Did getting shot mean it affected your ability to listen?”
He flat-out ignores the question. “De Leon will think twice about what he does to Baby Wildes now. Before, he wouldn’t.”
“You said?—”
“And I meant it. We’ll get him back.”
“You can’t promise me he won’t bedead,” I grind out, spinning on my heel to continue my pacing. “You can’t give me anything.”
“Girl, I’m theKingof South Shore. I get what I wantwhenthe fuck I want it.”
Boys and their egos.
Their power.
Dad would’ve never.
He wasn’t a gambler, and Levi pushes lines even I’m afraid to get near.
“Your title means shit-all in the grand scheme of things,” I vouch tersely. “You’re just a boy with too much?—”
Levi whips me around, almost sending me on my ass when his hands ground me with a taut squeeze.
“Man, you’ve got me fucked up,” he growls with pinned eyebrows and even more intense green eyes. “Get out of your feelings, and pay attention.”
I want to.
It would be so much fucking easier.
“Let go of me,” I warn instead. “Or I’m going to show youexactlyhow in my feelings I am.”
“Cairo has men following Torin right now. I’ll have something from him soon.”
“Will that be before or after Torin’s dea?—”
