Ryder’s is pierced. ‘drooling emoji’
Leo
What?
Gage
What?!?!? Let me see!
Dex
You guys are distracting as fuck.
Hey, Baby girl.
Hey to you other assholes.
Les
Hello, Dexton. ‘smirking emoji’
Gage
Shut up,all of you!
Ryder!
Send a pic of your dick!
Les
Les changed the name of the group to: Les’ coop of cocks
Gage
‘laughing crying emoji’
I’m not sending a pic of my cock.
Gage
I’ll just see it in person. ‘eyes emoji’
I roll my eyes with a chuckle and lay my phone down. Leo saved my ass today; there’s no doubt about that. If the guy he took out had gotten a shot off, it would have been lights out for me. He didn’t even hesitate to save my ass, either. He proved himself to me today even after he spazzed the fuck out in the car, just like I figured he would.
He kept staring at his hands, and they were visibly shaking. I couldn’t even fault him because I felt the same way he did the first time I took a life.
My dad had just started letting me go on jobs with him and Luca, saying I was old enough. I was just shy of eighteen at that point. We went on a job to take out some assholes that were trafficking women through the ports, and this guy came out of nowhere. Just like Leo, I pulled the trigger without a second thought, and it didn’t hit me what I did until we were back in the car on our way home. My hands were shaking, and I didn’t even realize I was crying until my dad pulled me in for a hug. He told me that if it were easy, everyone would do it and that we were in a place to protect people, so we had a job. It stuck with me through every person I dropped after that, even to this day.
I told Leo that, and it seemed to calm him down. By the time we got back to the house, he seemed to have accepted what happened for the most part.
Like we told Les, we’re by no means best friends now, but I’m willing to give him a chance.
“Do you think she’s happy?” Holden asks quietly, breaking me from my thoughts.
I think about it for a minute and answer honestly, “Yeah, man. She is.”
“Are you happy?” he asks with a tilt of his head that he’s picked up from Les.
