“I wasn’t really thinking,” I confess.
Bullet snorts. “It wasn’t planned, so I get it. We decided to light the place on fire. What I was most concerned about was the sheer number of cameras in a neighborhood like that.”
“I got someone working on wiping them all,” Ivy says.
I didn’t know we had a contact like that. I start to ask who the fuck is that tech-savvy, but he only shakes his head before he continues.
“It involves the Front mob family. They’re going to get their techie on it, and apparently, he’s really fucking good. I didn’t want to ask too many questions, and I know that puts us deeper in with them, but since it was Thunder Rock, I wanted to ensure nobody went down for this,” Ivy says.
Fuck.
“And now we owe Lorenzo more of ourselves?” I ask. “And it’s all my fault. Let me be the one to pay him back.”
“He doesn’t want you,” Ivy mutters.
The way he says it, my spine straightens, because that means he wantssomeone. My chest squeezes as I wait for him to continue. Clearly, he’s going to tell me something I don’t think I’m going to like at all.
“He wants Heidi and Millie to continue headlining the Gilded Room for a two-year contract.”
Pressing my lips together, I try really hard not to tell him to fuck off. I also know that it’s not Ivy who is demanding this. Bullet clears his throat, and I tilt my head to the side when it hits me. He’s not asking me. He’s telling me. He’s already made this agreement.
“You agreed to his terms.”
Ivy dips his chin in a single nod. “I didn’t have time to ask questions.”
I open my mouth to speak, but it’s Bullet who does first. “You agreed to something on behalf of not only Piggy’s old lady but also her friend? For two years?”
Ivy shrugs, not giving a fuck that he just decided something without asking anyone. Sure, we’re lawless, but we’re not ruleless, and that is an unspoken rule, of this I’m goddamn certain.
“Heidi will do it if she values the fact that she won’t go down for killing Anna,” Ivy snaps.
This could turn into a big fucking fight between us. Since shit went down with Goose and Ivy’s cousin, Cidney, he has been distant when it comes to club shit, and not just distant, but also… not here with us.
“This is definitely something you should have run past me before you agreed to it,” Bullet grinds out. “Minimum.”
“I understand we couldn’t have church about it, but as her man, I think I should have had some input on my woman continuing to be a fucking stripper.”
Ivy laughs at my words, and I instantly want to beat the shit out of him for it. I don’t, but I’m ready if need be. He shakes his head a couple of times, finding this situation comical, I guess, before he speaks. And with each second that passes, I grow more and more pissed off.
“I made an executive decision,” he states. “It was either that or chance all of us being caught. They can shake their asses for two years as a goddamn thank-you for staying out of prison.”
Slamming my palms down on the table, I stand, leaning over, my eyes focused on his. “I get it. You’re still pissed your cousin is fucking one of your brothers. But lose the goddamn attitude. And never talk about my woman like that again.”
Without giving him the opportunity to respond, I turn around and walk out of the room. I don’t give a fuck what he has to say. I’ll talk to Millie and Heidi about the deal, and they’ll do it because that’s who they are, but Ivy can fuck himself.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
PIGGY
When I feelher fingers against my skin, my eyelids flutter open. Turning my head, I look over to see her lying beside me. I open my mouth to ask her what she’s doing here, but I don’t get the chance. She lifts her finger to my lips to quiet my questions.
Nipping the pad, I wrap my hand around her wrist, pulling her closer to me. She shifts, her face so close to mine that I can practically taste her. I lift my head slightly to touch my mouth to hers.
She whimpers against my lips, parting just enough to let me inside, so I slip my tongue inside her mouth and tangle it with hers.
Tasting her.
Rolling her onto her back, I break the kiss before I shift my mouth down her throat, licking and sucking until I reach the hollow. I curl my fingers around her breast and grunt when I realize she’s naked.
